Developer Christian Selig says Apple removed his YouTube app Juno for the Vision Pro from the App Store, after YouTube said it violated its ToS in April 2024
Juno, the third-party YouTube app created for the Apple Vision Pro, has been removed from the App Store.
Sources: Apple is planning a new iPad mini, possibly for 2024, and nearing production of an iPhone SE without a home button and iPad Air models for early 2025
- New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025
Microsoft releases a $150 standalone version of Office 2024 for consumers and SMBs, with core app updates and UI changes; the last standalone was Office 2021
Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don't want to subscribe to Microsoft 365.
iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, and Camera Control, Zero Shutter Lag, and its advanced Photographic Styles impress
For the first “Desert Titanium” iPhone, we took over 1000 photos and videos in the desert. Take a deep dive into what's new — and why it's close to the last of its kind.
Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been removed from GitHub, and its team has reportedly ceased development after Nintendo contacted its creator
GitHub removal comes months after a Nintendo lawsuit took down the Yuzu emulator. — Popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx …
Automattic demanded an 8% cut of WP Engine's monthly revenue to use the WordPress trademark in a seven-year deal proposed on September 20; WP Engine declined
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, asked rival hosting service WP Engine to hand over 8 percent of its revenue each month …
The UK FCA fines Starling Bank £29M over its “shockingly lax” controls against financial crime, like potential money laundering and sanctions breaches
FCA said lender's efforts to identify potential money laundering ‘did not keep pace’ with its growth
Sources: in recent months, Google teams have made progress on AI reasoning models like OpenAI's o1; source: some DeepMind staff are worried about falling behind
The push deepens the search giant's rivalry with OpenAI — Google is working on artificial intelligence software that resembles …
VC firm CRV plans to return $275M from its $500M Select fund, citing worsening market conditions and high startup valuations relative to their potential payoff
CRV, based in Silicon Valley, plans to return to investors $275 million because the market for mature start-ups has soured.
Google DeepMind is developing an AI research assistant for scientists; BioNTech's InstaDeep unveils Laila, a Llama 3.1-based assistant for experimental biology
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Meta rolls out Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange to let UK banks share transaction intel to help catch scammers, after a pilot with NatWest and Metro Bank
Tech group to roll out channel for sharing of transaction intelligence — Facebook owner Meta is launching a data-sharing partnership …
Nvidia details LLM family NVLM 1.0, which can handle vision and language tasks while enhancing text-only capabilities and is led by the 72B-parameter NVLM-D-72B
Nvidia has released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that competes with proprietary systems from industry leaders like OpenAI and Google.
Some iOS developers worry that an iOS 18 change letting users choose contacts an app can access may make growing social apps hard; Apple says it boosts privacy
This year, when Apple announced iOS 18, the latest version of its mobile operating system, most of the attention went to its slate of new artificial intelligence features.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says his post about ToS updates “may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works” but “in reality, little has changed”
The World's Call Center Capital Is Gripped by AI Fever — and Fear … Hello World
A profile of Denise Coates, the UK's richest woman, who founded online gambling company Bet365, which had £3B+ in 2023 revenue, as she focuses on a US expansion
She is the mastermind behind Bet365, the company that made it possible to gamble online any hour of the day or night. X: @byrobdavies , @ianbirrell , and @thecullobsidian X: Rob Davies / @byrobdavies ...
Livestream marketplace Whatnot says its GMV passed $2B+ in 2024 and its top 500 sellers each sold $1M+ on the platform; 66% of its sellers earn $10K+ per month
Whatnot, the livestream marketplace platform for trading card collectors and sneakerheads alike, is offering a bit of positive news …
Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more
5 new features that are coming Dina Bass / Bloomberg : Microsoft Adds Voice, Vision Features to Consumer AI Assistant Will Knight / Wired : Microsoft's Copilot AI Gets a Voice, Vision, and a ‘Hype Man...
2024 has been a barren year for big video games compared to 2023, helping indie games take center stage; the gaming industry has laid off 10,000+ people in 2024
As gamers turn their backs on gargantuan adventures, we could be entering a golden age of modest titles
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signs a law imposing a 12% value-added tax on non-resident digital service providers, such as Netflix, HBO, and Disney
The World's Call Center Capital Is Gripped by AI Fever — and Fear … Hello World
Oracle plans to invest over $6.5B in Malaysia to set up a public cloud region, its first in the country and third in Southeast Asia, after two in Singapore
Danial Azhar / Reuters :
A profile of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency, set up in February 2022 with an £800M budget for high-risk, high-reward science and tech projects
The Advanced Research and Invention Agency—ARIA—is the UK's answer to Darpa. But can it put the country back on the scientific map? X: @aria_research . LinkedIn: Clara Zabludowsky X: Aria / @aria_res...
How the FBI and Mandiant caught hacker Jesse Kipf, who sold access to systems he broke into and hacked Hawaii's death registration system to fake his own death
Jesse Kipf was a prolific hacker who sold access to systems he hacked, had contacts with a notorious cybercrime gang … Mastodon: @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange Mastodon: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @...
Raspberry Pi, the FTSE 250 index company that defied the trend of UK tech companies listing in the US, has revived Cambridge's history of making hardware
The Cambridge company conceived to enable technology education is now an industrial force — Raspberry Pi is a quirky enterprise.
Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the startup has largely abandoned building AI models after Google poached its founders, focusing on its chatbots instead
AI start-up's new chief says race to build large language models against Big Tech got ‘insanely expensive’
AI contact center startup Crescendo raised $50M from General Catalyst and others at a $500M valuation, and acquired Idaho-based outsourcing company PartnerHero
- Crescendo has raised $50 million, is acquiring PartnerHero — Investors include General Catalyst and Celesta Capital
London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous warehouse robots, raised an $80M Series B in equity and debt led by DTCP, taking its total equity funding to $120M
We've just closed an $80M Series B funding round led by DTCP, with support from Latitude Ventures …
Resolve AI, which is building AI tools to help software engineers autonomously troubleshoot and fix production issues, raised a $35M seed led by Greylock
Krystal Hu / Reuters :
A profile of Jarod Koopman, who leads IRS Criminal Investigation's cybercrime unit, which has returned $12B+ to victims and the US Treasury in the past 10 years
these tireless, dedicated people, working all hours, shutting down suppliers of fentanyl, saving kids, disrupting terrorists — sort of a nerdy SEAL Team Six.” @postopinions https://www.washingtonpost....
Pig butchering operations that are offshoots of the Southeast Asian activity have emerged in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and West Africa
WIRED reports: — “More than 200,000 people in Southeast Asia have been forced to run online scams …
Sources: Peak XV cut its $2.85B fund by $465M, or ~16%, over a year after its Sequoia split, with most of the reduction coming in its growth-stage allocation
The Economic Times :
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist
a great hire for anthropic Shakeel / @shakeelhashim : Big get for Anthropic: one of OpenAI's first employees and a long-time Google AI scientist. @luke_metro : Announcing this in the middle of OpenAI ...
Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Anuj Ahooja / @quillmatiq : I think it's cool that this many people follow me on the Fediverse with no extra effort on my part, but what's cooler is that they follow me...
Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on the company's AI agent progress, like transacting with third parties on users' behalf, which is still a ways off
Microsoft's AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office Tech Xplore : Microsoft beefs-up its AI assistant with voice, vision Moneycontrol : ‘This is the beginning of a...’...
Nym, which helps US health care providers automate the medical coding process, raised a $47M growth investment led by PSG, bringing its total raised to $92M
If all code is legacy code, then we are all maintainers. Coverager : Nym raises $47 million
Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealerships and has 600 customers in the US and Canada, raised a $32M Series B led by Touring Capital and Mitsui
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Filing: Hong Kong stock exchange executive Yang Qiumei inherited a 20% SenseTime stake, worth $1.5B, from her late husband, making her its largest shareholder
Pui Gwen Yeung / Bloomberg :
Sources: many OpenAI staff thought o1 wasn't ready to be unveiled and then-CTO Mira Murati was often stuck in arguments between research and technical teams
Sources: 11x.ai, which makes AI sales reps, raised a ~$50M Series B led by a16z at a ~$350M valuation; source: a $24M Series A earlier in 2024 valued it at $90M
TechCrunch :
DataPelago launches out of stealth with a “universal data processing engine” for “accelerated computing” workloads, with $47M in seed and Series A funding
Rick Whiting / CRN :
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