Anna Gross / Financial Times:
The head of the axed £800M UK supercomputer project warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the global top 50, risks falling behind rivals — Mark Parsons, who led exascale venture in Edinburgh, says it would be a ‘disaster’ if funding is not restarted
Trump Media has a ~$7B market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb: Truth Social site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Trump Media has a ~$7B market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb: Truth Social site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October — Trump Media & Technology Group’s revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up.
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)
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
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 — Efforts by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to address cybersecurity issues faced significant criticism this week …
Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third-party apps from showing a user’s Strava data to other users or using the data in AI models or similar apps (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)
Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker:
Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third-party apps from showing a user’s Strava data to other users or using the data in AI models or similar apps — Yesterday Strava sent out an e-mail to users, outlining a change that’s occurring almost immediately, regarding 3rd party apps …
SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tuning, iterating, and evaluating AI training datasets, raised a $36M Series B led by Socium Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tuning, iterating, and evaluating AI training datasets, raised a $36M Series B led by Socium Ventures — High-quality data may be the key to high-quality AI. With studies finding that dataset curation, rather than size, is what really affects …
Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans to provide internet in Brazil in 2026; SpaceSail launched its first 36 satellites in August and September (Daniel Carvalho/Bloomberg)
Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg:
Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans to provide internet in Brazil in 2026; SpaceSail launched its first 36 satellites in August and September — Elon Musk’s Chinese rival in the satellite internet business plans to start operations in Brazil in 2026, the head of the Shanghai-based company told Bloomberg News Tuesday.
Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, retrieves “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, retrieves “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 — The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world …
Roboflow, which provides open-source tools for developers to build computer vision models, raised a $40M Series B led by GV (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Roboflow, which provides open-source tools for developers to build computer vision models, raised a $40M Series B led by GV — Roboflow cofounders Joseph Nelson and Brad Dwyer. — ROBOFLOW — Roboflow is a company of a thousand use cases. — When I met Joseph Nelson …
Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service for enterprises, raised a $75M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service for enterprises, raised a $75M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives — Kubernetes, the open-source system that helps manage containerized applications (software packages that run in isolated environments), long ago breached the mainstream.
Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule vs. the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving manufacturers more time (Mishaal Rahman/Android Police)
Mishaal Rahman / Android Police:
Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule vs. the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving manufacturers more time — Surprise! Google is releasing the first developer preview of Android 16 today so that app developers can test the new APIs …
