Neeva, co-founded by ex-Google ad head Sridhar Ramaswamy, plans to shut down its ad-free search engine on June 2 due to a “vastly changed search environment”
We started Neeva with the mission to take search back to its users. Having worked on search and search ads for over a decade …
China's State Administration approves Microsoft's $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard, joining a total of 37 regulators globally, including the EU and Japan
Thirty-seven total regulators have voiced approval thus far. — China's State Administration has approved Microsoft's attempted …
A US court finds the FBI misused a FISA Section 702 database 278K+ times from 2020 to 2021, as national security agencies lobby Congress to reauthorize the law
The bureau made changes after the newly revealed violations of rules for querying messages intercepted under an expiring warrantless surveillance law.
Leaders of the G7 nations call for the development and adoption of global AI standards and to “take stock of the opportunities and challenges of generative AI”
Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Saturday called for the development and adoption of international technical standards …
How crypto hunters help people going through a divorce find their spouse's hidden crypto stashes, following the trail of tokens as they “hop” across blockchains
- Financial infidelity has become increasingly sophisticated, as investors “hop” coins across blockchains and sink their cash into metaverse properties.
Unable to turn a profit amid fewer hours watched, some US esports organizations lay off staff, end star player contracts, or even sell their teams at a loss
At least two organizations in America's most prominent league for professional video game players are selling their teams, underscoring the industry's uncertain future.
Filing: AT&T asked the FCC to block a SpaceX/T-Mobile plan that lets Starlink service areas lacking T-Mobile coverage, saying “the FCC's rules do not permit” it
AT&T and rural telcos say Starlink-fueled phone service would cause interference.
An in-depth look at the executive team behind Apple's upcoming mixed reality headset
Apple is just a few weeks away from debuting its mixed-reality headset. This past week, I gave an in-depth look at the device's development and features. Now, here's a list of the key people involve...
NYC-based Percent, which operates a private credit marketplace, raised a $29.7M Series B led by White Star Capital, bringing its total funding to $48.2M
In 2018, Nelson Chu founded Percent with the goal of bringing investors, borrowers and underwriters together to modernize private credit.
Sources: Meta and Magic Leap are in talks for a multiyear deal in which Magic Leap could provide IP licensing and contract manufacturing for Meta's AR products
Social media giant seeks technologies to help create an avatar-filled ‘metaverse’ — Facebook's parent company is in talks …
A history of Turla, an APT that is the “premiere espionage tool” of Russia's FSB, in operation for 25+ years, with its Snake malware in use for nearly 20 years
From USB worms to satellite-based hacking, Russia's FSB hackers, known as Turla, have spent 25 years distinguishing themselves as “adversary number one.” LinkedIn: Andy Greenberg LinkedIn: Andy Greenb...
China says it found “relatively serious” cybersecurity risks in Micron products, warns country's key information infrastructure operators against buying them
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Bitcoin payment service Strike expands to 65 countries, beyond the US, El Salvador, and Argentina, and says it has taken a regulation-first approach in the US
Here's Why Tweets: Wayne Vaughan / @waynevaughan : It's sad that @Strike is incentivized to move outside the US because regulators are hostile to #Bitcoin and stablecoins. Strike has an excellent prod...
A look at the issues fomented by a decentralized web, including a rise in conspiratorial thinking due to more siloed online spaces and increasing app fatigue
From social networks to crypto, independently run servers are being touted as a solution to the internet's problems. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to , @kissane@mstdn.social , @PrivacyDigest@mas.to , an...
Some doctors, bird watchers, and others still use pagers due to their simplicity; paging company Spok has 800K+ pagers in use in the US, down from 6.6M in 2004
People, as well as organizations, resist the need (habit?) to move from current processes and products to newer ones … Tweets: Gabriel Weinberg / @yegg : Some people still use dialup internet, fax mac...
How Mobileye, Cruise, Waymo, and other self-driving system makers are simulating bad drivers, jaywalkers, and edge cases to train and test autonomous vehicles
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Inside the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami, attended by 12K+ people, down from 25K+ in 2022, which had a subdued but positive mood, and no talk of moonshots
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Analysts say crypto miners pivoting to AI cloud services face an uphill battle due to needing other specialized processors, hardware and staff costs, and more
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The US could be on the cusp of a chipmaking boom, with 50+ projects announced since the CHIPS Act, but officials worry the industry could face a worker shortage
Madeleine Ngo / New York Times : LinkedIn: Anthony Johnson and Bridget Altenburg Tweets: @congressmanraja , @rweingarten , @nytimesbusiness , and @crampell LinkedIn: Anthony Johnson : The New York Ti...
Sources: top shareholder SoftBank demanded compensation from Revolut after UK regulators told the startup to simplify its ownership to obtain a banking license
They are nowhere near listing-ready, we're not in 2021. Will they ever be? … Maarten Ectors : Vodafone and BT are axing tens of thousands of jobs because of technology innovations. Revolut made most...
After Niantic's latest AR game Peridot got negative app store reviews and few downloads, a look at the company's metaverse games struggling to find an audience
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A look at the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles; LinkedIn's transparency report says the company blocked 58M+ accounts in H2 2022, up from 22M in H1
https://www.ft.com/... Tweets: Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe : 58M... That's it? ;) -> A look at fake LinkedIn profiles; LinkedIn's transparency report says it blocked 58M+ accounts in H2 2022, up from 22M ...
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