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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases a Windows 11 2023 Update that replaces Chat with Microsoft Teams (Free); big features like Copilot and AI-powered Paint arrived in September — Microsoft is releasing its Windows 11 2023 Update today, which was originally supposed to be one of the biggest updates to Windows 11.
More: Windows Experience Blog, Microsoft Tech Community, Thurrott, Gizchina, Engadget, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, Tom's Hardware, BleepingComputer, MSPoweruser, Pureinfotech, Ghacks, SlashGear, Windows Central, Neowin, PCWorld, XDA Developers, PCMag, Windows Latest, and BetaNews. Bluesky: @epro.social
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis pushes back on claims by Meta's Yann LeCun that he, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei are fearmongering to achieve AI regulatory capture — - Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis told CNBC that the company wasn't trying to achieve “regulatory capture” when it came to the discussion on how best to approach AI.| John Davidson / Australian Financial Review: |
Google Brain co-founder Andrew Ng, who taught Sam Altman at Stanford, says Big Tech stokes fears about extinction by AI to spur regulation and block competition — Key Points — Big Tech wants tough AI rules that would make life hard for small competitors
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: WeWork plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as early as next week; WE drops 40%+ after hours — Once a venture capital-backed star with an astronomical valuation, the flexible-office-space provider is now preparing for chapter 11 protection — WeWork is planning to file …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
YouTube says it “launched a global effort” to encourage users with ad blockers to allow ads or try YouTube Premium, after a “small experiment” earlier this year — YouTube is broadening its efforts to crack down on ad blockers. The platform has “launched a global effort” …
More: Social Media Today, Gizchina, GSMArena.com, PhoneArena, Android Authority, The Hill, Android Central, SlashGear, and Gizmodo
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple's new M3 Pro has fewer performance and GPU cores than the M2 Pro and 25% less memory bandwidth than the M1 Pro and M2 Pro — Apple's latest M3 Pro chip in the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro has 25% less memory bandwidth than the M1 Pro and M2 Pro chips used in equivalent models from the two previous generations.
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The Guardian says its reputation was damaged after Microsoft Start placed an AI-generated poll about a woman's death next to the outlet's article about her — Publisher says poll speculating on cause of woman's death that appeared next to Guardian article caused ‘significant reputational damage’
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Bungie cut ~100 jobs after executives said the company's revenue was 45% below projections for the year, citing a drop in Destiny 2's popularity — - Sales at studio were running 45% below projections for year — Layoffs are part of a bigger revamp at Sony PlayStation unit
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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
AMD Q3: revenue up 4% YoY to $5.8B, vs. $5.7B est., net income up 353% YoY to $299M, Data Center revenue flat at $1.6B, and Q4 revenue forecast below estimates — Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday … | Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: |
The US says 40 countries plan to sign a pledge to never pay a ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers' funding mechanism — Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating …
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| New York Times: |
On his final day of testimony, SBF denied knowing that billions of dollars in customer money had been misappropriated until shortly before FTX collapsed — The founder of the FTX crypto exchange was grilled by a federal prosecutor for a second day, just before both sides rested their case in the criminal fraud trial.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepMind says its latest AlphaFold model can generate predictions for nearly all molecules in the Protein Data Bank and for ligands, nucleic acids, and more — Nearly five years ago, DeepMind, one of Google's more prolific AI-centered research labs, debuted AlphaFold, an AI system …
More: Google DeepMind, The Messenger, Analytics India Magazine, and The Decoder
| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Infoblox discovers a threat actor that has provided link shortening services to cybercriminals for over four years, registering ~75K domains since April 2022 — An actor that security researchers call Prolific Puma has been providing link shortening services to cybercriminals for at least four years …
More: Infoblox Blog, Gizmodo, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, CircleID, Cybernews.com, and Dark Reading. Mastodon: @knitcode@infosec.exchange
| Reuters: |
Tesla wins its first US trial over allegations that Autopilot led to a death, in a jury trial in a California court, but faces more lawsuits and investigations — Tesla (TSLA.O) on Tuesday won the first U.S. trial over allegations that its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to a death …
More: iTnews, New York Times, The Register, The Hill, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNBC, Washington Post, Bloomberg, and The Messenger
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Chrome on iOS, but not Chrome on Android, with the option to let users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen, like Safari — Visually, Chrome on iOS is pretty different from the Android version. That disparity continues to grow today with the new ability to move …
More: The Keyword, The Verge, Thurrott, MobileSyrup, Android Central, PhoneArena, Engadget, MacRumors, BGR, KnowTechie, Android Authority, Droid Life, PCMag, and Android Police
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google and Match Group say they've reached a settlement in an app store antitrust case, letting Match implement third-party billing options by March 31, 2024 — Google and Match announced today they've reached a settlement in the antitrust battle Match waged against the tech giant …
More: The Information, Reuters, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg
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| Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Despite several video games with record sales in 2023 and strong overall sales, the industry is still facing layoffs, fewer job openings, and studio closures — We look at the data to analyse the video games industry's current contradictory crisis — Feature by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B
More: Axios and TheGamer
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Doc: a Dutch regulator ruled in July that Apple's fees on some app subscriptions violate EU antitrust laws, after Apple offered to drop its cut from 30% to 27% — - Watchdog issued confidential July decision on App Store abuses — Regulator previously warned Apple over in-app payment rules
More: Reuters, PYMNTS.com, MacDailyNews, Silicon UK, and Gizmodo
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Palo Alto Networks acquires Tel Aviv-based Dig Security, which helps organizations manage and protect data assets in the cloud, sources say for $400M — We reported in September that Palo Alto was getting ready to make yet more security acquisitions out of Israel, specifically of Dig Security and Talon.
More: PR Newswire, PaymentSecurity.io, SecurityWeek, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, and CTech
| Washington Post: |
Ahead of the UK's AI Summit, set to host Elon Musk, VP Harris, and others, the UK has highlighted doomsday scenarios while the US has focused on tangible issues — Vice President Harris, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other top executives are heading to the United Kingdom's Bletchley Park …
More: GOV.UK, Reuters, TechCrunch, Telegraph, Forbes, Bloomberg, BBC, Reuters, and Bloomberg. X: @nickclegg
| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese lidar maker Hesai, which had a $192M US IPO in February 2023 and whose stock is down 55%+, pushes back against US national security and privacy concerns — Chinese lidar maker Hesai is fighting concerns about the technology that is crucial for next-generation vehicles and weapons
LinkedIn: Elisha Tropper
| Maria Heeter / The Information: |
Health care automation startup Olive, which was valued at $4B in July 2021, plans to shut down and has sold parts of its business to Waystar and Humata Health — Olive AI, the healthcare automation company once valued at $4 billion, has sold itself off in pieces to healthcare companies Waystar …
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