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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 …
More: The Verge, Wyze Forum, BleepingComputer, Tom's Hardware, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, GeekWire, Android Authority, PCMag, TechSpot, Neowin, HotHardware, Wccftech, and Notebookcheck
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| 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 …
Mastodon: @jay@cuthrell.com and @carnage4life@mas.to
X: @dadiomov, @hitsamty, @zebulgar, @rabois, @pitdesi, @thesafestspace, @pitdesi, @producercities, @wsjtech, @garrytan, @chrisyeh, @benioff, and @rosslazer
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.
More: GlobalFoundries, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, Syracuse Post-Standard, Benzinga, Semiconductor Industry …, The White House, HPCwire, Reuters, TechPowerUp, New York Times, New York Post, SamMobile, NIST, New York Times, Bloomberg, Investor's Business Daily, and Livemint
X: @globalfoundries, @senschumer, @donal888, and @govkathyhochul
| 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
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Engadget, TechSpot, Phandroid, games fray, Digital Music News, MobileSyrup, Silicon Republic, Verdict, TipRanks Financial, Fortune, Computing, TNW, SamMobile, TechCentral.ie, MSPoweruser, Thurrott, Mashable, MacRumors, Music Business Worldwide, Light Reading, Total Telecom, Daily Mail, The Overspill, GSMArena.com, TelecomTV, iThinkDifferent, Al Bawaba, Lowyat.NET, CNBC, iClarified, Business Insider, ABC News, TechPowerUp, Politico, iPhone in Canada Blog, SiliconANGLE, Music Ally, Barron's Online, Gizchina, Notebookcheck, PhoneArena, NewsBytes, MarketWatch, PCMag, The Information, Neowin, Benzinga, Amwal Al Ghad, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Straits Times, City A.M., AppleInsider, The Indian Express, Supercharged, Business Post, iMore, Reuters, The Economic Times, and Channel NewsAsia
X: @mysk_co, @stevesi, @gartenberg, @florian4gamers, @florian4gamers, @florian4gamers, @geradinlaw, @ugambini, @carnage4life, @ellisitems, @moo9000, and @laurbjn
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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