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Infotech Headlines Today
[Thu-21-Nov-2024]

Updated: 3 hours ago

10 Most Impactful PAM Use Cases for Enhancing Organizational Security - Hackers News

5 Galaxy Watch apps that help me stay on top of my workday - Pocket Lint

5 Scattered Spider Gang Members Indicted in Multi-Million Dollar Cybercrime Scheme - Hackers News

9 Best Cooling Mattresses (2024): Hybrid, Soft, Foam - Wired

A look at biometric ID company Clear, as it works to expand its face-based line-cutting service at retailers, banks, doctor's offices, and other places (Eileen Guo/MIT Technology Review) - Techmeme

A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific research built by the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington that outperforms GPT-4o on accuracy (Michael Nuez/VentureBeat) - Techmeme

A profile of Thrive Capital, whose biggest portfolio companies include OpenAI and Stripe, as rivals say the VC firm's approach is closer to asset management (George Hammond/Financial Times) - Techmeme

Ad software company Mediaocean acquires Innovid, an ad tech company focused on CTV, for $500M; Innovid had a market cap of ~$240M at market close on November 20 (Megan Graham/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme

Adam Mosseri says Threads is rebalancing ranking to prioritize content from people that users follow, warns that creators' "unconnected" reach may go down (Jay Peters/The Verge) - Techmeme

Adtech company The Trade Desk announces Ventura, a smart TV operating system, and plans to partner with TV manufacturers for its rollout, expected in H2 2025 (Sara Fischer/Axios) - Techmeme

Africa's embedded finance market projected to grow to $39.8 billion by 2029 ' report - Technext

AI is running out of gas - Pocket Lint

AI2's open source Tulu 3 lets anyone play the AI post-training game - Techcrunch

Alibaba appoints Jiang Fan its new e-commerce chief in an overhaul of the struggling business; Jiang was demoted in 2020 after allegations of improper conduct (Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Amazon Black Friday 2024 deals: The best discounts on Echo speakers, Ring doorbells and Kindles worth shopping right now - Engadget

Amazon Black Friday deals include a four-pack of Samsung Galaxy SmartTag2 trackers for 38 percent off - Engadget

Amazon Black Friday deals include the Fire Max 11 tablet for a record low of $140 - Engadget

Amazon Black Friday Lego deals include up to 29 percent off Star Wars, Super Mario sets - Engadget

Amazon Black Friday sale discounts the Fire TV Stick 4K Max to a record low of $33 - Engadget

Amazon is trying to sell you a TV but is calling it an Echo Show - Pocket Lint

Amazon Just Dropped the Biggest Echo Show Ever - Wired

Amazon's Echo Dot drops to only $23 for Black Friday - Engadget

Andela Partners CNCF To Train 20,000 Africans - TechCity

Anker Black Friday deals include up to 47 percent off power banks, wireless chargers and more - Engadget

Another Apple update' Here's why this one actually matters - Pocket Lint

Another VC-backed fintech, Earnin, faces crackdown over allegedly 'predatory' loans - Techcrunch

Antitrust Showdown: US DOJ calls for Google to sell Chrome - Innovation Village

Apple Black Friday deals: The M4 Mac mini drops to a record low of $500 - Engadget

Apple Pay, Cash App, PayPal and other apps to be treated more like banks - Techcrunch

Apple pledges $100 million Indonesia investment to lift iPhone 16 ban - Engadget

Apple's newest M4 MacBook Pro is already on sale for Black Friday - Pocket Lint

Arabia-based fintech EdfaPaysecures $5 million for MENAP expansion - TechMoran

As part of its proposed remedies, the US DOJ says Google should be required to syndicate its US search results to other rival search engines for the next decade (Brian Fung/CNN) - Techmeme

Australia introduces a bill in Parliament to ban children younger than 16 from social media; companies would face fines of up to AU$50M for violations (Rod McGuirk/Associated Press) - Techmeme

Australia introduces a bill that would ban children under 16 from social media - Engadget

Avowed preview: Classic Obsidian fantasy on a AAA budget - Engadget

AWIEF announces the 2024 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs in Southern Africa Regional Alumnae Summit - TechMoran

Baidu reports Q3 revenue down 3% YoY to $4.78B, net income up 14% YoY to $1.09B, and online marketing revenue up 12% YoY to $1.1B, driven by AI cloud business (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC) - Techmeme

Belkin Auto-Tracking Stand Pro With DockKit Review: Hands-Free Fun - Wired

Bemba Royal Establishment Partners with Zambia's Telecom for SMS Technology - Itnewsafrica

Best Way to Convert Bitcoin to Naira in 2024 to Maximise Your Profits - TechCity

Bill to ban social media use by under-16s arrives in Australia's parliament - Techcrunch

Bitcoin hit another record high $97,000, now gained more than 127% in 2024 - Technext

Black Friday Apple deals 2024: The best Apple sales on iPads, AirPods, Apple Watches, MacBooks and AirTags - Engadget

Black Friday Apple deals include the AirPods Pro 2 for a record low of $160 - Engadget

Black Friday deals bring the Echo Buds down to only $25 - Engadget

Black Friday deals bring the price of the Fitbit Charge 6 down to a record low of $100 - Engadget

Black Friday deals drop the Google Pixel Watch 3 to $280 on Amazon - Engadget

Black Friday deals include the Apple M3 MackBook Air with 16GB of RAM for an all-time-low price - Engadget

Black Friday deals include the Google Pixel 8a for an all-time low of $399 - Engadget

Black Friday deals include the Theragun Mini massager for $149 - Engadget

Black Friday deals slash $100 off the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones - Engadget

Black Friday Solo Stove deals discount fire pit bundles by up to 30 percent - Engadget

Black Friday speaker deals for 2024 include up to 55 percent off JBL, Marshall, Sonos, Echo and more - Engadget

Black Friday TV deals include Samsung Frame TVs for 40 percent off - Engadget

Blizzetrix Review 2024: Scam Or Legit' ' Real User Facts! - Technext

Blue Bear Capital lands $160M to back AI founders in climate, energy, and industry - Techcrunch

Border Militias Prepare to Assist With Donald Trump's Mass Deportation Plans - Wired

Brave Search adds AI chat for follow-up questions after your initial query - Techcrunch



Infotech Headlines Yesterday
[Wed-20-Nov-2024]

"We must start talking with a lot more insights" Efosa Ojomo, Director, Global Prosperity at the Clayton Christensen Institute, on how Africa can attract patient capital - Techpoint

1 million youths, 8 African countries - Technext

12 Best Turntables (2024), Tested and Reviewed - Wired

22 Seven rebrands to Vault22 - TechMoran

8 Best MagSafe Wallets (2024), Tested and Reviewed - Wired

A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems (Reuters) - Techmeme

A Chinese lab has released a 'reasoning' AI model to rival OpenAI's o1 - Techcrunch

A two-pack of Blink Mini 2 cameras is on sale for $35 in this Black Friday deal - Engadget

A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed (Jonathan Greig/The Record) - Techmeme

A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to "time served", meaning no jail time; Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud charges after FTX collapsed (Sarah Wynn/The Block) - Techmeme

African climate tech startups contributed $900k of $4.8bn raised globally in Q3 2024 - Technext

After a report that Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" is considering a free tax-filing app, Intuit shares closed down 5.1% and H&R Block down 8.2% (CJ Haddad/CNBC) - Techmeme

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI regulation to protect the public (Yoshua Bengio/Financial Times) - Techmeme

AI-Powered Robot Leads Uprising, Convinces Showroom Bots Into 'Quitting Their Jobs - Slashdot

Amazon debuts its largest Echo Show yet - Techcrunch

Amazon just launched the massive Echo Show 21 smart display - Engadget

Amazon Prime Music may finally be worth it thanks to new free perk - Pocket Lint

Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in the US, the UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade to the Echo Show 15 from 2022, with a 21" 1080p display and auto-framing camera, and updates the Echo Show 15 (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge) - Techmeme

Amenli Secures $2.3 Million to Revolutionize Egypt's Insurance Landscape - Innovation Village

An investigation reveals how 3B+ phone coordinates collected by a US data broker Datastream expose movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany (Wired) - Techmeme

Android 16 Developer Preview Unveiled By Google - TechCity

Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany - Wired

Apple Black Friday deals drop the M2 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM to $749 - Engadget

Apple Black Friday deals include the 10th-gen iPad for a record low of $280 - Engadget

Apple patches vulnerabilities used to target Intel-based Macs - Engadget

Apple Releases Urgent Updates to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities - Hackers News

Apple Says Mac Users Targeted in Zero-Day Cyberattacks - Slashdot

Apple says Mac users targeted in zero-day cyberattacks - Techcrunch

Apple TV+ Will License Its Movies To Other Services To Reduce Billions In Losses - Slashdot

Are You an IT Service Provider' Here Are 6 Compelling Reasons to Exhibit at DRA2025 - Itnewsafrica

As Bluesky soars, Threads rolls out custom feeds globally - Techcrunch

As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing AI training returns, a break from the market hype could be useful, just as with previous innovations (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a 5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia (Ryan Browne/CNBC) - Techmeme

Ben Ling's Bling Capital has already nabbed another $270M for fourth fund - Techcrunch

Benchmark invests $19M in New Lantern, a smarter way for radiologists to use AI - Techcrunch

Best Platform to Sell Bitcoin in Nigeria for Instant Naira Payouts (2024) - Technext

Bitcoin hits record high $94,000 mark, now valued $3 trillion - Technext

Black Friday deals on MasterClass subscriptions start at $7 per month - Engadget

Black Friday speaker deals for 2024 include up to 42 percent off JBL, Bose, Marshall, Sony and more - Engadget

Black Friday TV deals for 2024: Save on sets from LG, Samsung, Sony and more - Engadget

Blueprint for a winning cross-border digital product launch by Aroghene Favour Ndulu - Technext

Bose Acquires Premium Audio Brand McIntosh - Slashdot

Bose's latest QuietComfort headphones drop to $199 in this Black Friday deal - Engadget

Can Google Scholar Survive the AI Revolution - Slashdot

CashBot Review 2024: Legit or Scam AI Trading Platform' ' Must Read! - Technext

China-Backed Hackers Leverage SIGTRAN, GSM Protocols to Infiltrate Telecom Networks - Hackers News

Chinese AV startup Pony AI boosts its IPO goal to $260M - Techcrunch

Chroma, backed by Pinterest and Twitter co-founders, sells to AI audio company Bronze - Techcrunch

Coinbase says it will delist wBTC next month, as Justin Sun gains influence over the wBTC protocol; Coinbase launched its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, in September (Daniel Kuhn/The Block) - Techmeme

Comcast is spinning out Rotten Tomatoes and cable networks into a separate company - Engadget

Comcast spins off its cable channels into separate company as it looks for growth - Techcrunch

Converge Bio's 'everything store' for biotech LLMs brings in $5.5M seed - Techcrunch

Current AI scaling laws are showing diminishing returns, forcing AI labs to change course - Techcrunch

Data center monitoring firm LogicMonitor raises $800M at a $2.4B valuation - Techcrunch

Day of the Devs livestream will showcase indie titles a day before the Game Awards - Engadget

DCG founder Barry Silbert announces a subsidiary called Yuma to help build decentralized AI services called "subnets" on the Bittensor blockchain network (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune) - Techmeme

Decades-Old Security Vulnerabilities Found in Ubuntu's Needrestart Package - Hackers News

Delhi Trudges Through Another Air Pollution Nightmare With No Answers - Slashdot

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