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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 closing the $44B deal — Tesla chief and social media group are negotiating end to legal fight to finalise $44bn buyout
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Sources: in the weeks before Elon Musk's renewed $44B bid, his representatives asked Twitter about redoing the deal for up to a 30% discount, 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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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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| 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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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
DeepMind uses its AlphaTensor AI to solve a matrix multiplication problem by building a 3D TensorGame board game, beating a record that has stood for 50+ years — The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication, a core problem in computing that affects thousands of everyday computer tasks.
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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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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
What to expect from the “Made by Google” event on October 6: Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel Watch, and potentially Nest hardware and previews of Pixel devices — - Wildcards: More Pixel device previews and Nest hardware — Google's fall hardware event promises to be special this year.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
A look at Iranian activists' fight for internet access amid the regime's crackdowns, including using Tor servers inside Iran to bypass internet blockades — Activists in Iran are working with outsiders to fight the regime's censorship — As protesters flooded the streets of Iran in September … | Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Minneapolis-based NetSPI, which offers penetration testing and attack surface management services, raised $410M from KKR, bringing its total funding to $500M — Although venture funding in cybersecurity has taken a slight dip this year—as it has in most sectors—that does not mean large growth rounds do not exist.
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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 … | Jay Alammar: |
An illustrated guide showing how Stable Diffusion generates images from text using a CLIP-based text encoder, an image information creator, and an image decoder — AI image generation is the most recent AI capability blowing people's minds (mine included).
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| Bloomberg: |
Roblox and Discord are accused of enabling adult men to sexually and financially exploit a California girl in a lawsuit filed by a social media watchdog group — Roblox Corp. and Discord Inc. were accused of enabling adult men to sexually and financially exploit a California girl in a lawsuit filed by a social-media watchdog group.
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Chainalysis: MENA's crypto market grew the fastest from July 2021 to June 2022, with transaction volume up 48% YoY to $566B; Latin America was second at 40% YoY — The Middle East and North Africa are the world's fastest-growing cryptocurrency markets, with the volume of crypto received …
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| Lauly Li / Financial Times: |
Dutch chip manufacturer STMicroelectronics plans to invest €730M to build a chip materials plant in Italy for a more self-reliant supply chain amid shortages — Factory in Italy will help region become more self-reliant in key semiconductor market — STMicroelectronics … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Source: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong commissioned a documentary about his company and himself as he thinks the media has a malicious agenda to smear tech execs — Pass the popcorn. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong just announced a new film titled Coin: A Founder's Story will be available …
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Coinbase on YouTube, CryptoGlobe, and The Daily Hodl
| 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.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone 14 Plus review: multiday battery, big bright screen, and light, 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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