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Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on a likely FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Elon Musk's alliance with Donald Trump and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more — “All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created.”
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Trump names FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr as FCC chair; Carr floated limiting Section 230 and says the FCC has “an important role to play reining in Big Tech” — - Senior Republican on panel seeks to rein in tech, backs Musk — Carr wrote a chapter of Project 2025 on the FCC's priorities
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MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds $29B+ in bitcoin — The enterprise software maker, whose corporate strategy includes buying the cryptocurrency, bought the tokens between Nov. 11 and Nov. 17 …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
How Tim Cook may navigate Trump's presidency, a closer look at Apple's upcoming smart home command center, sources detail a new AirTag coming in 2025, and more — With its heavy reliance on China, Apple remains vulnerable to Donald Trump's tariffs. But Tim Cook likely has a plan to soften the blow.
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Roblox debuts new parental controls and gatekeeping features, like letting parents link accounts to a child's and banning text chat for under 13s outside games — Videogame company has denied the allegations and says the new protections were planned before a short seller's report
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How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to buy it in April 2023 — The newsletter start-up, which once drew an overture from Elon Musk, is betting on politics content and recruiting stars.| The Information: |
Sources: in recent months, Nvidia has asked its suppliers to change the design of server racks for Blackwell GPUs several times to overcome overheating problems — Nvidia is grappling with new problems related to its much-anticipated Blackwell graphics processing units for artificial intelligence …
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How Wall Street is preparing to cash in on AI hysteria; analysis: delivering on AI's promise will require $1T+ for data centers, electricity, and comms networks — Finance's biggest names are ready to gatecrash the artificial-intelligence party. — At a dinner hosted by some of Morgan … | Reuters: |
Sources and ads: Foxconn tells recruiters that help hire iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age, gender, and marital criteria and its name from job ads — Apple supplier Foxconn has ordered the hiring agents that help recruit iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age …
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Sources: Trump's transition team is looking for candidates to lead the US Department of Transportation and develop a framework to regulate autonomous vehicles — - Policy leaders are being pursued for key Musk priority — Tesla CEO, named to efficiency role, plans push on robotaxis
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Sources: CISA Director Jen Easterly and Deputy Director Nitin Natarajan plan to leave the agency on January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump is set to be inaugurated — Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly speaks during Kyiv International Cyber Resilience Forum 2024 on February 7, 2024.| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt trials its digital wallet in Belgium to let 7M citizens receive social services and share data with businesses, as he worries about AI — The inventor of the World Wide Web is on a laudable mission to give everyone control of their online data. He's fighting an uphill battle.
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