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Cybersecurity experts say FBI is investigating Ryuk ransomware attacks on more than two dozen US hospitals, and officials warned hospitals to back up systems — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating the recent targeting with ransomware of more than two dozen hospitals across …
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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
The Senate's Section 230 hearing, with Dorsey, Zuckerberg, and Pichai, only briefly discussed the law, instead letting Republicans berate Dorsey for soundbites — Republican senators unloaded on Twitter's Jack Dorsey, but had little to say about reforming the foundational internet law.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
ByteDance launches its first gadget, a $119 smart lamp aimed at school-going children, with a built-in camera to let parents tutor remotely — ByteDance on Thursday unveiled its first consumer hardware product, a smart light lamp with a display, that it says is part of its education technology portfolio … | New York Times: |
A look at startup culture wars happening around Coinbase, Expensify, and others as they become embroiled in a debate over the role of politics in the workplace — Coinbase, Expensify, Soylent, Clubhouse and others are embroiled in a culture war over politics and the workplace.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds live custom data types to Excel, letting users import their data, a feature currently available to Office beta testers in the Insiders program — Excel now goes far beyond text and numbers — Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify had total Q3 revenue of €1.97B, up 14% YoY, ARPU of €4.19, down 10% YoY, with 320M MAUs, up 29% YoY, and 144M paying subscribers, up 27% YoY — Listening time, revenue increased as use in cars and homes grew — Spotify Technology SA moved past a slump that hit early in the pandemic …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung reports operating profit of $10.9B in Q3, up 59% YoY, on highest ever quarterly revenue of $59B, up 8% YoY, led by strong demand for its smartphones — While the pandemic continues to rage, consumers are buying phones and other electronics again. — The pandemic-caused lull …
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Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3M from its federal account; party chairman says the FBI is investigating — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hackers have stolen $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump …
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Honeywell unveils Model H1, a quantum computer with 10 qubits reaching a quantum volume of 128, offered along with a subscription service for usage — Honeywell, which was a bit of a surprise entrant into the quantum computing space when it announced its efforts to build the world's …
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Protocol, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, ZDNet, CNET, TechRepublic, HPCwire, and Engadget. Tweets: @brianmcc
| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
Germany probes Amazon and Apple over “brandgating”, an Amazon practice that removes independent sellers of branded products from companies like Apple — - Federal Cartel Office investigates brand-product agreements — Banning other brand product sellers may violate antitrust law
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Travel activities booking app GetYourGuide raises $133M through a convertible note led by Searchlight Capital, bringing its total raised to $780M — On the heels of Germany announcing another lockdown to try to contain the rapid rise in Covid-19 cases in the country, one of the hottest startups … | Financial Times: |
Taiwanese contract chipmaker UMC fined $60M after pleading guilty to DOJ charges of stealing trade secrets from US chipmaker Micron — Chipmaker fined $60m and agrees to co-operate in case against China's Fujian Jinhua — Taiwanese contract chipmaker United Microelectronics Corporation … | Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Sports streaming service DAZN is expanding to 200 countries and territories on December 1 — EXCLUSIVE: Sports streaming service DAZN is expanding to 200 countries and territories on December 1, with initial monthly pricing of £1.99 or less. — Launched in 2016 and backed … | Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter: |
Amazon files motion to dismiss suit alleging false advertising of Prime Video purchases, says its terms indicate users pay for “limited license”, not ownership — The streamer says its terms of use are clear: What viewers are paying for is a limited license.| Craig Chapple / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Genshin Impact, a freemium mobile RPG, grossed $245M in worldwide player spending in its first month, making it one of the largest mobile game launches ever — Global blockbuster Genshin Impact from miHoYo has amassed $245 million in player spending during its first month …
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| Brandon Russell / XDA Developers: |
Sony updates its PlayStation App for iOS and Android, introducing in-app voice chat support, a revamped UI, PlayStation Store integration, and more — Ahead of the PlayStation 5's launch on November 12, Sony has introduced a big update to its PlayStation App for Android and iOS.
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PlayStation.Blog, KnowTechie, TechSpot, Gizchina, Firstpost Tech, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, Gearburn, SlashGear, PlayStation LifeStyle, and IGN
Tweets: @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @jmdornbush, and @yosp
| Jonathan Albright / Medium: |
A look at 493 COVID related iOS apps across 98 countries including each app's permissions requests, developer location and embedded SDKs, sorted by categories — Health and Fitness - Pandemic: The Next App Store Genre? — Since the Coronavirus pandemic began, a host of Covid-19 applications have emerged.
Tweets: @d1gi, @rachelcoldicutt, @seanmmcdonald, @justinhendrix, @d1gi, @profcarroll, @arielbogle, and @markhurst
| Mary Ann Azevedo / FinLedger: |
Jiko, a neobank that in September became the first fintech startup to acquire a nationally regulated US bank, raises $40M Series A — Following acquisition of national bank, Jiko raises capital to fund product launch & expansion — Mobile banking startup Jiko Group announced Thursday … | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
CodeSandbox, which builds web-based tools for collaborative application development, raises $12.7M led by EQT Ventures, bringing its total raised to $15M — Amsterdam-based CodeSandbox has raised $12.7 million to help teams collaborate on the development of web-based applications.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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