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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
US v. Google: Google's search head testifies that the company spent $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine in multiple browsers, phones, and platforms — Even if it's easy to switch browsers or platforms or search engines, the one that appears when you turn it on matters a lot.
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
X adds a $16/mo. Premium+ plan with no ads in For You or Following and the “largest reply boost”, and a $3/mo. Basic plan with a “small boost” but no checkmark — X, the platform previously known as Twitter, has introduced a new $16 per month Premium Plus plan …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says he wants Threads to be the “de facto platform for public conversations online” and web app is not a “primary focus” as mobile usage is higher — Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has high ambitions for Threads: he wants it to become the …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Google invests $500M upfront in Anthropic and agrees to add $1.5B more over time, after investing $550M in the generative AI startup earlier in 2023 — Google move follows Amazon investment as tech giants place bigger bets on startups racing to develop artificial intelligence| Financial Times: |
SBF testifies that he only understood “pieces” of the full financial state of his companies and was “surprised” by FTX's $8B balance-sheet hole in October 2022 — Former billionaire denies intending to defraud customers in testimony to the jury at trial
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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 …
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| Julia Black / The Information: |
Sources: Humane timed its ~$1K Ai Pin launch to the October 14 eclipse, but moved it to November 9 after reports broke about Sam Altman and Jony Ive's AI device — In late September, a stakeholder in Humane received a humbled message from the startup. The Information had just broken …
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| Associated Press: |
Internet and phone services collapse in the Gaza Strip as Israel's military expands its ground operations, largely cutting off communications for 2.3M residents — DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Internet and phone services collapsed in the Gaza Strip under intensified bombardment Friday night …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Pixel owners using the multiple profiles feature say their devices are becoming “unusable” due to an Android 14 bug that is locking them out of device storage — Users with multiple profiles are getting locked out of local storage and losing data.
Mastodon: @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social. X: @glitch_wolfe and @jrssnet
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Apple fixed an old iOS bug that let nearby wireless routers gather real MAC addresses even when Private Wi-Fi Address is enabled, including in Lockdown Mode — “From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14. — Three years ago, Apple introduced …
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Filing: Gemini sues Genesis Global, its former business partner for its Gemini Earn product, over 60M GBTC shares, worth $1.6B+, that were pledged as collateral — Gemini has filed a lawsuit against Genesis over 60 million GBTC shares that were pledged as collateral. — Register Now
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| Tonya Riley / Bloomberg Law: |
After state AGs sued Meta for not using age-verification methods to safeguard kids, privacy groups raise concerns about security and the tech's untested nature — A lawsuit brought by California and more than 30 state attorneys general against Meta Platforms Inc. for allegedly enticing … | 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 …
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Threads: @martinsfp. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @pi8you.bsky.social and @waxmonkey.bsky.social
X: @xpangler, @mediaevan, and @alexeheath
LinkedIn: Theodora Lau, Thomas Kramer, Athanasios Rebelos, and Nick Brackney
Forums: r/ethtrader and Ars OpenForum
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