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MicroStrategy bought 55,500 bitcoin for ~$5.4B cash at an average price of $97,862 between November 18 and November 24, taking its holdings to ~386,700 bitcoin — - MicroStrategy has purchased another 55,580 BTC for approximately $5.4 billion at an average price of $97,862 per bitcoin.| Financial Times: |
The EU says Bluesky breaches its rules for not disclosing key details about itself, and has asked 27 governments to see “if they can find any trace of Bluesky” — Social media platform that has grown in exodus from Elon Musk's X is accused of not declaring user numbers| Sarah Kessler / New York Times: |
US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; CompTIA: developer job listings are down 56% since 2019 — Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do?
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Sources: Sony is in the early stages of developing a portable console for PS5 games, building on the PlayStation Portal, although its debut is likely years away — - Nintendo's Switch has dominated mobile console space for years — Rival Microsoft is also developing portable gaming prototypes
More: PCWorld, VICE, VideoCardz.com, CNET, Gizmodo, HotHardware, Forbes, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, PCMag, The Sun, Game Developer, Engadget, Mashable, Pocket-lint, GameSpot, MSPoweruser, Gematsu, Benzinga, The Verge, Boing Boing, Polygon, Video Games Chronicle, TechRaptor, Cybernews.com, TechRadar, Metro.co.uk, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, Kotaku, TheGamer, PlayStation LifeStyle, GreenBot, KitGuru, Pure Xbox, WinBuzzer, Neowin, Dexerto, Gameranx, IGN, Wccftech, Push Square, The Shortcut, Android Authority, Comic Book, Press Start, GamingBolt, GamesIndustry.biz, Eurogamer.net, and Oh No They Didn't!
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| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W review: the new $7 microcontroller is low cost, faster, and adds more RAM and Wi-Fi connectivity, but still uses micro USB — The RP2350 finally gets Wi-Fi! … It is fair to say that the Raspberry Pi Pico disrupted the maker community in 2021.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Intel, the biggest recipient of CHIPS Act money, could get less than $8B, after its Ohio plant delays; the US announced $8.5B for Intel earlier in 2024 — The Biden administration is reducing its award to the pioneering chip maker to less than $8 billion, from $8.5 billion.
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| Peter Chapman / Bloomberg: |
The EU says Corning offered commitments in a bid to settle an antitrust probe over alleged exclusive Gorilla Glass deals, including waiving exclusive clauses — - EU feared deals for smartphone glass were anti-competitive — US firm could avoid hefty fines if remedies are accepted
More: European Commission, The Verge, TechCrunch, and Reuters
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Nvidia unveils Fugatto, an AI model for generating music and audio that can also modify voices, trained on open-source data, and weighs whether to release it — Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Monday showed a new artificial intelligence model for generating music and audio that can modify voices …
More: Engadget, NVIDIA, Digital Trends, and NewsBytes
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Appcharge, which helps game developers build websites to sell gaming currencies and other virtual goods, raised $26M at a $100M valuation — As Apple and Google continue to battle with regulators and publishers over whether their app stores are monopolistic …
More: GamesIndustry.biz and PocketGamer.biz
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
PlayAI, which uses AI to clone voices for $49 or $99 per month and recently rolled out AI agents, raised a $20M seed co-led by 500 Startups and Kindred Ventures — Back in 2016, Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel, an ex-WhatsApp engineer, thought it'd be neat to build a text-to-speech Chrome extension for Medium articles.
More: SiliconANGLE, Tech Funding News, and PlayAI Blog
| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
A skeptical look at the new AI scaling “laws”, including post-train duration and “inference time compute”, and why they may fail to predict AI model performance — Scaling laws ain't what they used to be — “If anything we are seeing the emergence of a new scaling law … | Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: |
Airbnb plans to let tenants in nearly 1,500 flats owned by Greystar in London to sublet homes on a part-time basis, expanding on a 2022 Greystar partnership — Concept aims to counter criticism that the platform contributes to housing crises in big tourist destinations
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