WhatsApp plans to let users switch between two accounts on Android in the coming weeks; a second account will still need a separate phone number and SIM card
If you use two different WhatsApp accounts, you'll soon be able to access both from just one device.
Chainalysis says recent media reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses”
- Chainalysis said some recent reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses.”
New York AG Letitia James sues the Winklevoss' Gemini, Genesis, and its parent Digital Currency Group, alleging the companies defrauded 230K investors of $1B+
New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing the Winklevoss twin-led exchange Gemini along with the crypto lending firm Genesis …
WhatsApp rolls out a view once mode for voice notes to some beta users on iOS and Android, after launching the feature for photos and videos in August 2021
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TSMC reports Q3 revenue down 14.6% YoY to ~$17.28B, net income down 24.9% YoY to ~$6.5B, and expects to spend $32B on growing and upgrading capacity in 2023
- Sales and capex projections both came in ahead of estimates — World's most advanced chipmaker is struggling with a downturn
AMD announces new Ryzen Threadripper 7000 CPUs for desktops and workstations, offering up to 96 cores on the 7000 Pro series, shipping November 21 for $550+
Having just recently crossed the one-year anniversary of AMD's first Zen 4 architecture CPUs - the Ryzen 7000 series …
Netflix raises its US prices for its basic plan from $9.99 to $11.99, its premium plan from $19.99 to $22.99, and some of its prices in the UK and France
Hollywood strikes will lead to lower content spending, more free cash flow this year, company says — Netflix said its efforts …
Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery system to the UK, Italy, and a third US city in late 2024 and integrate Prime Air into its delivery network
The company will also bring the Prime Air program to a third US city by the end of 2024. — Amazon has some big plans …
Nokia plans to cut up to 14,000 jobs, or ~16% of its 86,000 workforce, and reports Q3 2023 net sales down 20% YoY to €4.98B and profit down 69% YoY to €133M
- Nokia said it would cut up to 14,000 jobs as part of a cost cutting plan following third quarter earnings that plunged.
The European Central Bank plans to start a two-year “preparation phase” for the digital euro on November 1, to finalize rules, select partners, and do testing
The European Central Bank took a further step on Wednesday towards launching a digital version of the euro …
Sources: the UK plans to announce an international advisory group on AI, loosely modeled on the UN's IPCC, at the November 2023 AI summit in Bletchley Park
The British government wants to draw on expert knowledge about the fast-developing technology — The UK is planning to announce …
Meta's Yann LeCun says regulating R&D for AI “is incredibly counterproductive” and only serves to reinforce the dominance of Big Tech and stifle competition
Their innovation is about running over peoples autonomy [embedded post] X: Stephanie Hare / @hare_brain : “There's no question that we'll have machines assisting us that are smarter than us. And the q...
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 7.8% YoY to $8.54B, vs. $8.54B est., and global paid memberships up 10.8% YoY to 247.15M, vs. 243.88M est.; NFLX jumps 18%+
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos. Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia : Netflix: People just want most of what they want in one place. We have a projected $6.5 billion in FCF and are increasing content spend...
Sources: Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company's App Store in China following an internal investigation into business misconduct
Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company's App Store in China following an internal probe into business misconduct …
Mustafa Suleyman, Eric Schmidt, and others propose an IPCC-like International Panel on AI Safety, an objective advisory body to help shape protocols and norms
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A researcher details a malicious and convincing Google ad linking to a fake site for password manager Keepass; Google shows a verified advertiser paid for them
Google-verified advertiser + legit-looking URL + valid TLS cert = convincing look-alike. — Google has been caught hosting …
US v. Google: Pandu Nayak, Google's VP of Search and first witness, testifies that smart employees explain its success and lead to innovations, such as on LLMs
While the Justice Department says Google has squeezed partners and made expensive deals to maintain its search dominance, the company has a more genteel story to tell.
OnePlus Open review: thin and light for a foldable and good multitasking support, but no water resistance or wireless charging, and very costly at $1,700
The OnePlus Open finds a happy medium between the Pixel Fold and Galaxy Z Fold 5 size-wise, but it's too close in price to the incumbent foldables.
Meta introduces temporary limits on “potentially unwelcome or unwanted comments” on Facebook posts about the Israel-Hamas war for users “in the region”
Facebook-owner Meta Platforms (META.O) on Wednesday introduced temporary measures to limit …
Discord overhauls its moderation tools with a new warning system and a teen safety assist feature, plans to roll out an in-app shop for Discord members, more
Discord is overhauling the way it moderates its platform with a new warning system and teen safety assist feature.
US v. SBF: accounting professor Peter Easton testifies that FTX used “over a billion dollars” of customer funds to buy back Binance's FTX stake, bought in 2019
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a 2022 post the company had received over $2.1 billion in binance usd (BUSD) stablecoins and FTX's FTT tokens.
A US judge sentences a social media influencer to seven months in prison for conspiring to suppress votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016, including via Twitter ads
- A Trump-supporting social media influencer was sentenced to seven months in prison for conspiring to suppress the votes …
Experts say misinformation from “verified” pseudo-OSINT accounts on X, driven by profit and engagement, is destroying the Israel-Hamas war information ecosystem
The FCC votes 3-2 to begin to re-establish net neutrality rules, starting by inviting public comments; the effort still faces a long legal and political battle
The Federal Communications Commission officially began its effort to re-establish net neutrality at its monthly meeting today …
Google updates Play Protect with real-time scanning at the code level, prompting users to scan unknown Android apps before sideloading, starting in India
To avoid detection, Google has found that malicious parties are looking beyond the Play Store to infect Android devices with malware.
A May 2023 survey of 5,101 US adults: 78% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans support more government regulation over what companies can do with people's data
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The US House's China committee asks about Sequoia's investments since 2010 in AI, quantum, and chip companies based, or with “significant operations”, in China
Scrutiny of California VC firm comes amid mounting tension between Washington and Beijing
Stanford unveils the Foundation Model Transparency Index, featuring 100 indicators; Llama 2 led at 54%, GPT-4 placed third at 48%, and PaLM 2 took fifth at 40%
https://www.nytimes.com/... [image] Mark Coggins / @coggins@mastodon.social : This is the kind of needed AI regulation—requiring model makers to reveal how they trained their language models—that #Ma...
An international group of law enforcement agencies, including the US, the EU, and Japan, seizes the dark web portal used by the RagnarLocker ransomware group
An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web portal used by the notorious RagnarLocker ransomware group, TechCrunch has learned.
Google plans to start assembling the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro in India and begin India-made shipments in 2024, but didn't reveal its local manufacturing partners
Google will start assembling the Pixel smartphone lineup in India, a company executive said, becoming the latest tech giant …
Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on nuance in headlines about AI, taboos among AI researchers, and why top researchers may disagree about AI's potential risks to humanity
Susan D'Agostino / Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists : X: @bulletinatomic , @susan_dagostino , @aisafetyfirst , and @flixrisk LinkedIn: Prakash Hebalkar , Michael Robbins , and Steve Johnson Forums: ...
Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO sue Anthropic for allegedly violating their copyrights by using song lyrics to train AI models
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide :
How Only in Dade, started as an Instagram meme page a decade ago, inadvertently became a Miami local news source, including by using its 1.3M followers' videos
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post :
Google updates Chrome's address bar with better autocomplete, suggestions for misspelled URL names, search within bookmark folders, and a revamped desktop look
The US GSA plans to add facial recognition tech to Login.gov in 2024 and another digital identity verification option for those who don't want to use the tech
If I'm reading right, — * all US top-level agencies now have services using login.gov, and — * login.gov is getting facial recognition, in-person proofing at post offices, and phone options to equ...
SynFutures, a decentralized derivatives exchange for trading crypto perpetual futures, raised a $22M Series B led by Pantera, after a $14M Series A in June 2021
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
Sources: YouTube is building an AI tool that lets creators record audio using famous musicians' voices and seeking major record labels' rights to train the tool
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg :
Lam Research reports Q1 revenue down 31% YoY to $3.48B, vs. $3.42B est., the third straight quarter of decline, as the chipmaking tools market remains “soft”
Nick Turner / Bloomberg :
Meta plans to roll out its Telegram-like broadcast channels on Facebook and Messenger in the coming weeks, after launching the feature on Instagram and WhatsApp
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Honda, GM, and Cruise plan to set up a joint venture in H1 2024 to launch a driverless ride service in Japan in early 2026, using their Cruise Origin vehicles
Internal message: Discord shuts down Gas nine months after acquiring the app, which let users anonymously compliment friends and had ~1M DAUs in October 2022
Mark Matousek / The Information :
Sydney-based Employment Hero, which offers a recruitment and HR platform, raised a AU$263M Series F at a AU$2.13B valuation, taking its total funding to AU$650M
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
Cybersecurity startups raised nearly $1.9B globally in 153 deals in Q3 2023, up 12% from Q2 but down 30% from $2.7B in Q3 2022; just five deals were over $75M
Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News :
SecureW2, whose zero-trust platform helps companies use certificate-based authentication from identity software providers, raised $80M from Insight Partners
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
The EU's antitrust order requiring Google to let Android users select a search engine boosts usage of Russia's Yandex, now a top five option in Germany and more
Since this feature was rolled out, the Russian search engine Yandex has grown in popularity. … X: Samuel Stolton / @samuelstolton : The European Union's antitrust crackdown on Google's Android has led...
Filing: China took a “golden share” in Tencent's local subsidiary Shenzhen Yayue, buying a 1% stake for ~$82K, the latest move to expand tech sector control
Josh Ye / Reuters :
Sources: the EU adjusts DSA charges to cap them at 0.05% of 2022 profit; X and Amazon may pay €0 while Alphabet and Meta together pay ~€31M, or 75% of the total
Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg : X: @oliviasolon X: Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : Meta and Google will pick up most of the tab for the €45 million fee for enforcing the EU's strict new content rules, wh...
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