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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Police: |
Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule compared to the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving OEMs more time — Surprise! Google is releasing the first developer preview of Android 16 today so that app developers can test the new APIs …
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X: @mishaalrahman, @androiddev, @mishaalrahman, @mishaalrahman, and @mishaalrahman. Forums: r/Android
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony launches cloud streaming on the PlayStation Portal in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in some countries stream select PS5 games — Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi.
More: PlayStation.Blog, CNET, Video Games Chronicle, Comic Book, The Shortcut, Push Square, TheGamer, Android Headlines, GamingBolt, Kotaku, Dexerto, Press Start, IGN, Neowin, Eurogamer.net, Liliputing, and Engadget
X: @playstation, @danielhowley, and @speady99
Forums: r/playstation, r/Games, and Slashdot
| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as his Commerce Secretary — Lutnick, whose Cantor Fitzgerald has been a custodian for Tether since 2021, has been a vocal proponent of bitcoin and USDT for years.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in the US, the UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free — Amazon said on Tuesday that it will let Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers access one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free.
More: About Amazon, AFTVnews, Consequence, 9to5Mac, Digital Music News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, Publishers Weekly, MakeUseOf, The Verge, Billboard, Thurrott, Music Ally, and CNET
Threads: @ashleycarman and @ashleycarman
X: @rakeshsfnyc and @amazonmusic
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Source: Databricks tells investors it aims to raise $7B to $9B at a ~$61B valuation, to cash out employees that hold restricted stock units — Good afternoon from Las Vegas, where I'm writing this newsletter from a hotel room with a Strip view of the Encore, the hotel where bankers …
X: @bryce, @alex, @josephjacks_, and @eastdakota
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the $349 Windows 365 Link, a mini PC for its Windows 365 cloud service running a “super hardened version of Windows”, shipping in April 2025 — Microsoft is planning to launch a new purpose-built miniature PC for its Windows 365 cloud service next year.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
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| Wired: |
An investigation reveals how 3B+ phone coordinates collected by a US data broker Datastream expose movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany — More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers …
More: Pixel Envy
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Meta forms a new product group to build AI tools for the 200M businesses that use its apps, led by Clara Shih, who most recently was Salesforce AI's CEO — - Shih will be responsible for developing and monetizing tools within Meta's AI portfolio that are catered specifically to businesses.
More: TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, San Francisco Business Times, The Information, and Tech in Asia
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Coinbase plans to delist wBTC next month, as Justin Sun gains influence over the wBTC protocol; Coinbase launched its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, in September 2024 — - The exchange said it will delist the token in December, though users will still be able to move the wBTC off the exchange.| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google — Zuckerberg has pushed Meta to build Llama into all its products and services, including its Orion augmented reality glasses now in prototype stage.| Reuters: |
A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems — A U.S. congressional commission on Tuesday proposed a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AI systems that will be as smart …
More: The Hill, Cointelegraph, SpaceNews, and Foreign Policy
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| Yoshua Bengio / Financial Times: |
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI regulation to protect the public — Advances in reasoning will lead to substantially improved capabilities in mathematics and science — The writer is professor … | CJ Haddad / CNBC: |
After a report that Trump's “Department of Government Efficiency” is considering a free tax-filing app, Intuit shares closed down 5.1% and H&R Block down 8.2% — The stock prices for H&R Block and Intuit fell after a report Tuesday said Trump's government efficiency team is considering creating a free tax-filing app.
More: Washington Post, CBS News, Fox Business, PYMNTS.com, Fast Company, Quartz, Benzinga, and Investor's Business Daily
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says it now has 20M+ users after hitting 15M on November 13, and the app has been #1 in the US App Store since November 13, per Appfigures — Bluesky, the social network and X competitor has been benefiting from a surge of departures from the Elon Musk-owned app formerly known as Twitter.
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X: @firstadopter and @mediaevan
Forums: r/BlueskySocial and r/technology
| Nikkei Asia: |
TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply — BEIJING — China's public and private sectors are accelerating efforts to boost domestic production of semiconductors … | Bloomberg: |
The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asia: Bhutan's bitcoin holdings reached $1.1B, 36% of its GDP, South Korea's increased trading activity, and more — - Bhutan's Bitcoin holdings are now equivalent to 36% of GDP — South Korean crypto exchanges see a jump in market share| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed — Efforts by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to address cybersecurity issues faced significant criticism this week … | Anna Gross / Financial Times: |
Mark Parsons, who led the axed £800M UK supercomputer project, warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the top 50, risks falling behind — Mark Parsons, who led exascale venture in Edinburgh, says it would be a ‘disaster’ if funding is not restarted| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Trump Media now has a ~$7B market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb says site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October 2024 — Trump Media & Technology Group's revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up.
More: Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
X: @meyer_hm, @coffeephilosoph, @washingtonpost, @drewharwell, @drewharwell, @drewharwell, and @drewharwell
Forums: r/politics and r/LeopardsAteMyFace
| Financial Times: |
How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn new skills and tasks — Advances in physical AI mean machines are learning skills previously thought impossible — “This is not science fiction,” … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Microsoft signs a deal with News Corp's HarperCollins to use nonfiction titles to train an unannounced AI model; HarperCollins says authors can opt out — - Nonfiction books will be used for training AI models — AI companies and publishers have butted heads in lawsuits
More: The Verge, MEDIANAMA, The Guardian, The Information, Cryptopolitan, The Bookseller, PCMag, Publishers Weekly, and Tech in Asia
Threads: @eshumarneedi. Bluesky: @maetl.bsky.social, @glassbottommeg.bsky.social, and @samleecole.bsky.social
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, retrieves “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 — The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world …
More: MacRumors, Neowin, and AppleInsider
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X: @grapheneos, @josephfcox, @jsrailton, @josephfcox, @jason_koebler, and @josephfcox
Forums: r/apple, r/privacy, and MacRumors Forums
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