Winamp owner Llama Group deletes the GitHub repository of the legacy player's source code posted on September 24, following criticism on the way it was released
Winamp, through its Belgian owner Llama Group, posted the source for its “Legacy Player Code” on September 24 so that developers could …
Sources: last week, Meta fired ~24 staff in LA for using $25 meal credits to buy household items, as it restructures WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs teams
The terminations took place last week, just days before the $1.5tn social media company separately began restructuring certain …
The US charges two Sudanese brothers with running Anonymous Sudan, a cyberattack-for-hire gang allegedly responsible for 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year
Government says two brothers targeted big U.S. corporations, a hospital and an Israeli defense system in a mostly ideologically driven operation.
Amazon discontinues the Kindle Oasis, which was the only Kindle still available with physical page-turn buttons, introduced in 2016 and last refreshed in 2019
Amazon has discontinued the Kindle Oasis, which was the only Kindle still available with physical page-turn buttons.
TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to ~$23.6B and net income up 54.2% YoY to ~$10.1B, both above estimates, boosted by strong sales of Nvidia AI chips
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Filing: Google asks the US 9th Circuit for an emergency stay on the Epic ruling, saying the short time it was given to make Play Store changes risks user safety
The company says the imminent deadline to implement changes gives it little time to try to mitigate ‘serious risks.’
Amazon updates Kindle Paperwhite, adding a larger, brighter 7" display and faster page turns for $160+, and Kindle, adding color options and speed improvements
our most popular device. It's faster, thinner, and more powerful than ever, with a gorgeous 7-inch display and page turns that are practically instantaneous. Despite the performance boost, it still de...
Sources: the EU warns X that it may calculate fines against X by including Elon Musk's other companies' revenue; the DSA can fine 6% of global annual revenue
- Commission may base fine on revenue from Musk's ventures — Investigators haven't come to a conclusion about fining X
Sources: Uber has explored a possible bid for Expedia as it seeks to grow into a super app; Expedia, valued at nearly $20B, would be Uber's largest acquisition
Buying the travel website would be the ride-hailing group's biggest deal as it looks to diversify
Instagram rolls out new settings to fight sextortion, like hiding teens' follower lists from potential blackmailers; Meta says the crime is becoming more common
Scammers are targeting teens by getting hold of their intimate photos. — Instagram says it's rolling out a suite of new settings …
On Apple Pay's 10th anniversary, Apple adds support for Klarna in the US and UK and plans to expand installment loan options and add reward redemptions
On Thursday, Apple celebrated 10 years with Apple Pay and announced how the service will evolve in the future, including the future addition …
Hong Kong police arrested 24+ members of an alleged pig butchering crime ring, which they say used deepfake AI to lure its victims across Asia and raked in $46M
Hong Kong CNN — She appeared to be a beautiful woman and in the minds of men across Asia, the video calls they spoke on confirmed their newfound love was real.
Hobbyists post the code for Redbox kiosk software online, and tinkerers have been probing how it works, sometimes repurposing abandoned machines to run Doom
The code that runs Redbox DVD rental machines has been dumped online, and, in the wake of the company's bankruptcy …
On a podcast, Donald Trump says Tim Cook called him “hours ago” to complain about EU fines and that Cook said the EU uses fines “to run their enterprise”
Donald Trump said Apple CEO Tim Cook called him to discuss the billions of dollars that Apple has been fined in the European Union.
Billing software company Zuora to be acquired by Silver Lake and GIC in a deal valued at $1.7B, an 18% premium to the closing price when acquisition talks began
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Zuora, Inc. (NYSE: NYSE:ZUO), a company specializing in monetization solutions for modern businesses …
Q&A with Marissa Mayer on AI, her startup Sunshine, its Shine app, Google News, Yahoo, selling to Verizon, Yahoo Weather, feminism, being a geek, and more
She was the 20th hire at Google, then the head of Yahoo, and now the CEO of Sunshine. For Mayer, geekery supersedes gender. Forums: Hacker News Forums: Hacker News : Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminis...
Paris Court of Appeal orders complete blocks of several porn websites, including Xhamster, for their failure to roll out solid age verification systems.
The sites have 15 days to implement effective age controls. — This article is also available in: French
The US FTC adopts its final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up, after proposing the rule in 2023
WOOT. … Rebekah Valentine / IGN : FTC New ‘Click to Cancel’ Rule Will Make it Easier to Cancel Subscription Services Justin Bachman / Payments Dive : FTC unveils final ‘click-to-cancel’ rule for consu...
Unity announces the Unity 6 game engine, emphasizing stability, updates, and the ability to support hundreds of players in the same virtual world simultaneously
Five months into his tenure as CEO of Unity Software, Matt Bromberg is overseeing his first big product launch as he tries …
Brazilian authorities have arrested a hacker, known as USDoD, who they allege is linked to breaches of National Public Data, the FBI's InfraGard, and others
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer :
The Open Source Initiative says Meta is “polluting” the term open-source by using it for Llama, and plans to publish its open-source AI definition next week
Open Source Initiative chief accuses tech group of ‘polluting’ the term by using it to describe its Llama models
Private equity firm Permira acquires Squarespace after raising its bid to $7.2B; Squarespace sells restaurant reservation service Tock to Amex for $400M
Website builder Squarespace is no longer a publicly-traded company, after private equity firm Permira procured all remaining common stock in the firm.
How machine learning could have transformative effects on Africa's developing economies and societies, as some critics worry over a deepening digital divide
Machine learning could have transformative effects on developing economies and societies. But some fear a deepening digital divide
Robinhood launches its long-awaited desktop platform Robinhood Legend, and plans to add futures and index options trading to its mobile app in the coming months
CEO Vlad Tenev Reveals 1,000 Early-Access Users Opted In In ‘46 Seconds’ Barbara A. Friedberg / Investopedia : Robinhood Just Revealed 3 New Products for Active Traders Andrew Welsch / Barron's Online...
Google projects the number of reported Android memory safety flaws to be 36 by the end of 2024, down from 220+ in 2019, after adopting memory safety in new code
https://security.googleblog.com/ ... Chandler Carruth / @chandlerc@hachyderm.io : Proud to start sharing Google's strategy for tackling our remaining memory safety challenges: https://security.googleb...
Apple's first chief people officer, Carol Surface, who joined in early 2023, is leaving; retail chief Deirdre O'Brien is reassuming oversight of human resources
https://mastodon.social/... X: Mark Gurman / @markgurman : If it feels like there are a lot of senior exits right now, that's because there are: CFO moving to smaller role, plus App Store head, chief ...
An interview with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on autonomous cars, lobbying regulators to get more EVs on the road, flying taxis, climate goals, and more
“We think that the future for Uber is electric, shared, autonomous and ultimately multimodal as well,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says on this week's episode of Zero. X: @business X: @business : “We t...
Crypto derivatives exchange Bitnomial raised $25M led by Ripple and launches Botanical, a futures trading platform in the US currently in closed beta
RT Watson / The Block :
Accel expects 2024 VC funding for cloud startups in the US, Europe, and Israel to rise 27% YoY to $79.2B, with 40% of the money going to generative AI startups
AI Eating Software Legals and disclosures This document has been prepared by Accel … Accel : Euroscape 2024: AI eating software Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters : AI, cloud funding in US, Europe and Israe...
Mistral releases Les Ministraux AI models in 3B and 8B sizes with 128K context windows, aimed at on-device translation, internet-less smart assistants, and more
The new 8B & 3B models set a new frontier in knowledge, commonsense, reasoning, function-calling …
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute partner to speed up development of humanoid robots using TRI's large behavior models and Boston Dynamics' Atlas
Chester Dawson / Bloomberg :
Support groups in the Philippines blame GCash, the country's most popular payment app with 90M+ active users, for a rise in gambling addiction in the country
Patrick Kho / Rest of World :
UK study: employers running grad schemes received an average of 140 applications for each job in 2024, a record and up 59% YoY, as AI makes applying easier
Financial Times :
Enterprise data security startup Cyera buys data loss startup Trail Security for $162M in cash and stock; sources: Cyera is raising $200M+ at a ~$3B valuation
We are thrilled to announce that Cyera has acquired Trail Security for $162M! …
South Korea plans stronger measures to prevent leaks of advanced tech and business secrets; the NIS says there were 40 attempted chip secret leaks in five years
Apple expands Apple Business Connect to let businesses, including those without a physical location, manage their presence in Mail, Phone, and Tap to Pay
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Everstage, which offers sales performance management software, raised a $30M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures, bringing its total raised to $45M
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE :
Florida-based SynthBee, started by Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz to build a new kind of computing intelligence platform, raised a $20M seed led by Crosspoint
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
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