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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: DL News, The Hacker News, Cryptopolitan, Cryptonews, Decrypt, Bitcoinist.com, The Record, and Chainalysis
| 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
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/ethtrader
| Constance Grady / Vox: |
Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography is a book of rigorous and dogged reportage, but lacks analysis and often ignores the moments at which Musk's flaws scale — In Walter Isaacson's buzzy new biography, Elon Musk emerges as a callous, chaos-loving man without empathy.
More: Los Angeles Times, Insider, The Guardian, Financial Times, The Information, Fortune, Deadline, Gizmodo, Wired, and Variety
X: @constancegrady, @johnbender, @voxdotcom, and @curiouswavefn
| 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: Insider and Fortune
X: @anthonymamore, @jigolden, @sapna, @nytimestech, @nytimesbusiness, and @nytimes. LinkedIn: Matthew Boyle. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.| 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| 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
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
A look at D Billions, a network of YouTube channels run by Kyrgyzstan-based media company AWA and which got billions of views by teaching kids words via songs — A landlocked country in Central Asia is home to an international hit. — The US has Mr. Beast. The Kyrgyz Republic has D Billions.| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
A look at SBF's ~250 pages of reflections and self-justifications while under house arrest, which signal how he may defend himself at his October criminal trial — The FTX founder wrote hundreds of pages of reflections and self-justifications while under house arrest, shedding light …
More: Bitcoin News, The Information, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, Fortune, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, New York Post, and Decrypt
X: @marknagelberg, @motokorich, @fintechfrank, @0x_tracy, @clarajeffery, and @smdiehl
Forums: r/amcstock and r/law
| Taylor Lyles / IGN: |
Q&A with Apple executives Jeremy Sandmel and Tim Millet on the company's 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: BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Redmond Pie, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Wccftech, and The Verge
X: @taynixster and @videotechx
Forums: r/iosgaming, r/gamingnews, r/gamernews, r/Games, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: 500ish and Hardcore Software
| 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 rush
More: The Verge and Insider Intelligence
| 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: Security Affairs, Data Protection Commission, The Guardian, The Hacker News, Gadgets Now, Gizchina, ChinaTechNews.com, Associated Press, The Irish Times, Politico, New York Times, Digital Music News, Ars Technica, TikTok, Independent.ie, Tubefilter, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Dexerto, iPhone in Canada Blog, BigTechWire, The Independent, CNN, BleepingComputer, The Record, The Verge, Newser, Forbes, The Register, Variety, WOOD-TV, Finextra, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, RTÉ, ComputerWeekly.com, Engadget, BBC, Neowin, Metaverse Post, and Tech Xplore
Threads: @bartclaeys and @carnage4life
X: @dpcireland, @lukolejnik, @adrianweckler, @bhaggart, @mikarv, @5rightsfound, @theobertram, @tiktokcomms, @robertjbateman, @carolinegreer, @evan_greer, @ali_lev, @robertjbateman, and @lukolejnik
LinkedIn: Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, Lee A Bygrave, and Omer Tene
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/technology, and r/europe
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