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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery system to the UK, Italy, and a third US city beginning in late 2024 — The company will also bring the Prime Air program to a third US city by the end of 2024. — Amazon has some big plans for its drone delivery program …
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X: @greglinden, @amazon, @opsprof, @amazonuk, @tashaark, @iamkennethchan, and @mikecmorgan. Forums: Slashdot
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces the launch of drone deliveries of medicines purchased through Amazon Pharmacy for customers in College Station, Texas — Amazon's Prime Air drone service has been slow to take off for the company, with limited operations in just two locales a whole decade after Amazon first started development of the program.
More: About Amazon, Forbes, Bloomberg, TweakTown, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Newser, ZDNet, CNBC, Proactiveinvestors NA, Good Morning America on YouTube, StreetInsider.com, Ghacks, TechEBlog, SiliconANGLE, Fierce Healthcare, Axios, PYMNTS.com, Dow Jones Newswires, ABC News, CBS News, GeekWire, Silicon UK, SlashGear, MedCity News, Tech Xplore, Forbes, and Forbes. LinkedIn: John Love
| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 7.8% YoY to $8.54B, vs. $8.54B est., and global paid memberships up 10.8% YoY to 247.15M, vs. 243.88M est.; NFLX jumps 12%+ — - Netflix shares popped more than 12% after the closing bell Wednesday. — The company reported a boost in subscriber growth driven … | Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix raises US prices for its basic plan to $11.99 from $9.99 and its premium plan to $22.99 from $19.99; it is also raising some prices in the UK and France — Hollywood strikes will lead to lower content spending, more free cash flow this year, company says
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Stanford researchers unveil the Foundation Model Transparency Index, with 100 indicators; Llama 2 leads at 54%, GPT-4 is third at 48%, PaLM 2 is fifth at 40% — Stanford researchers have ranked 10 major A.I. models on how openly they operate. — How much do we know about A.I.?
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| Francesco Canepa / Reuters: |
The European Central Bank plans to start a two-year “preparation phase” for the digital euro on November 1, to finalize rules, select partners, and do testing — The European Central Bank took a further step on Wednesday towards launching a digital version of the euro … | Reuters: |
The US' new 400-page chip export rules show officials are open to chip sector input on ways to keep sending AI chips to China for small and medium-sized systems — While stripping China's access to key U.S. artificial intelligence chips, the Biden administration's sweeping new rules …
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Google says that government-backed hackers linked to Russia and China are exploiting a since-patched zero-day in WinRAR, discovered by Group-IB in August 2023 — Google security researchers say they have found evidence that government-backed hackers linked to Russia and China are exploiting …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Chrome's address bar with better autocomplete, suggestions for misspelled URL names, search within bookmark folders, and a revamped desktop look — Google is rolling out a series of updates to the address bar (or Omnibox) in Chrome that improves the accuracy of autocomplete across the desktop and mobile browser.| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Experts say misinformation from “verified” pseudo-OSINT accounts on X, driven by profit and engagement, is destroying the Israel-Hamas war information ecosystem — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Clearview AI wins an appeal against the UK's data protection watchdog, which imposed a ~£7.5M fine in May 2022 for alleged breaches of local privacy laws — Controversial US facial recognition company, Clearview AI, has won an appeal against a privacy sanction issued by the U.K. last year.
More: BBC, Politico, New York Times, Telegraph, and Bloomberg Law
| Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: |
In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes chiefs from the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand warn about China's IP “theft” and using AI to hack and spy — The Five Eyes countries' intelligence chiefs came together on Tuesday to accuse China of intellectual property theft …
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Forums: r/europe, r/ADVChina, and r/europe
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
YouTube adds a news page to its mobile apps that suggests content from “authoritative sources”, and plans to spend $1.6M to promote creating Shorts news content — YouTube is embracing news from “authoritative sources” at a time when Meta is reluctant to promote hard news …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to roll out Telegram-like broadcast channels on Facebook and Messenger in the coming weeks, after launching them on Instagram and WhatsApp — Meta is bringing its Telegram-like “broadcast channels” feature to Facebook and Messenger after rolling it out to Instagram and WhatsApp earlier this year.| Wall Street Journal: |
At a conference, Sam Altman and other tech leaders say AI will likely bring seismic workforce changes, eliminating professions, a hard sell to the most affected — At WSJ Tech Live, Sam Altman said coming workforce changes will play out unevenly — LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. …
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| Mark Matousek / The Information: |
Internal message: Discord shuts down Gas nine months after acquiring the app, which let users anonymously compliment friends and had ~1M DAUs in October 2022 — Nikita Bier has done it again. Nine months after he sold anonymous-compliments app Gas to Discord, the app is being shut down, Discord CEO Jason Citron has told employees.
More: The Verge. Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @dcseifert@mastodon.social. X: @joshconstine and @matousekmark
| Stephen Warwick / iMore: |
Apple unveils an “affordable” $79 Apple Pencil that charges via a USB-C cable, shipping in “early November” and compatible with all iPads that have a USB-C port — A nice surprise... Apple has today unveiled a new “affordable” Apple Pencil with USB-C that costs $79.
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Forums: r/hardware, r/gadgets, and r/ipad
| Matt Mullenweg: |
While X charging users $1/year to stop bots and spam is appealing, the value of manipulating X is so high that millions are likely already being spent to do so — Twitter/X is testing charging users $1/year with the idea that will keep out bots and spam. It's an appealing idea …
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| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
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