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A look at Intel’s mistakes during Brian Krzanich’s CEO tenure, and Pat Gelsinger’s attempt to turn Intel into a foundry for chip developers, partnering with UMC (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

    Ben Thompson / Stratechery: A look at Intel’s mistakes during Brian Krzanich’s CEO tenure, and Pat Gelsinger’s attempt to turn Intel into a foundry for chip developers, partnering with UMC  —  There are time when being a semiconductor CEO is… Read More »A look at Intel’s mistakes during Brian Krzanich’s CEO tenure, and Pat Gelsinger’s attempt to turn Intel into a foundry for chip developers, partnering with UMC (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

    Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 staffers, amid industry-wide cutbacks (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)

      Mark Stenberg / Adweek: Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 staffers, amid industry-wide cutbacks  —  The Yahoo-owned publisher first launched TC+ in 2019  —  Technology publisher… Read More »Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 staffers, amid industry-wide cutbacks (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)

      German police seize nearly 50K bitcoin, worth ~$2.17B, from two suspects who allegedly acquired the bitcoin with profits from an illegal file-sharing platform (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)

        Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: German police seize nearly 50K bitcoin, worth ~$2.17B, from two suspects who allegedly acquired the bitcoin with profits from an illegal file-sharing platform  —  German prosecutors provisionally seized nearly 50,000 Bitcoin worth about $2.1 billion as… Read More »German police seize nearly 50K bitcoin, worth ~$2.17B, from two suspects who allegedly acquired the bitcoin with profits from an illegal file-sharing platform (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)

        Sources: by the end of 2022, <10% of Instagram teens had parental supervision settings on, showing barriers for parents like limited understanding of the tools (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

          Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Sources: by the end of 2022, <10% of Instagram teens had parental supervision settings on, showing barriers for parents like limited understanding of the tools  —  Inside the company, kids safety experts have long raised… Read More »Sources: by the end of 2022, <10% of Instagram teens had parental supervision settings on, showing barriers for parents like limited understanding of the tools (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

          Apple Vision Pro review: marvelous display, great hand and eye tracking, and works seamlessly in the ecosystem, but pricey and video passthrough can be blurry (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

            Nilay Patel / The Verge: Apple Vision Pro review: marvelous display, great hand and eye tracking, and works seamlessly in the ecosystem, but pricey and video passthrough can be blurry  —  The Apple Vision Pro is the best consumer headset… Read More »Apple Vision Pro review: marvelous display, great hand and eye tracking, and works seamlessly in the ecosystem, but pricey and video passthrough can be blurry (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

            Sources: Binance has bowed to pressure from customers to let them store assets with an independent custodian, highlighting growing unease after the US fines (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

              Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: Sources: Binance has bowed to pressure from customers to let them store assets with an independent custodian, highlighting growing unease after the US fines  —  Customers switch trading collateral to independent banks including Switzerland’s Sygnum… Read More »Sources: Binance has bowed to pressure from customers to let them store assets with an independent custodian, highlighting growing unease after the US fines (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

              Sources and documents: TikTok managers sometimes tell Project Texas staff to send data, including email and IP, to ByteDance without going via official channels (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

                Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: Sources and documents: TikTok managers sometimes tell Project Texas staff to send data, including email and IP, to ByteDance without going via official channels  —  Popular video-sharing app said it had walled off American… Read More »Sources and documents: TikTok managers sometimes tell Project Texas staff to send data, including email and IP, to ByteDance without going via official channels (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

                Kore.ai, which offers enterprise-focused conversational AI and GenAI tools, raised $150M led by FTV Capital, Nvidia, and others, taking its funding to ~$223M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

                  Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Kore.ai, which offers enterprise-focused conversational AI and GenAI tools, raised $150M led by FTV Capital, Nvidia, and others, taking its funding to ~$223M  —  In the midst of a wave of tech industry layoffs, it’s heartening… Read More »Kore.ai, which offers enterprise-focused conversational AI and GenAI tools, raised $150M led by FTV Capital, Nvidia, and others, taking its funding to ~$223M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

                  Portal, a startup building a BTC-based cross-chain decentralized exchange and wallet, raised a $34M seed from Coinbase and others, taking its funding to $42.5M (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

                    Yogita Khatri / The Block: Portal, a startup building a BTC-based cross-chain decentralized exchange and wallet, raised a $34M seed from Coinbase and others, taking its funding to $42.5M  —  – Portal has raised $34 million in a seed funding… Read More »Portal, a startup building a BTC-based cross-chain decentralized exchange and wallet, raised a $34M seed from Coinbase and others, taking its funding to $42.5M (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

                    Microsoft Edge imported open Chrome tabs after a Windows update despite Edge’s import tool being disabled; Windows users have reported the behavior for months (Tom Warren/The Verge)

                      Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft Edge imported open Chrome tabs after a Windows update despite Edge’s import tool being disabled; Windows users have reported the behavior for months  —  Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows… Read More »Microsoft Edge imported open Chrome tabs after a Windows update despite Edge’s import tool being disabled; Windows users have reported the behavior for months (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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