In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more
The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …
Letter: European regulator Thierry Breton urges Mark Zuckerberg to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation from Meta's platforms during the Israel-Hamas war
and on tackling disinformation in elections in the EU ⤵️ [image] Jakub Simek / @jakubsimek : @ThierryBreton @Meta I think the EU has bigger problems to worry about than lecturing tech companies. How m...
Caroline Ellison's well-prepared testimony painted Sam Bankman-Fried as the ultimate decision-maker at FTX and a corrupting influence on his subordinates
- Government prosecutors completed their direct examination of former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison on Wednesday in the fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried.
Microsoft receives Notices of Proposed Adjustment from the IRS for an additional $28.9B tax payment; Microsoft plans to appeal, a process expected to take years
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at federal court on October 2, 2023 in Washington, DC. Nadella is testifying …
US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says SBF asked her to make false balance sheets to hide debt, he considered offering FTX shares to the Saudi crown prince, and more
Caroline testified that SBF ordered her to use FTX customer funds to cover up for Alameda's losses — and to lie to lenders about it. She was in a “constant state of dread” about the looming liquidity...
Instagram head Adam Mosseri reiterates Threads' position on hard news, saying that Threads does not intend to “amplify” news because it's currently “too risky”
Instagram's new Twitter-like app Threads is not prepared to truly challenge Elon Musk's X …
Current advanced LLMs from OpenAI and others have many flaws but they will, decades from now, be recognized as the first true examples of AGI, similar to ENIAC
Today's most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence. Mastodon: @rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf . X: @sh...
Automattic expands ActivityPub support to WordPress.com hosted sites, letting blog owners reach 13.3M users across the fediverse, including Mastodon's 1.8M MAUs
Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse …
At SBF's trial, the personal dynamics between him and his friends are a vital component of the case, making clear how much his inner circle has turned on him
The FTX founder's criminal trial has made clear just how much his inner circle has turned against him. X: @lylepratt , @jespow , @bradydale , @runnerxbt , @zekefaux , @ritwik_priya , @andrewrchow , @r...
Elliptic: the Russia-linked unidentified FTX hackers who stole $415M to $432M in November 2022 started moving the haul in October, the first time in 2023
Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—and eventually some that look Russian in origin.
US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says Alameda paid $100M to $150M in crypto transfers to Chinese officials to unfreeze its OKX and Huobi trading accounts, worth ~$1B
During the Sam Bankman-Fried trial on Wednesday, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison testified that the crypto trading …
Google Pixel Watch 2 review: battery lasts all day, better Fitbit integration, health, and stress tracking, but the screen is fragile and there's only one size
Atlassian plans to acquire video messaging platform Loom for around $975M, made up of $880M in cash and the rest in stock, closing in Q1 2024
Atlassian (TEAM.O) said on Thursday it had agreed to acquire privately held video messaging platform Loom for about $975 million …
Internal memo: NPR lost a negligible amount of traffic in the six months since leaving X, after the service labeled the outlet “US state-affiliated media”
The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn't worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic
Sources: the US Department of Commerce is considering new export controls for general-purpose AI programs, a move that experts say could weaken US AI innovation
Karen Hao / The Atlantic : X: @_karenhao , @dlberes , @bobehayes , @ainowinstitute , @theatlantic , and @ambaonadventure LinkedIn: Marc Rotenberg , Christos Makridis , and Marc Rotenberg X: @_karenha...
Piper Sandler survey of 9,000+ US teens: 29.1% of their daily video consumption time is on YouTube, beating Netflix for the first time at 28.7%, and ~7% on Hulu
- Teenagers in the United States say they watch more video on YouTube than Netflix, according to a new survey from investment bank Piper Sandler.
Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro review: useful, if troubling, AI photo editing tools, Face Unlock now works for payments, but the Tensor G3 runs hot occasionally
The best Android phone Mat Smith / Engadget : The Morning After: Our verdict on Google's Pixel 8 Pro Will Sattelberg / Android Police : Google Pixel 8 Pro review: Living up to its name Marques Brownle...
TikTok updates its $6M Effect Creator Rewards fund to add lower eligibility rules, a revamped payout model, and a lower threshold to start collecting rewards
TikTok is updating its Effect Creator Rewards program with lower eligibility requirements, a revamped payout model …
Hands-on with Best Take for Pixel 8, which uses AI to replace people's faces, a fun camera tool that worryingly helps AI standardize what happiness looks like
A new AI function called Best Take in Google's Pixel 8 lets you replace people's faces, saving memories of moments that never actually happened.
Surface Laptop Go 3 review: premium design but low-resolution screen, no keyboard backlighting, limited port selection, and too expensive for what it offers
The Go 3 is a nice-looking and well-built device, but the $999 price makes no sense. … The chassis looks identical …
Sony plans to launch PS5 game cloud streaming for PlayStation Plus Premium members in Japan on October 17, Europe on October 23, and North America on October 30
everything we know so far Rik Henderson / T3 : Your PlayStation 5 storage is about to get a massive boost with PS5 cloud streaming Anthony Nash / PlayStation LifeStyle : PS5 Cloud Streaming Launch Dat...
Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is generating $1.3B in revenue per year, implying the company is now generating $100M+/month, up 30% in three months
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is generating revenue at a pace of $1.3 billion a year, CEO Sam Altman told staff this week, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.
CCData: Coinbase's quarterly spot trading volume fell 52% YoY to $76B in Q3, likely the lowest volume since Coinbase's direct listing on Nasdaq in April 2021
- Transaction revenue accounts for about half of total revenue — Quarterly spot trading volume fell to $76 billion, CCData says
How Google Chrome's Discover feed on Android serves up misleading propaganda to Russian audiences; a source says Russian-languages services are a lower priority
Mobile users in Russia are being served pro-war propaganda from sources Google has blocked elsewhere.
Investigation: instant loan app scams push people in India and other countries into a spiral of debt, driving many to suicide after shame and blackmail
Horrific — https://www.bbc.co.uk/... X: Soutik Biswas / @soutikbbc : A blackmail scam is using instant loan apps to entrap people across India. At least 60 Indians have killed themselves after being...
Microsoft plans to deprecate VBScript and make the programming language an on-demand feature in future Windows releases before its eventual removal from the OS
A bad era, but still — https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ... X: @215alexb : It was fun while it lasted [image] LinkedIn: Santosh Pandit : Imagine you're providing your children with a specific food ...
Block acquires Hifi, which launched in 2020 as a financial rights organization for artists and recently rolled out Cash Flow to pay artists a bi-monthly salary
Block, the Jack Dorsey-founded fintech company previously known as Square, has acquired Hifi, a music-focused fintech startup.
Filing: India accuses 30+ staff of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo of visa violations and says Vivo siphoned off ~$13B to its Chinese parent via a “masking layer”
The US FTC proposes a rule to require ticket sellers and others to show the total price to users upfront; Ticketmaster and SeatGeek have pledged all-in pricing
Including ‘Hidden Mandatory Fees’ for Concert Tickets NBC News : FTC announces proposed rule to ban ‘junk fees’ X: Lina Khan / @linakhanftc : 1. Junk fees cheat American families out of tens of billio...
Cleanlab, which sells data labelling tools for more accurate AI training data, raised a $25M Series A led by Menlo Ventures and TQ Ventures at a $100M valuation
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Goldman Sachs offloads major BNPL player GreenSky for an undisclosed sum to a group of money managers, after acquiring the company for $1.7B in 2021
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Singapore's biggest tech hopes, Grab, Sea, and Razer, have stumbled, which may show why VCs were premature in calling Singapore the “Silicon Valley of Asia”
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg : X: @clemtan , @alexmacgregor__ , @yoolimleenews , and @pelstrom . LinkedIn: Ethan Tan X: @clemtan : The rough journey of an Uber-like ride-hailing company helps explain why S...
a16z-backed Character.AI launches Character Group Chat, a feature that lets paying subscribers start group chats with AI characters, and with or without humans
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Sources: several key ex-Arm staff in China depart for Borui Jingxin, a local government-backed chip design firm, worrying Arm investors over future China sales
Bloomberg : X: @rodolfor X: @rodolfor : “Could”, LOL, that's the whole point!! ‘Exclusive: Senior Arm China employees have quit to create a government-backed startup that some fear could divert reven...
Filing: Progress Software says the US SEC opened an investigation into the MOVEit hack that has cost the company $1M and exposed 64M+ people's personal data
Note 15: Cyber Related Matters November 2022 Cyber Incident Following the detection … Cynthia Brumfield / Metacurity : SEC Launches Probe into Progress Software's MOVEit Vulnerability, Issues Subpoena...
Sources: Sequoia's China spin off HongShan is seeking global business opportunities and investments for its portfolio companies, as China's economy slows down
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Sources: OpenAI plans to unveil major developer updates on November 6, like memory storage in its tools and vision capabilities to analyze and describe images
As Pat Gelsinger tries to revive Intel, a self-imposed deadline to add a big foundry client in 2023 looms and, even then, revenue from a deal may be years away
Bloomberg : X: @jimpethokoukis X: James Pethokoukis / @jimpethokoukis : “Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has embarked on one of the largest factory-building sprees in chip-industry history, part of an audaci...
A look at Ring's Neighbors app, which lets users report local activity and forwarded 13,053 posts to the LAPD over two years, some about non-criminal behavior
Analysis: Apple's key suppliers in Taiwan saw revenue fall 16.4% YoY to ~$38.7B in September, despite the launch of new iPhones and several Android smartphones
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