Chinese social media becomes consumed by a debate on “zero Covid” ending, challenging government censors’ efforts to control the narrative without overstepping (New York Times)

New York Times: Chinese social media becomes consumed by a debate on “zero Covid” ending, challenging…

Hundreds of SugarCRM servers infected with critical in-the-wild exploit

Enlarge For the past two weeks, hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in the SugarCRM…

How Section 19a of Germany’s Competition Act gives antitrust authorities the power to divest and sanction Big Tech, as the EU slowly rolls out its enforcement (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: How Section 19a of Germany’s Competition Act gives antitrust authorities the…

A fifth of passwords used by federal agency cracked in security audit

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than a fifth of the passwords protecting network accounts at the…

TSMC reports Q4 revenue up 43% YoY to ~$20.6B, below ~$20.8B analyst estimates, its first miss in two years; TSMC stock dropped 27% in 2022 but is up 8% in 2023 (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC reports Q4 revenue up 43% YoY to ~$20.6B, below ~$20.8B analyst…

Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person’s silhouette. (credit: Ars Technica) On Thursday, Microsoft researchers…

People’s Bank of China official Guo Shuqing says the government’s two-year clampdown on financial units at Alibaba, Tencent, Didi, and others is winding down (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: People’s Bank of China official Guo Shuqing says the government’s two-year clampdown on financial…

First LastPass, now Slack and CircleCI. The hacks go on (and will likely worsen)

Enlarge In the past 24 hours, the world has learned of serious breaches hitting chat service…

After years of hype, 5G took a back seat at CES 2023, as the industry focuses on laying the groundwork for self-driving cars, AR, and expanding IoT in cities (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Allison Johnson / The Verge: After years of hype, 5G took a back seat at CES…

What Twitter’s 200 million email leak really means

Enlarge (credit: Rosie Struve; Getty Images) After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were…