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Memo: Amazon employees have found there is too much of a delay between asking a question to the new AI-based Alexa and getting a response or completing a task (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)

Memo: Amazon employees have found there is too muc...

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Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia from about $10M to almost $100M, in a bid to persuade the government to lift its iPhone 16 sales ban (Faris Mokhtar/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in I...

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The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications between congressional offices and library staff between January and September 2024 (NBC News)

The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed s...

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Internal document: Amazon has held talks with several partners for handling specific tasks on the AI-powered Alexa, including Uber, Ticketmaster, and Instacart (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)

Internal document: Amazon has held talks with seve...

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In the Fifth Circuit, Amazon and SpaceX argued the NLRB, which recently ruled against them, is unconstitutional; the judges questioned their arbitrary deadlines (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

In the Fifth Circuit, Amazon and SpaceX argued the...

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Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro users in the US, alongside a merchant program (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering prod...

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Sources: DOJ antitrust officials have decided to, along with states' AGs, ask a judge to force Google to spin off Chrome and impose data licensing requirements (Bloomberg)

Sources: DOJ antitrust officials have decided to, ...

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Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns of Russian sabotage (CNN)

Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuan...

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Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in India, plans to replace its app store there with one from PhonePe in January, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in In...

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Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group is nearing an all-share purchase of Intercontinental Exchange's crypto trading platform Bakkt; DJT closed up 16.65% (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)

Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group is neari...

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A look at emails between Musk and Altman from the early days of OpenAI, discussing its partnership with Microsoft, fundraising, employee compensation, AGI, more (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

A look at emails between Musk and Altman from the ...

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Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for in-line editing, more to its Le Chat chatbot, and unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B-parameter multimodal model (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas ...

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Telegram updates "mini-apps" to be able to run full screen and be pinned to homescreens; devs can now add subscription plans, a "gift" sending feature, and more (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

Telegram updates "mini-apps" to be able to run ful...

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Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan, who helped launder the 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds, is sentenced to 18 months in prison; her husband recently got a 5-year sentence (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan, who helped launder th...

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Jorge Martin's MotoGP Championship Is The First For An Independent Rider In 24 Years

Jorge Martin's MotoGP Championship Is The First Fo...

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Racing-Inspired Hyundai Elantra N TCR Edition Has A Huge Swan-Neck Rear Wing

Racing-Inspired Hyundai Elantra N TCR Edition Has ...

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RIP Roadkill

RIP Roadkill

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Source: Google is working on a multi-year project to fully migrate Chrome OS to Android, to better compete with the iPad (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

Source: Google is working on a multi-year project ...

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Brendan Carr claims Big Tech "worked with marketing, ad, & 'fact checkers' to punish free speech outlets" and asks tech leaders about NewsGuard partnerships (Rob Pegoraro/PCMag)

Brendan Carr claims Big Tech "worked with marketin...

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China Unveils New Space Shuttle That Totally Doesn't Look Familiar At All

China Unveils New Space Shuttle That Totally Doesn...

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Brendan Carr says Big Tech "worked with marketing, ad, & 'fact checkers' to punish free speech outlets" and asks tech leaders for NewsGuard partnership details (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)

Brendan Carr says Big Tech "worked with marketing,...

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The WRC Hybrid Era Is Over Way Too Soon

The WRC Hybrid Era Is Over Way Too Soon

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After Hertz Workers Abandon Their Location, Customers Show Up And Take Whatever Rental Cars They Want

After Hertz Workers Abandon Their Location, Custom...

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Musk asked X users to try "submitting x-ray, PET, MRI or other medical images to Grok for analysis" weeks ago; many have, and HIPAA protections may not apply (Elizabeth Passarella/New York Times)

Musk asked X users to try "submitting x-ray, PET, ...

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You Shouldn't Power An E-Bike With Disposable Vape Batteries, But Companies Probably Should

You Shouldn't Power An E-Bike With Disposable Vape...

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Buy This Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Shooting Brake, Or You'll Never Know True Happiness

Buy This Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Shooting Bra...

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Plane Crash At Drag Strip Interrupts NHRA Finals

Plane Crash At Drag Strip Interrupts NHRA Finals

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Jake Paul Used An Icon Of The ’90s Custom Truck Scene In His Mike Tyson Fight Entrance

Jake Paul Used An Icon Of The ’90s Custom Truck Sc...

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Goldman Sachs says it is reaching out to potential partners about plans to spin out its digital-assets platform within 12 to 18 months (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)

Goldman Sachs says it is reaching out to potential...

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India fines Meta ~$25M and imposes new data rules, over antitrust issues from 2021 when it removed a way to opt out of sharing WhatsApp data with Meta companies (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

India fines Meta ~$25M and imposes new data rules,...

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Diabetic Racer Tapes Starlink To His Helmet So He Could Facetime With His Mother During The Baja 1000

Diabetic Racer Tapes Starlink To His Helmet So He ...

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Rats Love Revving Engines Say Scientists Who Taught Them To Drive Tiny Cars

Rats Love Revving Engines Say Scientists Who Taugh...

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TikToker Turns The O’Reilly Auto Parts Jingle Into Something Beautiful

TikToker Turns The O’Reilly Auto Parts Jingle Into...

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Riding A Motorcycle Cuts Travel Time Through Notorious Los Angeles Traffic Nearly in Half

Riding A Motorcycle Cuts Travel Time Through Notor...

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Aston Martin Valkyrie GTP Performing About As Well As Its Last Prototype

Aston Martin Valkyrie GTP Performing About As Well...

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News influencers survey: 20% of US adults say they get news from social media influencers, 85% of influencers are on X and 27% identify as right-wing, and more (Pew Research Center)

News influencers survey: 20% of US adults say they...

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Low Cost Spirit Airlines Files For Bankruptcy, Promises All Tickets Remain Valid

Low Cost Spirit Airlines Files For Bankruptcy, Pro...

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What Are Your Worst Mechanic Stories?

What Are Your Worst Mechanic Stories?

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Trump Does Tesla A Favor, Plans To Make It Easier For Self-Driving Cars To Hit The Road

Trump Does Tesla A Favor, Plans To Make It Easier ...

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Australian Company Wants EV Owners To Volunteer Their Cars As Generators When Natural Disasters Hit

Australian Company Wants EV Owners To Volunteer Th...

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Traffic Jams: The Avalanches - 'Because I'm Me'

Traffic Jams: The Avalanches - 'Because I'm Me'

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Check Your Engine Bay For Giant Snakes

Check Your Engine Bay For Giant Snakes

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MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds $29B in bitcoin (Dave Liedtka/Bloomberg)

MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B be...

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A Rope And A Milk Carton Make The Only Fake EV Sound You Need

A Rope And A Milk Carton Make The Only Fake EV Sou...

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At $3,600, Will This 1985 Volvo 245DL Go The Distance?

At $3,600, Will This 1985 Volvo 245DL Go The Dista...

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PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of shares back to investors, the lowest amount since 2011, and invested $60B more than they collected, a record (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of ...

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Roblox rolls out parental controls and gatekeeping features, like letting parents link accounts with a child and banning text chat for under 13s outside games (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)

Roblox rolls out parental controls and gatekeeping...

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Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt begins an early trial of its digital wallet in Belgium to help deliver social services to 7M citizens, as he worries over AI's rise (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt begins an early trial of ...

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How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to buy it in April 2023 (New York Times)

How Substack is betting on politics content and re...

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Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$12.8B, above ~$12.4B est., and a ~$738.5M net income, above ~$653M est., buoyed by growing smartphone and EV sales (Bloomberg)

Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$12.8B, a...

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