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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Report: users on Douyin, WeChat, and other short video apps in China dropped for the first time, reaching 1.05B in June 2024, ~300M fewer than in December 2023 (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
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The US Treasury sanctions Iranian and Russian entities over attempted election interference, including a Moscow entity that directed the creation of deepfakes (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)
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St. Louis-based tech services company World Wide Technology agrees to acquire Canadian IT provider Softchoice in an all-cash deal valuing the latter at ~CA$1.8B (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Some 2024 LLM takeaways: multimodal vision became common, LLM prices crashed, overall environmental impact worsened despite efficiency gains, slop arrived, more (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
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Monday, December 30, 2024

A US judge delays the CFTC v. Gemini trial to January 21, after Trump's inauguration; CFTC alleged Gemini misled the agency in its 2017 bid to debut BTC futures (Turner Wright/Cointelegraph)
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VW Group had sensitive info, including GPS coordinates, of 800K+ electric vehicles exposed on an unprotected AWS database for months before it was alerted (Thanos Pappas/Carscoops)
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The technology of passkeys is elegant, but the complexities of syncing them to password managers can contribute to platform lock-in and make them less usable (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
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Sunday, December 29, 2024

As Tether says it is on track for a record $10B net profit in 2024, banks around the world are exploring launching their own stablecoins for payments (Bloomberg)
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Sources detail IDF's Unit 8200, tasked with identifying human targets as candidates for elimination during the war in Gaza; one describes it as an "AI factory" (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
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The bitcoin rally fueled by Trump's reelection has lost steam near the end of 2024; BTC hovers around $93.5K, ~$15,000 below the record high set in mid-December (Sunil Jagtiani/Bloomberg)
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Netflix's foray into live sports caps off a strong year, with its share price up 90%+ in 2024, but the stock's rich valuation sets a high bar for follow-up act (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
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Saturday, December 28, 2024

AT&T says China targeted a few "individuals of foreign intelligence interest" in the Salt Typhoon hack and its networks are now clear from the intrusion (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
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The US plans to update HIPAA with new cybersecurity rules to protect patients' private data, including mandatory encryption and multifactor authentication (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)
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Trump supports H-1B visas, saying "I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B", siding with Musk in the MAGA debate on the issue (Jon Levine/New York Post)
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Finland, Canada, the US, and other countries are testing tech for passport-free travel, including facial recognition and a "digital travel credential" (Matt Burgess/Wired)
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Friday, December 27, 2024

Experts say hackers compromised several companies' Chrome browser extensions, including Cyberhaven's, in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December (Reuters)
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Sydney-based Sitemate, which offers no-code software tools for industries like infrastructure and utilities, raised a AU$27.5M Series A at a ~AU$150M valuation (Shivaune Field/Forbes Australia)
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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Advantest CEO Doug Lefever, whose company is the largest provider of chip testing machines, on AI chip demand, China, and more; Advantest's stock is up 95%+ YTD (Financial Times)
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Tech lobbyists see new opportunities to expand access to high-skilled H-1B visas and green cards by leveraging the sway of Elon Musk over the GOP (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)
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Microsoft adds Copilot to Microsoft 365 in Australia and Southeast Asia and raises 365's price, a sign of how it aims to turn a profit from its AI investments (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)
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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Examining Biden's tech legacy and the CHIPS Act, as the White House says $446B has been announced for chips and electronics manufacturing since he took office (Politico)
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Alibaba's Qwen unveils QvQ-72B-Preview, an experimental research model focused on "enhancing visual reasoning capabilities", built upon Qwen2-VL-72B (Qwen)
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Analysis: roughly two-thirds of 39 public digital health companies have lost value in 2024, while the Nasdaq is up 32% (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
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Analysis: Coinbase International saw its total trading volume grow 124% week-over-week to $119B+ this past week; it averaged just $2.5B per day in November 2024 (The Block)
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Sources: Founders Fund seeks ~$3B for its third growth equity fund; it raised $3.4B for its second growth fund and $1.8B for its eighth early-stage fund in 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)
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