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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's work on its “ambitious and compelling” OS updates for 2024, paused for a week after hitting a key milestone in iOS 18 and macOS 15 development  —  Apple's recent software development delay underscores the need to get ambitious 2024 updates right.
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Sam Altman says he expected “to raise a lot more” from Microsoft and other investors to keep up with the punishing costs of building more sophisticated LLMs  —  Sam Altman expects big tech group will back start-up's mission to create software as intelligent as humans
Reuters:
Chinese chipmaker YMTC filed a lawsuit against Micron on November 9 in California, alleging that the US chipmaker infringed eight of its patents  —  Chinese chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) has filed a lawsuit against U.S. rival Micron Technology (MU.O) alleging infringement of eight of its patents.
Axios:
The Block sells an 80% stake to Singaporean VC Foresight Ventures, valuing the crypto outlet at $70M and freeing the business from financial ties to FTX  —  Crypto media company The Block sold a majority stake to Singaporean venture capital firm Foresight Ventures in a deal valuing the crypto outlet at $70 million.
Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
Nvidia announces H200, an update to its standalone H100 accelerator, swapping HBM3 memory for HBM3E, offering a ~25% frequency increase, and shipping in Q2 2024  —  With faster and higher capacity HBM3E memory set to come online early in 2024, NVIDIA has been preparing its current-generation server GPU products to use the new memory.
Will Greenwald / PCMag:
Sony PlayStation Portal review: a limited, expensive gaming handheld with a mediocre screen that does little besides Remote Play streaming from a PS5  —  A remote handheld for your PlayStation 5 … Many gaming accessories serve specific purposes, catering to a user base by performing a single task extremely well.
Financial Times:
An in-depth look inside a covert Russian operation to get dual-use specialist microchips, which are protected by EU export controls, into the hands of the state  —  A rare look inside a covert Russian-led operation to get strategic technology protected by European export controls into the hands of the state

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David Shepardson / Reuters:
The US FCC officially orders early license reviews of eight Disney-owned ABC stations, in LA, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Houston, and more

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Sources: Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro has decided to keep ESPN within Disney for now, rather than spinning it off

Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
Guardian US MD Steve Sachs says the paper has a larger audience than WaPo, and 700K paid supporters, with reader revenue up 35% per year for the past two years

More News

Wes Davis / The Verge:
Many Threads users report that the app now has a privacy option that lets them opt out of having their posts show up on Instagram and Facebook
Shanti Das / The Guardian:
Investigation: UK biomedical research database Biobank shared the sensitive health data of ~500K volunteers with insurance companies despite pledging not to
Bloomberg:
Foxconn launches two prototype low-Earth orbit communication satellites on a SpaceX rocket, as Foxconn diversifies into new sectors with greater urgency

Earlier Picks

David Gilbert / Wired:
Experts say terrorist groups are using generative AI to bypass the hashing databases used by tech companies to automatically remove violent extremist content
Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg:
Alibaba and JD.com reported YoY sales increases for Singles Day, but neither company provided overall revenue figures for the event for the second straight year
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
London-based Monument, a digital bank focused on “mass affluent” customers in the UK, raised a £40M Series B, a source says at a £150M+ pre-money valuation
Jack Ewing / New York Times:
How Łukasz Krupski, a Tesla whistleblower in Norway, leaked personnel records and Autopilot data that caught the attention of regulators in several countries
Wall Street Journal:
Former FTX employees, including general counsel Can Sun, plan to launch crypto exchange Backpack, protecting user funds using lessons learned from FTX's failure
Andi Yu / ABC:
DP World Australia, the country's second largest port operator, resumes operations after a cyberattack halted the movement of goods in and out of Australia
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