As X fails to moderate Israel-Hamas misinformation, Meta has an opportunity to make real-time news a pillar of Threads and give the app an existential purpose
Three months into its existence, the app's purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace it
Unity CEO John Riccitiello resigns in the wake of the company's fee controversy; Unity names former Red Hat President and CEO James Whitehurst as interim CEO
John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of a pricing controversy that left developers in open revolt.
As the Israel-Hamas war escalates, a look at the role of hacktivism for both sides, supported by outside groups, including DDoSing Israeli government sites
Since the conflict escalated, hackers have targeted dozens of government websites and media outlets with defacements and DDoS attacks …
Global PC shipments fell 7.6% YoY to 68.2M in Q3 2023; among the top five vendors, Apple experienced the largest decline, down 23.1%, and only HP grew, up 6.4%
The downward spiral for PC shipments continued during the third quarter of 2023 (3Q23) as global volumes declined 7.6% year …
Amazon, Google, and Cloudflare say a DDoS attack hit 398M RPS in August, ~8x larger than the previous record, due to a new bug; Google was able to mitigate it
Amazon, Google and Cloudflare said they detected the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on record in August due to a newly discovered vulnerability.
X now lets users block unverified accounts from replying to their posts, potentially limiting how the community can push back on misinformation
The latest turn in the Elon Musk-directed platform X, previously known as Twitter, is that users can now block unverified accounts from replying to their posts.
Google starts prompting users to create a passkey for their account by default, but says passwords will “still remain part of our lives as we make the pivot”
Google is making it easier for users to ditch passwords on their Google accounts in favor of passkeys — a fast …
Sources: EU regulators send out questionnaires asking customers and competitors whether Apple's iMessage and Microsoft's Bing should be regulated under the DMA
EU antitrust regulators are asking Microsoft's (MSFT.O) users and rivals whether Bing should comply with new tough tech rules …
In the first week of Sam Bankman-Fried's trial, Judge Kaplan repeatedly admonished SBF's lawyers, disrupting the questioning, in an ominous sign for the defense
In the first week of Mr. Bankman-Fried's fraud trial, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan repeatedly admonished the former crypto mogul's lawyers, in an ominous sign for the defense.
Sources: X shut down a tool for identifying coordinated disinformation campaigns in recent months, as the company moved services off Google Cloud to cut costs
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Analysis: Binance founder Changpeng Zhao's Industry Recovery Initiative, aiming to raise $1B after FTX collapsed, deployed less than $30M since November 2022
- IRI has invested less than $30 million, wallet analysis shows — Project had big-name backers like Jump Crypto, Animoca
Meta Quest 3 review: more comfortable, much-improved displays, and snappy performance, but there isn't much MR content and passthrough isn't quite sharp enough
As the UK FCA widens its financial promotions rules for crypto, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, and others partner with UK companies to try to keep serving UK customers
penalties range from web/app takedowns to fines & prison https://www.bloomberg.com/... LinkedIn: Oliver Scherenberg : 🚨 The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)'s new regulation for crypto asset pro...
A look at the stalled efforts to ban TikTok in the US as defense officials, who want an outright ban, clash with economic officials who back a compromise
The administration is throwing its weight behind a new bill after previous legislative and national security efforts faltered.
AMD plans to acquire Santa Clara-based Nod.ai, which specializes in deploying open-source AI software and has raised ~$36.5M, per PitchBook
AMD said on Tuesday it plans to buy an artificial intelligence startup called Nod.ai as part of an effort to bolster its software capabilities.
Meta's Oversight Board plans to review Meta's manipulated content and deepfake policies, after moderators did not remove a video describing Biden as a pedophile
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Google Cloud expands Vertex AI Search with features to help health care workers pull info from clinical notes, scanned documents, and electronic health records
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 1394, holding social media platforms liable for “knowingly facilitating” commercial CSAM, starting from January 2025
An act to amend Section 3345.1 of, and to add Title 22 (commencing with Section 3273.65 … Alan Riquelmy / Courthouse News Service : Newsom signs bill to curb spread of child sexual abuse material on s...
A US judge throws out a $32.5M jury verdict for Sonos in its smart speaker patent case against Google after finding that the Sonos patents were unenforceable
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Baton Rouge-based Gutsy, which plans to use “process mining” to help companies improve their cybersecurity, raised a $51M seed led by YL Ventures and Mayfield
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
London-based kennek, which offers SaaS tools for open banking, open finance, and payments, raised a $12.5M seed led by HV Capital
Fiona Alston / Tech.eu :
Many US school districts spent millions in US pandemic relief money on edtech, such as apps, games, and tutoring sites, but the results for students are unclear
Collin Binkley / Associated Press :
Austin-based Saronic, a startup developing autonomous ships for the US Navy and US-aligned defense customers, raised a $55M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Source: Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, the $10/month AI assistant with 1.5M+ users, loses an average of $20+/month per user and as much as $80/month for some users
Some academics in Saudi Arabia worry over Saudi-Chinese AI collaboration, which may jeopardize their access to US chips, as the Gulf states rush to build LLMs
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Sources: after stockpiling components for months, Huawei aims to ship 60M to 70M phones in 2024, doubling shipments in 2023 and 2022, despite the US crackdown
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia :
A look at LinkedIn's newsroom, which has 250 editors and writers across 30 countries and 17 languages, as the platform doubles down on news as others pull back
Mastodon fixes a network connectivity error that undercounted its MAUs between October 2 and October 8, meaning the social network has 1.8M MAUs and 10K servers
Appfigures: ChatGPT's iOS and Android apps hit $4.58M total revenue in September from the $20/month ChatGPT+ plan, up from $3.81M in August and $2.74M in July
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