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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
Meta begins the process to end news access on Facebook and Instagram in Canada, in response to a law forcing some companies to negotiate deals to pay publishers — Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Tuesday it has begun the process to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada.
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Halcyon: Cloudzy, a Wyoming-registered web hosting company likely operating out of Tehran, is acting as a command-and-control provider for state-backed hackers — A little-known cloud company provided web hosting and internet services to more than two dozen different state-sponsored hacking groups …
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| Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post: |
X sues the Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging CCDH researchers violated Twitter's terms of service and the CFAA while studying hate speech on the site — X, the company formerly known as Twitter, sued a research group that had investigated hate speech on the social media platform …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q2 revenue down 18% YoY to $5.36B, net income down 94% YoY to $27M, Client revenue down 54% YoY to $998M, and Data Center revenue down 11% to $1.3B — - AMD said revenue for the second quarter fell 18% from a year earlier, but results still topped analysts' estimates
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| Chethan Rao / Android Police: |
YouTube asks a small number of viewers to share their feedback on a test that generates AI-based “quick overview” summaries on some English-language videos — YouTube's new experiment is currently limited to English content — YouTube constantly adds new features to its mobile …
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| Aidan Ryan / The Information: |
Sources: Changpeng Zhao tried to liquidate Binance.US earlier this year, before pivoting to attempting to sell the company, holding talks with Gemini and others — Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao attempted to shut down the crypto exchange's U.S. offshoot earlier this year …
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| Sahil Patel / The Information: |
Sources: some top ad agency executives plan to commit at least 10% to 20% more with YouTube this fall than in 2022; traditional TV ad commitments are down 15% — The Hollywood labor strikes have proven a boon for YouTube, with Google's video-streaming service luring television ad buyers … | Steven Church / Bloomberg: |
A Voyager Digital lawyer says the crypto lender's user data may have been stolen when the company started letting customers recover their funds in June 2023 — - Voyager customers hit with scams amid bankruptcy payout — Voyager lawyers referred potential hack to law enforcement| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Bernstein analysts estimate that nearly 10% of servers worldwide are powered by Arm SoCs and 40% of those are in China — The rise of Arm-based servers us clear and consistent, Bernstein says. — Due to increasing difficulty in obtaining high-performance x86 servers … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In a challenge to TikTok, YouTube releases new Shorts creation tools for remixing, adding effects, going live, as well as an interactive Q&A sticker, and more — As competition with TikTok and Instagram Reels heats up, YouTube today announced an expanded suite of creation tools … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon expands its Amazon Clinic virtual health service to 50 US states and DC, available via video or texting; regulations limit the SMS feature to 34 states — - Amazon is expanding its virtual clinic service nationwide. — The company launched Amazon Clinic last November …
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| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
GameStop plans to remove its iOS and Chrome crypto wallet extensions on November 1 due to “regulatory uncertainty”, about one year after rolling out the service — The company will remove its iOS and Chrome wallet extensions on Nov. 1. — Leading video game retailer GameStop …
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| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Glasgow university spinout Chemify, which is using a computing process to design new molecules with AI and make them in an automated lab, raised $43M — Chemify's technology aims to remove bottleneck of producing molecules in the lab — A spinout from Glasgow university has raised $43mn to …
More: BBC. Twitter: @chemifyx, @macfarlanejamie, @leecronin, @venkvis, and @clivecookson. LinkedIn: Jamie Macfarlane
| Nikkei Asia: |
Inside Apple's plans to move more of its supply chain to India, catalyzed by Foxconn protests in Zhengzhou, as Apple aims to build 20%+ of all iPhones in India — Tech giant aims to move at least 20% of iPhone production to India as it accelerates away from China
More: Bloomberg, The Economic Times, Business Today, PingWest, Livemint, and Reuters
| Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Putin signs a Russian law requiring that internet platforms verify new users' identities via state-approved systems during registration, effective December 2023 — Since its invasion of Ukraine in February, Russian Members of Parliament and lawmakers have taken turns to see who can come … | Colin Wilhelm / The Block: |
3AC co-founder Kyle Davies tells a US court he is not subjecting himself to or accepting the jurisdiction of US courts since he renounced citizenship in 2020 — - Three Arrows Capital co-founder Kyle Davies said he renounced his U.S. citizenship, and that U.S. courts no longer have jurisdiction over him.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Filings: Vanguard cut the value of its stake in Indian ride-hailing company Ola by 52%, implying Ola's total value to be $3.5B, down from $7.3B in December 2021 — The U.S. index fund pioneer Vanguard has cut the worth of its holding in the Indian ride-hailing startup Ola … | Bloomberg: |
The Cyberspace Administration of China releases draft rules to curtail smartphone use by minors, although it is unclear how the rules will be enforced — - Aims to prevent kids from spending too much time on phones — Beijing has pursued campaigns to alleviate burden on minors
More: Reuters
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
A look at the nascent scene of generative AI chatbots trained for phishing and malware attacks, including WormGPT, FraudGPT, DarkBART, and DarkBERT — In the wake of WormGPT, a ChatGPT clone trained on malware-focused data, a new generative artificial intelligence hacking tool called FraudGPT has emerged …
More: SlashNext, Dark Reading, TechCrunch, Decrypt, GovTech, and Security Boulevard. Forums: r/InfoSecNews
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank's Arm is targeting an IPO at a valuation of between $60B and $70B as soon as September 2023, a sign of bullish interest in AI chips — - Chip design firm may raise as much as $10 billion in debut — Nvidia, Intel are in discussions to be anchor investors| Reuters: |
Match Group reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $830M, vs. $811M est., payers down 5% YoY to 15.6M, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates; MTCH jumps 11%+ — Match Group (MTCH.O) forecast revenue for the third quarter above Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, as the Tinder parent expects stronger marketing …
More: MarketWatch, Dow Jones Newswires, Match Group, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on potential Uber for Teens issues, higher prices, profitability, Lyft, DoorDash, driving for Uber, generative AI, and more — Dara Khosrowshahi swooped in to tame a beastly work culture and try to make the on-demand giant profitable.
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
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