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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect from Apple's “Scary Fast” event on October 30: high-end MacBook Pros with M3 Pro and M3 Max, a new 24-inch iMac with an M3, and USB-C accessories  —  The company is poised to introduce computers with speedier chips.  —  Apple Inc.'s last product unveiling …
Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft details Octo Tempest, a native English-speaking hacking group targeting tech, gaming, hospitality, retail, law, financial services, and other sectors  —  Microsoft has published a detailed profile of a native English-speaking threat actor with advanced social engineering capabilities …
Financial Times:
In a testimony heard without the jury present, SBF says he followed his lawyers' counsel to make critical decisions around passing FTX customer money to Alameda  —  Former crypto billionaire blames lawyers as court hears first snippets of testimony without jury present
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Cointelegraph, Axios, CoinDesk, Reuters, Protos, Reuters, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Insider, The Guardian, The Crypto Basic, Blockonomi, CoinGape, New York Times, Tech in Asia, Business Today, Insider, Wall Street Journal, Matthew Russell Lee's …, Washington Post, Barron's Online, Associated Press, Fast Company, The Daily Beast, Fortune, The Information, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, and BBC
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Bloomberg:
A live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried's testimony in front of a jury at his criminal fraud trial in NYC over the collapse of FTX
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Source: during an all-hands, Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino referenced ambitions to create XWire, a press release service that would rival Cision's PR Newswire  —  Executives at X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, said they see YouTube and LinkedIn as future competitors …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Businesses are using SEO-driven names like Thai Food Near Me and Dentist Near Me to optimize for Google Search, but the scheme is likely technically ineffective  —  Thai Food Near Me, Dentist Near Me, Notary Near Me, Plumber Near Me — businesses across the country picked names meant to outsmart Google Search.
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Cruise pauses all driverless operations two days after the California DMV suspended its permits, but plans to continue operating supervised autonomous vehicles  —  Cruise said Thursday evening it has paused all driverless operations, a decision that comes just two days after the California Department …
Liz Young / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Flexport is in talks to acquire collapsed digital freight startup Convoy's tech, a move that would expand Flexport's push into the US trucking market  —  The deal would move the digital-focused freight forwarder into the domestic trucking market  —  Flexport is in talks to buy …
Casey Hall / Reuters:
Documents: Shein and PDD's Temu file joint declarations in Chicago and Boston to end their legal fights, asking judges to dismiss the cases “without prejudice”  —  Fierce rivals Shein and PDD Holdings-owned (PDD.O) Temu have applied to end their legal fights with each other in the U.S. …
More: Tech in Asia and Tech.co
Julia Black / The Information:
Sources: Humane set its ~$1K Ai Pin launch for the October 14 solar eclipse, but rescheduled to November 9 as a report of Sam Altman and Jony Ive's device broke  —  In late September, a stakeholder in Humane received a humbled message from the startup.  The Information had just broken …
Simon Willison's Weblog:
How OpenAI uses ChatGPT prompt engineering to get around DALL-E 3's fundamental biases, discourage DALL-E 3 from recreating the work of living artists, and more  —  Last year I wrote about my initial experiments with DALL-E 2, OpenAI's image generation model.
Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
The UN creates a 39-member advisory body of tech executives, government officials, and academics to examine issues in the international governance of AI  —  The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday announced the creation of a 39-member advisory body to address issues …
Payments Dive:
Payments processor Wex plans to acquire North Carolina-based Payzer, which sells field services tools to ~150K contractors like plumbers and roofers, for ~$250M  —  The purchase of the field services software business will allow for cross-selling an expanded set of services, CEO Melissa Smith said.
More: Hypepotamus
Amazon:
Amazon Q3: revenue up 13% YoY to $143.1B, net income up 244% to $9.9B, operating income up 343% to $11.2B, subscription revenue up 14% to $10.2B; AMZN jumps 6%+  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2023.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
AWS Q3: revenue up 12% YoY to $23.06B, vs. $23.2B est., operating income up 29% YoY to $6.98B, vs. $5.63B est., and a 30.3% operating margin, a two-year high
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon Q3: ad services revenue up 26% YoY to $12.1B, vs. $11.6B est., North American sales up 11% YoY to $87.9B, and International sales up 16% YoY to $32.1B

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From Mediagazer

Agence France-Presse:
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty head Stephen Capus says the US government turned off satellite services that transmit its Russian-language program into Russia

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Amazon introduces a Kindle Recaps feature that uses GenAI and moderators to create short summaries of books in a series

Arpan Chaturvedi / Reuters:
An Indian court orders Wikimedia to remove statements about news agency ANI facing criticism for being a government propaganda tool from a Wikipedia page

More News

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Filing: Tata Group acquires Apple manufacturer Wistron's India unit for $125M; India's Deputy IT Minister says Tata will now make iPhones for the global market
Financial Times:
Sources detail rushing the UK's AI Summit before major AI releases, the event's bigger scope, which now spans everything from health care to deepfakes, and more
Chavi Mehta / Reuters:
Intel Q3: revenue down 8% YoY to $14.2B, Data Center and AI Group revenue down 10% YoY to $3.8B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; INTC jumps 8%+
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI forms Preparedness, a new team to assess, evaluate, and probe AI models to protect against “catastrophic risks”, including biological and nuclear threats

Earlier Picks

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Xiaomi unveils the 6.36" Xiaomi 14 and 6.73" Xiaomi 14 Pro, offering the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 50MP camera sensors, a Leica lens on the Pro, and LTPO 120Hz panels
Dan Primack / Axios:
Oxide Computer, which aims to provide on-premise cloud computers including to clients like the Idaho National Laboratory, raised a $44M Series A led by Eclipse
Andrew Tarantola / Engadget:
Leica releases the $9,480 M11-P camera, which watermarks photos with the Content Credentials metadata system, created by advocacy groups to fight misinformation
CNBC:
Uber starts offering rides in fully autonomous Waymo cars in Phoenix, Arizona; users can accept or reject the autonomous option, which includes a 24/7 helpline
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out new Google Maps features, including updating search to more easily find things nearby and expanding Immersive View for Routes to 15 new cities
Jon Porter / The Verge:
The UK's controversial Online Safety Bill becomes law, allowing fines of up to £18M or 10% of global turnover; Ofcom now plans to publish its codes of practice
Sarah Fielding / Engadget:
Google expands its bug bounty program to add generative AI, which has unique security issues, like model manipulation and unfair bias, requiring new guidance
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