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| Eric Beech / Reuters: |
Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to provide “guidance from outside of Government” — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy …
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Threads: @ronaldfilipkowski, @mac_ryan_, @karaswisher, @davmicrot, @ronaldfilipkowski, @renee.diresta, @mac_ryan_, and @mac_ryan_
Bluesky: @mmasnick.bsky.social, @nytceciliakang.bsky.social, @donmoyn.bsky.social, @brianfung.me, and @parismarx.bsky.social
X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @lizchar, @realdonaldtrump, @vivekgramaswamy, @levie, @themaxburns, @vijayvinyl, @sonalibasak, @scottnover, @jason, @im_sorry_wtf, @maxtmcc, @who_shot_jgr, @teddyschleifer, @donie, @aleresnik, @peterhamby, @luke_metro, @sriramk, @jakesherman, @josephpolitano, @samstein, @teddyschleifer, @josephpolitano, @jstein_wapo, @panasonicdx4500, @trillburne, @adamscochran, @jakesherman, @shaunmmaguire, @zebulgar, @tszzl, @pitdesi, @samadlerbell, @benjysarlin, @chrislhayes, @nikitabier, @burgessev, @lib_crusher, @vivekgramaswamy, @dogetoshi, and @arthurdelaneyhp
Forums: r/law, r/elonmusk, and r/politics
| Financial Times: |
Media executives say that some brands were preparing to advertise on X once again, as Elon Musk was likely to gain an influential Trump administration role — Some brands had abandoned the site over moderation concerns — Elon Musk's support for Donald Trump is set to boost X's flagging business …
More: Business Today, ZeroHedge News, Politico, New York Times, and RedState
| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Dogecoin spikes ~20% after Donald Trump announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE; Dogecoin is up 153% since Election Day — Dogecoin shot higher on Tuesday night, extending its postelection surge after President-elect Donald Trump formally announced …
More: CryptoPotato, Cybernews.com, Barron's Online, Blockhead, Nairametrics, The Mirror, Watcher Guru, CoinDesk, and Bitcoin Insider
Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @taylorlorenz.bsky.social, @andytseng.bsky.social, and @frydawolff.bsky.social
| Dan Merica / Associated Press: |
Source: Elon Musk's America PAC spent ~$200M to help elect Trump; Musk says the PAC is gearing up for midterms as well as judicial and DA elections — Elon Musk's super PAC spent around $200 million to help elect Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the group's spending …
More: Silicon Republic, CNBC, and Politico
Threads: @hughhowey, @crumbler, and @kbode
Forums: r/Law_and_Politics, r/musked, and r/politics
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Gail Slater, a top aide to JD Vance, and Mark Meador, a former enforcer at the DOJ's antitrust unit and the FTC, are the front-runners to lead the FTC — Contenders for prime slots include a top aide to JD Vance and former Department of Justice lawyers| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is making a 6" wall-mounted display to control appliances, videoconference, and use AI to navigate apps, and may unveil it as early as March 2025 — - Product will spotlight the new Siri and Apple Intelligence — Device will tap into cameras, doorbells and run Apple's apps
More: The Ambient, 9to5Mac, T3, Forbes, Cybernews.com, Spyglass, The Rundown AI, Proactive, Verdict, WAtoday, iClarified, Notebookcheck, Invezz, Appleosophy, TweakTown, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDrop News, MakeUseOf, Redmond Pie, The Shortcut, TechCrunch, Android Authority, TechRadar, SlashGear, Six Colors, Business Insider, Thurrott, and The Verge
Threads: @automated_house. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @stroughtonsmith …, and @viticci@mastodon …. Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social
X: @apollozac, @neilcybart, @apollozac, @andrew_osu, @bzamayo, @markgurman, @markgurman, @anxiousholly, and @tomwarren
Forums: r/apple, r/wallstreetbets, and MacRumors Forums
| Callie Holtermann / New York Times: |
Bluesky says it has gained 1M+ users in the week since the US election, mostly in the US, the UK, and Canada, and now has 14.7M users in total — With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service.
More: TechCrunch, The Week, The Guardian, Metro.co.uk, PR Daily, Spyglass, Fox News, Rolling Stone, and New York Daily News
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @jaz.bsky.social, @nihilscio.bsky.social, @bsky.app, @emilyliu.me, @mmasnick.bsky.social, and @sarahjeong.bsky.social. X: @mikeisaac
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam and r/AnythingGoesNews
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3's source code and model weights for academic use, which could accelerate scientific discovery and drug development — Google DeepMind has unexpectedly released the source code and model weights of AlphaFold 3 for academic use, marking a significant advance … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video — Amazon is officially shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported video streaming service originally launched under the IMDb brand nearly five years ago.
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Threads: @crumbler. Bluesky: @vtuss.bsky.social. X: @karstenw, @jaketx78, @deadline, @juwanthewriter, @deadline, @tvgrimreaper, and @aagave
Forums: r/popculturechat, r/entertainment, r/cordcutters, and r/television
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A look at Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, which Alibaba claims can match GPT-4o coding capabilities and is small enough to run on a MacBook Pro M2 with 64GB of RAM — There's a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba's Qwen research team.
More: Qwen, MarkTechPost, Analytics India Magazine, The Decoder, and VentureBeat
X: @paulgauthier, @simonw, @simonw, and @simonw
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and lobste.rs
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
YouTube is testing a new feature that will let a small group of creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their Shorts through prompts — YouTube is testing a new feature that will let creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their shorts.| Lim Hui Jie / CNBC: |
Swiggy opened up ~8% on its trading debut after the company raised $1.34B in an Indian IPO, which became the second largest IPO in India in 2024 — Shares of Indian food delivery giant Swiggy rose nearly 8% on their trading debut Wednesday after its IPO became the country's second largest this year.| Charlie Sorrel / iFixit News: |
Mac mini (2024) teardown: the SSD module is proprietary but replaceable, modular front ports, and the M4 Pro model has a beefier cooling rig than the M4 model — It shouldn't be a big story that a desktop computer has upgradeable internal storage, but with Apple's cute new 2024 Mac mini, that's exactly where we are.
More: The Register, iFixit on YouTube, ExtremeTech, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, O'Grady's PowerPage, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, GSMArena.com, iClarified, ZDNET, Notebookcheck, BGR, MobileSyrup, iClarified, Neowin, MacRumors, TechEBlog, O'Grady's PowerPage, Macworld, Wccftech, Notebookcheck, Notebookcheck, and TechRadar
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon recently told staff with disabilities that it was adding a more rigorous vetting process to approve working from home, as it moves to five days per week — New ‘multilevel leader review’ can take weeks and has prompted concerns that affected corporate workers will give up and quit.| Charles Daly / Bloomberg: |
Klarna files for a US IPO; analysts put Klarna's implied valuation at ~$14.6B in October 2024 after shareholder Chrysalis upped the value of its stake to $154M — Swedish payments firm Klarna Group Plc has filed for an initial public offering in the US, ending months of speculation that the company was readying a stock market listing.
More: Sifted, PYMNTS.com, Finextra, Klarna US, TechCrunch, Reuters, Tech.eu, Business Insider, City A.M., Financial Times, and Silicon Canals
X: @jordanhmckee, @alys_key, and @maxkarpis
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Greg Brockman returns to OpenAI after taking a leave from his role as president in August 2024; a memo says he is working with Sam Altman on creating a new role — OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned to the artificial intelligence startup three months after taking a leave from his role …
More: Business Insider, The Decoder, Forbes, Reuters, and CNBC
X: @shakeelhashim, @gdb, @rachelmetz, and @samsheffer
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Modern Times Group agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based mobile game maker Plarium for $620M and up to $200M more if Plarium hits financial targets over 2025 to 2028 — Modern Times Group has agreed to buy Plarium, the maker of RPG Raid: Shadow Legends, from Aristocrat Leisure for $620 million.
More: MTG, GamesIndustry.biz, iGB, CTech, NEXT.io, Yogonet, Reuters, MarketWatch, Globes Online, TechRaptor, Game World Observer, PocketGamer.biz, Game Developer, and Notebookcheck
| NBC News: |
The US sentences Air National guardsman Jack Teixeira to 15 years for stealing classified Pentagon information and sharing it on Discord in 2022 and 2023 — The former Massachusetts Air National Guard member pleaded guilty in March to leaking highly classified military documents online, including about the war in Ukraine.
More: Engadget, US Department of Justice, New York Times, Washington Post, The Indian Express, Cybernews.com, Air & Space Forces Magazine, The Register, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, New York Post, Al Jazeera, UPI, Reuters, and Associated Press
X: @macfarlanenews and @caylethompson
Forums: r/technology, r/espionage, r/inthenews, r/Military, r/news, and Slashdot
| TechCrunch: |
Rivian and VW finalize a software development joint venture; VW has invested $1B of its planned up to $5.8B by 2027 in the JV designed to be a 50-50 partnership — Rivian and Volkswagen Group have finalized a multi-billion-dollar joint venture to develop software, paving … | Bloomberg: |
How gambling apps are ravaging Brazil in the wake of legalization; Nubank reassured investors in September 2024 that it had limited exposure to troubled bettors — The boom shocked policy makers who are now scrambling to control it — At the headquarters of the United Nations …
X: @jdorosario and @thestalwart
| James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal: |
Charles Sporck, an early champion of globalization who moved some of Fairchild's chip assembly operations from the US to Hong Kong in the 1960s, died at 96 — He argued that offshoring allowed the U.S. semiconductor industry to create more high-paying jobs at home
X: @donal888
| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub, going under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools, as authorities carry out thousands of operations since 2021 — In April 2022, about four months after Kazakhstan's government violently cracked down on nationwide protests …
Forums: r/privacy
| Bloomberg: |
How Roger Ver, known as “Bitcoin Jesus”, is fighting the IRS, which says he owes $48M+ after selling $240M in tokens, from Mallorca after his April 2024 arrest — - Roger Ver charged with underreporting value of token holdings — Longtime crypto investor renounced US citizenship in 2014Sponsor Posts
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