Reuters:
Sources: ByteDance prefers a TikTok shutdown in the US rather than a sale if legal options fail, deeming TikTok’s algorithm as core to overall ByteDance systems — TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer shutting down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts …
Sublime, which monitors emails of companies and political campaigns to spot AI-generated phishing attacks, raised a $20M Series A, taking total funding to $30M (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Sublime, which monitors emails of companies and political campaigns to spot AI-generated phishing attacks, raised a $20M Series A, taking total funding to $30M — While Russian agents were breaking into the Democratic National Committee’s emails in mid-2016 in an attempt to influence …
Cloud data management startup Rubrik opens up 20% at $38.60 per share in its NYSE debut, after raising $752M at a $5.6B valuation (CNBC)
CNBC:
Cloud data management startup Rubrik opens up 20% at $38.60 per share in its NYSE debut, after raising $752M at a $5.6B valuation — In this photo illustration, the Rubrik, Inc. logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. — Data management software maker Rubrik began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.
The FCC votes 3-2 to reinstate net neutrality rules, expanding government oversight of ISPs and aiming to protect consumer access to the internet (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
The FCC votes 3-2 to reinstate net neutrality rules, expanding government oversight of ISPs and aiming to protect consumer access to the internet — Commissioners voted along party lines to revive the rules that declare broadband as a utility-like service that could be regulated like phones and water.
Sources: a Huawei-led consortium, backed by Chinese government funding, aims to compete with Nvidia by making high-bandwidth memory chips, used in GPUs, by 2026 (The Information)
The Information:
Sources: a Huawei-led consortium, backed by Chinese government funding, aims to compete with Nvidia by making high-bandwidth memory chips, used in GPUs, by 2026 — Huawei Technologies is leading a group of Chinese semiconductor companies seeking memory chip breakthroughs …
Movement Labs, which is building Movement L2, a layer-2 Ethereum blockchain based on the Move programming language, raised a $38M Series A led by Polychain (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Movement Labs, which is building Movement L2, a layer-2 Ethereum blockchain based on the Move programming language, raised a $38M Series A led by Polychain — The blockchain race is about to get even more crowded: Movement Labs, a San Francisco-based software development team that’s building …
Sources: Microsoft has scrambled to respond to new attacks from the Russia-linked SolarWinds hackers, as its engineers prioritize security over new features (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft has scrambled to respond to new attacks from the Russia-linked SolarWinds hackers, as its engineers prioritize security over new features — The world’s largest tech company has a security problem. A series of high-profile security incidents have rocked Microsoft …
Sources: ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok US, preferably to non-tech companies, and without the recommendation algorithm (The Information)
The Information:
Sources: ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok US, preferably to non-tech companies, and without the recommendation algorithm — ByteDance is internally exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok’s U.S. business, preferably to companies outside …
Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices “without hanging up and rejoining” via its Android, iOS, and web apps (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices “without hanging up and rejoining” via its Android, iOS, and web apps — Let’s say you start a call on your phone because you’re not at your desk yet. Once you get to a computer …
A look at AI video startup Synthesia, whose avatars are more human-like and expressive than predecessors, raising concerns over the consequences of realistic AI (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review)
Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
A look at AI video startup Synthesia, whose avatars are more human-like and expressive than predecessors, raising concerns over the consequences of realistic AI — I’m stressed and running late, because what do you wear for the rest of eternity? — This makes it sound like I’m dying, but it’s the opposite.
