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November 25, 2024, 6:55 PM
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
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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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 …
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
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.
David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Elon Musk appears to confirm that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X, saying it is to stop “lazy linking”  —  Elon Musk confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X in a revelation that renews criticism that the platform …
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.
Washington Post:
The US DOJ and Google made their closing arguments in the ad-market antitrust case before Judge Leonie Brinkema, who expressed some skepticism toward both sides  —  Federal prosecutors say Google's dominance of online advertising illegally hurts consumers and small businesses, while the company says it earned its place by being better.
James Hunt / The Block:
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.
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 …
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 …
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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Washington Post:
How NewsGuard, which attained “sustainable profitability” six years after its launch, became a prime target of the GOP's battle against disinformation watchdogs

BBC:
The BBC says Gavin & Stacey: The Finale topped UK Christmas Day overnight ratings with 12.3M viewers, and its shows were the top 10 most-watched of the day

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
Newsweek says its “fairness meter”, added in Oct. 2023 to let readers decide if an article is biased based on five potential choices, has gotten strong support

More News

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
N-able, which sells software for managed service providers and spun off from SolarWinds in 2021, acquires DC-based cybersecurity company Adlumin in a $266M deal
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
Austin-based anti-ransomware startup Halcyon raised $100M at a $1B valuation led by Evolution Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to date to $190M

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
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
Brendan Greeley / Financial Times:
A bitcoin reserve is a resilience strategy for the “hodlers”, not the US state, as a long-term bet on bitcoin is bullish on a permanent institutional collapse
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
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