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An investigation reveals how phone coordinates collected by US data broker Datastream expose the movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany — More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers …
More: Metacurity and Pixel Envy
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X: @jshermcyber, @dmehro, @billmarczak, @johnnyryan, and @dmehro
Forums: r/technology and r/politics
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits — Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
More: Hindustan Times and Quartz
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Forums: Hacker News and r/privacy
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to “time served”, meaning no jail time; Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud charges after FTX collapsed — - Gary Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud-related charges following the collapse of FTX a month earlier.
More: Decrypt, CoinDesk, Financial Times, Blockworks, New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, CNBC, Bloomberg, Protos, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, Better Markets, and Cointelegraph. X: @innercitypress
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse” — Google is tightening its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles and pages that often have little … | Mishaal Rahman / Android Police: |
Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule compared to the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving OEMs more time — Surprise! Google is releasing the first developer preview of Android 16 today so that app developers can test the new APIs …
More: Android Developers Blog, Moneycontrol, Android Authority, Android Authority, Neowin, The Verge, 9to5Google, CommonsWare, Business Standard, Huawei Central, RM Update News, TechSpot, Sam Lover, PhoneArena, TalkAndroid.com, Gizchina.com, Dataconomy, MSPoweruser, SammyGuru, Business Today, MySmartPrice, The Hindu, CNX Software, The Register, 9to5Google, GSMArena.com, Neowin, NewsBytes, MobileSyrup, Liliputing, Wccftech, Trusted Reviews, Android Central, ZDNET, TechRadar, SiliconANGLE, Droid Life, Thurrott, Tom's Guide, PCMag, Digital Trends, Android Headlines, and TechCrunch
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade to the Echo Show 15 from 2022, with a 21" 1080p display and auto-framing camera, and updates the Echo Show 15 — Amazon's first wall-mounted smart display just got a big upgrade. Today, the company announced the launch of the Echo Show 21 …
More: About Amazon, Thurrott, ZDNET, TechCrunch, PCMag, T3, iClarified, 9to5Toys, Liliputing, TechRadar, Cord Cutters News, and Digital Trends
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GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile internet, or 57% of the world; mobile subscriber growth fell to 160M in 2023, from 200M per year from 2015 to 2021 — What happened to the “next billion” internet users? They're already online. — 57% of the population is already connected to mobile internet.| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, can access “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 — The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world …
More: 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, BGR, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Neowin, and The Verge
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Forums: r/apple, r/privacy, and MacRumors Forums
| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing generative AI training returns, a market hype break may be useful, just as with previous innovations — Businesses will benefit from some much-needed breathing space to figure out how to deliver that all-important return on investment.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony launches PlayStation Portal cloud streaming in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in 30 countries stream select PS5 games in 720p or 1080p — Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi.
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| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google — Zuckerberg has pushed Meta to build Llama into all its products and services, including its Orion augmented reality glasses now in prototype stage.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia — Odoo, a startup taking on SAP in the realm of enterprise software, boosted its valuation to 5 billion euros ($5.3 billion) … | Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker: |
Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third parties from using any data in AI models or similar apps, including to show a user's Strava data to other users — Yesterday Strava sent out an e-mail to users, outlining a change that's occurring almost immediately, regarding 3rd party apps …
More: Android Police, The Verge, Strava, TechRadar, Cybernews.com, and MEDIANAMA
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed — Efforts by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to address cybersecurity issues faced significant criticism this week … | Bloomberg: |
SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China's chip self-reliance push — - SMIC has more than doubled in two months as market eyes Trump — Competition looms and valuation not attractive: Morgan Stanley| Financial Times: |
How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, visual language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn to move and pick up skills — Advances in physical AI mean machines are learning skills previously thought impossible — “This is not science fiction,” …
X: @alisonkilling, @samjoiner, and @leokelion
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
The Biden admin finalizes $1.5B CHIPS Act incentives for GlobalFoundries, meaning it can start receiving federal funding for facilities in Vermont and New York — - Pact doesn't include $1.6 billion loan from proposed agreement — Biden administration has been firming up Chips Act awards
More: Reuters, Tech Xplore, Forexlive, Livemint, and Business Insider
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Trump Media now has a $6B+ market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb says site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October 2024 — Trump Media & Technology Group's revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up.
More: Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite, and Barron's Online
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Forums: r/politics and r/LeopardsAteMyFace
| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the lack of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for their IPOs — Until there is a single market in areas from services to capital markets, more companies will choose American exchanges| Yoshua Bengio / Financial Times: |
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI model regulation to protect the public — Advances in reasoning will lead to substantially improved capabilities in mathematics and science| Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring startup LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M — - PSG Equity, Golub, others inject $800 million in equity, debt — Vista acquired LogicMonitor for $415 million in mid-2018
More: TechCrunch and LogicMonitor
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in the US, the UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible for free, to counter Spotify — Amazon said on Tuesday that it will let Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers access one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free.
More: About Amazon, PCMag, AFTVnews, Consequence, 9to5Mac, Digital Music News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, MakeUseOf, Thurrott, The Verge, Billboard, Music Ally, CNET, Engadget, Variety, The Bookseller, The Hollywood Reporter, and Podnews
Threads: @ashleycarman and @ashleycarman
X: @rakeshsfnyc and @amazonmusic
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Microsoft signs a deal with News Corp's HarperCollins to use nonfiction titles to train an unannounced AI model; HarperCollins says authors can opt out — - Nonfiction books will be used for training AI models — AI companies and publishers have butted heads in lawsuits
More: The Ankler, Silicon Republic, The Verge, WinBuzzer, MEDIANAMA, The Information, The Guardian, Tech in Asia, The Bookseller, and 404 Media
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