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 …
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)
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
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 — – The exchange said it will delist the token in December, though users will still be able to move the wBTC off the exchange.
Source: Databricks has told investors it is looking to raise $7B to $9B at a ~$61B valuation, to cash out employees that hold restricted stock units (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Source: Databricks has told investors it is looking to raise $7B to $9B at a ~$61B valuation, to cash out employees that hold restricted stock units — Good afternoon from Las Vegas, where I’m writing this newsletter from a hotel room with a Strip view of the Encore, the hotel where bankers …
Sony launches cloud streaming on the PlayStation Portal in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in some countries stream select PS5 games (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sony launches cloud streaming on the PlayStation Portal in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in some countries stream select PS5 games — Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi.
Qualcomm expects its automotive and IoT businesses to drive combined revenues of $22B by FY 2029, including $8B from automotive chips and $4B from PC chips (Ian King/Bloomberg)
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Qualcomm expects its automotive and IoT businesses to drive combined revenues of $22B by FY 2029, including $8B from automotive chips and $4B from PC chips — Qualcomm Inc., the world’s biggest seller of smartphone processors, is expecting its push into new markets to generate …
A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems (Reuters)
Reuters:
A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems — A U.S. congressional commission on Tuesday proposed a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AI systems that will be as smart …
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)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
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 — Amazon said on Tuesday that it will let Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers access one audiobook per month from Audible’s catalog for free.
