Apple announces a new “affordable” $79 Apple Pencil with USB-C for charging, shipping in “early November” and compatible with all USB-C iPads
A nice surprise... Apple has today unveiled a new “affordable” Apple Pencil with USB-C that costs $79.
The FTX estate floats an amended proposal to return up to 90% of creditor holdings, divided into three pools, and plans to formally file the plan by December 16
An amended proposal released early Tuesday will be filed by the FTX Debtors by mid-December if approved.
US v. SBF: Nishad Singh says SBF used customer funds for spending sprees that “reeked of excess” and he learned of an $8B hole two months before FTX collapsed
before it all crashed Luc Cohen / Reuters : Sam Bankman-Fried directed political donations despite $13 bln ‘hole’, ex-colleague testified Michael Grullon / Watcher Guru : FTX Trial: SBF Used Stolen Fu...
Meta identifies and fixes a bug after thousands of Palestinian supporters say their posts were suppressed or removed from Facebook and Instagram
Meta has cautioned that some posts may be temporarily suppressed or suspended as it sifts through millions of posts spreading across its platforms.
Tim Cook makes a rare visit to China, appearing at a contest for Tencent's Honor of Kings game in the Chengdu Apple Store, as the US ramps up its chip sanctions
- Cook joined an ‘Honor of Kings’ contest in Chengdu Apple store — The CEO visits as worries grow about its performance in China
Cisco says a zero-day flaw in its IOS XE software has been exploited in the wild since at least September 18; Shodan shows up to 80K devices could be affected
An unknown threat actor is exploiting the vulnerability to create admin accounts. — Cisco is urging customers to protect …
LinkedIn plans to lay off 668 staff, mostly from its engineering team, after cutting 716 jobs in May 2023; a source says LinkedIn is ramping up hiring in India
- LinkedIn is cutting almost 700 employees as revenue growth has slowed over the past two years.
Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto lists trust and safety, sustainability, and tech ethics as “enemies”, says AI is “our Philosopher's Stone”, and more
In a 5,200-word manifesto published by the venture capitalist and billionaire Marc Andreessen on Monday …
WhatsApp plans to roll out passkeys to all Android users in the coming months to replace passwords; support for passkeys on WhatsApp for iOS is unclear
WhatsApp users on Android can say goodbye to insecure and annoying SMS two-factor authentication. The Meta-owned company announced on X …
Former federal prosecutors say SBF's prospects for beating the fraud charges he faces are rapidly deteriorating, as the US marshals damaging insider testimony
Tory Newmyer / Washington Post :
Uniswap plans to start implementing a 0.15% fee for certain crypto trades on its web app and wallet from October 17, generating an estimated $1M per day in fees
- Uniswap will add a new fee starting on Oct. 17 for certain swaps on its web interface and wallet.
Sources detail Netflix's deepening gaming push: more games based on its shows, including Squid Game and Wednesday, discussions about a GTA game, and more
Streamer to put greater emphasis on developing games based on its popular programming, including ‘Squid Game,’ ‘Wednesday,’ ‘Black Mirror’
The US plans to significantly constrict AI chip exports, including by Nvidia and Intel, hoping to close perceived loopholes in the export controls from 2022
New rules make it tougher for Nvidia and Intel to sell advanced semiconductors to the Chinese market
Xiaomi unveils the Android-based HyperOS, set to debut with the Xiaomi 14 series and gradually replace the company's 13-year-old MIUI OS for all Xiaomi devices
HyperOS will cater to Xiaomi's wide range of products beyond just smartphones. — • — TL;DR
As Telegram lets Hamas use its service, CEO Pavel Durov says Telegram channels are “a unique source of first-hand information” for researchers and journalists
CNN : Source: Pavel Durov on Telegram .
How the Israeli military uses mobile phone data from the ~1.1M residents of Gaza to track their movements and assess how many heeded Israel's demand to leave
New York Times : X: @radio_research , @gabrielecarrer , @seangraf , and @radio_research X: @radio_research : The report outlines a color coordinated system using location data to know which neighborh...
Stand.earth: Apple is ahead of Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Dell, and HP in climate initiatives and is the only one that has renewable targets for its suppliers
A new report compares climate initiatives by Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Microsoft, and Nvidia. Apple's far from perfect, but so far …
ASML says new updates to US export curbs designed to block China's access to highly advanced chip tech will lower its Chinese sales in the medium to long term
Cagan Koc / Bloomberg :
Baidu co-founder Robin Li unveils Ernie 4.0 and claims that the language model is on par with OpenAI's GPT-4 in terms of sophistication and general capabilities
- Robin Li says AI model is finally on par with OpenAI's GPT-4 — US and China are locked in a race with profound implications
Sources: Israel compelled Binance to suspend 100+ accounts since Hamas' attacks on October 7; Binance confirms the exchange “blocked” a “small number” of users
Authorities close more than 100 accounts on Binance as appeals for donations appear on social media platforms
Twitch launches Stories, expiring after 48 hours, for Partners and Affiliates who have streamed at least once for 45 minutes or longer in the last 30 days
Ahead of TwitchCon Las Vegas, Twitch is launching stories for streamers to connect with their audience even when they aren't live.
Experts say Hamas using hostages' Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to livestream attacks and issue death threats is a new tactic; one stream lasted 43 minutes
New York Times : X: @sheeraf , @erant , @synaesthesiajp , and @thegarance X: Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : We spoke to over a dozen people whose friends and family were kidnapped on Oct. 7. What we dis...
Netflix plans to air a “Netflix Cup” golf tournament on Nov. 14, its first live sports event, with “Drive to Survive” Formula 1 drivers and “Full Swing” golfers
Like other streamers, Netflix seems eager to get into live sports.
X's Community Notes have struggled during the Israel-Hamas war as volunteers become overwhelmed; just 438 notes ended up being displayed in the first five days
https://conspirator0.substack.com/ ... X: @conspirator0 : I took a look at how Community Notes is doing at handling the deluge of misinformation related to the current Israel/Hamas war. TLDR: Communit...
Intel Core i9-14900K, i7-14700K, and i5-14600K review: same architecture as 13th Gen, higher power draw, and similar performance, slightly improved for gaming
Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech :
Israel plans to boycott Europe's biggest tech conference, Web Summit, after the event's co-founder accused Israel of war crimes, as many tech companies pull out
given all the tweets @paddycosgrave has been liking over the last few days. I saved several of them on the attached google doc (so we have a record when the @WebSummit PR team asks him to delete them)...
Snapchat now lets users embed its content into a website, mimicking long-standing Instagram and TikTok features, and adds OpenAI-powered photo expanding tools
Snap appears to be taking a leaf out of TikTok's content playbook. — Snapchat has rolled out two new features …
Music storefront Bandcamp lays off nearly 50% of its workforce, or 58 employees, as part of Songtradr's acquisition of the company from Epic Games in September
Stephen Council / SFGATE :
Bethesda Head of Publishing Pete Hines plans to leave after 24 years, just weeks after the release of Starfield, to begin an “exciting new chapter”
Binance.US updates its terms of use to stop dollar withdrawals, saying users must convert “US dollar funds to stablecoin or other digital assets”
Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk :
Stack Overflow lays off 100+ people, or 28% of its workforce, to “significantly” reduce its “go-to-market organization”, after doubling its size to 500+ in 2022
Mojang announces 300M+ copies of Minecraft sold in ~15 years; Rockstar's GTA V is the second best-selling game ever after reportedly selling ~185M in ~10 years
Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses review: sleek charging case and better audio and camera, but feels like a novelty, Meta AI isn't useful yet, and limited ecosystem
Karissa Bell / Engadget :
Patreon acquires Moment, which helps creators host live-streamed, ticketed experiences like podcasts and concerts and has raised $13.5M since its 2019 founding
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Nirvana Insurance, which uses AI, telematics, IoT, and 15B miles of trucking data to insure commercial truck fleets, raised a $57M Series B led by Lightspeed
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
TSMC drops plans to build a new chip plant in Longtan, a rural part of Taiwan, after local opposition; the company reportedly planned to build 1nm chips there
Sarah Wu / Reuters :
ScyllaDB, a NoSQL database startup working on high-throughput, low-latency workloads, raised $43M led by Eight Roads Ventures, taking its total funding to $103M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Binance halts user signups in the UK, after the FCA restricted a local partner's ability to approve communications for crypto companies with customers
What Does it Mean for Existing Customers? Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : Binance pauses UK customer sign-ups Ali B. / Cryptonews : Bitcoin Price Prediction: MicroStrategy Boost, Binance's UK Hal...
Chinese generative AI startup Baichuan, one of the first to win approval to release its LLMs, raised $300M from Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, and others
Jane Zhang / Bloomberg :
Snap's stock closes up 11.98% after a report that the company's internal “stretch” goal was to pass 475M DAUs in 2024, above Wall Street's expectations of ~447M
Analysts and developers weigh in on the impact of Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal, including the company's cloud gaming, mobile, and Xbox Game Pass plans
James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz :
Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs and Pudgy Penguins creator LSLTTT are among the NFT makers boycotting Blur and OpenSea for recently slashed royalty rates
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg :
A look at sexism in the video games industry; State of the Game Industry 2023 report: ~23% are women, up from 20% in 2022, 5% are non-binary, and 70% are men
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : X: @dannygroner X: Danny Groner / @dannygroner : “Mara McGreal, a 25-year-old environmental artist at Radical Forge in north-east England, hosts monthly meetups f...
YouTube adds Spotlight Moments, an AI-powered ad tool meant to help brands identify the most popular YouTube videos related to a cultural moment like the Oscars
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Adam Mosseri says Threads' blocking of “Covid” and related terms is temporary and will be lifted in “weeks or months”
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Threads: @mosseri , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , and @taylorlorenz . Bluesky: @annatarkov.bsky.social Threads: Adam Mosseri / @mosseri : Weeks or months, let me look int...
Analysis: X throttles traffic to Patreon, WhatsApp, and at times Messenger by 2.5 seconds on average; Patreon creators say doing so undermines their livelihood
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