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.
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: 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 …
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.
Garry’s Mod is removing “all Nintendo related stuff” from its Steam Workshop, covering “20 years of uploads”, after receiving a takedown request from Nintendo (Andy Chalk/PC Gamer)
Andy Chalk / PC Gamer:
Garry’s Mod is removing “all Nintendo related stuff” from its Steam Workshop, covering “20 years of uploads”, after receiving a takedown request from Nintendo — Fans aren’t happy, as you can imagine. — Following a takedown request issued by Nintendo …
Interviews with 24+ current and ex-ByteDance staff: the Beijing-based company has increasingly taken a grip over TikTok’s operations, leading to a culture clash (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Interviews with 24+ current and ex-ByteDance staff: the Beijing-based company has increasingly taken a grip over TikTok’s operations, leading to a culture clash — Insiders say ByteDance exerting increasing influence over platform despite US pressure over ownership
The US awards Micron up to $6.1B under the CHIPS Act, to support an up to $125B investment to build a “megafab” in New York and Idaho over the next 20 years (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
The US awards Micron up to $6.1B under the CHIPS Act, to support an up to $125B investment to build a “megafab” in New York and Idaho over the next 20 years — Micron Technology MU -.60%decrease; red down pointing triangle is receiving up to $6.1 billion from the federal government …
