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In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more — The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …
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Threads: @carnage4life. X: @safety, @thierrybreton, @elonmusk, @thierrybreton, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @thierrybreton, @anneapplebaum, @jason_kint, @guyverhofstadt, @pinboard, @jason_kint, @zsk, and @pinboard. LinkedIn: Daniel Tunkelang
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Letter: European regulator Thierry Breton urges Mark Zuckerberg to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation from Meta's platforms during the Israel-Hamas war — - European regulator Thierry Breton shared a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday urging the billionaire to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation.
More: Ars Technica, BBC, Washington Post, Fortune, Engadget, Deadline, Politico, Silicon UK, Reuters, USA Today, Reuters, pravda.com.ua, Business Today, SiliconANGLE, Reclaim The Net, Social Media Today, Bloomberg, The Hill, The Independent, NBC 7 San Diego, Benzinga, PCMag, The Information, Yahoo Finance, WION, Seeking Alpha, Washington Examiner, UKTN, The Verge, TechCrunch, Deadline, The Messenger, Barron's Online, and New York Times
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram head Adam Mosseri reiterates Threads' position on hard news, saying that Threads does not intend to “amplify” news because it's currently “too risky” — Instagram's new Twitter-like app Threads is not prepared to truly challenge Elon Musk's X …
More: Hindustan Times and Neowin
| Jake Piazza / CNBC: |
Microsoft receives Notices of Proposed Adjustment from the IRS for an additional $28.9B tax payment; Microsoft plans to appeal, a process expected to take years — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at federal court on October 2, 2023 in Washington, DC. Nadella is testifying …
More: Microsoft On the Issues, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Republic, The Verge, Business Post, IGN, Engadget, Reuters, Tech Xplore, Neowin, AppleInsider, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, Cryptopolitan, Thurrott, CryptoSlate, South China Morning Post, CRN, The Register, iTnews, Associated Press, Financial Times, PCMag, The Information, Tuko.co.ke, StreetInsider.com, Forbes, CNBC Television on YouTube, MarketWatch, Barron's Online, CNN, GeekWire, Dow Jones Newswires, and Bloomberg
Threads: @daveleebbg. Mastodon: @angiebaby@mas.to. X: @bdsams, @mgsiegler, @fosspatents, and @fosspatents
LinkedIn: Bill Gately and Tom Krazit
Forums: r/microsoft, r/Superstonk, r/news, and r/wallstreetbets
| Bloomberg: |
US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says SBF asked her to make false balance sheets to hide debt, he considered offering FTX shares to the Saudi crown prince, and more — - Ellison takes witness stand for second day at SBF trial — Ellison discusses mounting loans to Alameda Research
More: Decrypt, CNN, CoinDesk, The Information, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, CoinDesk, The Block, Fast Company, crypto.news, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, CoinGape, and CoinDesk
Threads: @tschleifer, @tschleifer, @tschleifer, @highyield.harry, @tschleifer, and @tschleifer
X: @aditya_baradwaj, @aditya_baradwaj, @innercitypress, @davidzmorris, @abu9ala7, @adamscochran, @autismcapital, @adamscochran, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, @thestalwart, @jruss_jruss, @jruss_jruss, @deitaone, @rscharf_, @rscharf_, @rscharf_, @tuurdemeester, @patio11, @rscharf_, @alice_comfy, @asvanevik, @chafkin, @bennetttomlin, @remusofmars, @bennetttomlin, @adamscochran, @zoeclaire_, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @yueqi_yang, @innercitypress, @deitaone, @davidzmorris, @innercitypress, and @innercitypress. LinkedIn: Stacy-Marie Ishmael. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says Alameda paid $100M to $150M in crypto transfers to Chinese officials to unfreeze its OKX and Huobi trading accounts, worth ~$1B — During the Sam Bankman-Fried trial on Wednesday, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison testified that the crypto trading …
More: The Information, Blockworks, Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, Decrypt, Insider, The Block, Bitcoin News, CryptoSlate, CryptoPotato, Slate, The Daily Hodl, Cryptonews, and Fortune
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic expands ActivityPub support to WordPress.com hosted sites, letting blog owners reach 13.3M users across the fediverse, including Mastodon's 1.8M MAUs — Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse …
More: WordPress.com News, The Verge, and BGR
Threads: @chrispirillo. Mastodon: @clintlalonde@mastodon …, @dilmandila@mograph.social, @randomwizard@social …, @anildash@me.dm, @mergesort@macaw.social, and @tchambers@indieweb.social. X: @seo_theory. Forums: Hacker News
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Piper Sandler survey of 9,000+ US teens: 29.1% of their daily video consumption time is on YouTube, beating Netflix for the first time at 28.7%, and ~7% on Hulu — - Teenagers in the United States say they watch more video on YouTube than Netflix, according to a new survey from investment bank Piper Sandler.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok updates its $6M Effect Creator Rewards fund to add lower eligibility rules, a revamped payout model, and a lower threshold to start collecting rewards — TikTok is updating its Effect Creator Rewards program with lower eligibility requirements, a revamped payout model … | Tom Ivan / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony plans to launch PS5 game cloud streaming for PlayStation Plus Premium members in Japan on October 17, Europe on October 23, and North America on October 30 — Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced plans to launch cloud streaming for PlayStation 5 this month.
More: PlayStation.Blog, PlayStation on YouTube, The Verge, Tom's Guide, T3, Ars Technica, Destructoid, 9to5Google, Kotaku, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, SlashGear, Dot Esports, Neowin, PlayStation LifeStyle, VG Charts, IGN, GameSpot, Eurogamer.net, and Thurrott
Threads: @seanhollister and @durrell.randle
| Gabe Bullard / Nieman Reports: |
Internal memo: NPR lost a negligible amount of traffic in the six months since leaving X, after the service labeled the outlet “US state-affiliated media” — The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn't worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic
More: Digiday, Pixel Envy, and The Verge
Threads: @aulia, @travelfishery, @travelfishery, @mosseri, and @karaswisher
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social, @thekenyeung@mastodon.social, @lrhodes@merveilles.town, @karengregory@mastodon.scot, and @claesdevreese@mastodon.social
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/technology, r/Twitter, r/NPR, r/inthenews, r/Journalism, and Beehaw
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro review: useful, if troubling, AI photo editing tools, Face Unlock now works for payments, but the Tensor G3 runs hot occasionally — These might just be the Pixel phones we've been waiting for, but it all depends on how much trust you're willing to put into Google.
More: Engadget, Android Authority, Ars Technica, Android Police, Tom's Guide, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, Android Headlines, Wired, Android Central, The Economic Times, Mashable, Creative Strategies, HotHardware, MySmartPrice, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Phandroid, ZDNet, KnowTechie, Droid Life, Forbes, The Verge, Yahoo Finance, CNET on YouTube, Trusted Reviews on YouTube, EFTM, Tom's Guide on YouTube, Inverse, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Android Police, Android Central, Droid Life, Tom's Guide, Tom's Guide, PhoneArena, and TechRadar
Threads: @thescottpeachey, @jmmlamont, @nexusben, @heymarkl, @joemaring1, and @legendaryscoop
X: @adamconwayie, @maxwinebach, @maxwinebach, @nexusben, @greenshades9, @mishaalrahman, @maxwinebach, @nexusben, @shishirshelke1, @mkbhd, @maxwinebach, @milesabovetech, and @mkbhd
LinkedIn: Kerry W., Mark Spoonauer, Max Buondonno, and Jason Cipriani
Forums: r/GooglePixel and r/Android
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
More: Droid Life on YouTube, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, TechCrunch, East Bay Times, Samachar Central, Wallpaper*, CNET on YouTube, Tom's Guide on YouTube, PCMag, Stuff, MobileSyrup, 9to5Google, Android Police, Android Central, Droid Life, T3, Pocket-lint, XDA Developers, ZDNet, CNET, Engadget, Android Police, and Android Authority
Mastodon: @vicmsong@mastodon.social. X: @snazzylabs, @dylanmcd8, and @maxwinebach. Forums: r/Android
| Noema: |
Current advanced LLMs from OpenAI and others have many flaws but they will, decades from now, be recognized as the first true examples of AGI, similar to ENIAC — Today's most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence.
X: @shanelegg, @melmitchell1, @stefanfschubert, @noemamag, @blaiseaguera, and @garymarcus
Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/singularity, and Beehaw
| Bloomberg: |
How Google Chrome's Discover feed on Android serves up misleading propaganda to Russian audiences; a source says Russian-languages services are a lower priority — Mobile users in Russia are being served pro-war propaganda from sources Google has blocked elsewhere.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Singapore's biggest tech hopes, Grab, Sea, and Razer, have stumbled, which may show why VCs were premature in calling Singapore the “Silicon Valley of Asia” — The rough journey of an Uber-like ride-hailing company helps explain why the island nation has struggled to become Asia's Silicon Valley.| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Progress Software says the US SEC opened an investigation into the MOVEit hack that has cost the company $1M and exposed 64M+ people's personal data — U.S. securities regulators have opened a probe into the MOVEit mass-hack that has exposed the personal data of at least 64 million people … | Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to unveil major developer updates on November 6, like memory storage in its tools and vision capabilities to analyze and describe images — OpenAI plans to introduce major updates for developers next month to make it cheaper and faster to build software applications based … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft plans to deprecate VBScript and make the programming language an on-demand feature in future Windows releases before its eventual removal from the OS — Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed.
More: Microsoft Learn. Mastodon: @jalefkowit@octodon.social. X: @215alexb. LinkedIn: Santosh Pandit, Mike Wilkes, Jason Carter, LinkedIn, and Evan Y.
Forums: r/technology and r/InfoSecNews
| Reuters: |
Filing: India accuses 30+ staff of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo of visa violations and says Vivo siphoned off ~$13B to its Chinese parent via a “masking layer” — Many employees of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo and its Indian affiliates concealed their employment when seeking visas …
More: Business Today, DigiTimes, Trak.in, SPARROWS NEWS, TechNode, and Financial Times
| Rob Copeland / New York Times: |
Goldman Sachs offloads major BNPL player GreenSky for an undisclosed sum to a group of money managers, after acquiring the company for $1.7B in 2021 — Goldman sells the consumer lender GreenSky after significant losses, less than two years after buying it.
More: Goldman Sachs, Reuters, CNBC, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, The Information, Wall Street Journal, The Messenger, and Finextra
| Karen Hao / The Atlantic: |
Sources: the US Department of Commerce is considering new export controls for general-purpose AI programs, a move that experts say could weaken US AI innovation — Washington and Beijing have been locked in a conflict over AI development. Now a new battle line is being drawn.
X: @_karenhao, @dlberes, @bobehayes, @ainowinstitute, @theatlantic, and @ambaonadventure
LinkedIn: Marc Rotenberg, Christos Makridis, and Marc Rotenberg
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