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OpenSecrets: crypto companies spent $18.96M on US lobbying in Q1 2023 to Q3 2023, up from $16.1M during the same period in 2022; Coinbase...

Hannah Lang / Reuters: OpenSecrets: crypto companies spent $18.96M on US lobbying in Q1 2023 to Q3 2023, up from $16.1M during the...

Amazon fails to renew its live English Premier League rights deal, as part of Sky and TNT's new £6.7B TV rights deal for four...

Jake Kanter / Deadline: Amazon fails to renew its live English Premier League rights deal, as part of Sky and TNT's new £6.7B...

SoftBank acquires a 51% stake in Dublin-based Cubic Telecom, which offers software-based networking for 17M+ vehicles, for €473M, valuing Cubic at €927M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: SoftBank acquires a 51% stake in Dublin-based Cubic Telecom, which offers software-based networking for 17M+ vehicles, for €473M, valuing...

The conversational nature of AI chatbots makes them more trustworthy, which could result in problems including "hidden exploitation" and outright fraud (Bruce Schneier/Schneier on...

Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security: The conversational nature of AI chatbots makes them more trustworthy, which could result in problems including “hidden...

An analysis of 36GB of US school network logs covering January 2022 to August 2023 finds widespread use of filters to censor the internet,...

Wired: An analysis of 36GB of US school network logs covering January 2022 to August 2023 finds widespread use of filters to censor...

Sources: cloud-based call center software maker Five9 is exploring a sale and held talks with Zoom; Zoom's $14.7B takeover of Five9 fell apart in...

Bloomberg: Sources: cloud-based call center software maker Five9 is exploring a sale and held talks with Zoom; Zoom's $14.7B takeover of Five9 fell...

Apptopia: Threads hit 620K daily Android and iOS downloads on November 23, vs. ~350K in early November; since September, X saw 27M downloads, vs....

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apptopia: Threads hit 620K daily Android and iOS downloads on November 23, vs. ~350K in early November; since September,...

Meta, IBM, and 50+ other companies and organizations form AI Alliance, a coalition dedicated to work on open source AI including to share tech...

Alexandra Barinka / Bloomberg: Meta, IBM, and 50+ other companies and organizations form AI Alliance, a coalition dedicated to work on open source...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to build a network of chip plants in Japan in partnership with the country's companies to...

Yoshiaki Nohara / Bloomberg: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to build a network of chip plants in Japan in partnership...

Google upgrades Gmail's spam filters with RETVec, a text vectorizer that understands "adversarial text manipulations" like emojis, typos, and special characters (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google upgrades Gmail's spam filters with RETVec, a text vectorizer that understands “adversarial text manipulations” like emojis, typos,...

ArmorCode, which consolidates vulnerability data from connected apps and software infrastructure for analysis, raised a $40M Series B led by HighlandX (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: ArmorCode, which consolidates vulnerability data from connected apps and software infrastructure for analysis, raised a $40M Series B led...

Ted Sarandos says Netflix didn't see significant "interruption" due to Hollywood strikes and is still targeting a $17B content budget for 2024 (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Ted Sarandos says Netflix didn't see significant “interruption” due to Hollywood strikes and is still targeting a $17B content...

Ofcom launches a consultation on draft guidelines on how porn sites should lock out underage users, including having a bank or mobile network confirm...

Jon Porter / The Verge: Ofcom launches a consultation on draft guidelines on how porn sites should lock out underage users, including having...

Rockstar releases the first trailer of Grand Theft Auto VI, set in Miami, and says the game will be released in 2025 (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Rockstar releases the first trailer of Grand Theft Auto VI, set in Miami, and says the game will be...

A US appeals court throws out VLSI Technology's $2.18B award won from Intel in a 2021 patent-infringement case, leading to a new trial for...

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court throws out VLSI Technology's $2.18B award won from Intel in a 2021 patent-infringement case, leading...

Meta says cross-app chatting between Messenger and Instagram will be discontinued in "mid-December 2023", three years after it announced the feature (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Meta says cross-app chatting between Messenger and Instagram will be discontinued in “mid-December 2023”, three years after it announced...

Sources: Mistral AI is in the final stages of raising €450M in a round valuing the OpenAI rival around $2B; a16z is in talks...

Bloomberg: Sources: Mistral AI is in the final stages of raising €450M in a round valuing the OpenAI rival around $2B; a16z is...

A look at Osaka-based Fuso Chemical, which supplies 90%+ of the silica to polish wafers, sinking deeper into debt by refusing to raise its...

Bloomberg: A look at Osaka-based Fuso Chemical, which supplies 90%+ of the silica to polish wafers, sinking deeper into debt by refusing to...

23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in October 2023, by leveraging access...

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: 23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in...

Researchers scanned public repos and found 1,681 exposed Hugging Face API tokens belonging to Meta, Microsoft, Google, and others, many with write permissions (Louis...

Louis Columbus / VentureBeat: Researchers scanned public repos and found 1,681 exposed Hugging Face API tokens belonging to Meta, Microsoft, Google, and others,...
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