Saturday, November 23, 2024

Strava's new API rules for third parties will make it harder for users across dozens of fitness apps and wearables to integrate their fitness data in one place (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Victoria Song / The Verge:
Strava's new API rules for third parties will make it harder for users across dozens of fitness apps and wearables to integrate their fitness data in one place  —  It might seem odd for one app's users to fume over an API, but at the heart of the matter is the inherent messiness of fitness data.



A look at challenges facing Samsung Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong, including the company falling behind in the AI chip race and discontent from employees (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
A look at challenges facing Samsung Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong, including the company falling behind in the AI chip race and discontent from employees  —  Chip woes and labour unrest test the mettle of third-generation leader of South Korea's most valuable company



An investigation finds several women across the US were deceived, drugged, terrorized, and sexually enslaved by sex traffickers to make money from OnlyFans (Reuters)

Reuters:
An investigation finds several women across the US were deceived, drugged, terrorized, and sexually enslaved by sex traffickers to make money from OnlyFans  —  OnlyFans gives women the chance to earn money by making porn.  Sex traffickers also use the platform to abuse and exploit them, say police and prosecutors.



Friday, November 22, 2024

Three Nvidia customers spent a collective $12.6B in Q3, when it had a total revenue of $35.1B; each of them spent $10B+ in the nine months to October (Christiaan Hetzner/Fortune)

Christiaan Hetzner / Fortune:
Three Nvidia customers spent a collective $12.6B in Q3, when it had a total revenue of $35.1B; each of them spent $10B+ in the nine months to October  —  Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang doesn't have any real competition in the market for AI training chips.  —  MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN—RITZAU SCANPIX/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES



The EU closes a four-year long investigation into Apple's rules for e-book and audiobook app developers after the complainant withdrew its complaint (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU closes a four-year long investigation into Apple's rules for e-book and audiobook app developers after the complainant withdrew its complaint  —  EU antitrust regulators on Friday closed a four-year long investigation into Apple's (AAPL.O) rules for competing e-book and audiobook apps developers …



A UK CMA report finds that Apple's policies hold back innovation in mobile browsers and recommends investigating Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
A UK CMA report finds that Apple's policies hold back innovation in mobile browsers and recommends investigating Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems  —  Apple's restrictions on mobile browsers are limiting innovation and holding back new features that could benefit iPhone users …



Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in data center financing decisions (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in ...