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YouTube Music tests “AI-generated conversational radio”, which lets Premium users in the US create a custom radio station by “describing exactly what they want” — YouTube Music today is making official sound search, while acknowledging that it's testing the … | Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY: |
Kaspersky plans to close its US business and eliminate US-based positions, following the country's ban on the sale of its antivirus tool starting July 20 — Russian cybersecurity firm, Kaspersky Lab, has told workers in its U.S.-based division that they are being laid off this week … | Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
A look at the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series, its AI PC chip family for laptops, and the Ryzen 9000 series for desktops, both built on the new Zen 5 CPU architecture — Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's opening keynote.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Source: Sequoia emailed LPs in funds raised between 2009 and 2011, offering to buy up to $861M of Stripe shares at $27.51 per share, valuing Stripe at $70B — - The purchasers would be other, more recent Sequoia Capital funds — a process partially enabled by the firm's 2021 restructuring.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Researchers: hackers have exploited a Squarespace flaw to hijack domains, apparently mostly from crypto businesses, that were migrated from Google Domains — At least a dozen organizations with domain names at domain registrar Squarespace saw their websites hijacked last week.| Bloomberg: |
IDC and Counterpoint say the global smartphone market grew 6.5% and 6%, respectively, in Q2 2024, helped by China's 618 event discounts; iPhone sales stabilized — - Apple's iPhone sales stabilized after a tough first quarter — Key China market accelerated its growth in the summer
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| Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon and T-Mobile US push back on AT&T asking regulators to give FirstNet more wireless frequencies for emergency responders, calling the idea a ~$14B gift — AT&T says a wireless spectrum boost could help local agencies do more; Verizon calls proposal a $14 billion giveaway| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
An interview with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, who presides over the company's $17B content budget, on catering to different tastes and more — She presides over a $17bn budget and is looking for local hits with global potential — Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief hitmaker … | Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
ASML-funded Eindhoven University faces questions from the US about admitting Chinese students, as the US increasingly seeks to stem China's chipmaking efforts — - Eindhoven University of Technology is near ASML's hometown — US ambassador questioned why it has so many Chinese students| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz, founded in 2020, and its four co-founders, as Alphabet prepares a $23B deal; a source says each owns ~9% of Wiz — Cloud cybersecurity company founded by a group of ex-Israeli military officers is close to landing the tech industry's biggest exit in years| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Kindo, which helps enterprises securely adopt and manage AI tools, raised $20.6M led by Drive Capital, and buys open-source security project WhiteRabbitNeo — Kindo, an enterprise AI security platform, has raised $20.6 million in funding and it also acquired open-source security project WhiteRabbitNeo.
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple's India revenue rose ~33% YoY to almost $8B from March 2023 to March 2024, and up from $4.1B the year before; pricey iPhones were 50%+ of sales — - Sales jump shows Apple is succeeding in winning users in India — Apple wants to challenge Android's dominance in the country
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