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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.
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.
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.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Omegle, a service founded in 2009 for chatting with strangers, shuts down; founder Leif K-Brooks blames rising misuse, including in committing “heinous crimes”  —  Omegle, an online service that allowed individuals to connect and chat with strangers, has shut …
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 …
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.
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.
Sam Nussey / Reuters:
Sony reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$18.5B, operating income down 29% YoY to ~$1.74B, chips division profit down 37% YoY, and 4.9M PS5s sold, vs. 3.3M YoY
Taras Buria / Neowin:
Microsoft now requires that Windows users choose a listed reason for closing the OneDrive app, like “I do not use OneDrive” or “I don't know what OneDrive is”  —  A few weeks ago, we reported an odd discovery in Microsoft Edge: a poll asking users to explain their decision to download Chrome.
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
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 …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Spotify rolls out a redesigned TV app, offering a new homepage similar to the one in its desktop and mobile apps, a new playback queue, a dark mode, and more  —  Spotify is rolling out a redesigned TV app that should make it a little easier to find what you want to listen to.
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Chinese state-affiliated outlet Chinastarmarket says Nvidia plans to release three new H100-based AI chips in the country in the coming days, after new US rules  —  - US is further limiting China's access to advanced silicon  — Nvidia's gaming graphic card is also affected by new US rules
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Mandiant: Russia-tied Sandworm carried out a third successful attack on Ukraine's electric utility in October 2022, coinciding with a series of missile strikes  —  Russia's most notorious military hackers successfully sabotaged Ukraine's power grid for the third time last year.
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 …
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 ‘restoring services’ after hack affected some fixed income and equities transactions
Joe Brennan / The Irish Times:
A key CJEU advisor recommends that the court set aside a 2020 EU ruling that said Apple did not owe Ireland €13B+ in back taxes, a setback for Apple and Ireland  —  Opinion of key advisor to European Court of Justice (ECJ) comes months ahead of final ruling on world's biggest antitrust case
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
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Yuga Labs says UV lights were the likely cause of eye and skin issues experienced by some of the attendees of ApeFest, hosted in Hong Kong from November 3 to 5  —  The probe was undertaken in collaboration with Jack Morton Worldwide, the company that produced the event …
Melanie Dawes / Financial Times:
Ofcom's CEO on the regulator's new powers to police tech: kids are the first priority, companies must detect and remove CSAM, and working in harmony with the EU  —  Where the laws have different scope, it's important that implementing them does not create conflicts for companies
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Apple, Google, and Samsung partner with Schlage, Yale, Qualcomm, and NXP to build Aliro, an open standard for smart locks and digital keys, targeting early 2025  —  Launching Thursday, the effort is called Aliro, and if you've ever enjoyed using Apple's Home Key technology on your watch …
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Inside Bryce Adams and Brian Adam's OnlyFans empire run from a $2.5M Florida compound: ~$10M in annual revenue and a $1M+ payroll; Adams' OF has $16.5M in sales  —  SOMEWHERE IN FLORIDA — In the mornings, the workers of Bryce Adams's OnlyFans empire buzz in through a camera-wired security gate …

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

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Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk:
The EU Parliament approves the Data Act, which has a kill switch clause for automated data-sharing agreements; the legislation now needs EU Council approval

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
OpenAI says its APIs and ChatGPT suffered “periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack” between November 8 and November 9
Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
A US judge rules that automakers using on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept owners' texts and call logs doesn't violate Washington privacy laws
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Samsung announces Galaxy AI, a “comprehensive mobile AI experience” that includes a translation feature called AI Live Translate Call, coming “early next year”
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