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Sources: Nvidia has begun designing ARM CPUs for Windows PCs, and AMD also plans to build ARM chips; source: Nvidia and AMD could start selling them in 2025 — Nvidia (NVDA.O) dominates the market for artificial intelligence computing chips. Now it is coming after Intel's longtime stronghold of personal computers.
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X: @stevemoser, @krewell, @joshdwalrath, @stevesi, @stevesi, @chernandburn, @chernandburn, @stevesi, @ericjhonsa, @ericjhonsa, and @tomwarren
Forums: Hacker News, r/pcgaming, r/AMD_Stock, r/NVDA_Stock, r/nvidia, r/hardware, and Beehaw
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Matter hits version 1.2, adding support for robot vacuums, refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, smoke and CO alarms, air quality sensors, and more — One year in, and Matter is adding support for fridges, robot vacuums, smoke alarms, and more. It's a major step toward a complete smart home …
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Mastodon: @dcseifert@mastodon.social. X: @danwroc, @thurrott, @csaiot, @andrew_osu, @stephenrobles, and @jp2e
LinkedIn: Nitesh Patel and Ted Miller
Forums: Hacker News, r/homeassistant, r/HomeKit, r/MatterProtocol, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| NBC News: |
The White House designates 31 communities across the US as regional Tech Hubs that can compete for $40M to $75M each in grants, under the CHIPS and Science Act — The hubs are located in 32 states and Puerto Rico and will be able to compete for $40 million to $75 million each in grants.
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LinkedIn: Stephanie S., Gretchen Sierra-Zorita, and Austin Thompson, MBA, CSPO
Forums: r/Spokane, r/WhatBidenHasDone, and Slashdot
| Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Nightshade and Glaze, UChicago researchers' tools that help artists “mask” or even “poison” their work to break AI models later trained on the data — The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ArtistHate, and r/artificial
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Amazon rolls out passkey support in its iOS app and the web, letting users log in via their devices' biometrics, and says support for Android is “coming soon” — Amazon's rolling out passkey support for its online site and mobile shopping apps.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta is “listening to feedback” after some users noticed the company is cross-posting Threads posts to users' Facebook feeds without offering an opt-out option — The company said it's “listening to feedback” about the feature. — Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics …
Threads: @mikehos3, @parkert, @threads, @guillecummings, @jw, @williamjo.se, @daveleebbg, @jeremyburge, @liahaberman, @karissabe, @jw, @sdw, @chris, @dawnbierschwal, @guillecummings, @kixes, @jw, @jw, and @__________lx_
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
| Bloomberg: |
Japan's FTC opens an investigation into Google over alleged antitrust violations, focusing on whether the company asked OEMs to prioritize its search services — - The FTC said it is looking into Google's business practices — The US is mounting a broad investigation into the company
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| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Google proposes IP Protection for Chrome, an opt-in privacy feature that masks IP addresses via proxy servers for “qualifying traffic”, to roll out in stages — Google is getting ready to test a new “IP Protection” feature for the Chrome browser that enhances users' privacy …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Excel to fix automatic data formatting after scientists reworked the alphanumeric symbols for representing genes in 2020 to avoid Excel issues — In 2020, scientists decided just to rework the alphanumeric symbols they used to represent genes rather than try to deal …
More: Office Insiders, Gizmodo, Windows Central, and PCMag
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LinkedIn: Kirk T. Hartley, Rachel Mace, CAE, Shiyi Yin, Martin Gardner, Brian R. Spisak, PhD, and Daniel Tunkelang. Forums: Hacker News
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Tinder rolls out Matchmaker, which lets loved ones view and recommend potential matches in the US, the UK, and 13 other countries ahead of a global launch soon — If you're the kind of person who asks friends and family for help with your love life, Tinder is aiming to make things a little easier … | Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Databricks plans to acquire data startup Arcion, which has raised $18M+, for $100M, after raising $500M in September and acquiring MosaicML for $1.3B in June — - Databricks agreed to acquire Arcion, an enterprise data company, for $100 million on Monday, including incentives …
More: Arcion, PR Newswire, CRN, FinSMEs, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, Tech Monitor, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Crunchbase News, and Constellation Research
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Sony sold 2.5M copies of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 in the first 24 hours after its October 20 release, becoming the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game ever — Over 2.5 million copies in 24 hours — Well, it looks like Sony's got another blockbuster on its hands.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok tests letting users upload 15-minute videos, after raising its maximum video limit to 10 minutes in February 2022, to attract longer-form video creators — TikTok is testing the ability for users to upload 15 minute videos, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A look at YouTube's negotiations with record labels over an AI tool that lets creators perform using major musicians' voices, a pivotal moment for AI in music — Negotiations between the video site and record labels could be a key moment in the spread of AI technology.
LinkedIn: Lucas Shaw, Ben Liebmann, and Steven Wolfe Pereira ⚡ …
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
The Worldcoin Foundation plans to start paying orb operators, who scan people into Worldcoin's network, in WLD, not USDC, in December and has issued ~134M WLD — - In a recent blog post, the Worldcoin Foundation announced that orb operators, who assist people in scanning their eyes to join … | Chainalysis: |
From July 2022 to June 2023, the US led the world with $1T+ in “value received on chain”, but most stablecoin inflows to top services went via non-US exchanges — This post is an excerpt from our 2023 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report. Download your copy now!
More: Bitcoin Insider, Decrypt, The Block, CoinDesk, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, Blockworks, and Crypto Briefing
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy says big-money deals with top livestreaming gamers is not a “sustainable business”; sources: YouTube is also backing away from such deals — Leaders pull back from seven-, eight-figure contracts while upstart Kick forges ahead in some cases.| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Gen Z individuals say they use family location sharing apps to bolster a sense of security, such as during dates or at concerts; Life360 now has 33M+ US MAUs — An upbringing filled with anxiety has Gen Z sharing their location via apps — Teenagers have long balked at telling parents where they are.
More: 9to5Mac, Insider, and MacDailyNews
| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Streaming services, including Hulu, Peacock, and Max, are increasingly showing “pause ads”, which appear a few seconds after a viewer pauses the programming — Time for a different sort of commercial break. — Any subscriber to the ad-supported version of Hulu is bound …
Forums: r/popculturechat, r/television, r/cordcutters, and r/technology
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
PimEyes, a paid facial recognition service, blocks searches of children's faces via age detection AI to identify photos of minors, as part of a “no harm policy” — The change came in response to worries that the service could be used nefariously by a stranger.| Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix's stock has surged 67% in 2023 due to its Nvidia deal, while rival Samsung's stock is up 24%, on track to underperform SK Hynix by the most in a decade — - SK Hynix has jumped 67% this year on HBM chip; Samsung up 24% — Samsung needs big client like Nvidia, good yields to catch up
More: Cryptopolitan
| Bloomberg: |
Amsterdam-based Adyen, a Stripe and PayPal rival, has seen its stock fall ~25% since August 17's drop of 35%+, after Adyen reported lower-than-expected sales — - Adyen shares halved since its semi-annual earnings report — Co-CEO Pieter van der Does' stake is worth about €620 million| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Cisco releases patches for two zero-day flaws that hackers exploited in 50K+ IOS XE devices; researchers say that hacked hosts recently dropped from ~60K to ~1K — Cisco has addressed the two vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273) that hackers exploited to compromise tens of thousands of IOS XE devices over the past week.
More: Security Affairs, ComputerWeekly.com, SC Media, and Help Net Security. LinkedIn: Caroline Kelly
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