Sources: federal prosecutors are investigating Tether for possible violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering rules; US Treasury is considering sanctions
The U.S. government is investigating cryptocurrency company Tether for possible violations of sanctions … Forums: Hacker News : Federal investigators probe Tether r/Buttcoin : Federal Investigators Pr...
The ramifications of a potential US crackdown against Tether, a noticeable player in the market for US debt, will extend beyond the digital asset industry
Of all the legal actions taken against cryptocurrency companies by US regulators and prosecutors over the past year …
The US Copyright Office denies a request from video game preservationists to let libraries, archives, and museums lend games via remote access for study
When video game scholars want to study games that are no longer on sale, they sometimes have to drive hours to do it legally — and that won't be changing anytime soon.
Sources: Apple tested an app to help people with prediabetes manage their food intake and make lifestyle changes, as part of its push into blood-sugar features
- Company explores products that can counter diabetes epidemic — Work comes as Apple makes progress on no-prick technology
A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that Masimo's smartwatches infringed Apple Watch design patents; Apple sought statutory minimum damages
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Sources: Chinese hackers targeted data from phones of Trump and JD Vance, via a hack of Verizon systems; staff members of Harris' campaign were also targeted
our adversaries fear him. https://www.wsj.com/... Meridith McGraw / @meridithmcgraw : Chinese hackers are believed to have targeted the cell phones of Trump and Vance, according to people familiar. Th...
Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3M customers, and cost the carrier over $500M
Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) on Friday sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) in a Georgia state court after a global outage …
Sources: Google is aiming to release its Gemini 2.0 model in December; the model isn't showing the performance gains the Demis Hassabis-led team had hoped for
The AI race is heating up just in time for winter. — As my colleagues Kylie Robison and Tom Warren reported …
Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary
Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” Mastodon: @mhoye@mastodon.social , @jonny@neuromatc...
Waymo closed a $5.6B Series C led by Alphabet to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, bringing its total funding to $11.1B
Having had the pleasure of seeing Waymo come … Lora Kolodny : Waymo has closed its series C funding round at $5.6 billion. The self-driving venture owned by Google parent Alphabet plans to use the fu...
Apple SVP Greg Joswiak says “we have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning”; rumors suggest new M4-powered Macs
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Chinese self-driving company WeRide's shares closed up 6.8% at $16.55, giving it a market cap of ~$4.5B, after raising $440.5M in a US IPO and private placement
The Guangzhou-based company's ADS pared initial gains to close at $16.55 on Friday in New York, above the IPO price of $15.50 apiece.
Filing: Satya Nadella was paid $79.1M during the FY ending June 30, up from $48.5M YoY; compensation was reduced by $5M+ due to Microsoft's security issues
while company fired nearly 2,500 workers Derek Strickland / TweakTown : Xbox exclusives are still important for Microsoft and are used to determine ‘growth in gaming’ Heidi Nicholas / TrueAchievements...
Brain-computer interface company Science Corporation says its retinal implant, which has a 2mm chip, let some blind people read, play cards, and recognize faces
Science Corporation's retinal implant allowed some people who lost their central vision to read, play cards, and recognize faces.
Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday
Attacker Reportedly Laundering Funds Eddie Mitchell / CCN.com : US Government-Linked Crypto Wallet Hacked: Over $20M Swiped Sahana Kiran / Watcher Guru : US Government's Cryptocurrency Wallet Hacked F...
Alibaba agrees to a $443.5M settlement in a US shareholder lawsuit alleging that Alibaba hurt investors by making misstatements about its exclusivity practices
The e-commerce platform denied allegations that it made misstatements about its antitrust and exclusivity practices
Estimated Vision Pro 2024 sales are only slightly less than the reported peak production capacity, implying sales are almost in line with Apple's expectations
Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas — here's Techmeme's roundup of summaries and regurgitations) …
Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize customer interactions, raised a $43M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $285M valuation
building @lm_braswell : I met @_dan_lee_ at @scale_AI years ago. Dan always impressed me with his ability to focus on the customer. That focus led him & the @JoinNooks team to bring AI to sales teams ...
Analysis: X is on track to fall well short of its goal of $100M in 2024 political ad revenue, raising just $15M to date, mainly from GOP and Trump campaigns
Social media platform has raised a fraction of $100mn target and mainly from Trump and Republicans Bluesky: @justmytwocents.bsky.social , @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social , and @paleofuture.bsky.social B...
Source: Perplexity CEO told staff in 2023 that it had acquisition offers from X, OpenAI, and Notion, in the $150M to $200M range; Microsoft was also interested
So, dear fellow German #LITranslators, can we come up with a German-sounding word …
A profile of Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé whose Pirate Wires newsletter and podcast became popular among “anti-woke” tech figures since the “techlash”
I miss when people used to at least pretend they weren't terrible people instead of wearing it like a badge of honor. — https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... X: @mitchhorowitz : After 27 years in publish...
Accel registers with the US SEC as an investment adviser to tap private markets, joining Sequoia, a16z, Bessemer, and other VC firms that made a similar move
not for crypto, but to scoop up more secondaries https://www.bloomberg.com/... Madhav Chanchani / @madhavchanchani : 🚨 Accel is changing its structure like other top Silicon Valley firms A16Z and Ligh...
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