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Sources: Nvidia has begun designing ARM CPUs for Windows PCs, and AMD also plans to build ARM chips; source: Nvidia and AMD could start selling them in 2025 — Nvidia (NVDA.O) dominates the market for artificial intelligence computing chips. Now it is coming after Intel's longtime stronghold of personal computers.
More: Tom's Hardware, The Verge, Bloomberg, Neowin, CNBC, and XDA Developers
X: @ericjhonsa, @ericjhonsa, @tomwarren, and @stevesi
Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/nvidia, and r/AMD_Stock
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Matter hits version 1.2, adding support for robot vacuums, refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, smoke and CO alarms, air quality sensors, and more — One year in, and Matter is adding support for fridges, robot vacuums, smoke alarms, and more. It's a major step toward a complete smart home …
More: CSA-IOT, ZDNet, AppleInsider, TechRadar, Thurrott, Android Central, iClarified, 9to5Google, Lifewire, Apple Must, TechHive, Forbes, PingWest, The Ambient, and iPhone in Canada Blog
LinkedIn: Nitesh Patel and Ted Miller
Forums: Hacker News, r/homeassistant, r/HomeKit, r/MatterProtocol, and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Japan's FTC opens an investigation into Google over alleged antitrust violations, focusing on whether the company asked OEMs to prioritize its search services — - The FTC said it is looking into Google's business practices — The US is mounting a broad investigation into the company
More: CNBC, The Japan Fair Trade Commission, Cryptopolitan, Nikkei Asia, New York Post, Computerworld, Silicon Valley Business …, Tech in Asia, Metaverse Post, CGTN, UPI, Verdict, The Messenger, Proactiveinvestors UK, Reuters, The Peninsula Newspaper, The Mainichi, NewsBytes, The New Indian Express, and Daily Sabah. Forums: Slashdot
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Amazon rolls out passkey support in its iOS app and the web, letting users log in via their devices' biometrics, and says support for Android is “coming soon” — Amazon's rolling out passkey support for its online site and mobile shopping apps.
More: About Amazon, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Thurrott, PCMag, The Messenger, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, SlashGear, TechRepublic, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, iClarified, and Six Colors. Bluesky: @trisalvagni.bsky.social
| NBC News: |
The White House designates 31 communities across the US as regional Tech Hubs that can compete for $40M to $75M each in grants, under the CHIPS and Science Act — The hubs are located in 32 states and Puerto Rico and will be able to compete for $40 million to $75 million each in grants.
More: The White House, Gizmodo, Baseline, U.S. Economic Development …, Bloomberg, Reuters, Engadget, The Philadelphia Inquirer, UPI, The Boston Globe, CBS News, WPRI on YouTube, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown …, Business Wire, eeNews Europe, WRAL TechWire, The Messenger, Maine.gov, eeNews Europe, Press Herald, and U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania
LinkedIn: Austin Thompson, MBA, CSPO and Gretchen Sierra-Zorita
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Excel to fix automatic data formatting after scientists reworked the alphanumeric symbols for representing genes in 2020 to avoid Excel issues — In 2020, scientists decided just to rework the alphanumeric symbols they used to represent genes rather than try to deal …
More: Office Insiders, PCMag, Gizmodo, Windows Central, and The Indian Express
X: @kclemson, @mrgunn, and @jamesjosephigoe
LinkedIn: Kirk T. Hartley, Rachel Mace, CAE, Shiyi Yin, Martin Gardner, Daniel Tunkelang, and Brian R. Spisak, PhD. Forums: Hacker News
| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Google proposes IP Protection for Chrome, an opt-in privacy feature that masks IP addresses via proxy servers for “qualifying traffic”, to roll out in stages — Google is getting ready to test a new “IP Protection” feature for the Chrome browser that enhances users' privacy …
More: Hackread, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, ZDNet, Cybernews.com, TechRadar, Android Headlines, PCMag, Stack Diary, and Ghacks
Mastodon: @ppatel@mstdn.social, @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social, and @steve@s.yelvington.com. Forums: r/technews
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Tinder rolls out Matchmaker, which lets loved ones view and recommend potential matches in the US, the UK, and 13 other countries ahead of a global launch soon — If you're the kind of person who asks friends and family for help with your love life, Tinder is aiming to make things a little easier …
More: Tinder Newsroom, 9to5Mac, Forbes, PCMag, Engadget, Cybernews.com, Neowin, BBC, MobileSyrup, Mashable, New York Post, TechRadar, The Guardian, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, iClarified, SlashGear, The Messenger, and socaltech.com
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Databricks plans to acquire data startup Arcion, which has raised $18M+, for $100M, after raising $500M in September and acquiring MosaicML for $1.3B in June — - Databricks agreed to acquire Arcion, an enterprise data company, for $100 million on Monday, including incentives … | Push Square: |
Sony sold 2.5M copies of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 in the first 24 hours after its October 20 release, becoming the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game ever — Over 2.5 million copies in 24 hours — Well, it looks like Sony's got another blockbuster on its hands.| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
The Worldcoin Foundation plans to start paying orb operators, who scan people into Worldcoin's network, in WLD, not USDC, in December and has issued ~134M WLD — - In a recent blog post, the Worldcoin Foundation announced that orb operators, who assist people in scanning their eyes to join … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Instagram is testing a toggle in its app that lets users only see posts from Meta Verified subscribers, as “a way for businesses and creators to get discovered” — Instagram is testing a toggle that lets you only see posts from Meta Verified users, according to Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Monday.
More: The Information, Social Media Today, and PetaPixel
| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Gen Z individuals say they use family location sharing apps to bolster a sense of security, such as during dates or at concerts; Life360 now has 33M+ US MAUs — An upbringing filled with anxiety has Gen Z sharing their location via apps — Teenagers have long balked at telling parents where they are.
More: 9to5Mac, Insider, and MacDailyNews
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A look at YouTube's negotiations with record labels over an AI tool that lets creators perform using major musicians' voices, a pivotal moment for AI in music — Negotiations between the video site and record labels could be a key moment in the spread of AI technology.
LinkedIn: Lucas Shaw, Ben Liebmann, and Steven Wolfe Pereira ⚡ …
| Chainalysis: |
From July 2022 to June 2023, the US led the world with $1T+ in “value received on chain”, but most stablecoin inflows to top services went via non-US exchanges — This post is an excerpt from our 2023 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report. Download your copy now!
More: Blockworks, The Block, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoinist.com, Crypto Briefing, Decrypt, CoinDesk, and CryptoGlobe
| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Microsoft plans to spend ~$3.2B to expand its AI and cloud abilities in Australia over two years to boost compute capacity by 250%, and train 300K Australians — Microsoft (MSFT.O) said it will spend A$5 billion ($3.2 billion) expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) … | Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Shenzhen-based Luxshare, which started as Foxconn's electronics supplier and is now, according to analysts, eating into Foxconn's Apple business — Apple increasingly relies on China-based Luxshare for manufacturing amid U.S. tensions with Beijing| Jay Goldberg / Digits to Dollars: |
How Qualcomm is tech's “problem child”: a tense relationship with Apple, sued by Arm, investigated by regulators, disagreements with Google over Pixel, and more — Almost from the moment of its birth Qualcomm had to fight the world. It is hard for us to understand today …
X: @jaygoldberg
| Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Nightshade and Glaze, tools made by researchers at UChicago that help artists “poison” their work to confuse or break AI models that later train on it — The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.| Bloomberg: |
Amsterdam-based Adyen, a Stripe and PayPal rival, has seen its stock fall ~25% since August 17's drop of 35%+, after Adyen reported lower-than-expected sales — - Adyen shares halved since its semi-annual earnings report — Co-CEO Pieter van der Does' stake is worth about €620 million| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Cisco releases patches for two zero-day flaws that hackers exploited in 50K+ IOS XE devices; researchers say that hacked hosts recently dropped from ~60K to ~1K — Cisco has addressed the two vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273) that hackers exploited to compromise tens of thousands of IOS XE devices over the past week.
More: Security Affairs, ComputerWeekly.com, SC Media, and Help Net Security. LinkedIn: Caroline Kelly
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