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December 10, 2024, 5:50 PM
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: 2025's Apple Watch Ultra is slated to get satellite connectivity for off-the-grid text messages, and it may also get a blood pressure sensing feature  —  - Company also working on blood-pressure tool for future model  — Apple is using MediaTek modems for first time in new watches
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The US sanctions Chinese cybersecurity government contractor Sichuan Silence and one of its staff over Ragnarok ransomware ties and creating and using zero-days  —  The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Sichuan Silence, a Chinese cybersecurity company, and one of its employees …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Instagram officially rolls out “trial reels”, which give creators a way to test out videos by publishing them only to people who don't follow them  —  Instagram is officially rolling out “trial reels” to give creators a way to test out new content by publishing videos that don't appear to their followers.
Boone Ashworth / Wired:
Amazon launches Amazon Autos, letting US shoppers buy Hyundai cars, and plans to add more dealerships and manufacturers; it was announced in November 2023  —  Amazon's partnership with Hyundai means you can use the e-retailer to purchase a brand-new car online.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft unveils a data center design that uses zero water for cooling, down from the 125M+ liters per year a typical center uses, rolling out from August 2024  —  New design will use no water to cool the facilities' servers and chips.  —  Microsoft Corp., trying to mitigate the climate impact …
David Welch / Bloomberg:
GM says Cruise will exit the robotaxi business, and Cruise and GM's technical teams will be combined to focus on autonomous tech for upcoming GM vehicles  —  Cruise and GM's technical teams will be combined into a single effort focused on developing autonomous technology to offer in future models sold by GM …
Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge:
The YouTube Kids mobile app gets a redesign that makes it look more like the standard YouTube app and lets users browse through videos in portrait mode  —  The YouTube Kids mobile app is getting a redesign that both makes it look and behave more like the standard YouTube app …
More: YouTube and Pocket-lint
Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
The US Commerce Department finalizes $6.1B+ for memory chipmaker Micron to fund its New York and Idaho factory projects, one of the largest CHIPS Act subsidies  —  The U.S. Department of Commerce has finalized a subsidy of more than $6.1 billion for memory chip maker Micron Technology (MU.O) …

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Nancy Scola / Washingtonian:
A deep look at FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's moves favoring the Trump administration; former chair Tom Wheeler warns against the agency becoming a political tool

Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
The Massachusetts Senate passes an amendment that would in many instances bar judges, grand juries, and others from forcing reporters to identify their sources

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Financial Times:
Sources: in October 2024, EU regulators asked Google for more information about its secret ads deal with Meta that skirted Google's rules for targeting minors

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Issie Lapowsky / Rest of World:
How WhatsApp evolved from a messaging app into a business messaging growth platform, aggressively luring big businesses to its suite of paid messaging products
Patrick McKenzie / Bits about Money:
A deep dive into “debanking”, which crypto advocates, including a16z, claim has been used against them by US political actors and agencies without due process
John Russell / HPCwire:
Google says it made a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap
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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
WaveForms, which aims to create AI assistants that pick up on emotional cues from verbal interactions, raised a $40M seed from a16z at a $200M valuation
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Reddit says it is testing Reddit Answers, which lets select US users ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and threads in English
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware:
Raspberry Pi 500 review: the Pi 5's power in a convenient keyboard form factor with awesome thermal performance, but lacks NVMe and no camera or display ports
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