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Source: in a letter to Twitter, Elon Musk proposes proceeding with the acquisition at the original $54.20 per share; Twitter stock jumps 12%+ — Elon Musk is proposing to buy Twitter Inc. for the original offer price of $54.20 a share, Bloomberg News reports.Musk made the proposal in a letter to Twitter …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
A judge says Twitter can proceed with a limited probe to see if whistleblower Peiter Zatko contacted Elon Musk's lawyers before he backed out of the deal — The Delaware Court of Chancery says Twitter can proceed with a limited probe to figure out whether whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” … | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
European Parliament votes 602 to 13 to enforce USB-C as the charging port for most devices by the end of 2024 and laptops by 2026; some small devices are exempt — The European Parliament today voted overwhelmingly in favor of enforcing USB-C as a common charging port across a wide range …
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| Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Meta plans to shut down its newsletter subscription service Bulletin by early 2023; the Substack competitor launched in January 2021 and now has 120+ writers — The social media company plans to bring more content back to the Facebook platform directly. — Meta will be shutting down Bulletin …
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| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
The White House's new AI Bill of Rights, which would let users opt out of algorithmic decision-making, is nonbinding and so will have little impact on companies — The draft's tenets include allowing citizens to opt out of algorithmic decision-making, which could reshape federal government—but not the private sector.
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| Jason Cipriani / ZDNet: |
Google's Nest announces the $180 Nest Doorbell Wired and $200 Nest Wifi Pro with Wi-Fi 6E support, updates the Home app, and confirms support for Matter — Google on Tuesday announced several new products, including a new Nest Doorbell that ditches a battery, a Nest Wi-Fi Pro with support for Wi-Fi 6E …
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
In an email to recruiters, Amazon says it is freezing most corporate hiring in its retail business for the rest of 2022; AWS is not affected by the freeze — It is the latest tech company to pump the brakes on hiring amid growing economic concerns. — Amazon is freezing corporate hiring … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Micron plans to spend up to $100B over the next 20+ years to build a chipmaking complex in upstate New York, helped by federal and state government incentives — The company is planning a giant complex in Clay, N.Y., a sign that the government's investments in semiconductors are steering firms' decisions.
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's iPhone exports from India passed $1B in the past five months and could reach $2.5B by March 2023, up from $1.3B in the year ending March 2022 — Apple Inc.'s iPhone exports from India crossed $1 billion in the five months since April, according to people familiar with the matter …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
The Connectivity Standards Alliance launches the Matter 1.0 smart home standard and its certification program; Matter devices may be sold as soon as this month — The smart home standard is open for certification at last. We could see Matter devices in our homes as soon as this month.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Mastercard debuts Crypto Secure, AI software that helps banks identify and stop transactions from fraud-prone crypto exchanges, powered by CipherTrace's tech — - Mastercard will on Tuesday launch a new product called Crypto Secure that helps banks assess the risk of crime associated with crypto merchants on its network.
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Meta launches AITemplate, an open-source PyTorch-based “inference” system to help run code up to 4x faster on AMD's MI250 and up to 12x faster on Nvidia's A100 — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (META.O)said on Monday it has launched a new set of free software tools … | Maxwell Strachan / VICE: |
Some guests and hosts say Airbnb permanently banned them after background checks by third-party company Inflection revealed minor offenses or old misdemeanors — Airbnb customers say they are being permanently banned after background checks reveal minor offenses like broken tail lights and old misdemeanors.
Tweets: @jason_koebler, @samleecole, @motherboard, @maxwellstrachan, and @motherboard
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
A look at the Internet Archive, a preservation project that grew from 2TB in 1997 to ~100PB now, and issues with scraping paywalled news sites and social media — Within the walls of a beautiful former church in San Francisco's Richmond district, racks of computer servers hum and blink with activity.
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| Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's supplier list shows 48 had manufacturing sites in the US as of September 2021, up from 25 in 2020; 30+ were in California, up from less than 10 in 2020 — Partners of iPhone maker seek to stay nearby as pandemic makes travel to China difficult — U.S. Companies Are Reshoring Jobs From China at Record Levels| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
Toronto-based Horizon Blockchain Games, which develops the Sequence developer platform, Niftyswap marketplace, and Skyweaver card game, raised a $40M Series A — Crypto winter has helped chill demand for nonfungible tokens, but that hasn't stopped startups that use them from raising money.
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| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
Arizona's AG: Google will pay $85M to resolve the state's consumer privacy lawsuit that claims it surreptitiously collects users' location data for targeted ads — Alphabet Inc.'s Google will pay $85 million to resolve a consumer privacy suit by Arizona claiming the technology giant …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
A US federal court rules that the CFTC appropriately served Ooki DAO through a website help bot and forum post, in a lawsuit over violating federal trading laws — The ruling came the same day a group of crypto lawyers and developers filed to join the CFTC's case against Ooki DAO.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Sensor Tower: Apple's App Store net revenue fell ~5% in September, the steepest drop since data tracking began in 2015, driven by gaming revenue dropping 14% — - Apple's App Store revenue declined about 5% in September, according to Morgan Stanley, the steepest drop since the bank started modeling the data in 2015.| Wall Street Journal: |
Despite Elon Musk claiming Starlink works in Iran, experts say quickly building an underground internet network to evade government censorship will be difficult — Elon Musk said the satellite-internet system was activated in the country last month — Watch: Iranians Clash With Police During Violent Wave of Protests| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: talks between the US and TikTok on a national security agreement have taken on added urgency ahead of the midterms, as Republicans vow to hold hearings — Plan to secure user data is nearing conclusion, sources say, but hurdles remain and Republicans warn against concessions to video app's Chinese ownerSponsor Posts
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Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
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