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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is trying to make the next Vision Pro more comfortable to wear and Meta is aiming to release a cheaper Quest in 2024 and true AR glasses in 2025 — Apple's Vision Pro and Meta's Quest 3 haven't even been released yet, but the two companies are already deep into work on follow-up products.
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| Brian McGleenon / The Block: |
As the UK FCA widens its crypto marketing rules, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, and others partner with UK companies, expecting to continue serving UK customers — - Coinbase and OKX have partnered with crypto startup Archax to get financial promotions approved. — At the same time …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Hackers posted a 23andMe data sample on BreachForums, claiming 1M data points exclusively on Ashkenazi Jews, but the sample appears to lack raw genetic data — At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums.
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| Washington Post: |
Investigation: earlier in 2023, Vietnam tried to plant Predator spyware on the phones of US Congress members, CNN journalists, and policy experts via posts on X — The attempts appear to have been unsuccessful, but came as the U.S. and Vietnam were negotiating an agreement that President Biden signed last month in Hanoi| Reuters: |
Investors and analysts: Intel, Nvidia, and others in Israel are set to fortify security and face disruptions after Hamas attacks; Nvidia cancels an AI summit — Tech companies operating in Israel are expected to fortify security as they could face disruptions, said investors and analysts … | Natalie Weiner / The Verge: |
A look at Discogs, a user-generated music database and marketplace for physical music media, as sellers complain about the website's old tech and increased fees — A home for music diehards has been fractured by increased fees that are pushing sellers and shoppers to other platforms.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
An investigation details FTX staff's all-night race to stop a crypto heist as the exchange collapsed, ultimately losing $415M to $432M to unidentified hackers — The same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers.| Emma Fletcher / Federal Trade Commission: |
One in four people in the US who reported losing money to fraud from January 2021 to June 2023 said the contact started on social media, causing $2.7B in losses — Scammers are hiding in plain sight on social media platforms and reports to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network point to huge profits.
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| Lisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal: |
LLMs trained on voice, text, and video chats can now detect and mimic emotions like empathy, which may impact customer service, HR, and mental health sectors — Artificial Intelligence is getting smart enough to express and measure human empathy. Here's how the new technology could change healthcare …
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
NewsWhip: seven of the top 10 “news” articles with the most interactions on Facebook in September 2023 were published on the catholicfundamentalism.com domain — Read to the end for the garfarious anglerfish — This Is What Replaces News On Facebook
X: @broderick
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon fixes an issue that undercounted its MAUs by 407,814 between October 2 and October 8, meaning the social network has 1.8M MAUs in total and 10K servers — Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X … | Andy Patrizio / Ars Technica: |
A history of Digital Equipment Corporation, founded in 1957 to build small digital modules, pioneered minicomputers before being acquired by Compaq in 1998 — One of the early pioneers in computing, the company disappeared in the late 1990s. — Even though very few of the early players …
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