Amazon updates Kindle Paperwhite, adding a larger, brighter 7" display and faster page turns for $160+, and Kindle, adding color options and speed improvements
Amazon introduced updated versions of the Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite on Wednesday, only a few hours after inadvertently leaking them both.
Amazon unveils the $280 Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, its first color e-reader with a Paperwhite-like design and color E Ink display, shipping October 30
For years, Kindle users have asked Amazon to make a color version of its e-reader. … The Colorsoft costs $279.99 and starts shipping on October 30th.
Kindle Colorsoft hands-on: bold and sharp color on a 7" display, wireless charging, and comfortable, lightweight design, but pricier than other Kindles at $280
The Kindle Colorsoft is shaping up to be a winner — Early Verdict … The Kindle Colorsoft ($279) is the first color Kindle and something I've been waiting years for.
The US FTC adopts its final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up, after proposing the rule in 2023
The US Federal Trade Commission is taking action against subscriptions that are difficult to get rid of.
ASML's stock falls the most since 1998 after projecting sluggish 2025 sales, erasing €50B from its market cap and causing Nvidia and other chip stocks to fall
- Magnitude of ASML's forecast cut was a surprise, Citi says — Peer Tokyo Electron among worst hit stocks in Asia, down 10%
Amazon updates the Kindle Scribe to add modest design improvements like white bezels, a new stylus, and a more paper-like feel, shipping December 4 for $400
Ever since Amazon launched the Kindle Scribe in 2022, the company has been noticing some unusual ways people are using the device.
Kindle Scribe hands-on: AI, annotations, and other software updates help the 2-in-1 e-reader and writing tablet more closely mimic real books and notebooks
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Filing: Elon Musk poured ~$75M into his pro-Trump America PAC, making seven donations between July 3 and September 5; Musk was the PAC's only donor
- Disclosure is first look into Musks' donations to Trump group — Super PAC spent $69 million to bolster Trump's ground game
YouTube rolls out a new “captured with a camera” label, using the C2PA standard to detect if the video came from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound
YouTube is rolling out new labels that tell if uploaded videos come from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound.
Mistral releases Les Ministraux AI models in 3B and 8B sizes with 128K context windows, aimed at on-device translation, internet-less smart assistants, and more
French AI startup Mistral has released its first generative AI models designed to be run on edge devices, like laptops and phones.
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says he expects a slow chip market recovery to extend “well into 2025” due to “customer cautiousness”, as the US' China rules bite
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Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of Palantir, joins OpenAI as its CISO and will serve alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight
Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of analytics firm Palantir, has joined OpenAI as its newest CISO, serving alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight.
Filing: US prosecutors ask a judge to sentence Ilya Lichtenstein, mastermind of the 2016 Bitfinex hack, to five years in prison; sentencing is due in November
- Ilya Lichtenstein pled guilty to 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack — He and rapper-wife Razzlekhan conspired to launder proceeds
Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, setting benchmarks for when an AI model's abilities reach a point where additional safeguards are necessary
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the popular Claude chatbot, today announced a sweeping update …
The EU declines to designate X as a DMA gatekeeper after an investigation found that “X is not an important gateway for business users to reach end users”
Elon Musk's X won't be regulated under the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) the Commission decided Wednesday …
A teardown of Microsoft's diskless Xbox Series X, which was released today, shows a redesigned motherboard, a 6nm chip, and a new cooling system
Microsoft's discless Xbox Series X goes on sale today, and while it looks slightly different on the outside thanks to a white paint job and lack …
FTC data: three crypto super PACs have spent $82M in 19 races, including $40M in Ohio and $10M in Arizona; the ads focus on candidates and rarely mention crypto
Super PACs funded by the crypto industry are pouring massive amounts into congressional races, and not a single ad actually mentions crypto.
Sources detail how Nvidia and TSMC's lucrative AI alliance is showing signs of stress as AI booms; sources say Nvidia found flaws in TSMC-made Blackwell chips
The most successful and lucrative partnership in the artificial intelligence business is showing signs of strain.
A review of Character.AI finds several instances of AI personas being created without a person's consent, seemingly violating the company's terms of service
Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.
Intel and AMD forge an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture moving forward, amid competition from Arm and RISC-V
including @Microsoft, @Dell, @Lenovo and @HP—are joining their new advisory group to “shape the future of x86 and foster developer innovation.” https://www.crn.com/... @CRN Mark Russinovich / @markrus...
Airbnb launches the Co-Host Network to help homeowners hire fellow hosts to manage their rentals in the US, the UK, Canada, France, Spain, and Brazil
- Homeowners can pay co-hosts to set up listing, manage guests — Firm won't take commission when hosts connect with each other
An analysis of WeChat's network protocol MMTLS finds that it is a modified version of TLS 1.3 and WeChat developers' changes to its cryptography add weaknesses
Key contributions — We performed the first public analysis of the security and privacy properties of MMTLS … X: @citizenlab , @thegrugq , @jsrailton , and @citizenlab X: @citizenlab : WeChat messages...
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus review: thin design, spacious 15.6" screen, great performance, Quick Insert key, and solid battery life, but average speakers
This powerful clamshell Chromebook packs an AMOLED screen and is one of the first with the new Quick Insert key. — Rating:
Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics with waveguides instead of wires in chips, raised a $400M Series D led by T. Rowe Price at a $4.4B valuation
Investors put $400 million into the company, which aims to make it faster to build new AI software.
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial crypto project gets off to a bumpy start, as its website crashes and WLFI token sales fall far short of the $300M target
target was $300mln [image] Grady Booch / @grady_booch : Trump Taj Mahal. Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts. Trump Shuttle. Trump University. Trump Vodka. Trump Mortgage. Trump Steaks. Trump Media and Te...
A look at a cluster of European cities within a five-hour train ride of London that collectively have 500+ startups with at least $100M of annual revenue
A cluster of European cities within a five-hour train ride of London could become a unicorn factory to rival Silicon Valley, argues tech investor Saul Klein.
The Cybersecurity Association of China says Intel products sold in the country should be subject to a security review, alleging it has “constantly harmed” China
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Q&A with Kevin Rose on Digg, what Reddit got right, the rise of news feeds, why there is no universal internet homepage like Techmeme is for tech, and more
a couple of years, there was nothing on the internet so simultaneously thrilling and terrifying as having your website hit the front page of Digg. Threads: @imyke and @_blunderchief . Forums: r/techno...
Meta rolls out “activity status” to Threads that shows a green dot next to a user's profile picture to show the user is online, if they have the feature enabled
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Chris Messina / @chris : What's up AIM buddies? — RE: https://www.threads.net/... X: @gateklons : And the GDPR legal basis for this disclosure is? Mark Gurman / @mark...
LatticeFlow's LLM Checker, which analyzed models from Meta, Alibaba, Mistral, Anthropic, and OpenAI against the EU's AI Act, finds some compliance issues
Some of the most prominent artificial intelligence models are falling short of European regulations in key areas such as cybersecurity resilience …
Survey: 68% of US adults support a ban on middle and high school students using phones during class and 24% oppose it; 53% oppose a ban lasting full school days
social media is the harder question. Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Most Americans support banning phones in schools, but only during classes X: John Gramlich / @johngramlich : NEW from @pewinternet: 68% of...
Sources: Qualcomm is likely to wait until after the US presidential election on November 5 before deciding whether to pursue an offer to buy Intel
The only way a deal of this size - hell, even a deal that doesn't include the Foundry part of Intel - gets done is if Trump wins the White House. — (Also: This is a fantasy, QCOM ain't buying INTC) ...
Amsterdam-based Tebi, a payments app aimed at independent businesses like bars and cafes, raised a €20M Series A led by Index Ventures
Prarthana Prakash / Fortune :
Los Angeles-based Ghost, a B2B marketplace for surplus inventory with more than 6,000 members, raised a $40M Series C led by L Catterton
Dee and Josh's leadership, vision and execution continue to impress not only us and other VCs but …
NHS doctors warn of safety risks from an outdated IT infrastructure, as the UK government plans to digitize the world's largest publicly funded health service
Laura Hughes / Financial Times :
Xscape, which develops data center interconnects using silicon photonics, raised a $44M Series A led by IAG Capital Partners, taking its total funding to $57M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
A profile of Neuralink's top neurosurgeon Matthew MacDougall, who has worked there for seven years and is an even-keeled, affable counterbalance to Elon Musk
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg : X: @mcbridesg X: Sarah G McBride / @mcbridesg : If the idea of @elonmusk putting chips in your skull is too much, try @neuralink neurosurgeon Matthew MacDougall. He perfor...
Filing: Chinese smart-driving company Horizon Robotics is targeting to raise ~$700M in its Hong Kong IPO; Alibaba and Baidu are among its cornerstone investors
P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal :
Analysis: overseas share sales by Taiwanese companies, led by chip and hardware makers, have totalled $2.9B so far in 2024, on track for the most since 2007
Dave Sebastian / Bloomberg :
UK filings: Google DeepMind's 2023 operating profit rose 91% YoY to £136M, after the Google Brain merger; Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs loss rose 3x+ YoY to £60.4M
Jon Victor / The Information :
Galileo, a startup that helps companies fine tune, evaluate, observe, and protect their AI models, raised a $45M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners
Richard Nieva / Forbes :
Monogoto, which offers software-defined connectivity tools for enterprises, raised a $27M Series A led by Toyota Ventures, taking its total funding to $38M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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