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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, @lindayax, @thierrybreton, @globalaffairs, @thierrybreton, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @isabelle_szcz, @marinamedvin, @pinboard, @pinboard, @prestonjbyrne, @erinkwoo, @anneapplebaum, @jason_kint, @guyverhofstadt, @jason_kint, and @zsk
Forums: r/worldnews and r/technology
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU launched a probe into X over hosting misinformation in the wake of Hamas' attack on Israel; X could be fined up to 5% of its daily global turnover — Investigation is the first under the bloc's Digital Services Act and comes after letter to Musk raising concerns
More: Bloomberg, NPR, USA Today, BBC, Reuters, MobileSyrup, Variety, Engadget, Fortune, Silicon UK, Tech Xplore, Politico, Daily Mail, Social Media Today, Yahoo Finance, WION, Washington Examiner, TechCrunch, and Deadline. Bluesky: @jimbochill.bsky.social
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Threads rolls out voice posts and a free edit button; users can edit a post within five minutes of sending it, and Threads doesn't show an edit history — Meta's Twitter competitor, Threads, is now rolling out one of its most-requested features - an edit button.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, Social Media Today, Android Headlines, and BGR
Threads: @zuck, @crumbler, @tomwarrenuk, @carnage4life, @mattnavarra, @alexheath, @hawaii, and @drey_hommies
Mastodon: @TruthSandwich@qoto.org and @tchambers@indieweb.social
X: @tomwarren and @artemr
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's Search Generative Experience adds the ability to generate images using prompts and to write drafts by customizing their tone and length — Google's AI-powered search feature, SGE (Search Generative Experience), is gaining some new skills, starting today.| New York Times: |
At SBF's trial, the personal dynamics between him and his friends are a vital component of the case, making clear how much his inner circle has turned on him — The FTX founder's criminal trial has made clear just how much his inner circle has turned against him.| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
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X: @silvermanjacob, @blknoiz06, @coindesk, @innercitypress, @molly0xfff, @teddyschleifer, @coffeebreak_yt, @tomimtk, @trustlessstate, @zackdabrams, @soncharm, @innercitypress, @hedgedhog7, @basedkarbon, @innercitypress, @zackdabrams, @scottmelker, @smtuffy, @innercitypress, @molly0xfff, @lulumeservey, @smtuffy, @thecryptojourno, @molly0xfff, and @adam3us
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
CFTC charges Voyager Digital co-founder Stephen Ehrlich with fraud, saying he and Voyager lied to customers and hid the crypto lender's true financial health — - Stephen Ehrlich and the firm the co-founded, Voyager Digital, lied to customers and hid the crypto lender's true financial health, according to the CFTC.| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Atlassian plans to acquire video messaging platform Loom for around $975M, made up of $880M in cash and the rest in stock, closing in Q1 2024 — Atlassian (TEAM.O) said on Thursday it had agreed to acquire privately held video messaging platform Loom for about $975 million …
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Elliptic: the Russia-linked unidentified FTX hackers who stole $415M to $432M in November 2022 started moving the haul in October, the first time in 2023 — Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—and eventually some that look Russian in origin.
More: Elliptic, CoinDesk, BBC, Unchained Crypto, Bloomberg, Bitcoin News, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, Elliptic Connect, Washington Post, Cryptopolitan, and The Block
X: @joetidy and @a_greenberg
| 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 …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is generating revenue at a $1.3B/year pace, implying the company now generates $100M+/month, up 30% in three months — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is generating revenue at a pace of $1.3 billion a year, CEO Sam Altman told staff this week, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.
More: The Messenger. Threads: @crumbler. X: @jessicalessin, @steph_palazzolo, @amir, @binarybits, and @mattmday
| 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.
More: Piper Sandler, Hindustan Times, TechSpot, TechStartups, and The Streamable
| Noema: |
Today's LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Llama, and Claude have many flaws but decades from now they will be recognized as the first true AGI examples, like the 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.
Mastodon: @rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf. X: @shanelegg, @blaiseaguera, @stefanfschubert, @noemamag, @melmitchell1, and @garymarcus
LinkedIn: Alex Monaghan, Albert Buchard, Aron Talenfeld, Andrea Terlizzi, Giedrius Burachas, Sebastian Hunte, Daniel Fernandez, Casian Stefan, Hugo Penedones, Laszlo Sragner, Gregory Renard, João Galego, Tero Keski-Valkama, Greg Linden, Abdallah Arioua, and Peter Norvig
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Beehaw
| 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: @dilmandila@mograph.social, @clintlalonde@mastodon …, @randomwizard@social …, @anildash@me.dm, @mergesort@macaw.social, and @tchambers@indieweb.social. X: @seo_theory. Forums: Hacker News
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Google says it will defend users of generative AI services in Workspace and Cloud from copyright claims; Microsoft, Adobe, and others made similar pledges — Google said on Thursday that it will defend users of generative artificial-intelligence systems in its Google Cloud and Workspace platforms … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Over 220 VC firms, including Bain, Bessemer, and GGV, sign a statement supporting Israel and call for the investor community to support Israel's tech ecosystem — The open letter published on Thursday is the latest effort by startup investors to provide support for the state of Israel and its tech community, with 221 firms signed on.| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Filing: Sam Altman is the largest investor in Humane, which plans to unveil its AI Pin in November, with a 14.93% equity; Humane's two co-founders own 13% each — Sam Altman is Humane's biggest shareholder — Secretive AI hardware startup Humane is getting ready to officially unveil … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok updates its $6M Effect Creator Rewards fund with lower eligibility conditions, 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 … | Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Filing: Caltech settles a patent lawsuit against Apple and Broadcom, after suing them in 2016 for allegedly infringing its Wi-Fi patents — The California Institute of Technology has reached an agreement to end a patent lawsuit against Apple (AAPL.O) and Broadcom (AVGO.O) over Wi-Fi chips … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
CCData: Coinbase's spot trading volume fell 52% YoY to $76B in Q3 2023, likely the lowest quarterly volume since Coinbase's Nasdaq direct listing in April 2021 — - Transaction revenue accounts for about half of total revenue — Quarterly spot trading volume fell to $76 billion, CCData says| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Surface Laptop Go 3 review: light, compact, and a premium design, but a low-resolution screen, the keyboard isn't backlit, few ports, and too expensive at $800+ — The Go 3 is a nice-looking and well-built device, but the $999 price makes no sense. … The chassis looks identical …
Forums: r/Surface
| 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 …
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