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Australia's Senate votes to pass a social media ban for children under 16, brushing aside lawmaker concerns on both sides; tech companies could be fined A$50M (Ben Westcott/Bloomberg)

Australia's Senate votes to pass a social media ba...

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Cloud backup startup Eon raised $70M led by BOND at a $1.4B valuation, taking its total funding to $200M since its January 2024 founding by AWS alumni (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Cloud backup startup Eon raised $70M led by BOND a...

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Reddit COO Jen Wong says ~50% of current users are located outside the US, and the company is developing new search tools to simplify navigation on Reddit (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Reddit COO Jen Wong says ~50% of current users are...

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Alibaba releases QwQ-32B-Preview under an Apache 2.0 license and claims the "reasoning" AI model beats OpenAI's o1 models on the AIME and MATH tests (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Alibaba releases QwQ-32B-Preview under an Apache 2...

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Call center workers in the Philippines, where an estimated 86% of white-collar workers already use AI, say generative AI tools have made work more demanding (Michael Beltran/Rest of World)

Call center workers in the Philippines, where an e...

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Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr's censorial agenda, which is couched in the language of free speech, may be the biggest threat to the 1A in quite a long time (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr's censorial age...

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Ofcom: Reddit was visited by 22.9M UK adults in May 2024, up 47% YoY, making it the fifth most popular social media platform in the UK, surpassing X at 22.1M (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

Ofcom: Reddit was visited by 22.9M UK adults in Ma...

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Ofcom: adults in the UK are now spending an average of 4 hours and 20 minutes daily online across devices, a jump from 3 hours and 41 minutes in 2023 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ofcom: adults in the UK are now spending an averag...

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DefiLlama: the total market cap for stablecoins has risen 46% in 2024 to a record ~$190B, regaining ground lost after TerraUSD's infamous collapse in 2022 (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

DefiLlama: the total market cap for stablecoins ha...

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The US FTC finalizes amendments to its Telemarketing Sales Rule, letting the agency pursue scam tech support companies even when consumers initiate the calls (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

The US FTC finalizes amendments to its Telemarketi...

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Source: Amazon's new generative AI model, codenamed Olympus, can process images, video, and text, and could be unveiled at next week's AWS re:Invent (The Information)

Source: Amazon's new generative AI model, codename...

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Young founders and coders applying for Elon Musk's DOGE cite a range of professional and civic motivations; sources: DOGE is seeking 100 full-time hires in DC (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

Young founders and coders applying for Elon Musk's...

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Mark Zuckerberg met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27; sources: Zuckerberg, who has had a strained relationship with Trump, initiated the meeting (New York Times)

Mark Zuckerberg met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lag...

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Microsoft says a feature to let US users play and buy Xbox games from the Xbox app on Android is "ready to go live as soon as the court makes a final decision" (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Microsoft says a feature to let US users play and ...

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Filing: Intel's $7.86B US government subsidy requires the company to own at least 50.1% of Intel Foundry if the unit is split into a new privately held entity (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Filing: Intel's $7.86B US government subsidy requi...

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On Joe Rogan's podcast, Marc Andreessen criticizes the "raw administrative power" of US agencies like the CFPB, SEC, and FTC, discusses Elon Musk and DOGE, more (Ana Altchek/Business Insider)

On Joe Rogan's podcast, Marc Andreessen criticizes...

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Filing: Zoom offers $18M to settle an SEC probe from 2020 over the company's privacy policies and communications, as its popularity surged during the pandemic (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Filing: Zoom offers $18M to settle an SEC probe fr...

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Romania's regulator calls for TikTok's suspension after an ultranationalist's shock first-round win fueled by viral TikTok videos, amid vote interference fears (Jon Henley/The Guardian)

Romania's regulator calls for TikTok's suspension ...

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