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Amazon debuts Amazon One Enterprise in preview, letting US businesses use its palm-scanning tech to authenticate employees entering an office or accessing info — - Amazon is introducing a version of its palm-scanning technology for businesses. — The company is pitching the service …
More: About Amazon, PCMag, PYMNTS.com, Baseline, International Business Times, TechCrunch, SecurityWeek, Constellation Research, Help Net Security, MSPoweruser, Tech Monitor, GeekWire, and SiliconANGLE
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Amazon makes AI foundation model enhancements to AWS' automated speech recognition service Transcribe, now supporting 100+ languages, and to Personalize and Lex — Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a range of new artificial intelligence service capabilities that are enhanced using foundation models.
More: The Verge, Voicebot.ai, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services, MSPoweruser, Bloomberg, and SiliconANGLE. Forums: r/technews
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Europol, Norway, the US, Ukraine, and other countries arrest members of a ransomware group in Ukraine linked to attacks on organizations in 71 countries — In cooperation with Europol and Eurojust, law enforcement agencies from seven nations have arrested in Ukraine the core members …
More: Europol, TechCrunch, Eurojust, Metacurity, The Record, The Register, Euractiv, SecurityWeek, Security Boulevard, and The Hacker News
| Shira Ovide / Washington Post: |
Many local US police departments are fearmongering by warning about the privacy risk of the iPhone's NameDrop tool, which is used to wirelessly share contacts — Some police departments have said the new iPhone feature is risky. Don't worry about it.
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| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
An in-depth reflection on Marc Andreessen's “techno-optimist manifesto”: tech is amazing, the high costs of delays, AI and risk, d/acc, centralization, and more — Special thanks to Morgan Beller, Juan Benet, Eli Dourado, Sriram Krishnan, Nate Soares, Jaan Tallinn, Vincent Weisser …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2023, down from $85B in 2022; just seven unicorns are expected in 2023, vs. 48 in 2022 and 108 in 2021 — The downturn in the technology sector — dragged by inflation, higher interest rates and geopolitical events — continues to persist … | Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Ikea announces new smart sensors: Parasoll, for doors and windows, Vallhorn, for motion, and Badring, for water leakages, available in H1 2024 for under $10 — Ikea's push to democratize the smart home continues with the introduction of three new Zigbee sensors that won't break the bank.| Joseph Hoppe / Wall Street Journal: |
The UK CMA provisionally finds Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition would likely harm innovation for design software and invites responses ahead of a final decision — The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said it has provisionally found Adobe's planned $20 billion acquisition …
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
How OpenAI's leadership chaos points to lingering governance issues and could affect its business prospects ahead of fundraising at an $86B valuation — Also Binance's guilty plea and Finnish electricity prices. — OpenAI — Ten days ago OpenAI was worth $86 billion.| Phoebe Liu / Forbes: |
A profile of Curtis Priem, Nvidia's co-founder and first CTO, who holds ~200 patents, sold his Nvidia stock years ago, and has donated $275M to his alma mater — If Curtis Priem, Nvidia's first CTO, had held onto all his stock, he'd be the 16th richest person in America.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Oxford Internet Institute study of 2M+ people's internet use: no “smoking gun” for widespread mental health harms, contradicting the “popular ideas” of risks — No evidence to support ‘popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk’, according to researchers
More: Ars Technica, Sage Journals, TechSpot, and Oxford Internet Institute
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| Dan Robinson / The Register: |
Omdia: Meta and Microsoft are expected to receive 150K Nvidia H100 GPUs each by the end of 2023, three times as many as Google, Amazon, or Oracle — Less is more, as hyper heterogeneous computing heats up — Server unit shipments for 2023 could crash by up to 20 percent on last year, despite revenue growing.
More: Tom's Hardware, Thurrott, PC Gamer, and SiliconANGLE
| June Yoon / Financial Times: |
Challenges for chip startups: TSMC and Nvidia dominate and hold thousands of patents, buying chipmaking gear, and complexity; Nvidia's HGX H100 has 35K parts — Barriers to entry in an industry dominated by TSMC and Nvidia are very high — In the drama that has just played out in Silicon Valley … | Jef Feeley / Bloomberg: |
FTX investors sue MLB, Formula 1, and the Mercedes Formula 1 team, accusing them of aiding FTX's fraud, broadening a class-action suit against 24+ celebrities — - FTX investors say leagues allegedly aided $11 billion fraud — Mercedes-Benz Formula 1 racing team also named in lawsuit
More: Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, Cryptopolitan, Bankless Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Fortune
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google says a first-of-its-kind geothermal energy project in Nevada, to power its data centers with clean energy in partnership with Fervo, is up and running — A first-of-its-kind geothermal project is now up and running in Nevada, where it will help power Google's data centers with clean energy.
More: Engadget, The Messenger, Associated Press, The Keyword, and Wired
| M. Sriram / Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese payments group Alipay plans to sell its 3.4% stake in Indian food delivery giant Zomato for ~$400M; Zomato shares have surged 90%+ in 2023 — Chinese payments group Alipay plans to sell its 3.4% stake in Indian food delivery giant Zomato (ZOMT.NS) for nearly $400 million through block deals …
More: Inc42 Media and TechStartups
| Ofcom: |
A study of UK teenagers: 79% of online users aged 13 to 17 use generative AI, compared to 31% of internet users aged 16+; 51% of ages 7 to 17 use Snap's My AI — Teenagers and children in the UK are far more likely than adults to have embraced generative artificial intelligence (AI) …
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| Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
PDD, which runs Temu and Pinduoduo, reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to ~$9.6B vs. ~$7.7B est., and net income up 47%, after grabbing Shein users; PDD jumps 15%+ — - Revenue almost doubled while profit jumped 47% last quarter — Investors betting Temu will sustain momentum against rivals
More: South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, Pandaily, and PDD Holdings
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AWS announces Graviton4, with up to 30% better performance, 50% more cores, and 75% more memory bandwidth than Graviton3, and Trainium2 for 4x faster training — AWS Graviton4 is the most powerful and energy-efficient AWS processor to date for a broad range of cloud workloads
More: GeekWire
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says it is investigating an issue caused by Google Drive's desktop app, after users' reports in recent days that some of their files have disappeared — Over the past few days, quite a few Google Drive users have noticed files go missing, and now Google is confirming that it is looking …
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| Reuters: |
Adobe: US Cyber Monday sales rose 9.6% YoY to a record $12.4B, driven by deep discounts that peaked at 31% in electronics and 23% for apparel — Deep discounts on everything from beauty products and toys to electronics have enticed U.S. shoppers to splurge on Christmas purchases and ring …
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