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2025-03-28 18:05:53

The US FDIC says banks can engage in cryptocurrency and other legally permitted activities without prior regulatory approval if they manage risks appropriately (Pete Schroeder/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/fdic-says-banks-can-engage-crypto-activities-without-prior-approval-2025-03-28/
http://www.techmeme.com/250328/p19#a250328p19

2025-03-28 18:01:43

CoreWeave opens down 2.5% at $39 in its Nasdaq debut; CoreWeave's offering is the largest US IPO since UiPath's NYSE debut in 2021 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/coreweave-starts-trading-on-nasdaq-at-per-share.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250328/p18#a250328p18

2024-11-18 11:50:53

Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt begins an early trial of its digital wallet in Belgium to help deliver social services to 7M citizens, as he worries over AI's rise (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-18/world-wide-web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-wants-the-internet-back
http://www.techmeme.com/241118/p9#a241118p9

2024-11-13 00:51:15

Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, to provide "advice and guidance from outside of Government" (Eric Beech/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-will-lead-department-government-efficiency-2024-11-13/
http://www.techmeme.com/241112/p31#a241112p31

2024-11-13 00:20:53

Air National guardsman Jack Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years for stealing classified information from the Pentagon and sharing it on Discord in 2022 and 2023 (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira-sentenced-15-years-prison-sharing-milita-rcna179792
http://www.techmeme.com/241112/p30#a241112p30

2024-11-12 23:46:14

Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/amazon-freevee-shutting-down-1236208451/
http://www.techmeme.com/241112/p29#a241112p29

2024-11-10 06:45:53

A study of 50K peer reviews for CS articles published in AI conference proceedings in 2023 and 2024: 7%-17% of the sentences in the reviews were written by LLMs (James Zou/Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03588-8
http://www.techmeme.com/241110/p2#a241110p2

2024-11-09 03:11:06

Experts say a new feature in iOS 18.1 causes iPhone to reboot after few days of inactivity, which improves security and has caused concern among law enforcement (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-quietly-introduced-iphone-reboot-code-which-is-locking-out-cops/
http://www.techmeme.com/241108/p19#a241108p19

2024-11-03 03:25:57

Spot AI, which helps companies analyze security camera footage, raised $31M and unveiled Video AI Agents that can detect and trigger responses to safety issues (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2024/10/31/spot-ai-reels-31m-ai-powered-video-processing-platform/
http://www.techmeme.com/241102/p15#a241102p15

2024-11-01 06:33:02

Indonesia bans sales of Pixel smartphones, saying Google must comply with rules requiring 40% local content in smartphones, days after banning iPhone 16 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/31/indonesia-bans-google-pixel-sales-after-iphone-16-block/
http://www.techmeme.com/241101/p5#a241101p5

2024-10-31 05:15:48

Zuckerberg says Meta is training Llama 4 models on a cluster of 100K+ H100 chips, "or bigger than anything that I've seen reported for what others are doing" (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-llama-ai-gpu-training/
http://www.techmeme.com/241031/p3#a241031p3

2024-10-28 23:10:47

Interviews with current and former staffers detail Evan Spiegel's efforts to revive Snap, his divisive AR bet, high senior staff turnover, and more (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
https://t.co/dmQlW8TgJX
http://www.techmeme.com/241028/p32#a241028p32

2024-10-26 19:18:25

Sources: Google plans to preview an AI product codenamed Jarvis, which takes over a user's web browser to complete tasks like booking a flight, in December (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-preps-ai-that-takes-over-computers
http://www.techmeme.com/241026/p11#a241026p11

2024-10-24 16:25:47

Apple SVP Greg Joswiak says "we have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning"; rumors suggest new M4-powered Macs (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24266448/apple-mac-announcements-october-2024
http://www.techmeme.com/241024/p27#a241024p27

2024-10-23 14:21:02

Infinitus, which uses AI to automate health care tasks, raised $51.5M led by a16z, a source says at a $600M+ valuation, taking its total funding to $102.9M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-23/andreessen-horowitz-backs-ai-startup-automating-medical-phone-calls
http://www.techmeme.com/241023/p23#a241023p23

2024-10-23 13:51:00

A mother plans to sue Character.AI after her 14-year-old son became obsessed with a chatbot before his suicide; Character.AI says it plans new safety features (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-lawsuit-teen-suicide.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UU4.cU7l.6htKp4WshpFU&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=cnt
http://www.techmeme.com/241023/p20#a241023p20

2024-10-23 13:27:36

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says a flaw in Blackwell AI chips that impacted production has been fixed with TSMC's help and the issue was "100% Nvidia's fault" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/nvidias-design-flaw-with-blackwell-ai-chips-now-fixed-ceo-says-2024-10-23/
http://www.techmeme.com/241023/p17#a241023p17

2024-10-22 10:25:55

Netflix shut down AAA game studio "Team Blue", which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/netflix-team-blue-socal-studio
http://www.techmeme.com/241022/p6#a241022p6

2024-10-13 14:10:51

An energy crunch is forcing continued coal burning in a low-income area in North Omaha, Nebraska, as Meta and Google data centers strain regional power supply (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/08/google-meta-omaha-data-centers/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzI4NzA1NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzMwMDg3OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Mjg3MDU2MDAsImp0aSI6IjliMTQ2MzczLTc3ZDItNGVjMi04Y2JjLTkzMzMwYjVlMjc1ZiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI0LzEwLzA4L2dvb2dsZS1tZXRhLW9tYWhhLWRhdGEtY2VudGVycy8ifQ.fi1AiJWDfIh9OHRdnXF9saV6UDtXxvaz22u8zt2N6CM
http://www.techmeme.com/241013/p6#a241013p6

2024-10-09 08:51:06

A profile of the National Archives and Records Administration's Chief Innovation Officer Pamela Wright, who leads the agency's project to digitize 13B+ records (Sarah Vowell/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/sarah-vowell-national-archives-digitization-records-smartphones/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzI4MzYwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzI5NzQyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjgzNjAwMDAsImp0aSI6IjBiYTZkYTU1LTYxZTYtNDJlYi1hYzhjLTZkN2U5MDU0NGE4YyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd2FzaGluZ3RvbnBvc3QuY29tL29waW5pb25zL2ludGVyYWN0aXZlLzIwMjQvc2FyYWgtdm93ZWxsLW5hdGlvbmFsLWFyY2hpdmVzLWRpZ2l0aXphdGlvbi1yZWNvcmRzLXNtYXJ0cGhvbmVzLyJ9.AwL3wLcRk4e-zFXjS1uBeQsnSeYAzY4afo8E5l8yN5I&itid=gfta
http://www.techmeme.com/241009/p11#a241009p11

2024-10-07 13:55:47

SCOTUS rejects X's appeal over a secret DOJ search warrant from Special Counsel Jack Smith for records related to Donald Trump's Twitter account (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-07/musk-s-x-rejected-by-supreme-court-over-secret-doj-trump-warrant
http://www.techmeme.com/241007/p10#a241007p10

2024-10-02 19:41:16

Amazon announces a new lineup of Fire HD 8 tablets, with 50% more RAM than the previous models, and three new generative AI features for compatible Fire tablets (Ryan McNeal/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-fire-hd-8-tablet-2024-launch-3486999/
http://www.techmeme.com/241002/p30#a241002p30

2024-10-01 10:25:52

How streamers on Twitch and other services are moving further into talking politics, making the livestreaming platforms a focus for both presidential campaigns (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/business/media/politics-debate-streamers.html
http://www.techmeme.com/241001/p9#a241001p9

2024-09-30 13:35:46

The UK FCA says a man pleaded guilty to illegally operating a crypto ATM network, which processed £2.6M across various locations, as it cracks down on such ATMs (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/09/30/man-pleads-guilty-to-illegally-operating-crypto-atm-network-in-the-uk/
http://www.techmeme.com/240930/p12#a240930p12

2024-09-30 13:25:43

AMD releases BIOS updates to boost the performance of its Ryzen 9600X and 9700X processors, around a month after disappointing Zen 5 desktop CPU reviews (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24258147/amd-zen-5-cpu-performance-latency-bios-updates
http://www.techmeme.com/240930/p11#a240930p11

2024-09-30 13:15:46

Qodo, which offers code generation and testing tools to the enterprise, raised a $40M Series A led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/qodo-raises-40m-series-a-to-bring-quality-first-code-generation-to-the-enterprise/
http://www.techmeme.com/240930/p10#a240930p10

2024-09-26 06:01:16

A look at Chinese PE firm CSC Group, which has stakes in 360 US tech startups via Hone Capital that is reportedly under an FBI probe over IP transfers to China (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
https://t.co/DpGLuuslDF
http://www.techmeme.com/240926/p6#a240926p6

2024-09-26 05:50:46

a16z is a prosecution witness in the DOJ's case against BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji, who raised hundreds of millions dollars for his failed crypto startups (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/09/25/nader-al-naji-diamondhands-bitclout-andreessen-horowitz-a16z/
http://www.techmeme.com/240926/p5#a240926p5

2024-09-25 12:07:55

Google files an EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, alleging it engages in unfair cloud practices and is "exploiting" its customers' reliance on Windows (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)
https://t.co/5jOezWdLtg
http://www.techmeme.com/240925/p23#a240925p23

2024-09-25 12:01:26

Book excerpt: how Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the industry's unstoppable pair, had a falling out starting in 2013 (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-25/book-excerpt-play-nice-the-rise-fall-and-future-of-blizzard-entertainment?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcyNzI2MjU3MywiZXhwIjoxNzI3ODY3MzczLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTS0Q1NFJUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.Ju6VKxgSlDycOC4T4Zo1isSTpRn05b_o9bPKL-Z8qmE
http://www.techmeme.com/240925/p22#a240925p22

2024-09-25 11:36:09

Reddit begins rolling out its ML-powered translations in Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and 30+ others on the web, mobile, and desktop (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/reddit-is-bringing-ai-powered-automatic-translation-to-dozens-of-new-countries/
http://www.techmeme.com/240925/p21#a240925p21

2024-09-24 04:15:48

Memo: an arbitrator awards full severance package to an ex-Twitter employee, who was laid off when Elon Musk took over, first such resolution of 2K+ complaints (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-23/ex-twitter-worker-wins-musk-layoff-pay-fight-memo-says
http://www.techmeme.com/240924/p1#a240924p1

2024-09-22 21:21:28

Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an equity-like investment of as much as $5B in Intel (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-22/apollo-is-said-to-offer-multibillion-dollar-investment-in-intel
http://www.techmeme.com/240922/p10#a240922p10

2024-09-19 10:56:04

YouTube says it has "widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers" after a "strong advertiser and strong viewer response"; YouTube piloted Pause ads in 2023 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248391/youtube-pause-ads-widely-rolling-out
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p16#a240919p16

2024-09-14 16:41:15

OpenAI should've stuck with the name Strawberry for o1, avoiding user confusion between models named 4o and o1, and helping humanize the tech (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/strawberry-openai-o1/
http://www.techmeme.com/240914/p7#a240914p7

2024-09-11 14:21:01

On second day of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, a former News Corp exec testified as a government witness, saying Google held publishers "hostage" (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/11/24241386/former-news-corp-executive-google-doj-ad-tech-trial
http://www.techmeme.com/240911/p12#a240911p12

2024-09-06 11:20:43

What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: four iPhone 16 models, two new AirPods, Apple Watch Series 10 with an updated look, Apple Intelligence, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-06/apple-sept-9-event-preview-iphone-16-apple-intelligence-airpods-and-watches
http://www.techmeme.com/240906/p8#a240906p8

2024-09-05 18:25:41

The US and allies reveal that the hacker group known as Cadet Blizzard is part of the GRU's Unit 29155, which is responsible for assassinations in Europe (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-gru-unit-29155-hacker-team/
http://www.techmeme.com/240905/p31#a240905p31

2024-09-05 18:16:06

FCC filing: Larry Ellison will own 77.5% of Paramount Global parent company National Amusements after his son David completes the purchase of Paramount (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-05/larry-ellison-will-control-paramount-after-deal-filing-shows
http://www.techmeme.com/240905/p30#a240905p30

2024-09-05 10:20:44

Verizon agrees to buy rival telecom operator Frontier Communications for an enterprise value of $20B; Frontier had a revenue of $5.8B in 2023 (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-05/verizon-to-buy-rival-frontier-communications-in-20-billion-deal
http://www.techmeme.com/240905/p12#a240905p12

2024-09-05 10:15:48

Meta's Oversight Board rules that users should be allowed to post "aspirational" statements for Venezuelan state-supported paramilitary groups to be killed (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/5/24236134/meta-oversight-board-venezuela-elections-colectivos
http://www.techmeme.com/240905/p11#a240905p11

2024-09-04 14:30:58

Ride-hailing company GoTo plans to close its Gojek brand in Vietnam, to focus on reaching profitability in its main operations in Indonesia and Singapore (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-04/goto-exits-tough-vietnam-market-to-focus-on-reaching-profit
http://www.techmeme.com/240904/p29#a240904p29

2024-09-03 13:50:49

Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, and their PACs haven't donated to Trump or Harris, instead pursuing a strategy of targeted donations to congressional campaigns (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-03/how-coinbase-went-from-dc-kids-table-to-political-power-seat
http://www.techmeme.com/240903/p12#a240903p12

2024-09-02 10:10:39

Apple is gearing up for a battle with app makers and legislators over whether regulation of teen's social media use should happen in apps or at the device level (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-helped-nix-part-of-a-child-safety-bill-more-fights-are-expected-23905d4d
http://www.techmeme.com/240902/p4#a240902p4

2024-08-30 11:51:12

Huione Guarantee, a Cambodia-based online marketplace that facilitates pig butchering and other scams, has processed $49B+ in crypto transactions since 2021 (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2024-crypto-crime-mid-year-update-part-2/
http://www.techmeme.com/240830/p7#a240830p7

2024-08-29 22:55:42

Meta is opening up Horizon Worlds to users aged 10 to 12 with parental approval, and rolls out a new age rating system for worlds to help parents supervise kids (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/28/24230531/meta-preteens-horizon-worlds
http://www.techmeme.com/240829/p31#a240829p31

2024-08-23 00:25:38

Microsoft confirms the Windows Control Panel, which debuted in 1985 with Windows 1.0, is "in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app" (Sayan Sen/Neowin)
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-officially-confirms-its-killing-windows-control-panel-sometime-soon/
http://www.techmeme.com/240822/p35#a240822p35

2024-08-22 16:45:35

India's Open Network for Digital Commerce expands into financial services, starting with APIs for digital lending, and adds nine lending service providers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/22/indias-open-commerce-network-expands-into-digital-lending/
http://www.techmeme.com/240822/p25#a240822p25

2024-08-22 16:25:49

The US charges Deniss Zolotarjovs, a member of the Russian Karakurt ransomware group that has ties to Conti, with money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/us-charges-karakurt-extortion-gangs-cold-case-negotiator/
http://www.techmeme.com/240822/p24#a240822p24

2024-08-22 08:50:38

Italian officials: UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's body has been recovered from the wreckage of the superyacht Bayesian, which sank three days ago off Sicily (Financial Times)
https://t.co/o5sNYiJGOr
http://www.techmeme.com/240822/p5#a240822p5

2024-08-22 08:10:37

A look at the facial recognition systems becoming common at major league sporting venues, like the MLB's Go-Ahead Entry, as privacy advocates raise concerns (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/face-recognition-stadiums-protest/
http://www.techmeme.com/240822/p4#a240822p4

2024-08-21 13:55:57

Microsoft plans to launch the $450 white discless Xbox Series X, a $600 2TB Galaxy Black special-edition Series X, and $350 1TB Series S on October 15 in the US (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/21/24225188/microsoft-white-xbox-series-x-digital-2tb-special-edition-release-dates
http://www.techmeme.com/240821/p16#a240821p16

2024-08-20 08:01:37

Q&A with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on AI, GitHub Copilot, letting developers test AI models in GitHub, open-source AI models, working within Microsoft, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24221978/github-thomas-dohmke-ai-copilot-microsoft-openai-open-source
http://www.techmeme.com/240820/p3#a240820p3

2024-08-18 05:01:18

South Korea's plan to introduce tablets with AI features in schools faces backlash from parents and academics concerned about children's overexposure to devices (Financial Times)
https://t.co/iWElYjS1mF
http://www.techmeme.com/240818/p2#a240818p2

2024-08-18 04:01:18

South Korean AI chip makers Rebellions and Sapeon agree to merge; Rebellions has raised $225M+ and Sapeon's shareholders include SK Telecom and SK Hynix (Joyce Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/south-korean-ai-chip-makers-rebellions-sapeon-agree-merge-2024-08-18/
http://www.techmeme.com/240818/p1#a240818p1

2024-08-18 02:35:45

Dating apps are struggling as users seek organic ways to meet; Match Group reported a decline in the total number of paying users for seven straight quarters (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/17/dating-apps-decline-bumble-tinder
http://www.techmeme.com/240817/p7#a240817p7

2024-08-15 20:25:33

Meta releases an app for the Quest 3, 2, and Pro to let the headset display video from devices with an HDMI or DisplayPort output; a capture card is required (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/15/24221146/meta-quest-hdmi-link-app-displayport-usb-c
http://www.techmeme.com/240815/p27#a240815p27

2024-08-15 19:45:59

The San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu files a lawsuit that seeks to shut down 16 popular websites used to create nonconsensual deepfake pornography (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/us/deepfake-pornography-lawsuit-san-francisco.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240815/p26#a240815p26

2024-08-15 17:20:41

Threads announces new features, like the ability to store multiple drafts and an analytics page, rolling out on the web, and plans to test a scheduling feature (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/15/threads-starts-testing-multiple-drafts-says-posts-scheduling-coming-soon/
http://www.techmeme.com/240815/p24#a240815p24

2024-08-14 17:30:54

A look at some of the victims of the now-ubiquitous deepfake video scams; an analysis of 2,000+ deepfakes found Elon Musk was featured in ~25% of such scams (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/14/technology/elon-musk-ai-deepfake-scam.html?unlocked_article_code=1.C04.X5JU.Ot3RWvwHT8GM
http://www.techmeme.com/240814/p26#a240814p26

2024-07-10 13:19:39

Samsung unveils the $300 Galaxy Watch7 and $650 Galaxy Watch Ultra, both with LTE and a 3nm Exynos W1000 chip, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB storage, available July 24 (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24195083/samsung-galaxy-watch-ultra-7-hands-on-features-price
http://www.techmeme.com/240710/p18#a240710p18

2024-07-10 13:16:31

Samsung Galaxy Ring hands-on: the $400 ring has a titanium frame, optical heart rate and skin temperature sensors, feels slimmer than the Oura Ring, and more (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24194938/samsung-galaxy-ring-hands-on-price-unpacked-2024
http://www.techmeme.com/240710/p17#a240710p17

2024-07-10 13:14:57

Samsung unveils $250 Galaxy Buds 3 Pro and $180 Galaxy Buds 3, with ANC and switching to an AirPods-like stemmed design and case, available on July 24 (Chris Welch/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24195011/samsung-galaxy-buds-3-pro-hands-on-preview-features
http://www.techmeme.com/240710/p16#a240710p16

2024-07-10 13:12:26

Samsung debuts the Galaxy Z Fold6, with a wider 22.1:9 display, up to 2,600 nits brightness, thinner frame, IP48, and seven years of updates, for $1,899 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2024/07/10/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-6-price-specs-release-date/
http://www.techmeme.com/240710/p15#a240710p15

2024-07-10 13:10:48

Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z Flip6 with 3.4" and 6.7" displays, a 50MP camera sensor, larger 4,000 mAh battery, and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, for $1,099+ on July 24 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2024/07/10/galaxy-z-flip-6-price-specs-release-date/
http://www.techmeme.com/240710/p14#a240710p14

2024-07-10 13:01:28

A livestream of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2024 (Samsung on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/live/DzjsdYZQ7ns?si=OQd5BFxxqnTIhizD
http://www.techmeme.com/240710/p13#a240710p13

2024-07-05 20:55:42

Interfax: Apple has removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from its App Store in Russia, following a request by Roskomnadzor (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-says-apple-blocks-25-vpn-apps-russia-ifx-reports-2024-07-04/
http://www.techmeme.com/240705/p11#a240705p11

2024-07-03 21:01:20

Noplace, a new social media app with colorful, customizable profiles and text-based updates targeting Gen Z, reaches number one on the iOS App Store in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/03/noplace-a-mashup-of-twitter-and-myspace-for-gen-z-hits-no-1-on-the-app-store/
http://www.techmeme.com/240703/p25#a240703p25

2024-06-22 00:30:46

A history of text games and interactive fiction, from Infocom to 80 Days, and the roles of MUDs, Usenet, and open source in the 50 years of interactive fiction (Anna Washenko/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/from-infocom-to-80-days-an-oral-history-of-text-games-and-interactive-fiction/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p28#a240621p28

2024-06-21 22:30:47

The California Public Utilities Commission rejects AT&T's request to end its landline phone obligations and urges AT&T to upgrade copper facilities to fiber (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/california-rejects-att-request-to-end-carriers-landline-phone-obligation/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p27#a240621p27

2024-06-21 21:50:56

Source: a group that claims to have hacked car dealership software provider CDK Global has demanded tens of millions of dollars in ransom, and CDK plans to pay (Craig Trudell/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-21/cdk-hackers-want-millions-in-ransom-to-end-car-dealership-outage
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p26#a240621p26

2024-06-21 21:25:49

In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says "some creative jobs maybe will go away" due to AI, "but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place" (Kate Irwin/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/openai-cto-mira-murati-ai-could-take-some-creative-jobs
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p25#a240621p25

2024-06-21 20:15:42

Microsoft's Copilot key on the new Copilot+ PCs launches a PWA version of Copilot, which doesn't integrate into Windows like the previous Copilot experience (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24182979/microsoft-copilot-key-keyboard-shortcut-pwa
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p24#a240621p24

2024-06-21 19:15:44

Source: Stability AI hired ex- CEO of Weta Digital Prem Akkaraju as new CEO; Akkaraju and Sean Parker are among investors that have stepped in to save Stability (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stability-ai-gets-new-ceo-and-a-bailout-from-investor-group-led-by-sean-parker
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p23#a240621p23

2024-06-21 19:10:49

X plans to make the ability to create live streams a premium feature, making it the only major social platform to charge for the feature (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/x-is-making-live-streaming-a-premium-feature-185151147.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p22#a240621p22

2024-06-21 18:55:56

Retro game streamer Antstream plans to launch on the App Store with 1,300 titles, the first such launch after Apple allowed game streaming services on iPhone (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24183027/antstream-emulator-apple-iphone-retro-games-ipad-streaming
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p21#a240621p21

2024-06-21 18:10:42

Change Healthcare says the February ransomware attack on its systems resulted in the theft of medical records of a "substantial proportion of people" in the US (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/21/change-healthcare-confirms-ransomware-hackers-stole-medical-records-on-a-substantial-proportion-of-americans/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p20#a240621p20

2024-06-21 17:51:03

Sources: Amazon has considered a $5 to $10 monthly price tag for a revamped Alexa with generative AI features, dubbed "Remarkable Alexa" (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-mulls-5-10-monthly-price-tag-unprofitable-alexa-service-ai-revamp-2024-06-21/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p19#a240621p19

2024-06-21 17:10:56

Sources: Sony is making deep cuts to funding for VR games, with only two PSVR 2 games in development; Sony released just three PSVR 2 games last year (Nicholas Sutrich/Android Central)
https://www.androidcentral.com/gaming/virtual-reality/sony-no-longer-cares-about-the-psvr-2-and-you-shouldnt-either
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p18#a240621p18

2024-06-21 17:01:24

The US publishes targeted draft rules to ban or require notification of US investments in AI and other key technology sectors in China (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-proposes-targeted-restrictions-ai-tech-investment-china-2024-06-21/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p17#a240621p17

2024-06-21 16:48:50

Apple will withhold the release of Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and more in the EU this year, citing concerns about DMA's interoperability requirements (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-21/apple-won-t-roll-out-ai-tech-in-eu-market-over-regulatory-concerns
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p16#a240621p16

2024-06-21 16:30:42

A Las Vegas jury convicts five men for operating Jetflicks, which charged $9.99 per month and officials say was one of the largest illegal streamers in the US (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/five-men-convicted-jetflicks-illegal-streaming-service-1236044194/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p15#a240621p15

2024-06-21 16:10:58

The US Department of the Treasury announces sanctions against twelve executives of Kaspersky; founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky is not included in the sanctions (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/21/u-s-government-sanctions-kaspersky-executives/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p14#a240621p14

2024-06-21 15:55:43

Google pauses plans to allow real-money games on the Play Store, as supporting such apps in markets without a central licensing framework proves difficult (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/21/google-is-pausing-its-experiment-of-allowing-real-money-games-on-the-play-store/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p13#a240621p13

2024-06-21 15:15:41

OpenAI buys Rockset, an enterprise search and analytics startup that raised $105M, integrating both the tech and staff of an acquisition for the first time (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-21/openai-buys-enterprise-startup-rockset-to-help-customers-sift-through-data
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p12#a240621p12

2024-06-21 15:10:45

Some users say Meta is tagging real photos with the Made with AI label, possibly because AI-powered tools were used to edit, rather than create, the images (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/21/meta-tagging-real-photos-made-with-ai/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p11#a240621p11

2024-06-21 14:45:44

Spotify introduces a new Basic streaming plan in the US, which costs $10.99/month and includes all the benefits of Premium besides audiobook listening time (Spotify)
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-06-21/more-choice-for-us-subscribers/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p10#a240621p10

2024-06-21 14:20:52

Squarespace agrees to sell its restaurant reservation service Tock to American Express for $400M, the exact amount that it paid for Tock in 2021 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/21/squarespace-sells-restaurant-reservation-system-tock-to-american-express-for-400m/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p9#a240621p9

2024-06-21 14:01:20

AI-powered language-learning app Speak raised a $20M Series B extension led by Buckley, bringing its total funding to $84M and doubling its valuation to $500M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/20/language-learning-app-speak-nets-20m-doubles-valuation/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p8#a240621p8

2024-06-21 13:20:50

TikTok confirms it offered the US a "kill switch" in 2022 to shut down the app in the US at the government's discretion if TikTok did not follow certain rules (Imran Rahman-Jones/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxwwz7l02j0o
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p7#a240621p7

2024-06-21 11:40:43

Estonia blocks an EU VAT reform that would have imposed new liabilities on short-term rental services like Airbnb and passenger transport services like Bolt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-21/estonia-blocks-new-eu-tax-rules-that-would-have-hit-airbnb-bolt
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p6#a240621p6

2024-06-21 10:15:57

Huawei says around 900M gadgets are now running on its HarmonyOS and sales of premium Huawei smartphones climbed 72% in the first five months of 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-21/huawei-mobile-devices-near-a-billion-as-apple-rivalry-heats-up
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p5#a240621p5

2024-06-21 09:45:54

Qilin, hackers behind the London hospitals hack, published ~400GB of patient data on their darknet site and Telegram channel; the NHS is investigating the claim (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9ww90j9dj8o
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p4#a240621p4

2024-06-21 08:30:39

A look at Congress' absurd plan to ban DJI drones in the US, even as the company adds restrictions and features to comply with US government regulations (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-dji-drone-ban-a-uniquely-american-disaster/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p3#a240621p3

2024-06-21 05:40:46

Indian grocery delivery startup Zepto raised $665M Series F co-led by Glade Brook, Nexus, and StepStone Group at a $3.6B valuation, up from $1.4B in August 2023 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/20/zepto-a-10-minute-delivery-app-raises-665-million-at-3-6-billion-valuation/
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p2#a240621p2

2024-06-21 04:15:45

Australia's eSafety Commissioner waters down child abuse and terror content detection rules on E2E encrypted services, after a push back from tech companies (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/21/australia-esafety-commissioner-child-abuse-detection-online-safety
http://www.techmeme.com/240621/p1#a240621p1

2024-06-21 02:05:42

In a filing, ByteDance urged a US court to strike down a law that could ban TikTok in the US, recounting lengthy talks that it says the US ended in August 2022 (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/tiktok-says-us-ban-is-inevitable-without-court-order-blocking-law-2024-06-20/
http://www.techmeme.com/240620/p34#a240620p34

2024-06-21 01:10:39

iOS 18 brings a new API called AccessorySetupKit, letting third-party accessory makers build the same quick pairing experience as Apple accessories like AirPods (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/20/ios-18-api-setup-accessories/
http://www.techmeme.com/240620/p33#a240620p33

2024-06-21 00:01:19

Source: AI chipmaker Cerebras confidentially filed for a US IPO; filing: in early June, it authorized new shares at a steep discount to its 2021 funding round (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cerebras-an-nvidia-challenger-files-for-ipo-confidentially
http://www.techmeme.com/240620/p32#a240620p32

2024-06-20 23:25:38

Sources: US DOJ won't pursue FTC's claim that TikTok misled US consumers on data security in a forthcoming suit accusing TikTok of children's privacy violations (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-20/doj-drops-tiktok-claims-raised-by-ftc-over-misleading-consumers
http://www.techmeme.com/240620/p31#a240620p31