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November 20, 2024, 8:35 AM

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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 …
Wired:
An investigation reveals how phone coordinates collected by US data broker Datastream expose the 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 …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sony launches PlayStation Portal cloud streaming in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in 30 countries stream select PS5 games in 720p or 1080p  —  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.
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
Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as 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 for free, to counter Spotify  —  Amazon said on Tuesday that it will let Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers access one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free.
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.
Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker:
Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third-party apps from showing a user's Strava data to other users or using the data in AI models or similar apps  —  Yesterday Strava sent out an e-mail to users, outlining a change that's occurring almost immediately, regarding 3rd party apps …
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 …
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia  —  Odoo, a startup taking on SAP in the realm of enterprise software, boosted its valuation to 5 billion euros ($5.3 billion) …
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.

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