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Microsoft releases a $150 standalone version of Office 2024 for consumers and SMBs, with core app updates and UI changes; the last standalone was Office 2021 — Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don't want to subscribe to Microsoft 365.
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Developer Christian Selig says Apple removed his YouTube app Juno for the Vision Pro from the App Store, after YouTube said it violated its ToS in April 2024 — Juno, the third-party YouTube app created for the Apple Vision Pro, has been removed from the App Store.
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Sources: in recent months, Google teams have made progress on AI reasoning models like OpenAI's o1; source: some DeepMind staff are worried about falling behind — The push deepens the search giant's rivalry with OpenAI — Google is working on artificial intelligence software that resembles … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning a new iPad mini, possibly for 2024, and nearing production of an iPhone SE without a home button and iPad Air models for early 2025 — - New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025
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Automattic demanded an 8% cut of WP Engine's monthly revenue to use the WordPress trademark in a seven-year deal proposed on September 20; WP Engine declined — Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, asked rival hosting service WP Engine to hand over 8 percent of its revenue each month …
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| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
Meta rolls out Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange to let UK banks share transaction intel to help catch scammers, after a pilot with NatWest and Metro Bank — Tech group to roll out channel for sharing of transaction intelligence — Facebook owner Meta is launching a data-sharing partnership …
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| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
The UK FCA fines Starling Bank £29M over its “shockingly lax” controls against financial crime, like potential money laundering and sanctions breaches — FCA said lender's efforts to identify potential money laundering ‘did not keep pace’ with its growth| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
VC firm CRV plans to return $275M from its $500M Select fund, citing worsening market conditions and high startup valuations relative to their potential payoff — CRV, based in Silicon Valley, plans to return to investors $275 million because the market for mature start-ups has soured.| Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: |
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says his post about ToS updates “may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works” but “in reality, little has changed” — The World's Call Center Capital Is Gripped by AI Fever — and Fear … Hello World
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Some iOS developers worry that an iOS 18 change letting users choose contacts an app can access may make growing social apps hard; Apple says it boosts privacy — This year, when Apple announced iOS 18, the latest version of its mobile operating system, most of the attention went to its slate of new artificial intelligence features.
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| Sebastiaan de With / Lux: |
iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, and Camera Control, Zero Shutter Lag, and its advanced Photographic Styles impress — For the first “Desert Titanium” iPhone, we took over 1000 photos and videos in the desert. Take a deep dive into what's new — and why it's close to the last of its kind.
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been removed from GitHub, and its team has reportedly ceased development after Nintendo contacted its creator — GitHub removal comes months after a Nintendo lawsuit took down the Yuzu emulator. — Popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx …
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Livestream marketplace Whatnot says its GMV passed $2B+ in 2024 and its top 500 sellers each sold $1M+ on the platform; 66% of its sellers earn $10K+ per month — Whatnot, the livestream marketplace platform for trading card collectors and sneakerheads alike, is offering a bit of positive news …
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| Rob Davies / The Guardian: |
A profile of Denise Coates, the UK's richest woman, who founded online gambling company Bet365, which had £3B+ in 2023 revenue, as she focuses on a US expansion — She is the mastermind behind Bet365, the company that made it possible to gamble online any hour of the day or night.
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the startup has largely abandoned building AI models after Google poached its founders, focusing on its chatbots instead — AI start-up's new chief says race to build large language models against Big Tech got ‘insanely expensive’
More: TechCrunch and Benzinga
| Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: |
AI contact center startup Crescendo raised $50M from General Catalyst and others at a $500M valuation, and acquired Idaho-based outsourcing company PartnerHero — - Crescendo has raised $50 million, is acquiring PartnerHero — Investors include General Catalyst and Celesta Capital| Tom Faber / Financial Times: |
2024 has been a barren year for big video games compared to 2023, helping indie games take center stage; the gaming industry has laid off 10,000+ people in 2024 — As gamers turn their backs on gargantuan adventures, we could be entering a golden age of modest titles| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia details LLM family NVLM 1.0, which can handle vision and language tasks while enhancing text-only capabilities and is led by the 72B-parameter NVLM-D-72B — Nvidia has released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that competes with proprietary systems from industry leaders like OpenAI and Google.
More: WinBuzzer, BGR, Constellation Research, arXiv.org, and Benzinga
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
How the FBI and Mandiant caught hacker Jesse Kipf, who sold access to systems he broke into and hacked Hawaii's death registration system to fake his own death — Jesse Kipf was a prolific hacker who sold access to systems he hacked, had contacts with a notorious cybercrime gang …
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| Andreo Calonzo / Bloomberg: |
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signs a law imposing a 12% value-added tax on non-resident digital service providers, such as Netflix, HBO, and Disney — The World's Call Center Capital Is Gripped by AI Fever — and Fear … Hello World
More: CoinGeek and Yahoo Finance
| John Gapper / Financial Times: |
Raspberry Pi, the FTSE 250 index company that defied the trend of UK tech companies listing in the US, has revived Cambridge's history of making hardware — The Cambridge company conceived to enable technology education is now an industrial force — Raspberry Pi is a quirky enterprise.Sponsor Posts
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