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.
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 …
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
Amazon makes AI foundation model enhancements to AWS' automated speech recognition service Transcribe, now supporting 100+ languages, and to Personalize and Lex
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
AWS plans to offer access to Nvidia's H200 chips, following Azure's similar dual-pronged approach of offering its own Maia chips as well as Nvidia's latest
- Amazon Web Services announced Trainium2, a chip for training artificial intelligence models, and it will also offer access …
Ikea announces new smart home sensors: Parasoll, for doors and windows, Vallhorn, for motion, and Badring, for water leakages, on sale 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.
Amazon announces three new AWS serverless offerings designed to help customers manage, scale, and optimize their Aurora, Elastic Cache, and Redshift deployments
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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
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 …
AWS launches S3 Express One Zone, an S3 tier aimed at data-intensive applications with a 10x write speed improvement and 50% lower request cost than standard S3
At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon AWS cloud arm today announced a major update to its S3 object storage service …
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.
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) …
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.
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.
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
Big names like Kelsey Hightower pull out of the DevTernity conference after allegations its founder made fake profiles of female speakers to boost diversity
Anna Boyko, listed as a staff engineer at Coinbase, and Natalie Stadler, a “software craftswoman” at Coinbase—were included on the site as speakers but appear to not exist in real life. Neither have ...
Sources: OpenAI's board mulled adding Bret Taylor after three members resigned earlier in 2023, but lacked consensus, and never got any letter warning about Q*
Casey Newton / Platformer : Threads: @crumbler Threads: Casey Newton / @crumbler : The OpenAI story isn't over just yet: my thoughts on the past week's event, plus a few morsels of new reporting. htt...
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 …
A US judge rules ex-Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao cannot leave the US until a court considers whether he should remain through his sentencing hearing in February
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
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.
Finland-based Varjo launches the XR-4, a $3,990 mixed reality headset aimed at businesses, touting a 120-degree field of view, 4K displays, and more
an enterprise alternative to Vision Pro? Scott Stein / CNET : Varjo's Auto-Focus XR-4 Mixed-Reality Headset Boasts Specs to Rival Apple Vision Pro Jack Boreham / The Metaverse Insider : Varjo Unveils ...
A look at a woman's struggle to get her Google account restored after her 7-year-old son made a YouTube video that got her locked out of all her Google accounts
Kashmir Hill / New York Times :
SenseTime's shares fell as much as 9.7% in Hong Kong, after a short seller accused the AI company of inflating its revenue; SenseTime refutes the allegations
Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg :
Sources: fast-fashion giant Shein confidentially files for a US IPO, potentially in 2024, with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley as underwriters
I began writing about Shein in 2018. Chinese retailers and logistics companies are ahead of the curve and although Shein … Gabrielle Fonrouge : The moment has finally come — SHEIN has confidentially ...
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 …
Sources: Paramount and WBD stopped posting under certain corporate handles on X due to brand safety concerns; Disney-affiliated X accounts have also gone dark
Oliver Darcy / CNN :
The FTC can proceed with changes to Meta's 2020 $5B privacy settlement, like barring monetization of kids' data, after a judge denied Meta's move to go to court
The European Commission says Amazon's $1.4B iRobot acquisition may restrict competition; Amazon plans to work to address its concerns; IRBT drops ~18%
On 6 July 2023, the Commission opened an in-depth investigation … Jay Peters / The Verge : Amazon's $1.7 billion deal to buy iRobot is running into some objections Elizabeth Montalbano / Computerworld...
Q&A with Car Connectivity Consortium VP Daniel Knobloch on digital car keys, getting automakers to agree on a standard in 2020, securing against theft, and more
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge : Forums: r/technology and r/technews Forums: r/technology : Digital car keys are here. Are we ready? NFC versus ultra wideband. Tap-to-start versus passive signals. ...
YouTube rolls out Playables, which lets users play games on mobile and desktop with no need to download, for Premium users, available until March 28, 2024
It's just another example of how the entire streaming industry is just copying off of Netflix's strategy. — [image] See also Mediagazer
Sources: Reddit is talking with potential investors for an IPO as soon as in Q1 2024; cloud data management startup Rubrik is also considering an IPO in Q1 2024
Meituan reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$10.7B, narrowly beating est., and net income up nearly 3x to ~$507M, boosted by strong Chinese travel demand
Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg :
DP World, Australia's second largest port operator, says hackers stole employee data after a suspension of operations caused by cyberattack early this month
Renju Jose / Reuters :
Cradle, which uses AI to help design and engineer proteins faster and more cost-effectively, raised a $24M Series A led by Index Ventures
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
An analysis of over 100 restricted extremist Telegram channels finds many of them remain active, and their content can often spread to public channels
Vittoria Elliott / Wired :
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
Q&A with Jeff Dean, chief scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research, on Bard's launch, the Gemini LLM, DeepMind-Brain merger, AI misinformation, and more
Samidha Sharma / The Economic Times : X: @ettech , @ettech , @ettech , @ettech , @hughlangley , and @samidhas X: @ettech : Among its most famous engineers, Dean joined @Google in 1999 and has since b...
Tumblr plans to sunset Post+, launched in 2021 to let creators charge users a subscription to access content, in January 2024
I believe #Automattic could make a small fortune if they charged users for activating #ActivityPub (at least in the beginning). … Forums: Beehaw : Tumblr sheds Post Plus subscriptions as the platform ...
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.