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André Beganski / Decrypt: Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday  —  A government-controlled wallet that had been drained of $20 million on Thursday received most of its funds back Friday, adding another layer of mystery … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Beam / The Atlantic: A profile of Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé whose Pirate Wires newsletter and podcast became popular among “anti-woke” tech figures since the “techlash”  —  Mike solana has opinions.  Here are a few of them: Building stuff is good. Lees verder op Tech Meme

André Beganski / Decrypt: Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday  —  A government-controlled wallet that had been drained of $20 million on Thursday received most of its funds back Friday, adding another layer of mystery … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Sources: Google is aiming to release its Gemini 2.0 model in December; the model isn’t showing the performance gains the Demis Hassabis-led team had hoped for  —  The AI race is heating up just in time for winter.  —  As my colleagues Kylie Robison and Tom Warren reported … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Beam / The Atlantic: A profile of Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé whose Pirate Wires newsletter and podcast became popular among “anti-woke” tech figures since the “techlash”  —  Mike solana has opinions.  Here are a few of them: Building stuff is good. Lees verder op Tech Meme

IDC: China smartphone shipments rose 3.2% YoY to 68.8M in Q3, with Vivo up 21.5% to an 18.6% market share, Apple down 0.3% to 15.6%, and Huawei up 42% to 15.3%  —  Apple Returns to Top 5 Smartphone Companies  —  Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, China smartphone shipments grew 3.2% year over year … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: The US Copyright Office denies a request from video game preservationists to let libraries, archives, and museums lend games via remote access for study  —  When video game scholars want to study games that are no longer on sale, they sometimes have to drive hours to do it legally — and that won’t be changing anytime soon. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Mclaughlin / The Information: Source: Perplexity CEO told staff in 2023 that it had acquisition offers from X, OpenAI, and Notion, in the $150M to $200M range; Microsoft was also interested  —  Aravind Srinivas didn’t set out to earn a reputation as one of the media’s biggest tech villains.  It just kind of happened. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Beam / The Atlantic: A profile of Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé whose Pirate Wires newsletter and podcast became popular among “anti-woke” tech figures since the “techlash”  —  Mike solana has opinions.  Here are a few of them: Building stuff is good. Lees verder op Tech Meme

André Beganski / Decrypt: Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday  —  A government-controlled wallet that had been drained of $20 million on Thursday received most of its funds back Friday, adding another layer of mystery … Lees verder op Tech Meme