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Fi’s Starlink-enabled pet tracker found my dog when LTE couldn’t

Fi Ultra is the first Starlink-enabled pet tracker you can buy. It expands on GPS and LTE trackers, adding automatic failover to T-Mobile's T-Satellite-branded direct-to-cell service when venturing into cellular dead zones. That lets owners tap into SpaceX's constellation of low Earth orbit Starlink satellites to track their pets anywhere in the US. But it […]

SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to raise ~$28B on the Nasdaq: highly leveraged to HBM, deep and broad China ties, and health and safety concerns (Tim Culpan/Culpium)

Tim Culpan / Culpium:
SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to raise ~$28B on the Nasdaq: highly leveraged to HBM, deep and broad China ties, and health and safety concerns  —  [Opinion] The world's second-largest memory chip maker has more stories than its F-1 filing reveals  —  SK Hynix is going big in America.

Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026 (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)

Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026  —  Amazon's next Alexa AI upgrade may be able to handle more complex tasks.  Getting there is expensive, though.

DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block most video ads by default, including those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists (Anna Washenko/Engadget)

Anna Washenko / Engadget:
DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block most video ads by default, including those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists  —  An unsubtle shot at Chrome.  —  DuckDuckGo announced that it can now block most video ads, particularly those on YouTube, when a video is playing in its browser.

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos (New York Times)

New York Times:
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos  —  The rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos is set to take on external investors for the first time, at a $130 billion valuation.