Mark Banchereau / Associated Press: Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in 19 African countries from September 2 to October 31 to clamp down on cybercrime that left 35,000 victims with $193M losses — Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in Africa during a two-month operation clamping down on cybercrime that left tens of thousands of victims …
Published: 2024-11-26 13:40:12
Bloomberg: OpenAI, Meta, and Orange plan to train AI models on African languages, starting with Wolof and Pulaar, addressing a shortage for Africa's thousands of dialects — - Firms will start with West African languages Wolof and Pulaar — Orange seeks to develop AI tools for customer interactions
Published: 2024-11-26 12:45:04
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Bluesky says it is working to comply with EU rules and is consulting with its lawyers, after the bloc accused the social network of flouting its regulations — Bluesky said it's working to comply with European Union rules after the bloc accused the fast-growing social media platform of flouting its digital regulations.
Published: 2024-11-26 12:20:00
Adam Satariano / New York Times: An interview with Margrethe Vestager, the EU's tech antitrust enforcer since 2014, on her “partly successful” tenure, US collaboration, Trump, the DSA, and more — Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's antitrust regulator, who put technology's harms on the global agenda …
Published: 2024-11-26 11:25:01
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Cradle, which uses AI to help design proteins and says its SaaS model has proven popular, raised a $73M Series B led by IVP, after a $24M Series A in 2023 — Using AI to accelerate biotech is fast becoming standard practice, and companies offering services to deploy the tech quickly are seeing big uptake and new investment.
Published: 2024-11-26 11:05:12
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Google proposes Search tweaks in Europe to comply with the DMA, including removing the map showing hotel locations and results in Germany, Belgium, and Estonia — Google has proposed more changes to its search results in Europe after some smaller rivals complained about lower traffic …
Published: 2024-11-26 10:45:04
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani on running the company since 2019, competing with social media, Squarespace, Wix, and more, AI, the Airo platform, and more — Despite everything, websites are still a pretty neat idea — but what if AI builds them?
Published: 2024-11-26 10:30:02
Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal: The US awards Intel up to $7.865B under the CHIPS Act to help build or expand chip plants in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, and Oregon, including $1B+ later in 2024 — Government grant is less than originally expected because the chip giant is also receiving separate funding for defense
Published: 2024-11-26 10:15:02
New York Times: Huawei unveils the $760+ Mate 70 series, powered by its HarmonyOS Next, calling the flagship device the “smartest” Mate phone, as it faces US chip curbs — Last year, a chip breakthrough put Huawei on top of the Chinese smartphone market. Now it is rolling out its newest phone, the Mate 70 series.
Published: 2024-11-26 09:55:00
Bill Donahue / Billboard: Drake launches legal action against UMG and Spotify for allegedly using bots, payola, and more to inflate Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us, a track attacking Drake — In a legal petition, the star's company accuses UMG of serious wrongdoing — a stunning twist months after his high-profile feud with Kendrick.
Published: 2024-11-26 09:10:01
Bloomberg: Sources: Xiaomi prepares its own mobile chip for its smartphones, to reduce reliance on Qualcomm and MediaTek, with mass production expected to begin in 2025 — - Chinese firm is said to use in-house chips on 2025 phones — Xiaomi's smartphone, EV businesses needs steady chip supply
Published: 2024-11-26 06:50:00
Financial Times: Sources: Apple held talks with local tech firms to help power Apple Intelligence in China; a CAC official says approval will be difficult without local partners — Official at top regulator says path to approval will be easier if US tech group finds local partners
Published: 2024-11-26 06:00:38
Reuters: A Japanese government source says Japan's FTC raided Amazon Japan on November 26 over allegations of inappropriately urging sellers to lower prices on Amazon — Japan's Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday conducted an on-site inspection of Amazon Japan on suspicion of violating anti-monopoly laws, a government source said.
Published: 2024-11-26 05:50:01
Bloomberg: Sources: Qualcomm's interest in an Intel acquisition has cooled; CEO Cristiano Amon says “right now, at this time, we have not identified any large acquisition” — - A deal would likely have been one of the largest ever in tech — Qualcomm “hasn't identified large acquisition,” CEO said
Published: 2024-11-26 03:20:02
Casey Newton / Platformer: A look at Bluesky's moderation efforts as its growth surges; Bluesky plans to quadruple the size of its contract workforce of content moderators from 25 to 100 — This article includes references to child sexual abuse material (CSAM). — Aaron Rodericks didn't know what he was looking at.
Published: 2024-11-26 02:15:06