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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Nintendo teases the Switch 2, featuring a new kickstand design and backward compatibility for physical and digital games, with more details on April 2, 2025 — The console looks a lot like the original, but it's bigger. In the video, the Joy-Con controllers are black with colored accents, and they attach to the console magnetically.
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| NBC News: |
An official says the Biden administration is “exploring options” to implement the law without causing TikTok to go dark for US users on January 19 — Barring action by the Supreme Court, a ban in the U.S. on the popular app is set to begin on Sunday.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: TikTok CEO Shou Chew plans to attend Trump's inauguration after being invited to sit on the dais, joining Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk at the event — Shou Chew will join tech moguls like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk at President-elect Donald J. Trump's inauguration as the fate of the app hangs in the balance.
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| The Information: |
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| Reuters: |
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
UK's Ofcom imposes robust age checks on porn sites, which could include photo ID matching, facial age estimation technology, and credit card checks — Ofcom sets out new rules that could include photo ID matching and credit card verification — The UK media regulator will make it harder …
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| Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press: |
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| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
A look at the legal dispute between Walgreens and Cooler Screens, which installed 10,000 smart doors that track shoppers and show ads at Walgreens' US stores — A startup promised the pharmacy chain its high-tech coolers would track shoppers and spark an in-store ad revolution.| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
An interview with Replit CEO Amjad Masad, who says the company's revenue grew 5x over the past six months after releasing a new AI coding tool called Agent — THE SCENE — Replit has had a turbulent year, but CEO Amjad Masad's sonorous voice was almost zen-like as he spoke to me on Monday …
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
US school districts hit by PowerSchool's December breach say hackers accessed “all” historical student and teacher data; PowerSchool has 50M+ US student records — U.S. school districts affected by the recent cyberattack on edtech giant PowerSchool have told TechCrunch that hackers accessed …
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| Eric Geller / Wired: |
Joe Biden issues a cybersecurity EO to improve the way the government monitors its networks, buys software, uses AI, and punishes foreign hackers — US president Joe Biden just issued a 40-page executive order that aims to bolster federal cybersecurity protections, directs government use of AI … | Reuters: |
NOYB files complaints against AliExpress, Shein, TikTok, Xiaomi, Temu, and WeChat over claims they are unlawfully sending EU user data to China — TikTok, Shein, Xiaomi (1810.HK) and three other Chinese companies were named in a privacy complaint filed on Thursday by Austrian advocacy group Noyb …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Letter: Google told EU it will not add fact checks to search results and YouTube videos or use them in ranking or removing content, despite new EU requirements — - The code would require Google to incorporate fact-check results alongside Google's search results and YouTube videos.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Mistral announces a content deal with the Agence France-Presse to improve answer accuracy in Le Chat, marking the French AI startup's first such partnership — Just a day after Google inked a deal with The Associated Press, Mistral is also announcing a content deal with the Agence France-Presse … | Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Earnest Analytics: ~60% of paid Gemini users kept their subscriptions six months after signing up, better than Perplexity but lagging behind ChatGPT and Claude — Tired of trailing OpenAI, CEO Sundar Pichai wants his Gemini chatbot to be used by 500 million people
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft bundles its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 Personal and Home subscriptions for an extra $3 per month — Microsoft is bundling its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 Personal and Home subscriptions, but it's also raising prices as a result.
More: The Information
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
CFPB announces a $175M settlement with Block, including $120M in refunds to consumers, saying Cash App allowed rampant fraud while misleading its customers — On Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced a massive $175 million settlement with Block, the publicly traded financial conglomerate led by Jack Dorsey.
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| Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
AT&T stops 5G Internet Air service in New York, as a new law mandates monthly broadband rates of $15 for 25Mbps or $20 for 200Mbps for low-income residents — A new affordable broadband law in the Empire State has led to AT&T dropping its 5G home internet product entirely.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple disables notification summaries for News & Entertainment apps in iOS 18.3 beta and makes other changes to summaries, including using italicized text — Apple released iOS 18.3 beta 3 to developers this afternoon. The update includes a handful of changes to the notification summaries feature of Apple Intelligence.
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| Bloomberg: |
Doc: FBI leaders have warned that they believe the hackers who broke into AT&T's system last year stole months of their agents' call and text logs — - Bureau warned breach could expose informants, document shows — Hackers stole six months of customer text, call logs from AT&T
X: @jzbleiberg
| New York Times: |
Anduril plans to build a $1B factory in Columbus, Ohio called Arsenal-1 to eventually produce tens of thousands of autonomous systems and weapons each year — The company said its Columbus plant could eventually produce tens of thousands of autonomous systems and weapons each year.
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| William Langley / Financial Times: |
Canalys: China smartphone shipments rose 4% YoY to 285M units in 2024, with Vivo up 11% to a 17% market share, Huawei up 37% to 16%, and Apple down 17% to 15% — US tech giant faces competition on mainland as it struggles to introduce AI features on its flagship product| Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: |
Sources: retail trading platform eToro has confidentially filed for a US IPO, seeking a $5B valuation; it was valued at $3.5B in 2023 — Chief executive believes New York will give company access to a broader range of investors than a UK flotation — Retail trading platform eToro …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AI researcher François Chollet and Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop launch Ndea, an AI research and science lab focused on “developing and operationalizing AGI” — François Chollet, an influential AI researcher, is launching a new startup that aims to build frontier AI systems with novel designs.
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| Tonya Riley / Bloomberg Law: |
FTC finalizes changes to COPPA, including requiring opt-in consent for targeted ads and prohibiting companies from retaining kids' data indefinitely — Search by Topic — The Federal Trade Commission will require companies to secure opt-in consent for targeting advertising to children … | Bloomberg: |
Zhou Chaonan, the chairwoman of data center operator Range Intelligent, has become China's third richest woman after her company's stock rose 105% in 2024 — - Range Intelligent's chairwoman Zhou joins world's 500 richest — TikTok owner ByteDance is one of Range's major customers| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia announces new Nvidia Inference Microservices aimed at helping enterprises develop AI agents to address issues of trust, security, and safety — Nvidia Corp. today announced today the release of new Nvidia Inference Microservices aimed at helping enterprise organizations develop …
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| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
Tech trade groups NetChoice and TechNet sue CFPB for its efforts to regulate digital payment apps like Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and Venmo more like banks — Two major tech trade groups are challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) effort to treat payment apps and digital wallets like banks.
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