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Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia — Russia set up a sprawling and sophisticated network of websites impersonating mainstream media outlets, which it used …
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Celsius co-founder and CEO Alex Mashinsky resigns from the bankrupt cryptocurrency lender, writing his “role as CEO has become an increasing distraction” — The crypto lender filed for bankruptcy in July — Alex Mashinsky—chief executive and cofounder of bankrupt cryptocurrency … | Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
The latest iPadOS 16 developer beta makes Stage Manager work with older A12X and A12Z iPads, but does not support extending the display to an external monitor — Probably the biggest change Apple announced with iPadOS 16 earlier this year is Stage Manager, a totally new multitasking system …
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
FTX US President Brett Harrison plans to step down in the coming months and become an advisor after joining in May 2021 to oversee the company's rapid growth — - Brett Harrison — who joined FTX.US as president soon after its launch — is exiting the role.
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FTX US wins the auction for bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital's assets with a bid valued at ~$1.4B, including an “additional consideration” worth ~$111M — FTX US, the digital-asset exchange founded by billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, won the auction for the assets of bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital Ltd.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Intel unveils its 13th Gen desktop CPU lineup using the company's 10nm process, including the $589 flagship Core i9-13900K with 24 cores, shipping on October 20 — After weeks of teasers and leaks, Intel is finally making its 13th Gen processors official today.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
The US SEC fines Oracle $23M for allegedly bribing officials in India, Turkey, and the UAE between 2016 and 2019, the second such fine after a 2012 settlement — - Oracle has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission after it was charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act …
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| Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood releases its non-custodial, Polygon-based crypto wallet, Robinhood Wallet, in beta to the first 10,000 users who signed up in May 2022 — Robinhood has been steadily moving away from its original “walled garden” approach to crypto over the past year.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Un1feed launches The OG App for Android on iOS, letting users create and share Instagram feeds without ads and suggested posts, similar to Twitter lists — Instagram is currently a mess and users — including Kim Kardashian — are unhappy about it. The company is trying to cram too many features …
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| Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: |
As the data of 10,000 Optus customers reportedly appears for sale, Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says Australian police are investigating a ransom demand — Australian mobile-phone company Optus said authorities are investigating an online ransom demand following a major data hack that exposed … | Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Intel announces Unison, letting users text message, take calls, and transfer files to iOS and Android devices, starting with select 12th Gen PCs in fall 2022 — New Intel PCs will soon have a feature that Macs have offered for years: the ability to text, take calls and send files to their iPhones.
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Study: 62.4% of electricity used by bitcoin miners in January was from fossil fuels, at odds with the Bitcoin Mining Council's estimate that ~59% is sustainable — The CCAF uses publicly available data to run a theoretical model to estimate the environmental footprint of bitcoin mining.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta tests one interface to manage Facebook and Instagram accounts and updates its registration pages to let users create accounts and login to both services — - Meta is testing new features intended to help people more easily manage their Facebook and Instagram accounts via one interface.
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Tweets: @metanewsroom, @dellcam, @wongmjane, @jason_kint, and @marismith
| Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap: |
The SEC sues two ex-MoviePass CEOs, charging them with misleading investors about profit potential, data operations, studio relationships, and revenue sources — The Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit against two former CEOs of MoviePass, charging them with misleading investors … | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Chicago-based Strike, a bitcoin payment service that uses the Lightning Network for faster transactions, raised an $80M Series B led by Ten31 — Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Wyoming were among the investors in the Series B funding round.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Arthur AI, which helps companies monitor the accuracy of their ML models over time, raised a $42M Series B led by Acrew Capital and Greycroft — It's widely understood that after machine learning models are deployed in production, the accuracy of the results can deteriorate over time.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Denver-based Flatfile, which uses AI to onboard, structure, and clean data, raised a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $94.7M — Data cleansing — prepping data for applications like predictive analytics — takes time. In fact, data scientists spend …
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and other text-to-image generation systems use datasets of images scrapped without permission and it's not easy to opt out — In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset …
Tweets: @secularstudents, @motherboard, @adam_k_levin, and @vngnc
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Crypto lender Nexo buys a stake in the parent of Summit National Bank, a US regulated bank, paving the way for it to offer US licensed banking services — - Cryptocurrency lender Nexo said it has agreed to buy an undisclosed stake in Hulett Bancorp, which owns a little-known bank called Summit National Bank.
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