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Sources: Sony is in the early stages of developing a portable console to play PS5 games, building on the PlayStation Portal, although its launch is years away — - Nintendo's Switch has dominated mobile console space for years — Rival Microsoft is also developing portable gaming prototypes
More: Tom's Hardware, PCMag, The Sun, TechSpot, Engadget, Game Developer, The Verge, GamesIndustry.biz, Cybernews.com, TechRaptor, Gematsu, TechRadar, iPhone in Canada Blog, Kotaku, PlayStation LifeStyle, GreenBot, Pure Xbox, Metro.co.uk, WinBuzzer, Tom's Guide, IGN, Press Start, TheGamer, KitGuru, Comic Book, Neowin, Dexerto, Gameranx, Wccftech, Push Square, The Shortcut, Android Authority, Screen Rant, GamingBolt, Eurogamer.net, Oh No They Didn't!, Video Games Chronicle, Notebookcheck, Digital Trends, and CNET
Forums: r/PS5, r/hardware, r/gaming, r/kindafunny, r/technology, and r/playstation
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on Apple TV's history and future; sources: Apple postponed a larger-than-usual number of iOS 19 features to spring 2026, when iOS 19.4 is set to debut — Apple doesn't need its own TV set. But it should make a low-cost TV streaming stick to bring its content, apps and smart home features to more households.
More: Daily Mail, Android Headlines, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Wccftech, TechRadar, BGR, Mashable, MacRumors, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, Supercharged, How-To Geek, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors
Threads: @markgurman, @richardlawler, @film_girl, @anildash, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Mastodon: @lapcatsoftware@mastodon … and @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …
X: @scobleizer, @markgurman, @stevesi, @munster_gene, @stevesi, @vadimyuryev, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @theapplehub
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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
| New York Times: |
Sources: Intel, the biggest recipient of CHIPS Act money, will see its funding drop to less than $8B from the $8.5B that the US announced earlier in 2024 — The Biden administration is reducing its award to the pioneering chip maker to less than $8 billion, from $8.5 billion.
More: Computerworld, Reuters, Politico, Oregonian, Benzinga, The Straits Times, Mobile World Live, and Political Wire. Forums: r/hardware
| 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?
More: Forbes and Freddie deBoer
| 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 … | James Hunt / The Block: |
MicroStrategy bought 55,580 bitcoin for ~$5.4B 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.
More: MicroStrategy, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinGape, and Crypto Briefing. X: @saylor
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Italian PE firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video platform Brightcove private in a $233M deal; Brightcove, founded in 2004, makes monetization tools — Brightcove, a cloud platform that helps businesses manage and monetize video content, is being taken private by Italian technology …
More: Brightcove Inc.
| Brendan Greeley / Financial Times: |
A bitcoin strategic reserve is a resilience strategy for the “hodlers”, not the US state, as a bet on bitcoin is bullish on permanent institutional collapse — It is a resilience strategy for the ‘hodlers’, not the US state — In July, Cynthia Lummis, a US senator from Wyoming …
More: Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, and Cryptopolitan
Forums: r/politics, r/Foodforthought, r/TrueReddit, and r/economy
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Sources: in the past year, Cantor Fitzgerald agreed to invest as much as $600M in Tether for a ~5% stake; Cantor holds most of Tether's $134B in assets — Before becoming Trump's commerce secretary pick, Lutnick deepened Cantor's ties with a stablecoin firm under investigation
More: Inside Bitcoins, Coinspeaker, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Insider, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Information, Cryptopolitan, Cryptonews, crypto.news, Yahoo Finance, Crypto Briefing, and Cointelegraph
X: @ryanrodenbaugh, @ccatalini, @ccatalini, @ccatalini, @ccatalini, @silvermanjacob, and @waynevaughan. LinkedIn: Ben Foldy
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: Marc Andreessen, Travis Kalanick, and more are involved in the Department of Government Efficiency; Andreessen is acting as a networker for recruitment — The Tesla executive and the former presidential candidate are meeting with staff and interviewing experts as they plan for massive federal cuts.
More: New York Times and Mercury News
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X: @faizsays, @jstein_wapo, and @lizzadwoskin
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
PlayAI, which uses AI to clone voices for $49 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.| 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
More: Reuters and The Indian Express
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