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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Humane plans to open Ai Pin pre-orders on November 16, starting at $699 plus $24/month for unlimited calls, texts, and data via T-Mobile, shipping in early 2024 — If you're willing to clip the Ai Pin to your chest, you can talk, gesture, and tap to take photos or summon a powerful virtual assistant.
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, Cryptopolitan, Gizchina, PR Newswire, Wired, ZDNet, TechEBlog, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Mashable, MobileSyrup, Axios, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, PCMag, Daring Fireball, ZDNet, BGR, Android Authority, Forbes, TechCrunch, New York Times, Android Headlines, Gadgets & Wearables, SamMobile, The Overspill, and Engadget
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Mastodon: @marcoarment@mastodon.social, @sdw@mastodon.social, @harrymccracken@mastodon …, and @counternotions@mastodon …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/singularity, r/hardware, r/technology, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
A look at Humane's $699 clip-on Ai Pin, the culmination of five years of work, $240M in funding, and 25 patents; Humane expects to sell ~100K in the first year — Humane, a company started by two former Apple employees, says its new artificial intelligence pin can stop all the scrolling.
More: The Verge, On my Om, Insider, The Seattle Times, Reuters, Gizmodo, Pixel Envy, The Verge, and TIME
Threads: @seyitaylor, @sandofsky, @sandofsky, @bartclaeys, @jw, @captain2phones, @reckless1280, and @quillmatiq
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft: MOVEit hackers are exploiting a zero-day flaw in IT support tool SysAid in “limited” attacks to access corporate servers and deploy Clop ransomware — Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the service management software SysAid to gain access …
More: SysAid, Rapid7, TechCrunch, The Hacker News, cybersecurityconnect.com.au, CRN, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Dark Reading, SiliconANGLE, Huntress, The Register, Cybernews.com, The Record, and SecurityWeek
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A review of Valve's $549 Steam Deck OLED: a great screen, a longer battery life, and better ergonomics, but refresh rate issues and the platform is not stable — A new screen, a pile of improvements, and better pricing make this everything the original should have been.
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Forums: r/SteamDeck, r/WindowsOnDeck, and r/IndianGaming
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Tumblr is downscaling its ambitions after failing to reach its goals for a new audience and plans to focus on the site's “core functionality” in 2024 — Tumblr is downscaling its ambitions after failing to reach goals for a new audience, aiming to move some staff members to other divisions of parent company Automattic.
More: Ars Technica, Engadget, and TechCrunch
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| Bloomberg: |
Experts say LockBit is behind the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China hack, a “ransomware as a service” group behind UK's Royal Mail hack among others — - LockBit is what's known as a ‘ransomware as a service’ group — It is one of the most prolific ransomware attackers in world
More: Reuters and Dark Reading
| Financial Times: |
Sources: a ransomware attack stopped the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country's largest bank, from settling US Treasury and some equity trades — Chinese bank says it has contained a hack that affected some fixed income and equities transactions
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LinkedIn: Andy Watkin-Child CSyP …, David Davies, Tyrus Kamau, Alexander Rudolph, and John F. Keese
| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Sources: Amazon is working on Vega, a new OS to replace Android on Fire TVs, smart displays, and other devices and could ship Fire TV devices with Vega in 2024 — Vega, baby! … Amazon has been working on a new operating system to replace Android on Fire TVs, smart displays and other connected devices …
More: Hindustan Times, Android Police, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Neowin, AFTVnews, Android Authority, Engadget, OSnews, and The Streamable
| Soma Biswas / Wall Street Journal: |
A bankruptcy court lets Celsius Network end its bankruptcy case, return most of its deposits back to users, and form a new company focused on mining and staking — A bankruptcy judge allowed the onetime crypto lender to return some of its customers' deposits while forming a new company focused on mining and staking| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
Apple agrees to pay $25M to settle the US DOJ claims that the company illegally favored immigrant workers over US citizens and green card holders for some jobs — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) will pay $25 million to settle claims by the U.S. Department of Justice that the company illegally favored immigrant workers …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Unity reports Q3 revenue up 69% YoY to $544.2M, missing estimates of $553.7M partly because of the fallout from new rules on video games in China; U drops 15%+ — - Unity's revenue growth fell short of estimates, partly because of fallout from new rules on video games in China.
More: The Verge, Unity, Benzinga, Pocket Gamer.biz, Seeking Alpha, and MarketWatch
X: @tomwarren and @jaguaranalytics
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Qualcomm ends its partnership with Iridium to bring satellite connectivity to Android phones, after launching the Snapdragon Satellite platform in January 2023 — However, Iridium says it's now free to talk with other smartphone and chip vendors on enabling another satellite connectivity deal.
More: CNBC, Android Authority, Iridium Satellite …, and Fierce Wireless Industry News
Threads: @mishaal_rahman and @mishaal_rahman
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI announces Data Partnerships to collaborate with organizations to build public and private datasets that “reflect human society” for AI model training — It's an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. — Image corpora tends to be U.S …
More: OpenAI, Engadget, Search Engine Journal, SiliconANGLE, and Bloomberg
X: @gdb, @natolambert, @omarsar0, and @openai
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Epic v. Google: internal documents show Google offered Netflix to pay only 10% of its in-app payments on Android in 2017; Netflix didn't take the deal — Netflix did, too. — In 2017, Google offered Netflix a special discounted rate of 10 percent of its in-app payments on Android …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta strikes a preliminary deal with Tencent to sell a new, lower-priced VR headset in China, beginning in late 2024 — Chinese videogame maker Tencent agrees to start selling a new lower-cost headset from Meta late next year — SINGAPORE—Meta Platforms has struck a preliminary deal … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google stops selling Fitbit products in 29 countries, including those where the company doesn't offer Pixel alternatives, to “align” its hardware portfolio — In a move that went a bit under the radar, Fitbit under Google has stopped selling its products in nearly 20 countries around the globe.
More: Android Authority, Thurrott, TechCentral, Gizmodo, and BGR
X: @killedbygoogle and @teja2495
Forums: r/gadgets, r/technology, and r/fitbit
| Bloomberg: |
Amazon and Meta are testing a feature that shows US shoppers real-time prices and lets them buy products on Amazon directly from ads on Instagram and Facebook — - Consumers can link Amazon accounts to social-media profiles — Instagram ads urge users to use Amazon purchase button
More: The Hindu, CNBC, International Business Times, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, TechCrunch, and Marketplace Pulse
Threads: @mrahmey, @mattnavarra, and @rodolfodelgado
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LinkedIn: Maurice Rahmey, Adrian Tilley, and Spencer Soper
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Helsinki-based Noice, a game livestreaming service that lets viewers participate in the gameplay experience, raised a $21M Series A — Noice has raised $21 million to revolutionize social gaming with a combination of livestreaming and multiplayer gaming in one platform.
More: Pocket Gamer.biz. X: @deantak, @jussil, @fgcphantommiria, @noicehq, @jussil, @teroterotero, @jussil, and @miikahuttunen
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Arm CEO Rene Haas says Arm is working on a “complex deal” that, if closed by year-end, would boost Q3 revenue, expresses optimism about US-China ties, and more — Arm CEO Rene Haas knows that the first rule of post-IPO earnings is to meet or beat Wall Street expectations.
More: Fox Business, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Technology on YouTube, NationalWorld, and Reuters
X: @quinnypig and @madmoneyoncnbc
| Bloomberg: |
Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Chinese startup 01.AI, says the company stockpiled enough Nvidia chips to last for next 18 months before the US's China chip ban kicked in — - Founded this year, Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI is already a unicorn — Best AI training accelerators come from US firm Nvidia
More: The Register
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Japan plans to allocate extra ~$13B in subsidies to drive investment in its chip industry, on top of previously allocated subsidies which are yet to be spent — - Economy Ministry seeks $12 billion in extra budget for chips — Country chasing tech leadership as geopolitical tensions rise
More: Reuters
| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki says the company now plans to release six live service games by FY 2025, delaying the remaining six from the original 12 titles — Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has halved the number of live service games it plans to release over the next few years, it's confirmed.
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X: @chrisvoiceman and @ethangach
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