Sources: Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators
The subscription plan is a response to European Union policies and court rulings to restrict Meta's data-collection practices.
Child advocacy group Heat Initiative is starting a $2M campaign calling on Apple to detect, report, and remove child sexual abuse materials from iCloud
An advocacy group is starting a $2 million campaign calling for the company to better police materials on its products and services.
California Forever, the company backed by tech billionaires that wants to build a city in the Bay Area's Solano County, unveiled a website explaining its plans
A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech. He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley's wealthiest people.
Samsung reveals the world's first 32Gb DDR5 DRAM die, letting the company lower the cost of high-capacity memory modules and build record 1TB RDIMMs for servers
Samsung early on Friday revealed the world's first 32 Gb DDR5 DRAM die. The new memory die is made on the company's 12 nm …
Filing: Globalstar signed a $64M deal with SpaceX to launch satellites for Apple's Emergency SOS iPhone feature in 2025
Globalstar has enlisted Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch a host of satellites it will use to provide a communications network for an emergency Apple iPhone feature …
A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn't consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around “social issues, elections, or politics”
A nonprofit watchdog group has found that the right-wing group PragerU has pushed out more than 100 political ads …
Sources: Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Intel, Samsung, and AMD have agreed to invest between $25M and $100M each in Arm's IPO
Customers of Arm Holdings Ltd including Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) are set to invest …
LG and Samsung say their smart home apps will soon be able to control each other's appliances and TVs, as part of the Home Connectivity Alliance formed in 2021
The smart home is all about interoperability these days. First came Matter, making Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung play nice …
Sources: Arm looks to target its IPO at a $50B-$55B valuation, well below the $64B valuation implied by SoftBank's recent acquisition of a 25% stake in Arm
Wall Street Journal :
Hands-on with the $699 Lenovo Legion Go, with Windows 11, an 8.8" QHD+ screen, an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme chip, and detachable controllers, available in October
The latest handheld gaming PC goes for a bigger screen … Anil Ganti / Notebookcheck : Lenovo Legion Go: Asus ROG Ally adversary announced with AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme, 8.8-inch QHD+ screen and hall effec...
DappRadar: monthly NFT trading volume fell 81% between January 2022 and July 2023, while monthly NFT sales dropped 61%; bitcoin is up nearly 55% in 2023
When you look at the charts, “everything is down.” — NFTs first crossed Daniel Maegaard's radar in 2018.
Canada tries to address Big Tech's Bill C-18 concerns, saying Google and Meta would pay publishers ~$126.6M and ~$44M per year; Meta plans to keep blocking news
Tesla cuts its Full Self-Driving Beta's US price from $15K to $12K, reversing the bump from $12K to $15K in September 2022; the subscription is still $199/month
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Interviews with AI red team heads at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, and Meta on why breaking AI models is important for safety, challenges of fixing them, and more
Forbes spoke to the leaders of AI red teams at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia and Meta, who are tasked with looking for vulnerabilities in AI systems so they can be fixed. X: @rashishrivast18 , @rashishriv...
Paris becomes the first European capital to outlaw rented electric scooters, after an April 2023 vote; e-scooter rental companies are shifting to electric bikes
Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle / New York Times :
The manager of .ai TLD for British territory Anguilla estimates the island will make $25M to $30M from domain registration fees in 2023, up from $7.4M in 2021
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg :
Robinhood says the company paid ~$606M to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of Sam Bankman-Fried, set up via an agreement with the US Marshals Service
On August 30, 2023, Robinhood Markets, Inc. (the “Company") entered … Mike Millard / DL News : Ripple opposes SEC request to appeal judge's XRP ruling, HashKey fund to invest in altcoins CNBC : Robinh...
Lenovo unveils $329 Legion Glasses with 60Hz displays, equivalent to a 27" monitor, that work with Legion Go, Android phones, iPhones, Macs, and Windows PCs
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Filing: Walmart spent $3.5B in H1 2023 to buy Flipkart shares from Tiger Global and others, growing its Flipkart stake to ~80%, and resolve PhonePe liabilities
Walmart has spent $3.5 billion this year to acquire shares from certain Flipkart stakeholders and resolve liabilities …
Instacart's IPO filing suggests its Snowflake cloud spending will fall 71% in 2023, sparking an online spat between staffers of Snowflake and rival Databricks
- Instacart's long-awaited IPO prospectus last week turned controversial in a way the grocery-delivery company wasn't anticipating.
Sources: cloud data management startup Rubrik, valued at ~$4B in 2021, is planning an IPO in 2023, raising $500M to $700M; PitchBook: Rubrik has raised $1B+
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NYC-based Benitago Group, an Amazon e-commerce business acquirer that has raised $380M in equity and debt over the past two years, files for bankruptcy
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Google removes sketchy live streaming app Chamet, which lets users pay to video call hosts, from the Play Store for violating its user-generated content policy
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
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