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Netflix says 60M households watched the Paul vs. Tyson boxing bout live around the world, peaking at 65M concurrent streams — - Mike Tyson and Jake Paul faced off in heavily anticipated bout — Users complained on social media of difficulty watching fight
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| Dominic Patten / Deadline: |
Many Netflix viewers faced issues while watching the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight and the undercard bouts, including the stream glitching and losing sound — From nearly the start of the undercard bouts from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the streamer has been freezing, losing sound and proving slow to reload.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised — Carrier joins growing list of known victims, including AT&T and Verizon, of the major Chinese spying operation
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300B as part of a recent buyback offer, one of its highest valuations ever — Investors see Trump victory as a positive with threat of TikTok ban looming in U.S. — TikTok parent ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300 billion …
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| Gavin Anderegg / anderegg.ca: |
Bluesky is working to become fully decentralized but it could take years amid financial concerns as it makes money only by selling domains for usernames — November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky.
More: The Verge, Scripting News, and The Indian Express
Threads: @crumbler. Mastodon: @bazkie@beige.party, @nemobis@mamot.fr, @ricmac@mastodon.social, and @davidgerard@circumstances.run
Bluesky: @conraddoucette.bsky.social, @ianfogg.bsky.social, @stark.soy, @stephenmcgann.uk, @danny.page, @sewerliberal.bsky.social, @levikornelsen.itch.io, @davidgerard.co.uk, @davidbisset.com, @stoddart.bsky.social, @gavin.anderegg.ca, @kachumbali.bsky.social, and @jonworth.eu
Forums: Hacker News and lobste.rs
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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Bluesky: @bsky.app, @bsky.app, @techviews.bsky.social, @azarynn.etheirys.social, @ralanr.bsky.social, @dannymacfinn.bsky.social, @mario-y.bsky.social, @grezydragonlady.bsky.social, @johnny2tehb.bsky.social, @ficmenhitdiff.bsky.social, @xett.bsky.social, @00valcho.bsky.social, @jeffmiracola.bsky.social, @bluesilverwind.bsky.social, @kimchithecat.bsky.social, @ryandenton81.bsky.social, @crvscience.bsky.social, @p1ombo.bsky.social, @hikatamika.com, @tehninini.bsky.social, and @daveys-gaming.bsky.social. X: @gergelyorosz
Forums: Hacker News and r/BlueskySocial
| Wall Street Journal: |
Ukraine's drone suppliers are using US-based Auterion's tech to ramp up production of automated attack drones that are cheap and can evade electronic jamming — Kyiv's drone suppliers are ramping up production of computer-guided drones that are cheap and can't be electronically jammed
More: The Indian Express, New York Post, and Bloomberg
LinkedIn: Lisa Hammitt and Michael Shoebridge
| ProPublica: |
Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs — - Raising the Bar: President Joe Biden asked tech companies to “raise the bar on cybersecurity.”| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Report: Samsung plans to release its smart glasses in Q3 2025; the glasses will be powered by Qualcomm's AR1 chipset and use Google's Gemini to handle AI tasks — According to a new report, Samsung's upcoming XR glasses that are being developed in collaboration with Google won't arrive until … | Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
A profile of and an interview with Aura Salla, a former Meta lobbyist turned EU Parliament member, who says the EU's Big Tech regulation went too far, too fast — Aura Salla was once the tech giant's top lobbyist in Brussels. Now, her presence as a regulator in the European Parliament is proving controversial.
Mastodon: @glynmoody@mastodon.social and @lobbyctrl_tech@eupolicy …. Bluesky: @davor.fyi
X: @bonybean, @lobbyctrl_tech, and @jeelanireports
| Nandagopal Rajan / The Indian Express: |
An interview with Apple's Tim Millet and Tom Boger on Apple's chip strategy, making big changes to the Neural Engine after the 2017 transformer paper, and more — 'No other platform can touch our power performance per watt. That's the tangible benefit to users,' Tom Boger, Vice President of Mac Product Marketing at Apple, said.| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
Emails from Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI show Brockman and Sutskever had concerns about Altman as early as 2017, Sam Altman considered an ICO, and more — New emails released as part of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI reveal that the company's fondness of drama is hardly new.
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Bluesky: @afortknox.bsky.social, @asadotzler.com, @scottwillsey.com, and @shakeelhashim.com
X: @techemails, @techemails, @nathanpmyoung, @sama, @ohabryka, @annatonger, @autismcapital, @basedbeffjezos, @shakeelhashim, @shakeelhashim, @ctjlewis, @drummatick, @elonmusk, @soundboy, @modestproposal1, @techemails, @techemails, and @techemails
Forums: r/RealTesla and r/AnythingGoesNews
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
An Ohio man is sentenced to three years for running crypto mixer Helix, which laundered $311M+ from 2014 to 2017; he must forfeit $311M+ and assets worth $400M+ — The operator of the cryptocurrency mixing service Helix was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday.Sponsor Posts
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