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| RT Watson / The Block: |
Chainalysis says recent media reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses” — - Chainalysis said some recent reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses.”
More: Chainalysis, U.S. Department …, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Reuters, Bloomberg, Elliptic, CryptoSlate, Decrypt, CCN.com, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Disruption Banking, 404 Media, CoinDesk, and CryptoPotato
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
New York AG Letitia James sues the Winklevoss' Gemini, Genesis, and its parent Digital Currency Group, alleging the companies defrauded 230K investors of $1B+ — New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing the Winklevoss twin-led exchange Gemini along with the crypto lending firm Genesis …
More: NY State Attorney General, Axios, The Verge, New York Times, CoinDesk, Metaverse Post, Gizmodo, The Hill, Finextra, Blockworks, NBC News, TechCrunch, Reuters, Decrypt, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, The Block, crypto.news, Bitcoin News, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Insider, Cryptonews, Forkast, Cointelegraph, and Coinpedia Fintech News
X: @geminitrustco, @samcallah, @dylanleclair_, @stevennerayoff, @nikasgari, @silvermanjacob, @silvermanjacob, @occamicrypto, @arbedout, @smdiehl, @newyorkstateag, @travis_kling, @ap_abacus, @ap_abacus, @napgener, @newyorkstateag, @aftxcreditor, and @napgener
Forums: r/ethtrader and r/Gemini
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK plans to announce an international advisory group on AI, loosely modeled on the UN's IPCC, at the November 2023 AI summit in Bletchley Park — The British government wants to draw on expert knowledge about the fast-developing technology — The UK is planning to announce … | John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
More: PYMNTS.com and Gizmodo
Bluesky: @blackamazon.bsky.social. X: @hare_brain, @chassnews, @jimpethokoukis, @joshgd, and @tomchivers. Forums: r/singularity
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A researcher details a malicious and convincing Google ad linking to a fake site for password manager Keepass; Google shows a verified advertiser paid for them — Google-verified advertiser + legit-looking URL + valid TLS cert = convincing look-alike. — Google has been caught hosting …
More: Malwarebytes Labs. Mastodon: @hanno@mastodon.social, @briankrebs@infosec.exchange, and @karadoc@aus.social
Bluesky: @blackamazon.bsky.social and @chardday.bsky.social
X: @medidigitalmark, @safespace4space, and @wrthfl
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports Q3 revenue down 14.6% YoY to ~$17.28B, net income down 24.9% YoY to ~$6.5B, and expects to spend $32B on growing and upgrading capacity in 2023 — - Sales and capex projections both came in ahead of estimates — World's most advanced chipmaker is struggling with a downturn| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
WhatsApp plans to let users switch between two accounts on Android in the coming weeks; a second account will still need a separate phone number and SIM card — If you use two different WhatsApp accounts, you'll soon be able to access both from just one device.
More: Meta, Thurrott, PCMag, BleepingComputer, 9to5Mac, Lifewire, SamMobile, TechCrunch, Tech Advisor, Android Police, Cybernews.com, Neowin, Ghacks, PhoneArena, T3, BetaNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, Gizchina, Android Authority, MSPoweruser, Pocket-lint, Mashable, and Engadget. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp rolls out a view once mode for voice notes to some beta users on iOS and Android, after launching the feature for photos and videos in August 2021 — WhatsApp is introducing a new feature to allow users to share voice notes with view once mode enabled for added privacy.
More: 9to5Mac, Mashable, Android Headlines, KnowTechie, The Verge, SamMobile, PhoneArena, Phandroid, News9live, and Android Police
X: @techykaptan, @wabetainfo, and @sulemansaeeed
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nokia plans to cut up to 14,000 jobs, or ~16% of its 86,000 workforce, and reports Q3 2023 net sales down 20% YoY to €4.98B and profit down 69% YoY to €133M — - Nokia said it would cut up to 14,000 jobs as part of a cost cutting plan following third quarter earnings that plunged.
More: Nokia, The Register, Silicon Valley Business …, Bloomberg, Reuters, Fast Company, Network World, Total Telecom, BBC, The Messenger, GlobeNewswire News Room, Fortune, Tech Xplore, DatacenterDynamics, Insider, KNSD-TV, New York Times, Coinspeaker, Ghacks, Tech Monitor, Silicon Republic, Watcher Guru, Android Headlines, Light Reading, CNN, WRAL TechWire, Financial Times, and ITPro. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord overhauls its moderation tools with a new warning system and a teen safety assist feature, plans to roll out an in-app shop for Discord members, more — Discord is overhauling the way it moderates its platform with a new warning system and teen safety assist feature.
More: Discord Blog, The Messenger, Dexerto, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, PC Gamer, and Fast Company. X: @tomwarren
| Reuters: |
Meta introduces temporary limits on “potentially unwelcome or unwanted comments” on Facebook posts about the Israel-Hamas war for users “in the region” — Facebook-owner Meta Platforms (META.O) on Wednesday introduced temporary measures to limit … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to start assembling the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro in India and begin India-made shipments in 2024, but didn't reveal its local manufacturing partners — Google will start assembling the Pixel smartphone lineup in India, a company executive said, becoming the latest tech giant …
More: Google, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup, Business Today, PhoneArena, International Business Times, Analytics India Magazine, Inc42 Media, Tech Xplore, and Android Headlines. Forums: Slashdot
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company's App Store in China following an internal investigation into business misconduct — Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company's App Store in China following an internal probe into business misconduct …
More: Computerworld and MacRumors
Mastodon: @tolmasky@mastodon.social, @stroughtonsmith …, and @stroughtonsmith …
| 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 18%+ — - Netflix shares popped more than 13% after it posted earnings. — The company reported a boost in subscriber growth driven … | Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
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X: @lucas_shaw, @shinobi602, @peterschiff, @tvgrimreaper, @wsj, @tvanswerman, and @agentbizzle. LinkedIn: Uzo Ometu
Forums: r/technology, r/entertainment, and r/cordcutters
| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD announces new Ryzen Threadripper 7000 CPUs for desktops and workstations, offering up to 96 cores on the 7000 Pro series, shipping November 21 for $550+ — Having just recently crossed the one-year anniversary of AMD's first Zen 4 architecture CPUs - the Ryzen 7000 series …
More: The Verge, PCWorld, CRN, Club386, Tom's Hardware, PCMag, VentureBeat, XDA Developers, VideoCardz.com, Neowin, TechPowerUp, ServeTheHome, guru3d.com, Forbes, Phoronix, KitGuru, TechPowerUp, Wccftech, and Notebookcheck
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
A US judge sentences a social media influencer to seven months in prison for conspiring to suppress votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016, including via Twitter ads — - A Trump-supporting social media influencer was sentenced to seven months in prison for conspiring to suppress the votes …
More: The Verge, New York Times, and The Messenger
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery system to the UK, Italy, and a third US city in late 2024 and integrate Prime Air into its delivery network — The company will also bring the Prime Air program to a third US city by the end of 2024. — Amazon has some big plans …
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X: @greglinden, @tashaark, @iamkennethchan, @opsprof, @amazon, @mikecmorgan, and @amazonuk
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
An international group of law enforcement agencies, including the US, the EU, and Japan, seizes the dark web portal used by the RagnarLocker ransomware group — An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web portal used by the notorious RagnarLocker ransomware group, TechCrunch has learned.| Pew Research Center: |
A May 2023 survey of 5,101 US adults: 78% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans support more government regulation over what companies can do with people's data — The role of technology companies, AI and regulation - plus personal experiences with data breaches, passwords, cybersecurity and privacy policies
More: 9to5Mac. X: @pewinternet, @pewresearch, @alliekmiller, @jason_kint, @pewresearch, @pewinternet, @pewresearch, @pewresearch, @pewinternet, @pewresearch, @monicaranders, @pewresearch, @pewresearch, @monicaranders, @pewinternet, @gottfriedjeff, @gottfriedjeff, @pewinternet, @pewresearch, and @staysafeonline. Forums: r/privacy
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
US v. Google: Pandu Nayak, Google's VP of Search and first witness, testifies that smart employees explain its success and lead to innovations, such as on LLMs — While the Justice Department says Google has squeezed partners and made expensive deals to maintain its search dominance, the company has a more genteel story to tell.
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, Big Tech on Trial, and Wall Street Journal
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| Financial Times: |
The US House's China committee asks about Sequoia's investments since 2010 in AI, quantum, and chip companies based, or with “significant operations”, in China — Scrutiny of California VC firm comes amid mounting tension between Washington and Beijing| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
US v. SBF: accounting professor Peter Easton testifies that FTX used “over a billion dollars” of customer funds to buy back Binance's FTX stake, bought in 2019 — Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a 2022 post the company had received over $2.1 billion in binance usd (BUSD) stablecoins and FTX's FTT tokens.
More: Cryptopolitan, CryptoPotato, Bitcoin Insider, and NewsBTC
X: @tiffanyfong_, @elonmusk, @wublockchain, @wublockchain, @innercitypress, @eleanorterrett, @innercitypress, @johnedeaton1, and @autismcapital. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Stanford unveils the Foundation Model Transparency Index, featuring 100 indicators; Llama 2 led at 54%, GPT-4 placed third at 48%, and PaLM 2 took 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.?
More: crfm.stanford.edu, Stanford HAI, Silicon Republic, CoinDesk, PetaPixel, WinBuzzer, Beyond Search, MediaNama, The Verge, Reuters, and AI Snake Oil
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
OnePlus Open review: thin and light for a foldable and good multitasking support, but no water resistance or wireless charging, and very costly at $1,700 — The OnePlus Open finds a happy medium between the Pixel Fold and Galaxy Z Fold 5 size-wise, but it's too close in price to the incumbent foldables.
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