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Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default feed, another improvement seemingly sparked by Bluesky competition — Threads will now let users decide what feed they want as their default when opening the app. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced …
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| 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| 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.| The Information: |
Sources: the prototypes of the thin iPhone are between 5 and 6 millimeters thick, and may be too thin for a physical SIM, which could dampen China sales — Apple's desire to make its products thinner could dampen sales in China if its engineers can't overcome a design hurdle …
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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.| 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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| 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 …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic announces the Model Context Protocol, an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources — Anthropic is proposing a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives. — Called the Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds the ability for users to share their locations with friends via DMs for up to one hour, in select countries — Instagram is introducing the ability for users to share their locations with their friends via DMs (direct messages), the company announced on Monday.| 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, Reuters, and TechCrunch
| 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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| 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.
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