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| Gearoid Reidy / Bloomberg: |
A look at Nintendo's movie push, as the company partners with Sony to work on a live-action Zelda movie, after the huge success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie — It's dangerous to go alone, and in teaming up with Sony and the man who made Marvel successful, Nintendo shows it has learned from past mistakes.
More: Nintendo Co., Ltd., Deadline, PCMag, T3, Dexerto, RTÉ, IGN, CNBC, Associated Press, Wccftech, Android Authority, TIME, BBC, Aftermath, Neowin, Kotaku, Reuters, The Verge, Digital Trends, PC Gamer, Ars Technica, TweakTown, GoNintendo, TheGamer, Destructoid, Push Square, Metro, MobileSyrup, Polygon, Game Rant, 9to5Toys, BGR, Dot Esports, GamingBolt, and Nintendo World Report Updates
| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Ahead of the 2024 US election, Microsoft plans to offer a new free tool to help US politicians fight deepfakes by authenticating their videos and photos — - Tool offering comes as concerns grow over fake photos, videos — Microsoft says Russia is ‘huge’ cyber, disinformation threat
More: Microsoft On the Issues, Axios, The Verge, Neowin, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, and Ghacks
X: @newsguardrating, @erichorvitz, and @bradsmi
| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta plans to require advertisers to disclose running political ads with media altered by AI or other software, starting in early 2024, ahead of the US election — Facebook parent said new policy to go into effect beginning next year, ahead of U.S. presidential primaries| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
In a letter, Google and EU telcos called on the European Commission to designate iMessage as a “core” service to make the chat app fully compatible with rivals — Companies want chat app designated a ‘core’ service that would require it to be fully compatible with rivals
More: Android Authority, The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Engadget, Light Reading, Supercharged, GSMArena.com, Wccftech, and 9to5Google
X: @jack_nostalgic and @lukolejnik
Forums: r/gadgets and MacRumors Forums
| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung unveils Gauss, a generative AI model developed by Samsung Research, currently used for staff productivity with plans to expand to product applications — Samsung has for the first time publicly unveiled its own generative AI model dubbed Samsung Gauss on Wednesday.
More: Samsung Newsroom, The Korea Times, The Verge, TechCrunch, Android Authority, PhoneArena, TechRadar, Ghacks, CNBC, Android Headlines, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Cybernews.com, CoinStats, The Korea Herald, Sammy Fans, SamMobile, SamNews 24, SPARROWS NEWS, and GSMArena.com
X: @universeice, @tech_reve, and @sondesix
| Bryson Masse / VentureBeat: |
In a comment submitted to the US Copyright Office, the FTC warned that generative AI has enabled potential copyright infringement and consumer deception — The U.S. Copyright Office has already repeatedly weighed in on creations made with generative artificial intelligence (AI) …
More: Ars Technica, Decrypt, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Trade Commission, and WinBuzzer
Forums: r/technews and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: USDC stablecoin issuer Circle is considering an IPO early in 2024; Circle was valued at $9B when the company tried to go public via SPAC in 2022 — - Backers include Goldman Sachs, General Catalyst and BlackRock — Circle had tried to go public via blank-check deal in 2022| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple last week paused developing iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, and watchOS 11 to fix bugs and improve performance, and plans to resume work this week — - Rare move designed to focus on improving quality, performance — Despite pause, software releases will likely stay on schedule
More: 9to5Mac, TechRadar, GSMArena.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, AppleInsider, Android Authority, Phandroid, Wccftech, Benzinga, Pixel Envy, MySmartPrice, MacSecurity.net, Gizchina, nextpit, PhoneArena, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, iThinkDifferent, Trusted Reviews, Tom's Guide, Supercharged, Forbes, Neowin, Macworld, BGR, and MacRumors
X: @rosesilicon, @nevhoffman, @t87, @zollotech, @classicii_mrmac, @patrickmoorhead, @markgurman, and @stevemoser
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Source: Amazon is developing a new LLM, codenamed Olympus, which could be announced by December and may power new features for the online store, Alexa, and AWS — Uber is finally on the right road. That could be Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's motto today, as the ride-hailing … | Matt Growcoot / PetaPixel: |
Adobe's site for stock images lists AI-generated images of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and some small outlets have used them without labeling them as AI — As fears rise over fake imagery generated by artificial intelligence flooding the internet, one of the world's leading stock photo websites …
More: VICE, MediaNama, The Overspill, VentureBeat, Pixel Envy, and Futurism
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| Jacob Judah / MIT Technology Review: |
How .tk, the ccTLD for New Zealand's Tokelau territory that until recently had more users than any other ccTLD, became a domain of choice for cybercriminals — Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone—only in 1997.| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Document: Coatue cut the value of its $120M stake in OpenSea to $13M as of Q2 2023, implying a valuation of $1.4B or less, down from $13.3B in January 2022 — One of OpenSea's biggest investors has marked down by 90% its stake in the struggling non-fungible-token marketplace …
More: Cointelegraph, CCN.com, CoinStats, CoinDesk, and The Block
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| ABC: |
Australian telecom Optus says some key services are “gradually being restored” after an hours-long mobile network outage affects over 10M customers — Loading... Optus says some services are “gradually being restored” but it may take a few more hours until the whole network is back online.
More: Reuters, DatacenterDynamics, Australian Financial Review, The Guardian, Australian Financial Review, Ghacks, BBC, The Register, Reuters, TweakTown, Tech Xplore, iTnews, ITPro, cybersecurityconnect.com.au, Cybernews.com, and Bloomberg
X: @optus_help, @optus_help, @netblocks, @patricklenton, @markdistef, @adrianjmurdoch, @princefabrizio, @netblocks, @michaelsnape, @spudbenbean, @chercanda, and @jaynedotcom_. LinkedIn: Alexander Slade
Forums: r/PrepperIntel and r/australian
| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
Microsoft and Oracle sign a multi-year deal to “support the explosive growth of AI services”, meaning Microsoft can access Oracle's Nvidia A100s and H100 GPUs — Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster — Demand for Microsoft's AI services … | Matt G. Southern / Search Engine Journal: |
Google adds generative AI features to its Performance Max ad platform, rolling out first as a beta to all US advertisers by the end of the year — Google launches generative AI in Performance Max to help marketers easily create customized text and image ads at scale.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Barack Obama on regulating social media and AI, privacy bills, Biden's EO on AI, incumbents embracing AI regulation, generative AI IP issues, and more — The former president joined me on Decoder to discuss AI regulation, the First Amendment, and of course, what apps he has on his homescreen.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An analysis of OpenAI's DevDay keynote: impressive live demos, the shift from plugins to custom GPTs, Microsoft's role in making GPT-4 Turbo cheaper, and more — In 2013, when I started Stratechery, there was no bigger event than the launch of the new iPhone; its only rival was Google I/O …
More: The Verge, Runtime, InfoQ, The Microsoft Cloud Blog, MobileSyrup, The Algorithmic Bridge, Baseline, OpenAI, Android Police, Wired, CNET, InfoWorld, and Digital Trends
X: @danwahlin, @karrisaarinen, @akberzins, @borrowed_ideas, @bjlove, @stratechery, and @dalmaer
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue — Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …
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| Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: |
Amazon cuts the price of an annual One Medical membership from $199 to $99 for Prime users, part of its plans to significantly expand its health care footprint — The tech giant will offer cheaper health care to Prime members via One Medical, a long-expected integration that could significantly expand its health care footprint
More: Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Financial Times, and About Amazon
| RT Watson / The Block: |
Binance releases a self-custody crypto wallet within its app, letting users “swap thousands of tokens across” more than 30 networks — - The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange launches a self-custody wallet that works within the Binance app. — The announcement was made during its conference in Turkey.| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $467M, vs. $478.9M est., trading revenue down 11% YoY to $185M, including crypto trading down 55% YoY; HOOD drops 8%+ — - Third-quarter crypto notional volumes fell 55% on the year — Online brokerage plans to launch EU crypto trading in weeks
More: The Block, Robinhood, Fortune, Coinpedia Fintech News, Coinspeaker, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, Cryptonews, Bankless Times, Watcher Guru, CoinStats, CryptoPotato, The Information, Benzinga, Stock Market News, Seeking Alpha, Seeking Alpha, Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Reuters, Crowdfund Insider, and Blockworks
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg positioned WhatsApp as a “next chapter” for Meta; WhatsApp now has more than 225 Channels that each have 1M+ followers — The messaging app, which Meta bought nearly a decade ago, was an asset that Mr. Zuckerberg largely left alone for a while. No longer.| Caitlin Huston / Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify now offers US paid subscribers access to 15 hours of free audiobooks per month, after launching the service in the UK and Australia on October 3 — The podcast and music platform will offer U.S. paid subscribers 15 hours of free listening to audiobooks as it continues its rollout of the new offering.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, and Spotify
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Sources: employees at X are increasingly being asked to spend time working on xAI initiatives, as xAI is using GPUs that once belonged to Twitter — Today, some notes on how the tech industry's tectonic shift toward artificial intelligence is playing out inside X — and raising questions … | Lauren Smiley / Wired: |
How San Francisco's citizen surveillance culture, with incidents often posted to X, helped unravel the story of a bloody street attack, causing viral outrage — When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry.Sponsor Posts
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