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November 25, 2024, 5:45 PM

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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default feed, another improvement seemingly sparked by Bluesky competition  —  Threads will now let users decide what feed they want as their default when opening the app.  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced …
The Information:
Sources: the prototypes of the thin iPhone are between 5 and 6 millimeters thick, and may be too thin for a physical SIM, which could dampen China sales  —  Apple's desire to make its products thinner could dampen sales in China if its engineers can't overcome a design hurdle …
Financial Times:
The EU says Bluesky breaches its rules for not disclosing key details about itself, and has asked 27 governments to see “if they can find any trace of Bluesky”  —  Social media platform that has grown in exodus from Elon Musk's X is accused of not declaring user numbers
David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Elon Musk appears to confirm that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X, saying it is to stop “lazy linking”  —  Elon Musk confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X in a revelation that renews criticism that the platform …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic announces the Model Context Protocol, an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources  —  Anthropic is proposing a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives.  —  Called the Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short …
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware:
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W review: the new $7 microcontroller is low cost, faster, and adds more RAM and Wi-Fi connectivity, but still uses micro USB  —  The RP2350 finally gets Wi-Fi! … It is fair to say that the Raspberry Pi Pico disrupted the maker community in 2021.
James Hunt / The Block:
MicroStrategy bought 55,500 bitcoin for ~$5.4B cash at an average price of $97,862 between November 18 and November 24, taking its holdings to ~386,700 bitcoin  —  - MicroStrategy has purchased another 55,580 BTC for approximately $5.4 billion at an average price of $97,862 per bitcoin.
Sarah Kessler / New York Times:
US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; CompTIA: developer job listings are down 56% since 2019  —  Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future.  But as that promise fades, what should you do?
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Nvidia unveils Fugatto, an AI model for generating music and audio that can also modify voices, trained on open-source data, and weighs whether to release it  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Monday showed a new artificial intelligence model for generating music and audio that can modify voices …
Washington Post:
The US DOJ and Google made their closing arguments in the ad-market antitrust case before Judge Leonie Brinkema, who expressed some skepticism toward both sides  —  Federal prosecutors say Google's dominance of online advertising illegally hurts consumers and small businesses, while the company says it earned its place by being better.

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