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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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| 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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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| 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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LinkedIn: Pat Kinsel, Lili Balfour, Jeff Frick, Amar Aswatha, and Rob Kumer
Forums: r/sanfrancisco and Slashdot
| 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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| 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| 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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LinkedIn: Thomas Höppner and Damien Geradin
Forums: Hacker News, r/AppleMusic, r/europe, r/apple, Slashdot, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 … | Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
FBI Director Christopher Wray says China inserts malware into networks to disrupt critical US infrastructure, and its “pre-positioning” has hit a “fever pitch” — Christopher Wray says Beijing's hacking operations had reached a ‘fever pitch’
More: SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Benzinga, and PYMNTS.com
| 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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X: @tina__nigro, @stevesi, @stevesi, @zollotech, @markgurman, and @rsgnl
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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
| Christine Chung / New York Times: |
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