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Sources: Twitter agreed to delay a deposition of Elon Musk by its lead litigation attorney on October 6 in Austin, as both sides hash out the $44B deal — Tesla chief and social media group are negotiating end to legal fight to finalise $44bn buyout — Twitter has agreed to delay …
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Sources: in the weeks before Elon Musk's revived $44B bid, his representatives asked Twitter about doing the deal at an up to 30% discount, or a ~$31B valuation — Before Mr. Musk renewed his $44 billion proposal, he and the company haggled in discussions that ultimately did not advance.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
A US federal court jury finds ex-Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan guilty for not disclosing a 2016 breach of customer and driver records to regulators — A jury found Joe Sullivan, who led security at the ride-hailing company, guilty on two different counts.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Fake LinkedIn executive profiles, which pair AI-generated photos with text from real accounts, are becoming headaches for HR departments and invite-only groups — A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone 14 Plus review: multiday battery, bright screen, and lightweight, but hard to use one-handed, no ProMotion, and adopting eSIM will be painful for some — Excellent battery life and a large display make the 14 Plus upgrade-worthy … This is the new iPhone that most people want.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils two text-to-video AI generators: Imagen Video, a higher image quality system, and Phenaki, which prioritizes coherency and length over quality — Not to be outdone by Meta's Make-A-Video, Google today detailed its work on Imagen Video, an AI system that can generate video clips given …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Minnesota-based Arctic Wolf, which offers cybersecurity tools and on-site experts, raised $401M in debt, after raising $150M at a $4.3B valuation in July 2021 — In a sign that pure equity financing is getting harder to come by, cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf, which last July raised $150 million …
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Court filing: Celsius ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky, ex-CSO Daniel Leon, and CTO Nuke Goldstein withdrew $30M+ between May and June 2022 before the lender's bankruptcy — Ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky, ex-CSO Daniel Leon and CTO Nuke Goldstein pulled bitcoin, ether, USDC and CEL holdings from their custody accounts in May …
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| David Cohen / Adweek: |
Twitter rolls out its mixed media feature globally, letting Android and iOS users include up to four videos, images, and GIFs in the same tweet — Up to 4 GIFs, photos and/or videos can be included
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| Financial Times: |
An investigation shows Amazon, Microsoft, and others destroy millions of data storage devices each year, creating huge waste when software wiping methods exist — Companies like Amazon and Microsoft routinely destroy used hard drives in the name of data security — but industry insiders say there is a better option
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| Renju Jose / Reuters: |
Australia proposes changes to its consumer privacy rules post the Optus hack, enabling telcos to share IDs with banks for better monitoring during data breaches — Australia on Thursday proposed an overhaul of consumer privacy rules that will help facilitate targeted data sharing between …
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| Brendan Vaughan / Fast Company: |
Fast Company brings its site, Inc, and Mansueto back online after eight days, saying a cyberattack hit its CMS and no customer or advertiser info was disclosed — Eight days. That's how long FastCompany.com was offline after we were targeted in a cyberattack, first on the afternoon of Sunday … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Altana, which uses AI to find supply chain anomalies and identify potential risks and bad actors, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $123M — Trade wars, military conflicts, the rise of e-commerce and sustainability concerns are driving changes to supply chain networks and trade flows.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: to evade US sanctions, Huawei is supporting PXW, a startup based in its hometown Shenzhen that ordered chipmaking equipment for a semiconductor plant — When the US government blacklisted Huawei Technologies Co. as a national security threat, it cut the Chinese company off …
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Tweets: @dericsayers, @niubi, @pelstrom, @niubi, @chinabeigebook, @byron_wan, and @byron_wan
| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Global VC funding in Q3 2022 was $81B, down 53% YoY from $171B and 33% QoQ from $121B, the lowest level since $70.6B in Q1 2020 — The big global venture capital pullback we were all expecting is truly here. — Venture and growth investors in private companies scaled …
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| David Erickson / Missoulian: |
Montana-based onX, which makes navigation apps for hunting, hiking, off-roading, and other outdoor activities, raised an $87.4M Series B led by Summit Partners — Missoula tech company onX, announced Monday that they've landed a $87.4 million Series B venture capital investment.Sponsor Posts
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UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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