Tue 11/05 – Apple: Maybe Smartglasses Are The Way To Go
Techmeme Ride Home
Brian McCullough
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🗓️ 5 November 2024
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Summary
Big hacking arrest in Canada. More evidence Apple is thinking: “You know, maybe smartglasses are the way to go…” More signs OpenAI is focusing on hardware. More signs they’re about to go for-profit. And what it’s actually like to use GPT Search? Is it a Google killer or no?
Links:
- Canada Arrests Man Suspected of Hacks of Snowflake Customers (Bloomberg)
- Apple Explores Push Into Smart Glasses With ‘Atlas’ User Study (Bloomberg)
- Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI in Regulator Talks to Become For-Profit Company (Bloomberg)
- Anthropic hikes the price of its Haiku model (TechCrunch)
- Uber’s Real Threat Isn’t From Robots (WSJ)
- ChatGPT Search is not OpenAI’s ‘Google killer’ yet (TechCrunch)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Tuesday, November 5th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today. Big |
| 0:09.3 | hacking arrests in Canada. More evidence Apple is thinking, you know, maybe smart glasses are the way to go. |
| 0:15.2 | More signs OpenAI is focusing on hardware, more signs they're about to go for-profit and what it's |
| 0:20.4 | actually like to use GPTprofit and what it's actually like |
| 0:21.0 | to use GPT Search. |
| 0:22.8 | Is it a Google Killer or no? |
| 0:24.4 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:33.4 | Bloomberg says Canadian authorities have arrested Alexander Connor Mauka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 snowflake users, including AT&T, according Bloomberg. |
| 0:47.6 | Following a request from the U.S., Alexander Connor Mauka was taken into custody on a provisional arrest warrant on October 30th, according to Canada's |
| 0:55.3 | Department of Justice. He is due to appear in court on Tuesday. The charges against Malca weren't |
| 1:00.4 | immediately available, quote, as extradition requests are considered confidential state-to-state |
| 1:05.0 | communications, we cannot comment further on this case, said Ian McLeod, spokesperson for Canada's |
| 1:10.8 | Department of Justice. |
| 1:12.1 | However, two people familiar with the hacks who asked not to be named so they could discuss |
| 1:15.6 | confidential matters have identified Malka as the person behind the snowflake-related hacks. |
| 1:20.4 | In addition, Austin Larson, senior threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, |
| 1:24.8 | alleged in a statement Monday evening, Alexander Connor Malka has proven to be one of the most consequential threat actors of 2024, end quote. |
| 1:33.0 | Malka launched a campaign in April against more than 100 organizations leaving them, quote, reeling from significant data loss and extortion attempts. |
| 1:40.6 | Larson said, he added that it highlighted the alarming scale of harm a single individual |
| 1:45.1 | can cause using off-the-shelf tools, end quote. Companies including AT&T, Live Nation, and advanced |
| 1:51.9 | auto parts disclosed that they'd been affected by the attacks in June and July. In some cases, |
| 1:57.0 | the hacker, or hackers, as it is not clear if others were involved, attempted to extort |
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