A look at Apple's hubris that doomed the electric car project, spring hardware updates without a dedicated event, and Dan Riccio's retirement plans (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's hubris that doomed the electric car project, spring hardware updates without a dedicated event, and Dan Riccio's retirement plans  —  Apple's belief that it could create a better car than Tesla and the rest of the automotive industry ultimately led to the downfall of the project.

As music from Universal Music Group artists disappears from TikTok, creators turn to royalty-free, almost-contextless sound clips (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Reece Rogers / Wired:
As music from Universal Music Group artists disappears from TikTok, creators turn to royalty-free, almost-contextless sound clips  —  More Universal Music songs are disappearing from TikTok as the two companies fail to reach new agreements.  Sound clips are ready for their big break.

AMD is unable to release an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation after the HDMI Forum rejected its proposal; the forum closed public specification access in 2021 (Michael Larabel/Phoronix)

Michael Larabel / Phoronix:
AMD is unable to release an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation after the HDMI Forum rejected its proposal; the forum closed public specification access in 2021  —  One of the limitations of AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver has been the inability to implement HDMI 2.1+ functionality …

Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit repeatedly cites a contentious paper by Microsoft's research lab, which said GPT-4 showed "sparks" of AGI, to argue that GPT-4 is AGI (New York Times)

New York Times:
Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit repeatedly cites a contentious paper by Microsoft's research lab, which said GPT-4 showed “sparks” of AGI, to argue that GPT-4 is AGI  —  In his lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, Mr. Musk relies on a provocative paper from the start-up's closest partner.

Q&A with FBI Director Christopher Wray on taking down a GRU botnet, Volt Typhoon, critical infrastructure attacks, lessons from surveilling threat actors, more (The Record)

The Record:
Q&A with FBI Director Christopher Wray on taking down a GRU botnet, Volt Typhoon, critical infrastructure attacks, lessons from surveilling threat actors, more  —  We have active investigations working with partners into a whole range of cyber units within the different Russian intelligence services …

How quick fixes and old code in systems compound technical debt and raise hacking risks, requiring an estimated $1.52T to fix and costing the US $2.41T per year (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
How quick fixes and old code in systems compound technical debt and raise hacking risks, requiring an estimated $1.52T to fix and costing the US $2.41T per year  —  Old code piles up and raises the risk of hacks and other breaches, even on new devices.  Our compounding ‘technical debt’