HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery says Peter Todd, known for his Bitcoin codebase contributions, is Satoshi Nakamoto, a claim Todd denies
A new HBO documentary takes a swing at uncovering the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin.
Filing: the US DOJ lays out “behavioral and structural remedies”, including a breakup, for the federal judge to consider in the Google Search antitrust case
- Antitrust officials also mull making Google share search data — Justice Department proposes multiple options in historic case
Google says the US DOJ's “radical and sweeping proposals” in the Search antitrust case risk “hurting” consumers, businesses, developers, and US competitiveness
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today shared a broad outline of radical changes it may demand as part …
The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”
- Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for “foundational discoveries” in machine learning
had not seen them in any of the sweepstakes ahead of the announcement. But if everything is either physics or stamp collecting we just promoted machine learning to “physics”. (Lovely overlaps with sta...
MediaTek unveils its 3nm Dimensity 9400 mobile SoC, featuring a CPU with eight “Big” cores and its eighth-gen NPU, claiming “80% faster LLM prompt performance”
MediaTek has formally announced its new flagship mobile chipset, the Dimensity 9400.
ISD: top officials in NC and at FEMA responding to Hurricane Helene face antisemitic attacks largely on X, where 10 of the posts collectively drew 17.1M views
Report finds Elon Musk's X is fueling conspiracy theories that risk undermining rescue efforts and preparations for Hurricane Milton.
Turkey blocks access to Discord following a court decision over sufficient suspicion that some users had committed crimes of “child sexual abuse and obscenity”
Turkey has blocked access to instant messaging platform Discord following a court decision, the country's infotech regulator said on Wednesday.
The All England Club says AI will make “out” and “fault” calls at the Wimbledon tennis championships starting in 2025, replacing line judges, after a 2024 test
That long-held Wimbledon tradition of line judges dressed in elegant uniforms is no more.
Microsoft issues Surface Duo 2's final security update ahead of its October 21 end of support; the Duo 2, released in October 2021, got one major Android update
Microsoft has issued the final security update for Surface Duo 2 ahead of its end of support date on October 21.
US judges have little modern precedent to guide them on whether a breakup like the one the DOJ is proposing in the Google Search antitrust case is appropriate
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Brazil's Supreme Court authorizes the return of X after the company complied with its demands, including taking down some accounts and appointing a legal rep
- Court banned platform in August as billionaire defied orders — Social network had 22 million users in South American country
The US DOJ's quest to end Google's long-standing dominance remains the stuff of fantasy, as whatever the courts may order, any real reckoning will take years
A world where the tech giant gets dismantled is more plausible than it was, but investors have reason to be unfazed
OpenAI says Singapore will serve as its APAC hub and appoints Oliver Jay, who served as Asana's Chief Revenue Officer, to lead its international expansion
Picks Singapore as APAC hub and outlines desire to get governments onside — Chat GPT-maker Open AI announced today that it's appointed …
The Biden-Harris administration launches a White House account on Reddit for news and info about federal government work; the first posts cover Hurricane Helene
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Meta rolls out Meta AI in six more countries, including the UK, and plans 15 more in the coming weeks, and adds it to Ray-Ban glasses in Australia and the UK
15 more countries will get access over the coming weeks. — Meta AI is beginning a big international rollout.
Russia's Roskomnadzor regulator bans Discord, drawing ire from the Russian military, which has extensively used the app to coordinate units in Ukraine
The ban has also renewed a wider debate about how Russia's bureaucratic machine keeps frustrating the military effort.
Ring unveils Ring Home Premium for $20 per month, with 24/7 recording and AI-powered Smart Video Search from November 5 in the US, and changes its other plans
Amazon is revamping its subscription offerings for its Ring video doorbells and cameras. — A new service, called Ring Home Premium …
Glassdoor launches short videos, polls, and images to foster engagement on its platform, and says it has 63M monthly unique users, up from 55M in September 2021
Workplace and salary review platform Glassdoor is drawing inspiration from LinkedIn's roadmap as it is launching short videos …
London-based Basecamp Research, which says its BaseFold model outperforms AlphaFold 2 at predicting proteins, raised a $60M Series B, for $85M in total funding
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Anthropic launches Message Batches API in beta, for batches of up to 10K queries that are processed within 24 hours and cost 50% less than standard API calls
a cost-effective way to process vast amounts of queries asynchronously. You can submit batches of up to 10,000 queries at a time. Each batch is processed within 24 hours and costs 50% less than standa...
US adults on TikTok follow influencers and creators popular on social media but very few politicians, civic actors, or traditional media outlets and journalists
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CamScanner app maker Intsig is the best-performing China IPO stock in 2024 for $100M+ listings, after a euphoric market response to Beijing's stimulus measures
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OpenAI says that China-based SweetSpecter tried to phish its employees earlier in 2024, posing as a ChatGPT user to send customer support emails to its staff
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How Withheld for Privacy and other proxy services that help domain operators shield their identities have turned Iceland into a global hub for illicit activity
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A profile of National Archives and Records Administration Chief Innovation Officer Pamela Wright, who leads the agency's project to digitize its 13B+ records
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KKR-owned BMC Software plans to split: BMC for enterprise mainframes and BMC Helix for enterprise software; BMC will get ~66% of BMC Software's $2.3B in revenue
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Samsung removes the Galaxy Z Fold2, which launched in September 2020 for $2,000, from its list of devices that will receive security updates
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Marketing tech company Zeta Global agrees to acquire LiveIntent, another marketing tech provider, for $250M in cash and stock, in a deal set to close in Q4 2024
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Braintrust, which helps companies evaluate and monitor their AI tools' performance, raised a $36M Series A led by a16z, a source says at a ~$150M valuation
a flexible primitive for building with foundation models. [video] Ankur Goyal / @ankrgyl : Excited to share that we've raised $36m from @martin_casado at @a16z along with @saammotamedi @GreylockVC @el...
Brazil-based Asaas, which offers SMBs payment processing, invoicing, fraud protection, and other financial services, raised a $148M Series C led by Bond Capital
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A look at disagreements over automation between US dockworkers and shipping industry officials, who say they need AI-powered stacking cranes and other machines
Wall Street Journal : X: @eleanorolcott and @eleanorolcott X: Eleanor Olcott / @eleanorolcott : Chinese AI startups are trying to find a way to crack the US market, as they chase revenues to fund com...
A look at Ireland's challenges in its role as a data center hub, as energy supply problems and planning hurdles mean that AWS and others are looking elsewhere
Financial Times : X: @europeangreent and @robgilbey X: @europeangreent : .@FT article: #GlobalTech firms rethink #Ireland as a data hub due & incoming strict low-carbon rules. #EGT's carbon credit pr...
Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's “altruism versus greed” lawsuit is part of his “blusterous campaign to harass OpenAI for his own competitive advantage”
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MiniMax, ByteDance, and 01.ai are among a group of Chinese AI startups that have launched AI products overseas, particularly in the US, to boost revenue growth
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Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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