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Crypto market maker Wintermute says hackers stole $160M from its DeFi operations but the firm remains solvent; in total, 90 assets were stolen, most worth <$1M — - Crypto market making firm Wintermute has been hacked. — The firm maintains that it is solvent.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Nvidia announces Drive Thor processors with 77B transistors for self-driving vehicles, arriving in 2024 for cars coming in 2025 — The AI chip is due to arrive in cars in 2025, Nvidia says at its GTC event to showcase its GPU technology. — Stephen Shankland
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 GPUs; the RTX 4090 is 2-4x faster than the 3090 Ti, comes with 24GB GDDR6X memory, and arrives October 12 for $1,600 — Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 40-series GPUs today. After months of rumors and some recent teasing from Nvidia, the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 are now both official.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
A study by Mozilla using YouTube recommendation data from 20,000+ users and 500M+ videos finds the “dislike” and “not interested” buttons have little impact — Even when users tell YouTube they aren't interested in certain types of videos, similar recommendations keep coming, a new study by Mozilla found.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to increase the price of apps and IAP on the App Store in all territories that use the euro and some Asian countries, starting October 5 — Apple announced on Monday that it will soon raise App Store prices in multiple countries, including Japan, South Korea, and many others in Europe.
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
SpeedSmart: iPhone 14 Pro has faster 5G upload/download speeds than the 13 Pro, with peak 5G download speeds of 255.91 Mbps on T-Mobile vs 13 Pro's 173.81 Mbps — The iPhone 14 Pro features faster 5G speeds on the T-Mobile and Verizon networks in the United States compared to the iPhone 13 Pro …
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| J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify launches an audiobooks service in the US with 300,000 titles, letting users purchase and download individual books to play in its app — The audio giant, which is offering 300,000 audiobooks for purchase at launch, is positioning its books service as separate from its Premium subscription for music and podcasts.
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Sources: Nasdaq is exploring an institutional crypto custody service, pending regulatory approval, and a crypto-focused division called Nasdaq Digital Assets — - Nasdaq has been plotting a move into crypto custody, according to several sources. — The move is in line with its broader mission …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Slack announces Canvas, a collaborative tool that presents contextual information for each channel, helps users edit documents in-app, and more, coming in 2023 — Slack is becoming a document editor. The Salesforce-owned company announced today at its developer conference that it is building …
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| Divya Balji / Bloomberg: |
Chamath Palihapitiya plans to shutter two SPACs, the $1.15B Social Capital Hedosophia VI and $460M Social Capital IV, after failing to find acquisition targets — Chamath Palihapitiya said he is winding down two special purpose acquisition companies, including his largest ever … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
UK-based digital banking and stock trading app Revolut says a cyberattack exposed personal details on 50,150 customers, according to a breach disclosure filing — Fintech startup Revolut has confirmed it was hit by a highly targeted cyberattack that allowed hackers to access the personal details of tens of thousands of customers.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia launches new services to help developers adapt large language models to a wide range of use cases, avoid having to create LLMs from scratch, and more — As interest around large AI models — particularly large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-3 — grows … | Wall Street Journal: |
East Coast supermarket chain Wegmans plans to temporarily stop using its Scan self-checkout app, introduced during the pandemic, due to theft and losses — Many grocery stores started using self-checkout technology during the pandemic. Experts say the technology makes it easier for shoplifters to sneak by.
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| John Herrman / New York Magazine: |
An in-depth look at AI image-creation tools like Imagen, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney; Midjourney users are making concept art for clients and using stock art less — How we work — even think — changes when we can instantly command convincing images into existence.| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
A look at Brian Armstrong's GiveCrypto, which started to financially empower those in need and aimed to raise $1B but turned into a mess of misplaced assurances — PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FORTUNE; ORIGINAL PHOTOS BY GETTY IMAGES — Christian Maloba needed a job.
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| Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: |
Sardine, a fraud detection service for crypto and fintech clients, raised a $51.5M Series B led by a16z, after a $19.5M Series A in February 2022 — As fintechs become more efficient, so too do fraudsters. — “Faster instant payments mean faster fraud,” Sardine CEO and co-founder Soups Ranjan told TechCrunch.| IDC: |
Global wearables shipments declined 6.9% YoY to 107.4M units in Q2 2022, weighed down by rising inflation and other factors; Apple's share declined to 25% — The wearables market faced another challenging period in the second quarter of 2022 (2Q22) as global shipments declined 6.9% year … | Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
In a federal lawsuit against crypto influencer Ian Balina, the SEC claims the entire Ethereum network falls under the US government's purview — In a civil complaint against a crypto influencer, the SEC suggested that it believes the U.S. government has jurisdiction over all Ethereum transactions.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says a software update is coming next week to fix the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max camera shake issue in third-party apps — Apple will be releasing a software update to fix the camera shake issue affecting iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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