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Q&A with DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman on maintaining AI optimism, how “interactive” AI will follow the generative AI wave, AI regulation, and more — DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat.
More: BigTechWire. X: @rvawonk, @mustafasuleyman, and @rvawonk. LinkedIn: Scott Novack
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/technology
| Elliptic: |
N. Korea-linked Lazarus Group stole ~$240M in crypto in the past 104 days, as it ramps up hacks and shifts focus from decentralized services to centralized ones — The elite North Korean hacking group Lazarus appears to have recently ramped up its operations, conducting a confirmed four attacks against crypto entities since June 3rd.
More: iTnews, Cointelegraph, DL News, The Hacker News, Decrypt, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, and The Record
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
One year after Ethereum's Merge, developers approve a change to slow down staking, which has emerged as one of a few reliable ways to earn returns in crypto — - With validators piling in, the network risks getting clogged — Ethereum developers approved a software fix to that Thursday
More: Ethereum Improvement Proposals, Ethereum Improvement Proposals, DL News, The Crypto Associate, CoinDesk, Decrypt, NewsBTC, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bitcoin News, tina_connects's Substack, Cointelegraph, CryptoGlobe, NewsBTC, Cryptopolitan, Cryptonews, and Finbold
X: @timbeiko, @dapplion, @dankrad, @timbeiko, @dapplion, @monetsupply, @timbeiko, and @timbeiko. LinkedIn: Kelvin Low
Forums: r/Buttcoin, r/CryptoCurrency, and r/ethtrader
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How Spotify and other streaming services have transformed the sound of music: songs are shorter, albums are longer, and artists collaborate more across genres — To succeed on Spotify and other services, songs are getting shorter, albums are getting longer, and artists are collaborating across genres.| Taylor Lyles / IGN: |
Q&A with Apple execs Jeremy Sandmel, Tim Millet, and Kaiann Drance on gaming ambitions for the iPhone 15 Pro, MetalFX's upscaling, game controllers, and more — Apple is really leaning into the “Pro” aspect of the iPhone 15 Pro. — Apple finally announced the iPhone 15 earlier this week, and pre-orders are now live.
More: iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, 9to5Mac, Redmond Pie, AppleInsider, MacRumors, and The Verge
X: @taynixster and @videotechx
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| New York Times: |
TikTok's US staff complain about a new internal app to track office attendance; TikTok requires most staff to be in the office three times a week from October — The company is requiring many employees to use an app that tracks their in-person attendance. — TikTok employees …
More: PCMag and Insider
X: @ebakerwhite, @anthonymamore, @jigolden, @sapna, @nytimestech, @nytimesbusiness, and @nytimes. LinkedIn: Matthew Boyle. Forums: Hacker News
| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, whose OpenAI-or-bust strategy rankled some staff who found their AI projects pushed aside and their resources curtailed — Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott spearheaded the tech titan's unlikely partnership with OpenAI — In the tech industry's artificial-intelligence race,
More: Wall Street Journal. Threads: @dseetharaman. X: @cityofthetown, @hadip, @schrep, @livemint, and @wsjtech. LinkedIn: Bobby Yerramilli-Rao
| Max Hoppenstedt / Washington Post: |
German prosecutors say Elon Musk's X has complied with hundreds of hate-crime user data requests; Twitter used to push back if requests threatened free speech — The social media company has complied with hundreds of hate-crime user data requests from German authorities since Musk's purchase, prosecutors say
More: The Connector, The Wrap, CoinGape, and New York Times
X: @wexler, @asfleischman, @elonmusk, @jordanbpeterson, @elonmusk, @pir8qu33n, and @tempf451
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Thoughts on Apple's Wonderlust event, including the Mother Nature skit, FineWoven iPhone cases and Watch straps, the iPhone 15 lineup, and the AirPods Pro 2 — Was Tuesday's “Wonderlust” event mostly predictable? Yes. Does that mean it was boring? For some people, yes.
| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
More: TechCrunch, Daily Mail, The Drum, and Engadget
| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the proliferation of pirated movies and TV shows on TikTok, posted as small clips by accounts that don't appear to make any money from the content — The videos violate copyright laws, but they remain available—for now — “Barbie” just hit streaming platforms. It was on TikTok first.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding the company in breach of GDPR in relation to its handling of children's data and gives three months to comply — It's been a long time coming but TikTok has finally been found in breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation …
More: Data Protection Commission, The Guardian, Security Affairs, Politico, The Hacker News, Gadgets Now, Ars Technica, TikTok, Notebookcheck, edpb.europa.eu, Gizchina, The Irish Times, Associated Press, New York Times, ChinaTechNews.com, BleepingComputer, Digital Music News, Forbes, Independent.ie, The Independent, Tubefilter, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Dexerto, Variety, iPhone in Canada Blog, BigTechWire, The Verge, CNN, The Record, Newser, The Register, Finextra, WOOD-TV, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, ComputerWeekly.com, BBC, Neowin, Metaverse Post, and Tech Xplore
Threads: @bartclaeys and @carnage4life
| Bloomberg: |
TikTok Shop is planning steep Black Friday deals from October 27 to November 30 by offering to subsidize discounts by up to 50% to entice sellers' participation — - Viral video app launched its Shop tab earlier this week — Social platform is luring sellers ahead of shopping rushSponsor Posts
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5 common accounting mistakes — This is a guest post by Yaali Bizappln Solutions. A lot of businesses manage their customers and finances on separate platforms. This disconnect often leads to missed invoices …
5 common accounting mistakes — This is a guest post by Yaali Bizappln Solutions. A lot of businesses manage their customers and finances on separate platforms. This disconnect often leads to missed invoices …
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