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Sources: Tata Electronics agrees to buy a 60% stake in Pegatron's iPhone plant in Tamil Nadu, India, forming a joint venture, and will run the daily operations (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/tata-seals-deal-with-pegatron-iphone-plant-indias-tamil-nadu-sources-say-2024-11-17/
http://www.techmeme.com/241117/p5#a241117p5

Thomas E. Kurtz, an American mathematician, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the BASIC programming language with John Kemeny, died at 96 on November 12 (Dag Spicer/CHM)

https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/
http://www.techmeme.com/241114/p43#a241114p43

X names Mahmoud Reza Banki as CFO; Banki, who Trump pardoned for making false statements in January 2021, was Tubi CFO and, a source says, joined X in November (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/musks-x-names-mahmoud-reza-banki-cfo-65538482?st=MgGwCM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/241114/p20#a241114p20

Amazon recently told staff with disabilities that it was adding a more rigorous vetting process to approve working from home, as it moves to five days per week (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-13/amazon-makes-it-harder-for-disabled-employees-to-work-from-home
http://www.techmeme.com/241113/p23#a241113p23

Sources: top crypto executives are courting Bitcoin enthusiast and Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnick; the industry is seeking to reshape the SEC and more (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/technology/trump-crypto-bitcoin.html
http://www.techmeme.com/241113/p21#a241113p21

Air National guardsman Jack Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years for stealing classified information from the Pentagon and sharing it on Discord in 2022 and 2023 (NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira-sentenced-15-years-prison-sharing-milita-rcna179792
http://www.techmeme.com/241112/p30#a241112p30

Google rolls out its Gemini-powered Vids app that lets users create video presentations using a prompt, with full access for Workspace users until at least 2026 (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/8/24291241/google-vids-ai-presentation-video-general-availability-rollout
http://www.techmeme.com/241108/p15#a241108p15

Sources: before Trump's win, Elon Musk asked him to hire SpaceX staff as top government officials, including in the DOD, a sign of the benefits Musk may reap (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-benefits.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YE4.uAD6.YaxFV6LV2m_9&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/241107/p12#a241107p12

Canada orders the windup of TikTok's Canadian business citing national security risks, and says it's not blocking Canadians' access to the app (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/canada-orders-wind-up-tiktoks-canadian-business-app-access-continue-2024-11-06/
http://www.techmeme.com/241106/p31#a241106p31

Why Bluesky not adding the federation systems that let users leave the Bluesky server and take their community to other hosts can lead to "enshittification" (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/
http://www.techmeme.com/241102/p10#a241102p10

Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3M customers, and cost the carrier over $500M (David Shepardson/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/delta-sues-crowdstrike-over-software-update-that-prompted-mass-flight-2024-10-25/
http://www.techmeme.com/241025/p27#a241025p27

Filing: Satya Nadella earned $79.1M during the FY ending June 30, up from $48.5M a year ago; compensation was reduced by $5M+ due to Microsoft's security issues (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/24/microsoft-ceo-nadella-requested-pay-reduction-after-security-incidents.html
http://www.techmeme.com/241025/p15#a241025p15

The Biden administration issues the first-ever National Security Memorandum on AI, detailing how the Pentagon and intel agencies should use and protect AI (David E. Sanger/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/politics/biden-government-guidelines-ai.html
http://www.techmeme.com/241024/p18#a241024p18

The Irish Data Protection Commission fines LinkedIn €310M over using personal data for behavioral analysis and targeted ads under GDPR, after a 2018 complaint (Ian Curran/The Irish Times)

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/10/24/microsoft-owned-linkedin-fined-310m-by-irish-data-protection-commission/
http://www.techmeme.com/241024/p13#a241024p13

Winamp owner Llama Group deletes the GitHub repository of the legacy player's source code posted on September 24, following criticism on the way it was released (Kevin Purdy/Ars Technica)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/winamp-really-whips-open-source-coders-into-frenzy-with-its-source-release/
http://www.techmeme.com/241017/p6#a241017p6

Lillian Schwartz, one of the first artists to use a computer to make films and who brought together art, science, and tech communities in the 1970s, died at 97 (Chris Kornelis/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/technology/lillian-schwartz-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU4.HuH7.wKx56JzISWWR&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/241015/p5#a241015p5

Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some parts of US broadband networks within the last week, and investigators don't know what they were seeking (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-officials-race-to-understand-severity-of-chinas-salt-typhoon-hacks-6e7c3951
http://www.techmeme.com/241011/p12#a241011p12

How crypto power couple Ryan Salame, an FTX executive who gave millions to GOP politicians, and Michelle Bond, who ran for Congress, now both face prison time (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/technology/ftx-ryan-salame-michelle-bond.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE4.heZb.k6eYsClf6pvB&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/241010/p12#a241010p12

Officials in NC and at FEMA, responding to Hurricane Helene, face a flurry of antisemitic attacks largely on X, where some posts get tens of millions of views (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/08/hurricane-helene-antisemitic-misinformation-x/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzI4MzYwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzI5NzQyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjgzNjAwMDAsImp0aSI6Ijk1YzUzZTRmLTcxNzAtNDgxZS1iNmQ5LThjYzdmYzllZWZkOCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjQvMTAvMDgvaHVycmljYW5lLWhlbGVuZS1hbnRpc2VtaXRpYy1taXNpbmZvcm1hdGlvbi14LyJ9._rRPBIfCO46qdApdsbX5cgPkuqK8m_V2_ZpqSCn_57Y&itid=gfta
http://www.techmeme.com/241008/p23#a241008p23

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for "foundational discoveries" in machine learning (Kati Pohjanpalo/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-08/two-scientists-share-physics-nobel-for-machine-learning
http://www.techmeme.com/241008/p6#a241008p6