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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 …
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.”
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 on November 21 for $1500+  —  Having just recently crossed the one-year anniversary of AMD's first Zen 4 architecture CPUs - the Ryzen 7000 series …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
A researcher details malicious and convincing Google ads 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 …
Financial Times:
Mustafa Suleyman, Eric Schmidt, and others propose an IPCC-like International Panel on AI Safety, an objective advisory body to help shape protocols and norms  —  An International Panel on AI Safety could offer an objective body to help shape protocols and norms
John Thornhill / Financial Times:
Meta's Yann LeCun says regulating R&D for AI “is incredibly counterproductive” and would only serve to reinforce Big Tech's dominance and stifle competition
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
Emma Roth / The Verge:
WhatsApp plans to start letting Android users switch between two accounts in the coming weeks; a second account will still need a separate phone number and SIM  —  If you use two different WhatsApp accounts, you'll soon be able to access both from just one device.
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
Jim Salter / Associated Press:
The FBI and the DOJ say thousands of IT workers sent by North Korea to work remotely for US companies using false IDs have sent millions in wages to North Korea  —  Thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars …
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nokia plans to cut up to 14,000 jobs, or ~16% of its 86,000 employees, 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.
Bloomberg:
TSMC reports Q3 revenue down 14.6% YoY to ~$17.28B, net income down 24.9% YoY to ~$6.5B, and projects $32B in capital spending for 2023, vs. $30.5B est.  —  - Sales and capex projections both came in ahead of estimates  — World's most advanced chipmaker is struggling with a downturn
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
The FCC votes 3-2 to invite the US public to comment on re-establishing net neutrality rules; the broader effort still faces a long legal and political battle  —  The Federal Communications Commission officially began its effort to re-establish net neutrality at its monthly meeting today …
Wayne Ma / The Information:
Sources: Apple fired at least five employees who worked on the company's App Store in China, following an internal investigation into their 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 …
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 store for all users, and more  —  Discord is overhauling the way it moderates its platform with a new warning system and teen safety assist feature.
Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Law enforcement agencies, including from the US, the EU, and Japan, seize the RagnarLocker ransomware group's dark web portal as part of an “ongoing action”  —  An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web portal used by the notorious RagnarLocker ransomware group, TechCrunch has learned.
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
US v. SBF: FTX's ex-top lawyer says SBF asked him to form “legal justifications” for why FTX was missing $7B in user funds, undermining SBF's good-faith defense  —  Cryptocurrency exchange FTX's former top lawyer testified on Thursday at its founder Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial …
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
US v. SBF: accounting professor Peter Easton testifies that FTX used $1B+ of its customer funds to buy back Binance's FTX stake, which Binance bought in 2019
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
US v. Google: Pandu Nayak, Google's first witness and a VP of Search, testifies that smart employees explain the company's success and innovations, such as 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.
Maria Heeter / The Information:
Trucking marketplace Convoy starts shutting down; sources: the startup had ~$320M in 2023 revenue by early October, on pace to fall short of the $630M in 2022  —  Trucking startup Convoy is shutting down and a majority of its executive team is stepping down, the company told employees Thursday …
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
OnePlus Open review: thin and light for a foldable and good multitasking support, but no full water resistance or wireless charging, and $1,700 is too expensive  —  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.
Wes Davis / The Verge:
FCC approves a petition by Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft and others for access to the 6GHz band for Wi-Fi tethering of AR and VR headsets  —  The FCC has unanimously approved plans by several tech companies to use the 6GHz band for wireless devices.  —  FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel proposed …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google updates Play Protect with real-time scanning at the code level, prompting users to scan unknown Android apps before sideloading, starting in India  —  To avoid detection, Google has found that malicious parties are looking beyond the Play Store to infect Android devices with malware.

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From Mediagazer

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

More News

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
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
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
How Only in Dade, started as an Instagram meme page a decade ago, inadvertently became a Miami local news source, including by using its 1.3M followers' videos
Susan D'Agostino / Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on nuance in headlines about AI, taboos among AI researchers, and why top researchers may disagree about AI's potential risks to humanity

Earlier Picks

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
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO sue Anthropic for allegedly violating their copyrights by using song lyrics to train AI models
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%+
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