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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Wyze says ~13,000 customers could briefly see others' camera feeds, after a similar issue in 2023; Wyze blames glitches in rebooting systems after an AWS outage — It's, unfortunately, increasingly common for security cameras to have a glitch that exposes data from one user's system …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, which is undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities — In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to join him in ditching San Francisco for Miami …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
The US awards $1.5B to GlobalFoundries from the $52B CHIPS Act, plus $1.6B in loans, to build a fab at its HQ in Malta, New York, and to expand its Fab 8 plant — The massive grant, part of the Chips Act, will help the U.S. establish a homegrown supply for some of the most critical components of modern life.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Filing: the company behind MariaDB, which raised ~$230M before its 2022 IPO, may be taken private by K1 in a $37M deal, far below its $672M Series D valuation — MariaDB is the subject of another potential takeover bid, as the company behind the eponymous open source relational database management system … | South China Morning Post: |
Meizu, which was acquired by Chinese automaker Geely in 2022, will no longer make smartphones, to pursue an “all in AI” strategy over the next three years — - Meizu said it is terminating all traditional smartphone projects to focus on developing artificial intelligence-enabled handsets| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Doc: the European Commission opens an investigation into whether TikTok breached DSA rules meant to protect children, the second such investigation, after X's — The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against ByteDance's TikTok under the Digital Services Act (DSA) …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft fixes a bug that caused Edge to automatically import Chrome tabs and browsing data without consent, following months of complaints from some users — Microsoft has fixed an issue where its Edge browser was again misbehaving, this time by automatically importing browsing data and tabs from Chrome without consent.
More: 9to5Google, Forbes, Android Headlines, and WinBuzzer
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to fine Apple ~€500M in March for allegedly breaking EU law over access to music streaming services, following a 2019 complaint by Spotify — Move is culmination of long-running European Commission antitrust probe after a complaint by Spotify
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple Store sources: Vision Pro returns are between average and above average compared to other products; some in-store demo conversion rates are 10% to 15% — The Apple Vision Pro has now been available for two weeks — and some of Apple's most dedicated customers are returning the device to get back their $3,500.
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on needing more than scale to get to AGI, developing AI agents, Gemini Pro 1.5, the UK AI Safety Institute, and more — In an interview with WIRED, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the biggest breakthroughs in AI are yet to come—and will take more than just chips.| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sources: Saudi Arabia mandates that Chinese tech companies like Alibaba and SenseTime invest in the kingdom and share technical expertise to secure huge deals — Alibaba and SenseTime secure huge joint ventures in Gulf Kingdom but agreements come with stringent requirements
X: @ahmed and @paragkhanna
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google doubles the cost of some legacy Nest Aware subscriptions internationally, including in Canada, while some modern plans are getting prices hiked by 25% — Modern plans get a 25 percent increase, while older plans double in price. — Google's “Nest Aware” camera subscription is going through another round of price increases.
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