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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.
More: Bloomberg Law, Gizmodo, Engadget, Reuters, The Information, Ars Technica, Financial Times, CNBC, Android Headlines, Daring Fireball, Insider, PhoneArena, and New York Times
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place. X: @lutherlowe, @pg, @leah_nylen, @leah_nylen, @ananyyye, and @alexeheath
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 …
More: X, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Engadget, SlashGear, and Android Headlines
X: @premium, @tomwarren, @ptraughber, @billym2k, @david_leavitt, @wazzcrypto, @functi0nzer0, @ptraughber, @zpostfacto, @oalexanderdk, @adamscochran, @liuyuxxd, @x, @lindayax, @harrymccracken, and @premium. Forums: r/Twitter
| 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 …
More: MacRumors, TechRadar, The Verge, MacRumors, MacRumors, MacRumors, Engadget, iThinkDifferent, Tom's Guide, ZDNet, Wccftech, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, BGR, Android Headlines, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, Thurrott, iMore, The Economic Times, Mashable, and Digital Trends
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: 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
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| 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/politics, r/ethtrader, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 …
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @devadasrajaram, @mjnblack, and @steph_palazzolo. LinkedIn: Jon Steinberg
| 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.
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| 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 …
More: GeekWire, The Information, and FreightWaves
LinkedIn: Brittain Ladd, Gregg Romanzo, Nathan L., Liz Young, and Chris Fields
| 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 …
More: Benzinga, Proactiveinvestors NA, and Digital Music News
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X: @t0nin1, @methodistguy, and @omarsultan
| 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.
Bluesky: @epro.social. X: @megangra, @gpanger, and @lorenzojuniah
LinkedIn: Robert Weber, Robert Weber, Han Sheng Chin, Christina Hall Davis, Shane Stiles, Laura Odelius, Tejas S R, and Mia Sato
| 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.
Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social, @waxy@xoxo.zone, and @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
X: @joedevon, @katebevan, @bjh_ip, and @simonw
| 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 …
More: Microsoft Security Blog, The Register, SC Media, TechRadar, ComputerWeekly.com, Silicon Republic, and Cybernews.com
Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social and @eric_capuano@infosec.exchange
X: @ericgeller, @spfcyberlaw, @virusbtn, @jdallman, @sixdub, @itsreallynick, @itsreallynick, and @msftsecintel. LinkedIn: Alexandre BLANC Cyber Security
Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/InfoSecNews
| 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
More: Blockworks, Gizmodo, Decrypt, Unchained Crypto, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, Axios, CoinGape, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, crypto.news, and The Block
| 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 …
More: The Verge, The Register, Cybernews.com, CNN, Android Headlines, The Messenger, NBC News, Tech Xplore, Mercury News, WRAL TechWire, Gizmodo, PCMag, TechSpot, CNBC, Wired, Engadget, Financial Times, New York Times, Forbes, and Reuters
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @cruise, @cruise, @cruise, @binarybits, @binarybits, @paigeforaustin, @johnwilson, @paulmarks12, and @davidzipper. Forums: r/sanfrancisco
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