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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Wyze says ~13,000 customers could briefly see others' camera feeds, after a similar issue in 2023; Wyze blames glitches in rebooting systems after an AWS outage — It's, unfortunately, increasingly common for security cameras to have a glitch that exposes data from one user's system …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, which is undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities — In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to join him in ditching San Francisco for Miami …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
The US awards $1.5B to GlobalFoundries from the $52B CHIPS Act, plus $1.6B in loans, to build a fab at its HQ in Malta, New York, and to expand its Fab 8 plant — The massive grant, part of the Chips Act, will help the U.S. establish a homegrown supply for some of the most critical components of modern life.
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| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
Law enforcement from 11 countries, including the FBI and UK National Crime Agency, disrupt the LockBit gang and seize 11K domains used to facilitate ransomware — - Law enforcement from 11 agencies participated in operation — Ransomware websites used by hackers seized to thwart attacks
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on needing more than scale to get to AGI, developing AI agents, Gemini Pro 1.5, the UK AI Safety Institute, and more — In an interview with WIRED, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the biggest breakthroughs in AI are yet to come—and will take more than just chips.| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
MariaDB, which went public in December 2022 via a SPAC, receives an offer from K1 to take it private in a $37M deal, far below its $672M Series D valuation — MariaDB is the subject of another potential takeover bid, as the company behind the eponymous open source relational database management system …
More: SiliconANGLE, Business Wire, and K1 Investment Management
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| South China Morning Post: |
Meizu, which was acquired by Chinese automaker Geely in 2022, will no longer make smartphones, to pursue an “all in AI” strategy over the next three years — - Meizu said it is terminating all traditional smartphone projects to focus on developing artificial intelligence-enabled handsets| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to fine Apple ~€500M in March for allegedly breaking EU law over access to music streaming services, following a 2019 complaint by Spotify — Move is culmination of long-running European Commission antitrust probe after a complaint by Spotify
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft fixes a bug that caused Edge to automatically import Chrome tabs and browsing data without consent, following months of complaints from some users — Microsoft has fixed an issue where its Edge browser was again misbehaving, this time by automatically importing browsing data and tabs from Chrome without consent.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple Store sources: Vision Pro returns are between average and above average compared to other products; some in-store demo conversion rates are 10% to 15% — The Apple Vision Pro has now been available for two weeks — and some of Apple's most dedicated customers are returning the device to get back their $3,500.
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X: @tina__nigro, @stevesi, @zollotech, @stevesi, @markgurman, and @rsgnl
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission opens an investigation into whether TikTok breached DSA rules meant to protect children, the second DSA investigation after one into X — The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against ByteDance's TikTok under the Digital Services Act (DSA) …
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X: @thierrybreton, @carnage4life, @stokel, @davekeating, @verajourova, @5rightsfound, @lisdittmer, @vestager, and @eucyprus. LinkedIn: Veronique Ciminà
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/technews
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
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