The UK's parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, in the works since 2019, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days
Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services …
Memo: Phil Spencer tells staff the FTC v. Microsoft documents leak is “disappointing” and that the company failed to live up to its confidentiality expectations
/ ‘We all put incredible amounts of passion and energy into our work, and this is never how we want that hard work to be shared with the community.’
Bard's “Google it” feature adds the ability to “double check” answers by highlighting phrases with “supporting or contradicting information found by Search”
Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search? — Today let's talk about an advance in Bard …
Intel says Emerald Rapids, its fifth-gen Xeon chips, will arrive on December 14, and announces a Sierra Forest Xeon processor with 288 cores launching in 2024
Intel has unveiled its brand-new Xeon CPU roadmap which reveals three product families as a part of the Birch Stream platform.
Meta expands its Meta Verified program to businesses on Facebook and Instagram in select markets, for $21.99/month/page for each or $34.99/month/page for both
Meta announced today that it is expanding Meta Verified to businesses after first launching it for creators in March.
WhatsApp releases a beta for iOS via Apple's TestFlight with a companion mode for iPadOS, built using Mac Catalyst, after years of user requests for an iPad app
WhatsApp has just submitted a new update through the TestFlight beta Program, bringing the version up to 23.19.1.71.
Everything Amazon announced at its product event: Alexa Emergency Assist for $6/month, Alexa Eye Gaze to control devices, the $50 Echo Pop Kids, and more
Amazon is kicking off its annual fall product announcements at its HQ2 campus in Arlington, Virginia.
After Meta criticizes potential UK encryption rules, the UK says Meta “failed to provide assurances” over keeping its platforms “safe from sickening abusers”
Facebook's owner Meta has hit back at a new government campaign strongly critical of its plans to encrypt messages.
Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 review: Precision Finding, Double Tap is great, and some Siri and brightness improvements, but many of the tweaks feel minor
Iterative updates aren't flashy, but these smartwatches are mainly for folks who don't have Apple Watches yet.
Amazon announces the $150 Echo Show 8 with a new design, a centered camera, a smart home hub, Spatial Audio, and a changing home screen based on proximity
Amazon kicked off today's Fall Devices Event with an update to its Echo Show 8. The small smart screen features smart home hub functionality and improved audio quality.
Neuralink opens enrollment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients, expected to take about six years, likely to include <10 people
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval …
Emails from 2022: worried about Starfield's delay, Microsoft estimated how much it may have to pay to get specific games on Xbox Game Pass, ranging up to $300M
Sources: as equities soared in 2020, Apple and Goldman were working on a stock trading feature for iPhones, shelving the project in 2022 as markets turned
- Apple was exploring the launch of an iPhone feature that would let users buy and sell stocks, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
Sources and analysis: four of the eight CPUs in the Kirin 9000S SoC use Arm designs and four use Huawei-modified Arm designs, HiSilicon made the GPU, and more
Facing US sanctions, Chinese company emulates Apple by using its own designs in chips for Mate 60 Pro
Meta launches in-chat payments for WhatsApp in India, letting businesses accept payments via credit and debit cards, WhatsApp Pay, or UPI at no extra cost
Financial Times :
Google updates Bard to use data from Gmail, Docs, and Drive, not just the web, to help users find and summarize emails, highlight points in a document, and more
Instacart closed up 12.33% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the grocery delivery company at just over $11B; Instacart was valued at $39B in March 2021
Amazon announces updated Echo Frames, its Alexa-powered glasses, offering enhanced speech processing, better noise isolation, and six hours of battery for $270
they look much more like regular glasses. They include better battery life (6 hours of continuous media playback) and speakers. @amazon : @alexa99 ... Check these out!👓Introducing Echo Frames & Carrer...
In a WeChat post, China's Ministry of State Security accuses the US of hacking Huawei's servers, stealing critical data, and installing backdoors since 2009
Beijing says Washington forces tech companies to install backdoors for spying — China has accused the U.S. of hacking Huawei's servers continuously since 2009.
Amazon unveils generative AI updates for Alexa, aiming to become more conversational and personalized, available as a free preview on all Echo devices in the US
what you need to know Will Knight / Wired : Amazon Upgrades Alexa for the ChatGPT Era Rikka Altland / 9to5Toys : Amazon's September hardware event set to reveal latest Echo devices, more [Liveblog] Ma...
The Linux Foundation launches the Unified Acceleration Foundation to create an open standard for accelerator programming, an evolution of the oneAPI initiative
At the Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao, Spain, the Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation.
Intel unveils Core Ultra, code-named Meteor Lake, its first chips using a new chiplet architecture built on its 7nm Intel 4 process node, launching December 14
WhatsApp announces Flows to help merchants build richer shopping experiences, including letting users pick a flight seat or order a meal without leaving the app
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Sources: Huawei's HiSilicon is shipping new Chinese-made chips for surveillance cameras, a fresh sign that the company is finding ways around US export controls
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US sees no evidence that China-based SMIC can make the 7nm Kirin 9000s chips in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro “at scale”
An interview with Instacart founder and former CEO Apoorva Mehta on Instacart's beginnings, his board exit, his reluctance to take the company public, and more
and today he cut all ties with the company Reuters : Instacart set to be valued at nearly $13 bln in Wall Street debut Ari Levy / CNBC : Instacart closed up 12.33% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the gro...
Bluesky Stats: on September 18, Elon Musk floated charging all X users, and on September 19, Bluesky signed up 53,585 users, or 5% of its ~1,125,499 accounts
The day isn't even over yet Bluesky has already seen its biggest influx of new users in a single-day — Would you pay to use X, the platform formerly known as Twitter?
1Password rolls out passkey support to its iOS and Android apps and web extensions; replacing the user's master password with a passkey is coming later in 2023
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge :
An Uber executive says the EU's Platform Work Directive that designates gig workers as employees may raise prices and cause Uber to close in hundreds of cities
Brussels starts negotiations on final text of legislation to improve conditions for workers — A top Uber executive has warned …
LimeWire, which pivoted from piracy to content creation, acquires generative AI image tool BlueWillow, which has 2.5M Discord members and has made 500M+ images
In the Wild West of generative AI, a new, unlikely cowboy is riding into town. LimeWire — once infamous for music piracy …
DeepMind researchers detail Optimization by PROmpting to improve LLM performance by using “meta-prompts” like “take a deep breath”, which helped Google's PaLM 2
DeepMind used AI models to optimize their own prompts, with surprising results.
Signal announces PQXDH, an upgrade to the X3DH cryptographic specification meant as a first step to advancing quantum resistance for the Signal Protocol
1. Introduction This document describes the “PQXDH” (or … Damien Black / Cybernews.com : Signal upgrades encryption to ward off quantum attacks The Hacker News : Signal Messenger Introduces PQXDH Quan...
Google DeepMind unveils its AlphaMissense AI tool, which predicts if mutations in human genes are likely to be harmful, an example of AI accelerating diagnosis
E-commerce marketing company Klaviyo prices its 19.2M shares at $30 each, above its $27-$29 range, raising $576M in its IPO at a $9.2B fully diluted valuation
Bloomberg :
Legit Security, whose service helps identify app vulnerabilities from code, raised a $40M Series B led by CRV, taking its total funding to $77M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
OpenAI launches the OpenAI Red Teaming Network, a contracted group of experts to help inform the company's AI model risk assessment and mitigation strategies
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
The US spending $64.5B+ to improve rural broadband and close the “digital divide” may not be enough due to the cost of laying fiber, labor shortages, and more
and asks whether Biden Administration broadband investments are on course to deliver Internet for all. Check it out. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Copenhagen-based Corti, whose AI co-pilot transcribes hospital calls and does paperwork, raised $60M led by Atomico and Prosus, sources say at a $260M valuation
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg :
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative plans to build an AI GPU cluster of 1,000+ Nvidia H100 GPUs to run “openly available” models of human cells for medical research
Amazon plans to hire 250K US staff to help manage the holiday rush, up from 150K in 2022, and bumps warehouse and delivery workers' average pay to $20.50/hour
A profile of Jeff Yass, whose Susquehanna International Group has a ~15% stake in ByteDance, as he works to prevent a US TikTok ban by donating to GOP lawmakers
Wall Street Journal :
Q&A with Matthew Panzarino, who recently stepped down as TechCrunch EIC after 10 years, on the site's Silicon Valley relationship, the future of media, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge : X: @alex X: @alex : oh look it's @panzer in the news! https://www.theverge.com/... i like him
Calgary-based ZayZoon, which provides SMB employees access to their earned wages whenever they need them, raised a $34.5M Series B co-led by Framework and EDC
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
A profile of Tokyo-based Soramitsu, which worked on Cambodia's blockchain-based “quasi-digital currency” system and is running CBDC studies in other countries
Rest of World : X: @restofworld X: @restofworld : A Japanese blockchain startup partnered with Cambodia to create its “quasi-digital currency” system. Now, it's collaborating with central banks in La...
Latin America-focused rapid grocery startup JOKR raised a ~$50M Series D led by Convivialité at an $800M valuation, down from a $1.3B valuation in February 2023
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Mandiant details UNC53, a China-backed group that hacked 29+ global orgs since 2022 by tricking staff into using malware-infected USB drives, mostly in Africa
Andy Greenberg / Wired : Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social . Bluesky: @agreenberg.bsky.social Mastodon: Kevin Beaumont / @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social : Y'all may remember my #TheWormCircus m...
Tabular, which provides an independent storage platform based on Apache Iceberg, raised $26M led by Altimeter Capital, bringing its total funding to $37M
Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat :
How Airbnb Head of Trust and Safety Naba Banerjee cut parties reported on the service by 55% from 2020 to 2022 and launched an anti-party AI system in May 2023
Hayden Field / CNBC :
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