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Friday, June 30, 2023
Fidelity Invesco VanEck and WisdomTree refile for a spot bitcoin ETF with Coinbase as market surveillance provider to answer the US SEC's objections (Bloomberg)
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June 30, 2023
https://ift.tt/xeRbunp Bloomberg : Fidelity, Invesco, VanEck, and WisdomTree refile for a spot bitcoin ETF with Coinbase as market survei...
Sources: Spotify is in talks with partners to add full-length music videos to its app as part of growing efforts to establish video as a core part of its app (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
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June 30, 2023
https://ift.tt/ZtpuwVg Ashley Carman / Bloomberg : Sources: Spotify is in talks with partners to add full-length music videos to its app,...
Kazakhstan arrested Nikita Kislitsin Group-IB's former head of network security on June 22 for his alleged role in the LinkedIn and Dropbox hacks in 2012 (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
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June 30, 2023
https://ift.tt/oMgAWZF Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : Kazakhstan arrested Nikita Kislitsin, Group-IB's former head of network secu...
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Industry group NetChoice which includes Meta and Twitter sues Arkansas over a new law requiring parental permission for minors to create social media accounts (Andrew DeMillo/Associated Press)
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June 29, 2023
https://ift.tt/aPiFx8f Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press : Industry group NetChoice, which includes Meta and Twitter, sues Arkansas over ...
Ontario-based Passage which is building a service that helps immigrants access financing to learn and work in Canada raised a CA$40M seed led by Drive Capital (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
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June 29, 2023
https://ift.tt/quZtrga Josh Scott / BetaKit : Ontario-based Passage, which is building a service that helps immigrants access financing t...
Court docs: Satya Nadella said Azure's cloud server business made $34B in revenue in the year ended June 2022 less than half of AWS' revenue in the same period (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
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June 29, 2023
https://ift.tt/S9W1C07 Aaron Holmes / The Information : Court docs: Satya Nadella said Azure's cloud server business made $34B in rev...
NYC-based Venn Software which is developing a Secure Enclave product that can be installed on remote employee laptops raised a $29M Series A led by NewSpring (Ryan Naraine/SecurityWeek)
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June 29, 2023
https://ift.tt/ElAZUum Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek : NYC-based Venn Software, which is developing a Secure Enclave product that can be in...
Meta plans to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads; a pilot is set to start as soon as this year with select Android app developers (Alex Heath/The Verge)
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June 29, 2023
https://ift.tt/u2zJQ4N Alex Heath / The Verge : Meta plans to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads; a pilot i...
Review of £749 Asus Zenfone 10: compact with a 5.9" display good performance and battery life but cameras are limited and only two years of software updates (Richard Priday/Tom's Guide)
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June 29, 2023
https://ift.tt/V5BKvWN Richard Priday / Tom's Guide : Review of £749 Asus Zenfone 10: compact with a 5.9" display, good performa...
YouTube is running a test globally that limits ad block users to three videos giving them the option to turn off ad blockers or subscribe to YouTube Premium (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
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June 29, 2023
https://ift.tt/oR8DKIn Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : YouTube is running a test globally that limits ad block users to three videos, ...
Police in San Francisco and other cities are obtaining warrants for Waymo and Cruise driverless car camera footage to help solve murders and other crimes (Julia Love/Bloomberg)
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June 29, 2023
https://ift.tt/CdgGPXI Julia Love / Bloomberg : Police in San Francisco and other cities are obtaining warrants for Waymo and Cruise driv...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Celestial AI which offers optical interconnect tech for compute memory and data transmission raised a $100M Series B bringing its total funding to $165M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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June 28, 2023
https://ift.tt/g7rDyt4 Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Celestial AI, which offers optical interconnect tech for compute, memory, and data tra...
Internal messages: Reddit tells protesting mods that their communities won't remain private beyond the timeframe set for this week to confirm reopening plans (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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June 28, 2023
https://ift.tt/F8ahrCy Jay Peters / The Verge : Internal messages: Reddit tells protesting mods that their communities won't remain p...
Proton launches its E2E encrypted open-source password manager Proton Pass available for free on iOS Android and as a browser extension (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
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June 28, 2023
https://ift.tt/bBsUg2y Romain Dillet / TechCrunch : Proton launches its E2E encrypted open-source password manager Proton Pass, available...
Databricks announces LakehouseIQ which lets companies use natural language to search and query their data new tools for its Lakehouse AI platform and more (Andrew Brust/The New Stack)
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June 28, 2023
https://ift.tt/RgwKfaE Andrew Brust / The New Stack : Databricks announces LakehouseIQ, which lets companies use natural language to sear...
New York-based Slang.ai which offers an AI-powered phone answering service for restaurants and retailers raised a $20M Series A led by Homebrew (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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https://ift.tt/XNPluMD Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : New York-based Slang.ai, which offers an AI-powered phone answering service for resta...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Sources: the US is considering new AI chip export restrictions to China as soon as July which could even prevent sales of Nvidia's A800 chip without a license (Wall Street Journal)
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June 27, 2023
https://ift.tt/Hgjv3kp Wall Street Journal : Sources: the US is considering new AI chip export restrictions to China as soon as July, whi...
EU countries and lawmakers reach a provisional agreement on the Data Act establishing rules on how Big Tech and other firms use EU consumer and corporate data (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
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June 27, 2023
https://ift.tt/RNkbsme Foo Yun Chee / Reuters : EU countries and lawmakers reach a provisional agreement on the Data Act, establishing ru...
OpenAI's ChatGPT iOS app adds Bing for ChatGPT Plus subscribers letting them get answers on information that extend beyond ChatGPT's original training data (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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June 27, 2023
https://ift.tt/8HqiLcd Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : OpenAI's ChatGPT iOS app adds Bing for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, letting them get ...
Monday, June 26, 2023
A 2019 email from Xbox Game Studios' Matt Booty encouraged acquiring content to "spend Sony out of business"; Microsoft argues it didn't pursue the strategy (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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June 26, 2023
https://ift.tt/WGl8uaY Tom Warren / The Verge : A 2019 email from Xbox Game Studios' Matt Booty encouraged acquiring content to “spen...
After Elon Musk highlighted Twitter's TikTok-like "swipe up for more videos" feature some users said they were shown gun violence police brutality and more (Khadijah Khogeer/NBC News)
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June 26, 2023
https://ift.tt/PFGXsUH Khadijah Khogeer / NBC News : After Elon Musk highlighted Twitter's TikTok-like “swipe up for more videos” fea...
John B. Goodenough who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in developing the lithium-ion battery used in mobile devices and EVs dies at 100 (Robert D. McFadden/New York Times)
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June 26, 2023
https://ift.tt/eQlp7rN Robert D. McFadden / New York Times : John B. Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his rol...
In the first five months of 2023 45000 people in Vietnam lost jobs in electronics manufacturing after Samsung and others substantially slowed production (Lam Le/Rest of World)
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June 26, 2023
https://ift.tt/d1qjY2z Lam Le / Rest of World : In the first five months of 2023, ~45,000 people in Vietnam lost jobs in electronics manu...
Stability AI's head of research David Ha and COO Ren Ito left the company in June 2023; VP of product Christian Cantrell left the company in March 2023 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
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June 26, 2023
https://ift.tt/heqMFuA Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : Stability AI's head of research David Ha and COO Ren Ito left the company in June 20...