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Sunday, March 31, 2024
Dan Lynch, founder of Interop, a computer networking equipment exhibition that helped accelerate TCP/IP adoption and internet commercialization, dies at age 82 (Katie Hafner/New York Times)
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March 31, 2024
https://ift.tt/xGpCXa4 Katie Hafner / New York Times : Dan Lynch, founder of Interop, a computer networking equipment exhibition that hel...
A profile of YC's Garry Tan, whose combative online persona has sparked controversies as he tries to shift SF politics from idealistic progressivism to centrism (Heather Knight/New York Times)
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March 31, 2024
https://ift.tt/JHwiTyl Heather Knight / New York Times : A profile of YC's Garry Tan, whose combative online persona has sparked cont...
Demis Hassabis says the AI hype caused by a surge of money is clouding research; CB Insights: VCs invested $42.5B in 2,500 AI startup equity rounds in 2023 (John Thornhill/Financial Times)
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March 31, 2024
https://ift.tt/nJPukcx John Thornhill / Financial Times : Demis Hassabis says the AI hype caused by a surge of money is clouding research...
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Microsoft engineer Andres Freund accidentally found the malicious code in versions of the XZ Utils compression tool, likely preventing thousands of infections (Mike Larkin/Security Boulevard)
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March 30, 2024
https://ift.tt/gmtczor Mike Larkin / Security Boulevard : Microsoft engineer Andres Freund accidentally found the malicious code in versio...
Survey of Americans aged 12+: 47% of have listened to a podcast in the last month, up 12% YoY, 76% listened to online audio in the past month, and more (Podnews)
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March 30, 2024
https://ift.tt/ofE4g1T Podnews : Survey of Americans aged 12+: 47% of have listened to a podcast in the last month, up 12% YoY, 76% liste...
Discord plans to start showing gaming ads from next week, called Sponsored Quests and offering rewards for in-game tasks; users can turn them off in settings (Wall Street Journal)
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March 30, 2024
https://ift.tt/BVXJIYr Wall Street Journal : Discord plans to start showing gaming ads from next week, called Sponsored Quests and offeri...
A look at Steven Mnuchin's TikTok plans; sources say his proposal to buy TikTok without its export-blocked algorithm and rebuild it from scratch is far-fetched (Washington Post)
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March 30, 2024
https://ift.tt/n4wYJCH Washington Post : A look at Steven Mnuchin's TikTok plans; sources say his proposal to buy TikTok without its ...
Friday, March 29, 2024
Researcher: Instagram is testing Blend, which creates a feed of Reels for two friends to share based on shared interests and Reels they shared with each other (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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March 29, 2024
https://ift.tt/erJ4WiZ Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Researcher: Instagram is testing Blend, which creates a feed of Reels for two friends t...
Google informs users in the US that Google Podcasts is shutting down April 2 and recommends exporting podcast subscriptions to YouTube Music (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
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March 29, 2024
https://ift.tt/81ML7pQ Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Google informs users in the US that Google Podcasts is shutting down April 2 and ...
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Bolt told investors that it had revenue of $19.4M for the nine months ending in October 2023, essentially flat YoY; Bolt's troubles grow with a Fanatics lawsuit (The Information)
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March 28, 2024
https://ift.tt/3KsgRu0 The Information : Bolt told investors that it had revenue of $19.4M for the nine months ending in October 2023, es...
Apple sues an ex-employee for allegedly leaking details about the Journal app and more to journalists, to "kill" products and features with which he took issue (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
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March 28, 2024
https://ift.tt/UVqv2ZA Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : Apple sues an ex-employee for allegedly leaking details about the Journal app and more...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
MLCommons announces results from its MLPerf 4.0 inference benchmarks, which added Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL; systems with Nvidia GPUs came out on top (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)
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March 27, 2024
https://ift.tt/DMAKdpj Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum : MLCommons announces results from its MLPerf 4.0 inference benchmarks, which adde...
Data observability service Observe raised a $115M Series B led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, sources say at a $400M-$500M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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March 27, 2024
https://ift.tt/MKr61wd Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Data observability service Observe raised a $115M Series B led by Sutter Hill Venture...
NY-based Hume, which is building a conversational AI that it claims can interpret emotions based on people's voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
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March 27, 2024
https://ift.tt/cdIR89Y Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes : NY-based Hume, which is building a conversational AI that it claims can interpret emo...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
A timeline of EU's DMA investigations into Apple, Google, and Meta: each have 12 months to fix the issues, before risking fines of up to 10% of global revenue (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
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March 26, 2024
https://ift.tt/6bnzohc Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg : A timeline of EU's DMA investigations into Apple, Google, and Meta: each have 12 ...
US investors, like General Atlantic and Sequoia, are facing increased pressure from state and federal lawmakers about their investments in Chinese companies (Lauren Hirsch/New York Times)
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March 26, 2024
https://ift.tt/ybh2pKR Lauren Hirsch / New York Times : US investors, like General Atlantic and Sequoia, are facing increased pressure fr...
A look at MatX, which was founded by ex-Google engineers, has raised $25M, and hopes to design chips that are 10x faster than Nvidia's GPUs at training LLMs (Ashlee Vance/Bloomberg)
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March 26, 2024
https://ift.tt/3wlyG2j Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg : A look at MatX, which was founded by ex-Google engineers, has raised $25M, and hopes to...
Monday, March 25, 2024
Bolt's board removes CEO Maju Kuruvilla, who took over after co-founder Ryan Breslow stepped down in 2022; head of sales Justin Grooms will be interim CEO (The Information)
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March 25, 2024
https://ift.tt/Idsq298 The Information : Bolt's board removes CEO Maju Kuruvilla, who took over after co-founder Ryan Breslow stepped ...
Global Screening Services, which is developing a sanctions-screening service to help financial institutions comply with regulations, raised a $47M Series A2 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
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March 25, 2024
https://ift.tt/3DveSMp Paul Sawers / TechCrunch : Global Screening Services, which is developing a sanctions-screening service to help fi...
Sunday, March 24, 2024
A look at The Financial Times' Claude-powered AI chatbot Ask FT, which is trained on FT's articles and available to some subscribers in the FT Professional tier (The Verge)
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March 24, 2024
https://ift.tt/Bw8dKru The Verge : A look at The Financial Times' Claude-powered AI chatbot Ask FT, which is trained on FT's arti...
Sources: Chinese social media startup Xiaohongshu reported its first profit with $500M in net profit on $3.7B revenue in 2023, and reached 312M MAUs, up 20% YoY (Financial Times)
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March 24, 2024
https://ift.tt/YhlPo4g Financial Times : Sources: Chinese social media startup Xiaohongshu reported its first profit with $500M in net pr...
Chinese state media: at the China Development Forum, Tim Cook said Apple will launch Vision Pro in China this year, first official non-US launch confirmation (Reuters)
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March 24, 2024
https://ift.tt/fHCq8WO Reuters : Chinese state media: at the China Development Forum, Tim Cook said Apple will launch Vision Pro in China...
Analysis: Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg lead a group of insiders selling their company stocks in Q1, a sign that the tech bull run may be peaking (Financial Times)
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March 24, 2024
https://ift.tt/CcvtgqI Financial Times : Analysis: Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg lead a group of insiders selling their co...
Saturday, March 23, 2024
More than 23M US households risk losing internet access by the end of April as Congress fails to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program due to GOP opposition (Brian Fung/CNN)
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March 23, 2024
https://ift.tt/hJvInfB Brian Fung / CNN : More than 23M US households risk losing internet access by the end of April as Congress fails t...
Filmmakers, critics, and users detail why Prime Video failed in Africa; Amazon laid off staff and scaled back operations on the continent in January 2024 (Jesusegun Alagbe/Rest of World)
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March 23, 2024
https://ift.tt/nRYH9su Jesusegun Alagbe / Rest of World : Filmmakers, critics, and users detail why Prime Video failed in Africa; Amazon ...