Apple plans to adopt the GSM's RCS messaging standard by releasing a software update “later next year”, bringing iMessage-style features to cross-platform texts
In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard.
IBM suspends its advertising on X globally after Media Matters said X has been placing ads for IBM, Apple, Oracle, and others alongside pro-Nazi material
Tech company's move is the latest setback to Linda Yaccarino's efforts to convince brands Elon Musk's platform is safe
TikTok removes videos promoting Osama Bin Laden's “Letter to America” that justified the 9/11 attacks, but calls reports that they were trending “inaccurate”
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Meta unveils new AI tools to edit images and generate videos from text instructions, based on Emu, its model for image generation announced in September 2023
Artificial intelligence researchers from Meta Platforms Inc. said today they have made significant advances in AI-powered image and video generation.
Apple plans to show green bubbles for RCS messages and keep iMessages blue to denote what the company considers is the most secure way for iPhone users to text
Earlier today, Apple announced its plans to bring RCS support to the iPhone in 2024. Since I published my story on the news this morning …
Coinbase updates Coinbase Commerce with its new open-source Onchain Payment Protocol, which offers instant settlement, low fees, and broad asset support
- Coinbase has built an open source “Onchain Payment Protocol” to improve its Commerce product. — The protocol currently supports Ethereum, Polygon and Base ecosystems.
MeridianLink confirms a cyberattack after a ransomware gang claimed to have reported the financial software company to the US SEC for not disclosing the breach
Financial software company MeridianLink confirmed that it is dealing with a cyberattack after the hackers behind …
Over a dozen Jewish celebrities and creators confronted TikTok executives on a call, urging them to do more to address antisemitism and harassment on the app
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times :
Microsoft details Windows 11 changes coming to the EEA to comply with the DMA, like letting users disable Bing web search, add search providers, and remove Edge
Microsoft will soon let Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area (EEA) disable its Bing web search, remove Microsoft Edge …
The FBI and the CISA release an advisory detailing the tactics used by Scattered Spider, a hacker group that now collaborates with the BlackCat ransomware group
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an advisory …
Bluesky plans to release a public web interface around the end of November and launch federation in early 2024, and says its social network has crossed 2M users
Bluesky, the company building a decentralized alternative to Twitter/X, announced today it has hit 2 million users …
Internal note: the European Commission plans to “temporarily suspend” X advertising over widespread disinformation concerns and to avoid “reputational damage”
Ads on Musk-owned social media site risk causing ‘reputational damage’ to the EU, its executive says in internal note.
Sources: Google told some cloud customers not to expect Gemini access until Q1 2024, after previously saying they would get access to the LLM by November 2023
Google's company-defining effort to catch up to ChatGPT creator OpenAI is turning out to be harder than expected.
Internal memo: Amazon plans to cut several hundred roles in its Alexa division as part of a broader shift in priorities and a focus on generative AI
Amazon will eliminate several hundred roles in its Alexa division as part of a broader shift in priorities and a focus on developing new forms …
Sources: Apple may again postpone releasing its own iPhone modem chip, until at least late 2025 or early 2026, the final year of its extended Qualcomm contract
Company will likely miss a 2025 goal to roll out its own cellular modem inside the device — Apple Inc. has fallen further behind …
Discord plans to shut down its ChatGPT-powered experimental chatbot Clyde on December 1; Discord started testing Clyde in March 2023
Discord is shutting down Clyde, its experimental AI chatbot. In a support note, Discord says the chatbot will be “deactivated” at the end of the month …
A California convicts former VC Mike Rothenberg on 21 counts for defrauding investors, including bank fraud, false statements, money laundering, and wire fraud
Mike Rothenberg, a former VC known for hosting lavish parties, was convicted today on 21 counts for defrauding investors
US v. Google: the DOJ wrapped up the trial's evidentiary phase on Thursday, having argued that Google broke antitrust law; closing arguments are set for May
The U.S. government hammered away at its main arguments against Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Thursday, wrapping up the evidentiary phase …
Forever Companions' service, which let customers talk to an AI girlfriend modeled after influencer Caryn Marjorie, stopped working after CEO John Meyer's arrest
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Game developer Scopely, citing data.ai, says Monopoly Go reached $1B+ in revenue in seven months, faster than any other casual game in mobile game history
Game company Scopely has announced that its mobile game Monopoly Go has now raked in more than $1 billion in revenue, becoming 2023's …
YouTube previews Dream Track and Music AI tools, which use DeepMind's new model Lyria to generate music in the style of famous artists, from humming, and more
Will Knight / Wired :
Amazon plans to let US auto dealers sell new vehicles on its platform, starting in 2024 with Hyundai, which will include Alexa in its cars beginning in 2025
including vehicle sales on Amazon.com in 2024 CNBC : Amazon will allow auto dealers to sell cars on its site, starting with Hyundai Taylor Soper / GeekWire : Car industry analyst: Amazon's move into v...
According to an email, Apple Music implemented fraud protections including “financial adjustments” in 2022, resulting in 30% drop in streaming manipulation
While Spotify is just now moving towards a penalty system, Apple quietly started making “financial adjustments” for repeat fraudsters more than a year ago.
MediaTek announces a partnership with Meta to develop chips for AR smart glasses; the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1
Andrew Romero / 9to5Google :
Microsoft plans to release Copilot for Windows 10 Home and Pro to Release Preview testers, for devices with a minimum of 4GB of RAM and a 720p screen resolution
Tom Warren / The Verge :
X's job search tool for the web is live for all users, with iOS and Android availability expected “soon”; users complete applications on third-party websites
watch out craigslist 😭 [embedded post] X: Travis Curnutte / @traviscurnutte : @XHiring Until these items are available on mobile they won't take off for mass adoption. Why is X building so many things...
Current and ex-Snap staffers say Evan Spiegel has spoken admiringly of some of Musk's ideas for X as he promotes “hardcore” work to lift Snap from an ad slump
Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has lately taken to walking around his company's Santa Monica, Calif. …
Securities watchdog IOSCO releases its crypto rules report, making 18 recommendations in six areas, across market manipulation, insider trading, fraud, and more
Amaka Nwaokocha / Cointelegraph :
In a first, the Signal Foundation publishes Signal's operating costs: ~$40M in 2023, projected to hit $50M by 2025, with $14M for infrastructure costs in 2023
Embracer reports Q2 net sales up 13% YoY to ~$1B, layoffs that impacted ~900 staff, or 5% of its workforce, and 36 fewer games in development than in Q2 2022
and Warns of More to Come Derek Strickland / TweakTown : Embracer likely to cancel more games to reduce expenses, may shy away from external projects X: Rim / @rim_aj : An estimated 7,100 layoffs this...
Sources: Thrasio, which acquires third-party Amazon sellers, is preparing to file for bankruptcy as the startup deals with a post-pandemic online spending slump
Wall Street Journal :
Alibaba's market cap drops to ~$196B, as the cloud and e-commerce company faces sluggish demand and intensified competition; Alibaba was valued at $850B in 2020
including an abandoned cloud spin-off plan—wipe billions from Alibaba's market cap Miguel Cordon / Tech in Asia : Alibaba shares drop 10% after it canceled cloud spin-off plans RTÉ : Alibaba's U-turn ...
Google finds and helps patch a Zimbra Collaboration email server zero-day used to steal data from governments in Greece, Moldova, Tunisia, Vietnam, and Pakistan
It links the attacks to past Chinese APT activity, but does not formally attribute the attacks. — It also points out that Winter Vivern (suspected Belarus) also exploited this after a patch was rele...
Amazon is targeting $20B in merchandise exports from India by 2025 by adding thousands of small sellers and has added 100K+ small manufacturers from the country
Manoj Kumar / Reuters :
Toyota Financial Services, which provides auto financing to Toyota customers, confirms a breach after the Medusa ransomware gang threatened to leak company data
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :
YouTube updates its guidelines to allow monetizing videos that display nudity while breastfeeding if a child is present, non-sexually graphic dancing, and more
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Sources: chip equipment maker Applied Materials is under a US DOJ criminal investigation for possibly evading export restrictions on SMIC, China's top chipmaker
Karen Freifeld / Reuters :
A US judge rejects X's bid to overturn a May 2022 FTC order imposing safeguarding requirements on its users' data and declines to stop an Elon Musk deposition
Joseph Menn / Washington Post :
Tether plans to spend ~$500M over the next six months to become one of the world's top Bitcoin miners, after acquiring a 20% stake in Northern Data in September
Nvidia updates its GeForce Now app to introduce Game Syncing, which lets users stream PC games purchased via the Microsoft Store, PC Game Pass, and Ubisoft+
An update to X's developer terms suggests the company plans to let EU researchers access its API and use its licensed data for DSA-related research purposes
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Digital bank Revolut plans to offer its “secret sauce” HRtech, used to manage its 7,500 staff, as a B2B proposition to select companies on an invite-only basis
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