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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google lowers Play Store subscription fees to 15% and fees for ebooks and on-demand music streaming services to “as low as 10%”; IAP cut seems to be unaffected — Subscription fees are lowered to 15 percent, and music streaming services ‘as low as 10%’
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| Anna Kramer / Protocol: |
Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification — Twitter is publicly sharing research findings today that show that the platform's algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
The TOS for TRUTH Social shows it bans “excessive use of capital letters”, reserves the right to ban users, and hopes to benefit from Section 230 protections — Truth Social has some unusual rules for a Trump-run site: It reserves the right to ban users and safeguard itself from lawsuits with Section 230 protections.
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Insider, The Guardian, Associated Press, Fast Company, MacDailyNews, and Tech Xplore
Tweets: @drewharwell, @jonchevreau, @ian_fraser, and @heatherkelly
| ABC News: |
Trump announces the Trump Media & Technology Group and TRUTH Social, a social network coming in Nov. to “stand up” to Big Tech, in the App Store for preorder — The former president has been banned from several platforms. — Silenced by many major platforms …
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Fortune, Financial Times, International Business Times, Ars Technica, VICE, Bloomberg, USA Today, CNBC, NPR, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Today in Tabs, and Techdirt
Tweets: @reallizusa, @mikaelthalen, @bradheath, @jack, @santucci, @drewharwell, @alexstamos, @drewharwell, @aricohn, @rob_sheridan, @dpakman, @danprimack, @acyn, @cd_hooks, @lachlan, @reckless, @bradheath, @lordravenscraft, @drewharwell, @mmasnick, @mikeelgan, @bradheath, @bradheath, @mikaelthalen, @drewharwell, @pkafka, and @willoremus
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap Q3: $1.07B revenue, up 57% YoY, vs. $1.10B est., DAUs up 23% to 306M, net loss down 64% to $72M, blames iOS ATT changes for revenue miss; stock down 25%+ — - Snap reported its third-quarter earnings on Thursday, missing revenue expectations after Apple's iPhone privacy changes disrupted its advertising business.
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| Oversight Board: |
Facebook's Oversight Board releases a report demanding more transparency, including for the company's “cross-check” system, and says 524K appeals were submitted — Over the last several weeks, media reporting has drawn renewed attention to the seemingly inconsistent …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple product orders, including iPad mini, MacBook Pro, and $19 cleaning cloth, are delayed into November and December due to supply chain issues — - Store employees say supply situation is the bleakest in years — Latest iPhones, iPads, Macs and watches all see long delays
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AppleInsider, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Macworld, iThinkDifferent, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, and Tom's Hardware
Tweets: @markgurman, @markgurman, @every_daydad, @ismh, @danielhipskind_, @stevekovach, @thestalwart, and @gartenberg
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Sam Altman's Worldcoin launches its cryptocurrency that it gives in exchange for users' eye scans, says it has 100K users globally and is valued at $1B — - Tech millionaire Sam Altman's new start-up Worldcoin uses orb-shaped devices to scan people's eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency.
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TechCrunch, VICE, Bankless Times, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @sama, @espiers, @ahmetasabanci, @sama, @kevinsekniqi, @jessewldn, @wintonark, @bramk, @ryan_browne_, @gladstein, @samfbiddle, @kateclarktweets, @hidrees, @emollick, @ricmac, @mhbergen, @deantak, and @tamigraph
| Wall Street Journal: |
US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announces a broad investigation into consumer data practices at Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google, and others — Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to seek information on how those firms and others use consumers' financial information
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The Verge, Politico, Engadget, FinLedger, 9to5Mac, Finextra, AppleInsider, Protocol, and TechSpot
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel Q3: revenue of $18.1B, up 5% YoY, vs. $18.2B est., Client Computing Group revenue fell 2% to $9.7B due to component shortages; stock down 7%+ after hours — - Intel reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday. — The semiconductor company is in a period of massive capital expenditure …
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ZDNet, Laptop Mag, Silicon Valley Business …, AnandTech, The Verge, PCWorld, Barron's Online, VentureBeat, and d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net. Tweets: @kifleswing
| The Markup: |
Analysis of 23K+ websites of nonprofit organizations: ~86% had third-party cookies or trackers, with some, like Planned Parenthood, tracking user keystrokes — Such organizations often deal in sensitive issues, like mental health, addiction, and reproductive rights—and many are feeding data about website visitors to corporations
Tweets: @juliaangwin, @little_wow, @jonkeegan, @themarkup, @tonyajoriley, and @juliaangwin
| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service adds a $100/month tier with RTX 3080 GPUs, hosted inside a bespoke SuperPod server, offering 1440p games at 120fps — Thanks to new custom servers equipped with RTX 3080 GPUs, GeForce Now will support game streaming at up to 1440p at 120fps—but it'll cost you.| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple says the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max will feature a High Power Mode for intensive, sustained workloads — The new 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Max Apple Silicon chip will feature a new High Power Mode for intensive, sustained workloads, according to Apple.
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Computerworld, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, MUO, Redmond Pie, MacDailyNews, and Wccftech
Tweets: @samifathi_, @chrisaydat, @every_daydad, @dangeredwolf, @camtalkstech, @vadimyuryev, and @shadowbiood
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Rippling, an employee data management company led by Parker Conrad, raises $250M at a $6.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $450M — Founded by entrepreneur Parker Conrad in 2013, the HR company Zenefits was quickly anointed one of the fast-growing companies in Silicon Valley …
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Sequoia Capital Publication and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @alexisohanian, @myprasanna, @garrytan, @ktbenner, and @immad
| Reuters: |
Sources: ransomware gang REvil was hacked and forced offline this week by an active multi-country operation that includes US law enforcement — The ransomware group REvil was itself hacked and forced offline this week by a multi-country operation, according to three private sector cyber experts working …
Tweets: @dcuthbert, @imposecost, @chicagocyber, @lindseyod123, @swiftonsecurity, @kimzetter, and @zackwhittaker
| Wall Street Journal: |
Over 2,000 hourly workers at Amazon's Staten Island facilities sign union cards and plan to file with the NLRB by October 25; Amazon opposes the move — An effort said to involve more than 2,000 workers across four Amazon facilities in Staten Island faces obstacles
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VICE, New York Times, and Engadget
Tweets: @jodikantor, @jodikantor, @jodikantor, @gideonresnick, and @laurenkgurley
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google begins offering Stadia as a white label product, starting with letting AT&T customers play Batman: Arkham Knight for free in Chrome or Edge — AT&T is working with Warner Bros to offer a streaming version of Batman: Arkham Knight, powered by Stadia's streaming technology.
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Ars Technica, IGN, The Verge, TechSpot, 9to5Google, Engadget, and Android Central
Tweets: @johnkoetsier and @killedbygoogle
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A first look at Android app support on Windows 11: the apps are nicely integrated, run well, and installing them is simple, only requiring Amazon's Appstore app — Android apps can now run on Windows 11 — Microsoft has released the first preview version of its Android apps support in Windows 11.
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Windows Blog, Tom's Hardware, BleepingComputer, CRN, BetaNews, GeekWire, Windows Central, Softpedia News, Computerworld, Digit, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, Pocketnow, PCMag, PCWorld, and Gizchina
Tweets: @tomwarren and @migueldeicaza
| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
The Associated Press partners with crypto company Chainlink to authenticate data about elections, sports, and more via its blockchain — The Associated Press, a collective of more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters, is moving further into decentralized news and publishing.
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Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, CoinDesk, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @eddyamedina, @balajis, @balajis, and @cryptokitten420
| Jabari Young / CNBC: |
Sports NFT service Candy Digital, owned by sports e-commerce company Fanatics, raises a $100M Series A at a $1.5B valuation from Vision Fund 2 and others — - Fanatics said it raised $100 million for its NFT company Candy Digital as it looks to pivot outside of sports merchandising.
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The Block, Sportico, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Business Wire, FinSMEs, and Reuters. Tweets: @novogratz
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Bahamas-based crypto exchange FTX raises a $420.69M Series B-1 at a $25B valuation from 69 investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global — FTX has memed itself into another massive funding round. — Sam Bankman-Fried's Bahamas-based crypto exchange said Wednesday it had raised $420,690,000 in a Series B-1 funding round.| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Plaid partners with Square, Stripe, and others to help consumers and businesses make payments funded by their bank accounts after its acquisition by Visa failed — The fintech is teaming up with Square, Stripe and dozens of others on a digital pay-by-bank offering| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Mojito, which lets clients like Sotheby's sell NFTs from their own storefronts or websites, raises $20M at a $100M valuation — Mojito, the startup supporting Sotheby's Metaverse, announced Thursday that it raised $20 million in its first funding round, bringing its total valuation to $100 million.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel's talks with chip designer SiFive ended without a deal and the startup instead plans to pursue outside investment and an IPO — - Arm rival SiFive plans to grow headcount, eyes eventual IPO — Intel had sought SiFive's underlying RISC-V chip technology| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Parallel, which is making a sci-fi NFT card game based on the Ethereum blockchain, raises $50M from Paradigm at a $500M valuation — It's no secret that NFTs have been a hot space for crypto speculators in the Ethereum ecosystem to diversify their holdings, and while some see a golden opportunity …
Tweets: @therogue_uchiha and @mdudas
| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
PleasrDAO, a group of digital asset collectors, says it created an NFT that will stand as an ownership deed for Wu-Tang Clan's one-of-a-kind physical album — The government sold “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” to satisfy a judgment against its first owner, Martin Shkreli.
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Rolling Stone, Forbes, and Bankless Times
Tweets: @sisario, @sheckygreen, @moonoverlord, @nlw, and @mchax
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