The CFPB proposes limiting data brokers' ability to sell Americans' personal and financial info, after the National Public Data breach discovered in April 2024
In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) …
Sources: Intel starts shortlisting a handful of CEO candidates, including former board member Lip-Bu Tan, who left in August 2024 after clashing with Gelsinger
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Nick Clegg says Mark Zuckerberg is keen to play “an active role” in Trump admin tech policy debates and Meta “overdid it a bit” when moderating pandemic content
Policy chief Nick Clegg says social media company ‘overdid it’ on content moderation, as it seeks to placate president-elect
FTC bans location data providers Gravy and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data related to sensitive locations and more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced sweeping action against some of the most important companies in the location data industry on Tuesday …
China bans shipments to the US of several “dual-use” minerals and metals used in chipmaking and military applications, in a retaliation to new US chips curbs
Beijing bans export of materials used in semiconductors and batteries — China has banned shipments to the US of several …
An email and documents reveal Google's Project Nimbus deal with Israel isn't subject to Google's general ToS, but an “adjusted” ToS drafted by Google and Israel
When questioned about its controversial cloud computing contract with the Israeli government …
Pat Gelsinger's retirement opens the door for Intel to consider fresh deal options, including splitting factory and product-design divisions and selling Altera
Like many, we woke to the news yesterday that Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger is retiring. Financial Times : Intel's next boss faces a leap into the unknown Craig Hale / TechRadar : Pat Gelsinger retires as...
ChatGPT refuses to state some names, possibly due to digital privacy requests or a post-prompt handling bug; OpenAI may have fixed the viral “David Mayer” issue
Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend …
Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches by “After date,” “Before date,” and “From profile”
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The NCSC says the UK faces a “widening gap” in its ability to fight cyber threats, and “severe” incidents handled by the agency tripled to 12 in the past year
Number of incidents at top end of scale of severity tripled last year, including attack that took down London hospitals
German defense tech startup Helsing unveils its first AI attack drone, which can fly up to 100km and re-identify and engage targets without a data connection
Company says it can produce tens of thousands of weapons a year at lower cost than current autonomous systems
TikTok says it removed a network covertly campaigning for Calin Georgescu, whose shock victory in Romania's November 24 election threw the country into crisis
- The network campaigned for shock first-round winner Georgescu — Accounts failed to disclose data in violation of TikTok rules
RTFKT, the digital wearables NFT startup Nike acquired in 2021, is shutting down by the end of January 2025; DefiLlama: RTFKT brought in nearly $50M in earnings
an early Web3 fashion success story — is folding Jason Newey / NFT News Today : Nike-Owned RTFKT to Shut Down Operations by January 2025 Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Nike-owned NFT wearables RTFK...
A US law firm files an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft with the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal over how it charges users who buy services that rival Azure
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Delivery Hero's food delivery app Glovo says it will move to an employment-based model for its drivers in Spain, and anticipates a €100M earnings hit in 2025
The company, which owes €267M in unpaid social security contributions, says it will hire delivery drivers directly. apnews.com/article/spai... X: Mario Nawfal / @marionawfal : 🇪🇸SPANIARDS BRACE FOR “G...
Internal docs: in early 2021, Google's lawyers, policy team, and more worried that its $1.2B Project Nimbus deal with Israel may enable human rights violations
The tech giant, which has defended the deal to employees who oppose supplying Israel's military with technology, feared the project might damage its reputation.
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin shuts down and plans to move accounts and assets to crypto firm SBI VC Trade by March 2025, after a $300M+ hack in May 2024
Details Callan Quinn / CoinDesk : Japanese Crypto Exchange DMM Bitcoin to Shut Down After $305M Hack Oluwapelumi Adejumo / CryptoSlate : Japanese SBI supports DMM Bitcoin amid closure as Metaplanet pa...
Twitch creator Kai Cenat completed a “subathon”, streaming 24 hours per day for 30 days, breaking Twitch's record with ~727,700 subscribers in November 2024
Zach Vallese / CNBC :
Indonesia's OJK: ~137M citizens owed 66T rupiah (~$4.1B) in outstanding digital lending debt in September 2024, up from 18.6M users owing 13.16T rupiah in 2019
Ismi Damayanti / Nikkei Asia : X: @worldstrategist and @nikkeiasia X: Eric / @worldstrategist : Yes they pay huge amount of interests. @nikkeiasia : Millions of Indonesians fall into digital debt tra...
World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, gives an “early preview” of its first project, an AI system that can generate game-like, 3D scenes from an image
Today we're sharing our first step towards spatial intelligence … Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes : The Prompt: Elon Musk Wants To Stop OpenAI From Becoming A For-Profit ‘Frankenstein’ Stuart Dredge / Musi...
Preqin data shows the US accounted for 83% of VC funding in G7 economies over the past decade; OECD data shows AI VC funding in China is second only to the US
www.ft.com/content/1201... [image] @cfmeyskens : US labour productivity has grown by 30% since the 2008-09 financial crisis, more than three times the pace in the Eurozone and the UK. That productiv...
Real estate broker and reality TV personality Ryan Serhant raised $45M for his app S.MPLE, which lets real estate brokers automate parts of their sales process
For Term Sheet, I wrote about celebrity real estate broker Ryan Serhant's foray into tech …
Generative AI startup Yurts, which has contracts with the US Army, Air Force, and others, raised a $40M Series B led by XYZ, taking its total raised to $58.35M
Had Yurts founder Ben Van Roo's eyes been better, he might've followed in his family's footsteps and joined the Air Force.
Early tests show Perplexity's AI shopping agent, which lets users make purchases in its app, sometimes takes hours to process purchases or fails to buy items
Google, Amazon Dominance Set For Disruption? Bluesky: @martinsfp : “You're also not actually buying anything... You're paying Perplexity the exact amount that item costs, giving its AI agent instructi...
Hong Kong- and Singapore-based KPay, which offers financial management tools to merchants and SMBs, raised a $55M Series A led by Apis Partners
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Sources and docs: troubled IT firm Atos is largely responsible for issues delaying the rollout of the EU's automated biometric Entry/Exit border system to 2025
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Iain Martin / @iainmartin : “the documents show how Atos effectively slowed work by only partially installing [the EU's new smart border] equipment, misplacing parts....
How generative AI may bridge current computing paradigms to future innovations, especially in wearables, which will benefit from context-aware user interfaces
Ben Thompson / Stratechery :
Microchip Technology plans to close a plant in Tempe, Arizona, in the September 2025 quarter, affecting about 500 employees, and lowers its Q3 revenue forecast
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters :
Chinese government data: China had 230M generative AI users at June 2024's end; Ernie Bot led with an 11.5% share, followed by ChatGPT at 7% and Gemini at 3.8%
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post : Forums: r/singularity Forums: r/singularity : New article: China's generative AI users reach 230 million as start-ups, Big Tech roll out LLM services
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