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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft relies on a false belief that copyright can limit the right to read and process data  —  This week the NY Times somehow broke the story of... well, the NY Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft.  I wonder who tipped them off.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Filing: Google agrees to settle a 2020 class-action lawsuit accusing the company of tracking and tying activity in Chrome's incognito mode to users' profiles  —  2020 lawsuit accused Google of tracking incognito activity, tying it to users' profiles.  —  Google has indicated that it is ready …
Martin Young / Cointelegraph:
Vitalik Buterin proposes requiring only 8,192 validator signatures per slot, down from 28K per slot, to make Ethereum's proof-of-stake “simpler and lighter”  —  The Ethereum co-founder suggested reducing validator signatures to lighten the load and make predicting future loads more accurate.
Reuters:
A US judge sides with the SEC, ruling that Terraform broke the law by not registering four cryptocurrencies, but dismisses the SEC's security-based swap claims  —  A federal judge on Thursday ruled in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on claims that Terraform Labs …
Amrita Khalid / The Verge:
LG debuts new Gram and Gram Pro laptops ahead of CES 2024; the processors in the Pro lineup include Intel's AI Boost NPU hardware for on-device AI tasks  —  If you're in the market for OLED displays and better graphics, take a look at the 2024 LG Gram Pro lineup.
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft readies a Surface Pro 10 and a Surface Laptop 6 for spring 2024, with Intel and ARM variants, improved designs, and next-gen AI PC marketing  —  Microsoft is making major updates to its Surface Pro and Surface Laptop lines with improved designs, new features, and next-gen silicon.
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Q&A with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod on selling the startup to Match Group, AI's potential, making the app less addictive, expanding to Europe, and more  —  The founder of Hinge says that capturing as much ‘signal’ as possible from users is the key to successful matches
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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Margrethe Vestager says AI Act will “not harm innovation and research, but actually enhance it” as it “creates predictability and legal certainty in the market”  —  Margrethe Vestager argues landmark legislation will give ‘legal certainty’ to tech groups building AI models

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Alex Ritman / Variety:
In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Disney crosses the $6B milestone at the box office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic; no other studio has managed to reach $6B since 2015

More News

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Filing: FirstCry, India's biggest e-commerce platform for mother and baby products, aims to raise $218M in its IPO; source: the startup wants a ~$4B valuation
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Nvidia launches the GeForce RTX 4090 D in China, featuring ~10% fewer processing cores than the 4090 sold in other countries, to comply with US export controls
Danny Nelson / CoinDesk:
Binance CEO Richard Teng says the crypto exchange's user base grew 30% to 170M accounts in 2023; Binance Pay, Binance Earn, and Binance's P2P platform all grew
The Indian Express:
India seeks to block the URLs of nine offshore crypto exchanges, including Binance, Kraken, KuCoin, and Huobi, for not complying with anti-money laundering laws

Earlier Picks

Christopher Yasiejko / Bloomberg:
Apple submitted a software workaround that could let the company sell non-infringing Apple Watch versions as soon as January 12, while appealing the US ITC ban
Raymond Wong / Inverse:
A look at Apple's renewed interest in Mac gaming, powered by Apple silicon, and an interview with Apple executives about Dynamic Caching, Game Mode, and more
Bloomberg:
Xiaomi unveils the SU7, its first EV, saying its aim is to become a top global carmaker in 15 to 20 years, which CEO Lei Jun calls his final entrepreneurial bet
Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times:
Seattle-based online retailer Zulily, which had a ~$7B market cap in 2014, winds down; in a December 11 lawsuit, Zulily accused Amazon of stifling its business
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