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| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
A jury finds Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts of fraud and money laundering in the FTX trial; the judge sets SBF's sentencing for March 28, 2024 — Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been found guilty …
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| Lora Kelley / The Atlantic: |
Sam Bankman-Fried, who is unkempt, pedigreed, and awkward, replicated what VCs believe a founder should look like, and the door remains open for others like him — The tech industry is designed for people like Sam Bankman-Fried. — Over and over during Sam Bankman-Fried's trial …
More: BBC. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @katie_haun, @valueterminal, @mister_scam, @rod_mallo, @adityarao310, @ckreimendahl, @bangtheclose, @ranjanxroy, @om, @parthos76, @wrongplace_eth, @georgenhammond, @adamscochran, @smtuffy, @roguecfpb, @teddyschleifer, @bamabonds, @buccocapital, @dlberes, @stoneatwine, @vcbrags, @buccocapital, @runemirqi, @alfred_lin, @ghose77, @brunoswerneck, @machiavellecon, @valueterminal, @stuartblitz, @dannypage, and @devahaz
| Apple: |
Apple reports Q4 revenue down 1% YoY to $89.5B, vs. $89.3B est., net income up 11% to $23B, Americas sales up 1% to $40.1B, and Europe sales down 1% to $22.5B — iPhone revenue sets September quarter record Services revenue reaches new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results …
More: HotHardware, Apple, iMore, Ghacks, GSMArena.com, Coinspeaker, Music Ally, Yahoo Finance, and Constellation Research
Bluesky: @mranthropology.bsky.social and @epro.social
X: @lexnfx, @ericjhonsa, @teroterotero, and @ryanshrout
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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Threads: @eshumarneedi and @technologizer
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LinkedIn: Alan Kong, Roderick Mann, and Kif Leswing
Forums: r/apple and r/StockMarket
| Nikkei Asia: |
More: Bloomberg, Tom's Hardware, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC, Reuters, and Financial Times
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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LinkedIn: Wallace Cheung, Lilli Rantanen, and Mark Gurman
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to stop giving away Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to most of its 238K staff in January 2024; Phil Spencer was unaware and is looking into it — Microsoft is removing the free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most of its 238,000 employees and some aren't happy about it.
More: PCMag, Game Rant, TrueAchievements, GameSpot, Metro, Dexerto, and Video Games Chronicle
Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social. X: @twthereddragon, @wario64, @ethangach, @tomwarren, and @twthereddragon
Forums: Hacker News and r/XboxSeriesX
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Okta says hackers who breached its support system in October accessed the files of 134 customers, five of whom were later targeted in session hijacking attacks — Okta says attackers who breached its customer support system last month gained access to files belonging to 134 customers … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
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| Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: |
DC's AG sues RealPage and 14 of Washington DC's largest landlord firms for using RealPage's rent-setting software to allegedly collude on rent price increases — Suit claims employees were told pricing outside the algorithm was “unacceptable.” — DC's attorney general has sued 14 …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A look at Russia-based SWAT USA Drop Service, whose 1,200+ US employees knowingly or unwittingly reship consumer goods purchased online with stolen credit cards — One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure.
LinkedIn: Jennifer Yarbrough, Dr. Patrick Johnson, CISSP, James M., Harold Walker, Osiris Martinez, LSSBB, PMP, Brian Krebs, and Jonathan Arras
Forums: Hacker News and r/InfoSecNews
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Ad blockers have seen record uninstalls after YouTube expanded its crackdown on ad blockers, while those unaffected by the clampdown saw record installs — YouTube expanded a “test” that threatens to cut off users who don't turn off their ad blocker. Developers of the tools are scrambling to respond.| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
As EU was preparing to designate Apple as a gatekeeper under the DMA, Apple has argued that it has three separate browsers: Safari for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS — And with a straight face, too. Brussels didn't buy it — Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim …
More: AppleInsider and Bruce Lawson's personal site
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X: @openwebadvocacy and @openwebadvocacy
Forums: r/webdev and r/programming
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Chrome team stops considering a Web Integrity API proposal that aimed to help enforce IP rights, count ad views, and limit bots, after DRM comparisons — Back in July, Google's work on a Web Integrity API emerged and many equated it to DRM. While prototyped, it was only at the proposal stage …
More: The Register, Android Developers Blog, Security Boulevard, WinBuzzer, Ghacks, Developer Tech News, and Web Environment Integrity
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @glassbottommeg …, @joeyh@hachyderm.io, and @thomaswilburn@toot.cafe. Bluesky: @crowslabyrinth.com. LinkedIn: Bret Lowery
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon settles the UK CMA's probe into its use of third-party data, agreeing not to use “non-public” third-party seller data to benefit Amazon Retail, and more — The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today announced that it has accepted proposals from Facebook's parent Meta …
More: Silicon Republic, Tech Xplore, and Reuters
| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Ex-Instagram consultant Arturo Béjar, set to testify in Congress on November 7, says Meta did not fully act on its Well-Being Team's findings to protect teens — When a Meta security expert told Mark Zuckerberg that Instagram's approach to protecting teens wasn't working, the CEO didn't reply.
More: Design It For Us and Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Mastodon: @jasonkint@mstdn.social and @profcarroll@federate.social
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LinkedIn: Ricardo Mendes Ribeiro, Peter Rodriguez MBA …, Zvika Krieger, 🇮🇱 …, Daniel Tunkelang, and Jamie Neikrie
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Google ends a deal with Lendlease to build 15,000 homes in the Bay Area, after announcing in 2019 that it would help build houses on land it owns worth $750M — The company has ended its agreement with its real estate developer. — Google has ended its agreement with real estate developer Landlease …
More: Silicon Valley Business …, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Fortune, Insider, The Register, CNBC, and WinBuzzer
| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Elon Musk says that xAI will release its first AI model to a select group on November 4 and “in some important respects, it is the best that currently exists” — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI will release its first AI model to a select group on Saturday …
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