Technology - Inxa.inSearch.cc

Technology

Grafana Labs, which makes the Grafana visualization tools, completes a primary and secondary transaction worth ~$270M at a $6B+ valuation, up from $3B in 2022 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Grafana Labs, which makes the Grafana visualizatio...

6 months ago 7 Add to circle

Sources and docs: sales reps say Google's targeting of teen minors goes beyond Meta; Google lets advertisers target an "unknown" group that skews toward teens (Catherine Perloff/Adweek)

Sources and docs: sales reps say Google's targetin...

6 months ago 11 Add to circle

PIP Labs, which is developing the blockchain Story Protocol to track IP usage, raised an $80M Series B led by a16z Crypto, sources say at a $2.25B valuation (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

PIP Labs, which is developing the blockchain Story...

6 months ago 7 Add to circle

Didi reports Q2 revenue up 4.1% YoY to ~$7.1B and ~196M net profit, after ride-hailing transactions hit a record, as Didi recovers from a $1.2B US fine in 2022 (Bloomberg)

Didi reports Q2 revenue up 4.1% YoY to ~$7.1B and ...

6 months ago 5 Add to circle

Samsung unveils a new Odyssey gaming monitor lineup that uses eye-tracking tech to convert 2D visuals into glasses-free 3D, set for release "within this year" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Samsung unveils a new Odyssey gaming monitor lineu...

6 months ago 7 Add to circle

WISPAP says Pakistan's internet speeds have dropped 30%-40% over the past few weeks; many in tech believe the government is testing an internet firewall (Zofeen T Ebrahim/The Guardian)

WISPAP says Pakistan's internet speeds have droppe...

6 months ago 9 Add to circle

The UK CMA closes its Google Play Store and Apple App Store investigation and expects to reconsider the case under a new digital rules regime, set for fall 2024 (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg)

The UK CMA closes its Google Play Store and Apple ...

6 months ago 6 Add to circle

Since 2023, Chinese investors, including Alibaba and Tencent, have valued 6+ China-based startups developing LLMs, dubbed "Little AI Dragons", at $1B+ each (Wall Street Journal)

Since 2023, Chinese investors, including Alibaba a...

6 months ago 7 Add to circle

Linux users say Microsoft's recent Windows patch leaves dual-boot devices unable to boot into Linux when Secure Boot is enforced; Microsoft hasn't commented (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Linux users say Microsoft's recent Windows patch l...

6 months ago 4 Add to circle

Chinese government data: China is unleashing billions in lending to tech startups using intellectual property as collateral, up 57% YoY to ~$58.8B in H1 2024 (Financial Times)

Chinese government data: China is unleashing billi...

6 months ago 5 Add to circle

Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to ~$12.5B, above ~$12.2B est., and a ~$715M net income, above ~$533M est., as its core smartphone business recovers (Bloomberg)

Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to ~$12.5B, a...

6 months ago 10 Add to circle

Google updates Gemini in Gmail to add a Polish feature to edit existing drafts, on top of Formalize and Elaborate, for Google One AI Premium and Workspace (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Google updates Gemini in Gmail to add a Polish fea...

6 months ago 6 Add to circle

MIT engineers’ new theory could improve the design and operation of wind farms

MIT engineers’ new theory could improve the design...

6 months ago 3 Add to circle

The UK's new rules to curb online payment scams, rolling out in October 2024, face backlash from the finance industry, including over a lack of time to adjust (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

The UK's new rules to curb online payment scams, r...

6 months ago 6 Add to circle

A look at Rockbridge, a Silicon Valley-backed right-wing donor group co-founded by JD Vance to influence US politics; docs and sources: its 2024 budget is ~$75M (Reuters)

A look at Rockbridge, a Silicon Valley-backed righ...

6 months ago 15 Add to circle

Following rivals' criticism, CrowdStrike President says no vendor could "technically" guarantee their software won't cause an incident like the July outage (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Following rivals' criticism, CrowdStrike President...

6 months ago 6 Add to circle

Engineering and matters of the heart

Engineering and matters of the heart

6 months ago 3 Add to circle

New York-based Trunk Tools, which provides automation tools to organize unstructured construction documentation, raised a $20M Series A led by Redpoint (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

New York-based Trunk Tools, which provides automat...

6 months ago 6 Add to circle

Microsoft releases three Phi-3.5 models designed for basic/fast reasoning and more, available for developers to download, use, and fine-tune on Hugging Face (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Microsoft releases three Phi-3.5 models designed f...

6 months ago 11 Add to circle

Sources: Walmart, JD.com's largest shareholder, is seeking to raise up to $3.74B by selling its stake in the Chinese e-commerce firm; JD falls 9%+ after hours (Amy Or/Bloomberg)

Sources: Walmart, JD.com's largest shareholder, is...

6 months ago 24 Add to circle

Shein sues Temu for copyright infringement, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets and masquerading "as a legitimate e-commerce 'marketplace'" (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

Shein sues Temu for copyright infringement, accusi...

6 months ago 15 Add to circle

Source: at the end of March, Bolt's annualized run rate was $28M in revenue and $7M in gross profit, making a funding round at a $14B valuation hard to believe (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

Source: at the end of March, Bolt's annualized run...

6 months ago 19 Add to circle

A US district judge in Texas strikes down the FTC's ban on worker noncompete agreements, due to start September 4, after her temporary block of the rule in July (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

A US district judge in Texas strikes down the FTC'...

6 months ago 16 Add to circle

In a Reddit AMA, CEO Patrick Spence said Sonos won't rerelease its old app, after testing showed that doing so "would make the problems worse, not better" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

In a Reddit AMA, CEO Patrick Spence said Sonos won...

6 months ago 17 Add to circle

Filing: chipmaker Microchip Technology says its servers were breached by an unauthorized party, causing its operations to run at "less than normal levels" (Nick Turner/Bloomberg)

Filing: chipmaker Microchip Technology says its se...

6 months ago 16 Add to circle

A US appeals court revives a class action suit by Google Chrome users who say Google collected personal info even if Chrome was not synced with a Google account (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

A US appeals court revives a class action suit by ...

6 months ago 18 Add to circle

Condé Nast makes a multiyear deal with OpenAI, letting ChatGPT and SearchGPT surface stories from The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, and Wired (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Condé Nast makes a multiyear deal with Open...

6 months ago 16 Add to circle

OpenAI launches fine-tuning for GPT-4o, which lets developers customize a version of the model with their own datasets to improve domain-specific performance (OpenAI)

OpenAI launches fine-tuning for GPT-4o, which lets...

6 months ago 19 Add to circle

Flight tracking site FlightAware, which claims 10M+ monthly users, reports a breach dating back to January 2021 that exposed names, SSNs, addresses, and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Flight tracking site FlightAware, which claims 10M...

6 months ago 16 Add to circle

Microsoft launches a single unified Microsoft Teams app that allows switching between work, personal, and education accounts on Windows and Mac (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft launches a single unified Microsoft Team...

6 months ago 19 Add to circle

Ofcom says it has 460+ people working on enforcing the Online Safety Act and plans to grow that by 20% to 550+ by March 2025, or 33% of its 1,500 total staff (Anna Gross/Financial Times)

Ofcom says it has 460+ people working on enforcing...

6 months ago 16 Add to circle

Writers and journalists Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sue Anthropic, saying it misused books of theirs and others to train Claude (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Writers and journalists Andrea Bartz, Charles Grae...

6 months ago 17 Add to circle

Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo is now giving 100K+ paid robotaxi rides every week in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, a few months after passing 50K+ (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo is now gi...

6 months ago 16 Add to circle

Letter to investors: Bolt is finalizing a $450M Series F valuing the startup at $14B but with harsh terms for existing investors; Ryan Breslow to return as CEO (Erin Woo/The Information)

Letter to investors: Bolt is finalizing a $450M Se...

6 months ago 22 Add to circle

Nvidia plans to let users link an Xbox account to its GeForce Now streaming service to enable automatic sign-in for supported games, starting on August 22 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Nvidia plans to let users link an Xbox account to ...

6 months ago 16 Add to circle

Virginia-based Defcon AI, which aims to use ML to improve US military logistics, raised a $44M seed led by Bessemer, and has earned $15M in government contracts (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch)

Virginia-based Defcon AI, which aims to use ML to ...

6 months ago 19 Add to circle

Qualcomm details its mid-range Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 SoC, based on TSMC's N4P, with up to 40% better GPU performance than the 7s Gen 2, shipping via Xiaomi first (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)

Qualcomm details its mid-range Snapdragon 7s Gen 3...

6 months ago 17 Add to circle

The UK CMA accepts Meta's changes to its ad rules to ensure Marketplace advertisers' data is not used to improve Marketplace, without having to opt in or out (Radhika Anilkumar/Reuters)

The UK CMA accepts Meta's changes to its ad rules ...

6 months ago 19 Add to circle

The AGs of 10 states join the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster; 39 states, plus DC, are now part of the lawsuit (Daniel Tencer/Music Business Worldwide)

The AGs of 10 states join the DOJ's antitrust laws...

6 months ago 19 Add to circle

PitchBook: seven banks' ~$13B loans to Elon Musk to buy X have been "hung" for two years, weighing on balance sheets, the worst buyout for banks since 2008-09 (Wall Street Journal)

PitchBook: seven banks' ~$13B loans to Elon Musk t...

6 months ago 23 Add to circle

Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese-made, Tencent-backed game, became Steam's fourth most popular title ever within hours of its launch with 1.4M+ concurrent players (Bloomberg)

Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese-made, Tencent-backed...

6 months ago 17 Add to circle

Updated antitrust complaint: the DOJ says Ticketmaster's push for nontransferable SafeTix tickets, rolled out in 2019, aimed to make using rival services harder (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

Updated antitrust complaint: the DOJ says Ticketma...

6 months ago 18 Add to circle

TSMC breaks ground on its €10B chip fab in Dresden, Germany, its first European plant; the EU approves Germany's ~€5B subsidy for the project (Kamil Kowalcze/Bloomberg)

TSMC breaks ground on its €10B chip fab in Dr...

6 months ago 16 Add to circle

US labor and environmental groups submit comments to the Commerce Department saying draft health and environmental assessments for new chip factories fall short (Justine Calma/The Verge)

US labor and environmental groups submit comments ...

6 months ago 16 Add to circle

Stephen Chamberlain, who faced the same charges as Mike Lynch over Autonomy's sale, died after a road accident, per his lawyer, days before Lynch went missing (Reuters)

Stephen Chamberlain, who faced the same charges as...

6 months ago 16 Add to circle

Q&A with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on AI, GitHub Copilot, letting developers test AI models in GitHub, open-source AI models, working within Microsoft, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on AI, GitHub Co...

6 months ago 18 Add to circle

Business groups including Asia Internet Coalition, which includes Amazon, Google, and Meta, criticize Hong Kong's new cyber rules, calling them "unprecedented" (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

Business groups including Asia Internet Coalition,...

6 months ago 19 Add to circle

Sources: Apple plans to make iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max in India for the first time as Foxconn rushes to produce the high-end models closer to the global debut (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple plans to make iPhone 16 Pro and Pro...

6 months ago 17 Add to circle

PhonePe and Google Pay accounted for over 85% share of 14.4B UPI transactions in July; PhonePe led with 5.9B transactions, Google Pay 5.3B, and Paytm 1.1B (Digbijay Mishra/The Economic Times)

PhonePe and Google Pay accounted for over 85% shar...

6 months ago 23 Add to circle

Cisco Talos: eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's macOS apps could be abused by attackers to record video/sound from a user's device, log user input, and more (Connor Jones/The Register)

Cisco Talos: eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's ...

6 months ago 17 Add to circle