A profile of SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, who transformed the Japanese tech conglomerate into a global investment group and is criticized for high-risk investments (Lionel Barber/Financial Times)

Lionel Barber / Financial Times:
A profile of SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, who transformed the Japanese tech conglomerate into a global investment group and is criticized for high-risk investments  —  He has won and lost fortunes with his bets on technology.  So is the investor a visionary — or a gambler who got lucky?

Law enforcement agencies shut down a service offered by iServer, a phishing-as-a-service platform, which was used to unlock 1.2M+ stolen or lost mobile phones (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Law enforcement agencies shut down a service offered by iServer, a phishing-as-a-service platform, which was used to unlock 1.2M+ stolen or lost mobile phones  —  iServer provided a simple service for phishing credentials to unlock phones.  —  A coalition of law-enforcement agencies …

Thoughts on the iPhone's slowing pace of hardware innovation, first impressions of the iPhone 16 Pro Max, and a closer look at Apple Intelligence roll out plans (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on the iPhone's slowing pace of hardware innovation, first impressions of the iPhone 16 Pro Max, and a closer look at Apple Intelligence roll out plans  —  The new iPhone has tantalizing camera improvements, but the device is emblematic of Apple's slower pace of hardware innovation.

With the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which can easily slot into people's lives, Meta has exceeded expectations in a year when many AI gadgets flopped (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Victoria Song / The Verge:
With the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which can easily slot into people's lives, Meta has exceeded expectations in a year when many AI gadgets flopped  —  The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses exceeded expectations in a year when AI gadgets flopped.  But can it keep the momentum going?

A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device  —  Many people have wondered what Jony Ive has been up to since he left Apple five years ago.Carolyn Fong for The New York Times

A Google threat analyst says the hacker behind the Snowflake breach recently broke into a "handful" of new orgs and is likely a male based in Canada in his 20s (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A Google threat analyst says the hacker behind the Snowflake breach recently broke into a “handful” of new orgs and is likely a male based in Canada in his 20s  —  Cyber investigators are tracking alleged scammer in connection with a string of compromises