Journals

Charlie Savage / New York Times: An NSA letter to Sen. Ron Wyden reveals the agency buys logs related to Americans’ domestic internet activities from commercial data brokers without warrants  —  The disclosure comes amid congressional scrutiny and a Federal… Read More »An NSA letter to Sen. Ron Wyden reveals the agency buys logs related to Americans’ domestic internet activities from commercial data brokers without warrants (Charlie Savage/New York Times)

Sam Sabin / Axios: Bastille, which uses hardware sensors for wireless monitoring to stop espionage in offices, raised a $44M Series C led by Goldman Sachs’ venture arm  —  – Bessemer Venture Partners also participated in the round.  — Zartasha… Read More »Bastille, which uses hardware sensors for wireless monitoring to stop espionage in offices, raised a $44M Series C led by Goldman Sachs’ venture arm (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google’s web-based app development suite Project IDX adds an Android emulator, an iOS simulator, new project templates, and more  —  Project IDX, Google’s all-in-one web-based, AI-enhanced app development suite, is delivering on some of its early… Read More »Google’s web-based app development suite Project IDX adds an Android emulator, an iOS simulator, new project templates, and more (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Epic Games plans to launch its Epic Games Store on the iPhone in the EU in 2024, which will include its popular game Fortnite  —  Epic Games plans to bring its Epic Games Store to the… Read More »Epic Games plans to launch its Epic Games Store on the iPhone in the EU in 2024, which will include its popular game Fortnite (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Intel reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $15.4B vs. $15.15B est., Data Center and AI down 10% YoY to $4B, and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; INTC drops 5%+  —  – Intel issued an outlook… Read More »Intel reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $15.4B vs. $15.15B est., Data Center and AI down 10% YoY to $4B, and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; INTC drops 5%+ (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Chibuike Oguh / Reuters: IBM’s stock closes up 9.49%, at its highest level since June 2013, adding ~$20B to its market cap and up nearly 20% year-to-date, on strong AI services demand  —  IBM (IBM.N) shares jumped nearly 13% to… Read More »IBM’s stock closes up 9.49%, at its highest level since June 2013, adding ~$20B to its market cap and up nearly 20% year-to-date, on strong AI services demand (Chibuike Oguh/Reuters)

New York Times: A Cruise report finds its top executives’ adversarial approach toward regulators led to a cascade of events that ended with a suspension of its autonomous fleet  —  A report by a law firm about an October crash… Read More »A Cruise report finds its top executives’ adversarial approach toward regulators led to a cascade of events that ended with a suspension of its autonomous fleet (New York Times)

Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: The US plans to sell about $117M worth of Bitcoin seized from Ryan Farace, a convicted drug trafficker who operated on the Silk Road dark web marketplace  —  The United States has announced plans to sell… Read More »The US plans to sell about $117M worth of Bitcoin seized from Ryan Farace, a convicted drug trafficker who operated on the Silk Road dark web marketplace (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Filing: 23andMe says hackers started breaking into users’ accounts in April 2023 and continued through September; 23andMe became aware of the breach in October  —  In a data breach notification letter filed with regulators this weekend,… Read More »Filing: 23andMe says hackers started breaking into users’ accounts in April 2023 and continued through September; 23andMe became aware of the breach in October (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: OpenAI announces lower GPT-3.5 Turbo prices, a GPT-4 Turbo preview model to reduce cases of “laziness”, a new generation of embedding models, and more  —  OpenAI is always making slight adjustments to its models and pricing,… Read More »OpenAI announces lower GPT-3.5 Turbo prices, a GPT-4 Turbo preview model to reduce cases of “laziness”, a new generation of embedding models, and more (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)