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| Shira Ovide / Washington Post: |
Many local US police departments are fearmongering by issuing warnings about the privacy risk of iPhone's NameDrop, used to share contact information wirelessly — Some police departments have said the new iPhone feature is risky. Don't worry about it.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says it is investigating an issue caused by Google Drive's desktop app, after users' reports in recent days that some of their files have disappeared — Over the past few days, quite a few Google Drive users have noticed files go missing, and now Google is confirming that it is looking …
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
How OpenAI's leadership chaos points to lingering governance issues and could affect its business prospects as it moves forward fundraising at an $86B valuation — Also Binance's guilty plea and Finnish electricity prices. — OpenAI — Ten days ago OpenAI was worth $86 billion.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: fast-fashion giant Shein confidentially files for a US IPO, potentially in 2024, with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley as underwriters — The Chinese company was valued at $66 billion earlier this year — Shein, the China-founded online fashion company that won …
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Finland-based Varjo launches the XR-4, a $3,990 mixed reality headset aimed at businesses, touting a 120-degree field of view, 4K displays, and more — Varjo just announced the XR-4 series, its latest range of ultra high end PC-based headsets for enterprise and governments.
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Big names like Kelsey Hightower pull out of the DevTernity conference after allegations its founder made fake profiles of female speakers to boost diversity — The founder of a software developer conference has been accused of creating fake female speakers to bolster diversity numbers …
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| Kellen / Droid Life: |
YouTube Premium rolls out Playables, which lets users play games on mobile and desktop with no need to download, available until March 28, 2024 — YouTube Premium's benefits expanded this holiday week with the addition of Playables into the app. Playables, as the name sort of suggests …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission says Amazon's $1.4B iRobot acquisition may restrict competition; Amazon says it's working to address the EC's concerns; IRBT drops 18%+ — EU antitrust regulators said on Monday Amazon's (AMZN.O) $1.4 billion acquisition of robot vacuum maker iRobot (IRBT.O) … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Mozaic, whose API helps creators split and automate payments with collaborators, raised a $20M Series A from Volition Capital, taking its total funding to $27M+ — Creators often work with different collaborators for different projects. And splitting payments with others is one of the biggest challenges for creators.
More: Mozaic, PYMNTS.com, and FinSMEs
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
AWS announces AI foundation model enhancements to its automated speech recognition service Transcribe, now supporting 100+ languages, and to Personalize and Lex — Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a range of new artificial intelligence service capabilities that are enhanced using foundation models.
More: The Verge, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services, and InfoWorld
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: OpenAI board mulled adding Bret Taylor after three members resigned earlier in 2023, but lacked consensus, and it never got any letter warning about Q* — A new board and a promised investigation could threaten Altman's happy ending — On the surface, the OpenAI team that showed …
Threads: @crumbler
| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
A US judge rules ex-Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao cannot leave the US until a court considers whether he should remain through his sentencing hearing in February — Former Binance chief Changpeng Zhao cannot leave the United States for the time being, a federal judge said on Monday … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Reddit is talking with potential investors for an IPO as soon as in Q1 2024; cloud data management startup Rubrik is also considering an IPO in Q1 2024 — - Social media firm working with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs — Kim Kardashian's Skims also weighing options including IPO
More: PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, The Verge, and Reddit Upvoted
| Oliver Darcy / CNN: |
Sources: Paramount and WBD stopped posting under certain corporate handles on X due to brand safety concerns; Disney-affiliated X accounts have also gone dark — The exodus from X is bleeding beyond just major advertisers. — In recent days, a number of prominent media brands … | Chloe Cornish / Financial Times: |
As Elon Musk visits Israel, an official says Musk “reach[ed] a principle understanding” that Starlink “can only be operated in Israel” with government approval — Entrepreneur meets country's leaders amid furore over alleged antisemitism on his social platform X
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| Dan Robinson / The Register: |
Omdia: Meta and Microsoft are expected to have received 150K Nvidia H100 GPUs each by the end of 2023, three times as many as Google, Amazon, or Oracle — Less is more, as hyper heterogeneous computing heats up — Server unit shipments for 2023 could crash by up to 20 percent on last year, despite revenue growing.
More: Tom's Hardware and SiliconANGLE
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Tumblr plans to sunset Post+, launched in 2021 to let creators charge users a subscription to access content, in January 2024 — Tumblr is doing away with Post Plus, the feature that lets creators charge users a subscription to access their content. Starting on December 1st … Sponsor Posts
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