Andreo Calonzo / Bloomberg:
Philippine President Marcos Jr. signs a law imposing a 12% value-added tax on non-resident digital service providers, including Netflix, HBO, and Disney — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday signed a law imposing a 12% value-added tax on non-resident digital service providers including Netflix, HBO and Disney.
2024 has been a barren year for big video games compared to 2023, helping indie games take center stage; the games industry has laid off 10,000+ people in 2024 (Tom Faber/Financial Times)
Tom Faber / Financial Times:
2024 has been a barren year for big video games compared to 2023, helping indie games take center stage; the games industry has laid off 10,000+ people in 2024 — As gamers turn their backs on gargantuan adventures, we could be entering a golden age of modest titles
A profile of Denise Coates, the UK’s richest woman, who founded online gambling company Bet365, which had £3B+ in 2023 revenue, as she focuses on a US expansion (Rob Davies/The Guardian)
Rob Davies / The Guardian:
A profile of Denise Coates, the UK’s richest woman, who founded online gambling company Bet365, which had £3B+ in 2023 revenue, as she focuses on a US expansion — She is the mastermind behind Bet365, the company that made it possible to gamble online any hour of the day or night.
A profile of Jarod Koopman, who leads IRS Criminal Investigation’s cybercrime unit, which has returned $12B+ to victims and the US Treasury in the past 10 years (Geraldine Brooks/Washington Post)
Geraldine Brooks / Washington Post:
A profile of Jarod Koopman, who leads IRS Criminal Investigation’s cybercrime unit, which has returned $12B+ to victims and the US Treasury in the past 10 years — Geraldine Brooks is a novelist and former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.
In-depth iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, but Camera Control and advanced Photographic Styles are standout features (Sebastiaan de With/Lux)
Sebastiaan de With / Lux:
In-depth iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, but Camera Control and advanced Photographic Styles are standout features — For the first “Desert Titanium” iPhone, we took over 1000 photos and videos in the desert. Take a deep dive into what’s new — and why it’s close to the last of its kind.
Raspberry Pi, a FTSE 250 company that defied the trend of UK-based tech companies that have listed in the US, has revived Cambridge’s history of making hardware (John Gapper/Financial Times)
John Gapper / Financial Times:
Raspberry Pi, a FTSE 250 company that defied the trend of UK-based tech companies that have listed in the US, has revived Cambridge’s history of making hardware — The Cambridge company conceived to enable technology education is now an industrial force — Raspberry Pi is a quirky enterprise.
London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous robots for warehouses, raised a $80M Series B led by DTCP, taking its total equity funding to $120M (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / Sifted:
London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous robots for warehouses, raised a $80M Series B led by DTCP, taking its total equity funding to $120M — Generative AI has changed the game for autonomous technology, says founder and CEO Andrei Danescu — Dexory, a UK-based startup building autonomous robots …
Google DeepMind is developing an AI research assistant for scientists; BioNTech’s InstaDeep unveils a Llama 3.1-based AI assistant for experimental biology (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Google DeepMind is developing an AI research assistant for scientists; BioNTech’s InstaDeep unveils a Llama 3.1-based AI assistant for experimental biology — Artificial intelligence used to help researchers plan experiments and better predict outcomes — Google DeepMind and BioNTech …
How the FBI and Mandiant caught hacker Jesse Kipf, who sold access to systems he broke into and hacked Hawaii’s death registration system to fake his own death (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
How the FBI and Mandiant caught hacker Jesse Kipf, who sold access to systems he broke into and hacked Hawaii’s death registration system to fake his own death — Jesse Kipf was a prolific hacker who sold access to systems he hacked, had contacts with a notorious cybercrime gang …
Resolve AI, which is building AI tools to help software engineers troubleshoot and fix production issues, raised a $35M seed led by Greylock (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
Krystal Hu / Reuters:
Resolve AI, which is building AI tools to help software engineers troubleshoot and fix production issues, raised a $35M seed led by Greylock — Resolve AI, a startup aiming to automate software operations, has raised $35 million in seed funding from investors led by Greylock …