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| Ellen O'Regan / Politico: |
The European Commission considers simplifying the 2009 rule that plastered the internet with cookie consent banners, as it seeks to reduce regulatory burdens — BRUSSELS — In a bid to slash red tape, the European Commission wants to eliminate one of its peskiest laws …
More: Silicon Republic and The National Law Review
Bluesky: @willeman.eu. Mastodon: @desertcamel@mastodon.social and @vmbrasseur@social …. Forums: r/europeanunion
| Wall Street Journal: |
How Seattle, transformed into a tech hub by Amazon and Microsoft's explosive growth, is grappling with the companies' layoffs affecting local economy — Amazon and Microsoft remade the Seattle area. Now its economy is feeling the pain of the industry's pullback.
More: The Urbanist and GeekWire
Bluesky: @frydawolff and @theianzhang
Forums: Hacker News, r/Seattle, r/Seattle, and Slashdot
| CoinDesk: |
In an interview, Brian Armstrong says Coinbase plans to become a financial super app that integrates its crypto offering with traditional banking services — Brian Armstrong, a co-founder and the CEO of Coinbase (COIN), said in an interview on Friday that Coinbase's long-term goal is to be a financial … | Reuters: |
A look at life in online scam compounds run by Chinese gangs on the Myanmar-Thai border, with purported Thai immigration officials luring trafficking victims — SCAMMED INTO SCAMMING Across Southeast Asia, a multibillion-dollar fraud industry has emerged, staffed in part by victims of trafficking.
LinkedIn: Poppy McPherson and Devjyot Ghoshal
Bluesky: @adolfux, @raphae.li, @seanokane, and @bradheath
| Erin Doherty / CNBC: |
Trump says Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch are potential TikTok US deal partners, along with Michael Dell and Larry Ellison; source: Fox Corp could play a role — President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan …
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X: @zvz, @danprimack, @darrigomelanie, @atrupar, @tvietor08, @danprimack, and @brianstelter. Threads: @tomgara. Forums: r/politics
| Financial Times: |
A look at the data center cluster in the Chinese city of Wuhu, where 15 companies, including Huawei, have built data centers with a total investment of $37B — Beijing increases oversight of its data centres to make better use of limited computing resources — Eleanor Olcott in Wuhu, Nian Liu in Beijing and Chris Cook in London
LinkedIn: Ryan Fedasiuk
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Interviews with Apple's Tim Millet, Arun Mathias, and Kaiann Drance on the new neural accelerators in A19 Pro GPU cores, C1X modem, N1 wireless chip, and more — iPhone Air is the big newcomer among Apple's latest lineup that went on sale Friday, but inside the slim phone's raised plateau …
More: CNBC on YouTube, iClarified, iThinkDifferent, and AppleInsider
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Tide, a neobank used by 1.6M micro and small enterprises, half of them in India, raised $120M led by TPG at a $1.5B valuation — U.K.-based fintech Tide has entered the unicorn club with a fresh funding of $120 million led by TPG, as the startup now serves over 1.6 million micro …
More: The Economic Times, Tech.eu, Tech Funding News, Bloomberg, and Livemint
| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
Ethereum's “low-risk DeFi” applications like payments and savings could drive the chain's revenue in a similar way that search and ads sustain Google's business — Special thanks to Binji, Josh Rudolf, Haonan Li and Stani Kulechov for feedback and review.
| Nikita Ostrovsky / Time: |
UK-based startup Mantic ranked #8 in the Metaculus forecasting cup that asks entrants to predict 60 geopolitical events, the first time an AI made the top 10 — Every three months, participants in the Metaculus forecasting cup try to predict the future for a prize pot of about $5,000.| Divsha Bhat / Rest of World: |
A look at UAE-based Khazna, a real estate company that builds and rents out data centers and controls 70% of the country's operational data center capacity — UAE's largest data center operator Khazna is challenging Western assumptions while building regional dominance.
Mastodon: @danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
| Naoki Watanabe / Nikkei Asia: |
OECD lists 1,300+ AI regulations, guidelines, and other policies worldwide as of September 2025, up ~30% since 2022, but international cooperation has stalled — NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence policies have proliferated worldwide over the past few years as the U.S. … | Bloomberg: |
A profile of Derek Li, founder of China's top adaptive learning edtech Squirrel AI, whose business is fueled by the country's relentless academic pressure — Derek Li pulled his sons out of school to be taught by artificial intelligence. Now he's betting the US is ready for machine-led learning.
X: @steveramosmedia and @jimmy56541. LinkedIn: Cedric Lee
Bluesky: @nouveaux-horizons, @aniccia, and @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
The UK FCA has improved its crypto registration process, reducing approval times and increasing acceptance rate after criticism it was too slow and restrictive — Regulators in Britain are facing calls to be more accommodating to the fast-growing sector — The UK financial watchdog …
More: Cryptonews
| Karoline Leavitt / @presssec: |
White House Press Secretary says the $100K H-1B fee is not an annual fee and it is a “one-time fee that applies only to the petition” in the upcoming lottery — To be clear: 1.) This is NOT an annual fee. It's a one-time fee that applies only to the petition. 2.) Those who already hold H-1B visas and are currently outside of the country right now will NOT be charged $100,000 to re-enter. H-1B visa holders can leave and re-enter the
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Bluesky: @simonwillison.net and @mmasnick
| Ben Berkowitz / Axios: |
More: Moneycontrol, USCIS, CBS News, Travel And Tour World, Information Age, The Straits Times, Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, Business Insider, Sources, Fortune, TechCrunch, Fudge Factor …, Politico, The American Bazaar, GeekWire, CNBC, Gizmodo, Time, Washington Post, The Information, Bloomberg, and San Francisco Chronicle
X: @rapidresponse47, @pitdesi, @sethbannon, @devahaz, @growing_daniel, @hthieblot, @speaksamuel, @joemillerjr, @shakeelhashim, @sidhant, @simonw, @garrytan, @reichlinmelnick, @reenabhardwaj, @esthercrawford, and @egeerdil2. LinkedIn: Robert Kelchen
Bluesky: @cuthrell.com, @ejtaub, @salma-not-hayek, @gloriasin, and @kentindell. Mastodon: @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
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