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Nothing plans to roll out an early version of Nothing Chats, a Sunbird-based app that lets Phone (2) users send iMessages to iPhone contacts, on November 17 — Nothing, Sunbird and other upstarts are taking iMessage where it's never been before — Here's a glimmer of hope for anyone …
More: Nothing on YouTube, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, Android Authority, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Inverse, Notebookcheck, The Messenger, Gizmodo, PCMag, Android Central, ZDNet, SamMobile, Android Police, AppleInsider, ExtremeTech, Wccftech, CNET, Digital Trends, Android Headlines, iMore, Lifewire, PhoneArena, Appuals, MobileSyrup, Redmond Pie, TechRadar, Pocket-lint, Engadget, IGN, BGR, Macworld, Liliputing, GSMArena.com, Stuff, Droid Life, Phandroid, iClarified, and Phone Scoop
Threads: @nothing, @chrispirillo, @carnage4life, @danseifert, @mishaal_rahman, @mishaal_rahman, @saltrif, @parkerortolani, @parkerortolani, and @danseifert
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Forums: r/technology and r/iphone
| Ryan McNeal / Android Authority: |
To use iMessage via Nothing Chats, users must log in to their iCloud account, and iMessages will be sent via a virtual Mac mini, which may weaken data security — Nothing Chats will be exclusive to the Nothing Phone 2. — TL;DR — Nothing is launching a new messaging app called Nothing Chats on November 17.
More: The Verge, MacRumors, Supercharged, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Forums: Slashdot and Ars OpenForum
| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind details weather forecasting AI model GraphCast AI, more accurate than the best conventional systems for three to 10 day predictions, an AI first — Google DeepMind's model beat world's leading system in 90% of metrics used and took only a fraction of the time
More: Google DeepMind, Science, TechCrunch, New York Post, SiliconANGLE, Wired, Washington Post, Gizmodo, MIT Technology Review, Tech Brew, Ars Technica, The Decoder, BGR, Engadget, Telegraph, TNW, Bloomberg, and The Messenger
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Intel patches a bug affecting virtually all modern Intel CPUs that allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors, a risk to cloud providers in particular — Among other things, bug allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors. — Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates …
More: Tavis Ormandy, BleepingComputer, Google Cloud Blog, and The Register
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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Civitai, where users share AI models and AI-made images, including nonconsensual porn of real people, debuts a bounties feature and raised a $5.1M a16z-led seed — Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early investor in Facebook …
More: TechCrunch and Engadget
Threads: @moskov, @thebrianpenny, and @alex.pagliuca
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure as part of a September plea deal with Sergei Makinin, the hacker behind the operation — The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure this week following a September plea deal with the hacker behind the operation.
More: US Department of Justice, PCMag, BleepingComputer, Hackread, Intezer, The Register, SiliconANGLE, and Flashpoint
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they have uploaded realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including using AI tools, in 2024 — Site's creators who repeatedly fail to disclose AI use will face penalties — YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet Inc.'s Google …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU lawmakers are on a tricky knife edge hammering out the AI Act's final shape, as France and Germany push for a regulatory carve-out for foundation models — Negotiations between European Union lawmakers tasked with reaching a compromise on a risk-based framework for regulating applications …
More: Euractiv, The Information, Euractiv, and The Decoder
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge rejects efforts by Alphabet, ByteDance, Meta, and Snap to dismiss hundreds of lawsuits accusing them of enticing and addicting children to their apps — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected efforts by major social media companies to dismiss nationwide litigation accusing … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Notion unveils Q&A, an AI assistant that answers questions using info from a user's files and apps, as part Notion's AI add-on for $8 to $10 per user per month — The first killer app of AI for businesses, it appears, is a simple thing: to be able to find information in the morass of files …
More: Notion, Supervised, Forbes, and ZDNet
| CNBC: |
Airbnb acquires GamePlanner.AI, its first acquisition as a public company, to accelerate some of its AI projects; sources: deal is valued at just under $200M — - Airbnb has made its first acquisition as a public company, in a deal valued at just under $200 million, sources familiar with the deal told CNBC.| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Khosla Ventures is raising a $500M seed fund, a $1.6B venture fund, and a $900M growth fund, larger than their $300M, $1B, and $550M predecessors, respectively — The fundraise is one of the largest completed by a VC firm this year, defying startup slump — Khosla Ventures is in the final stages … | James Somers / New Yorker: |
A eulogy for coding, which has felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after LLMs swallowed bodies of knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master — Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ArtistHate, r/programming, and r/MediaSynthesis
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Unciphered, which helps recover cryptocurrency, finds a BitcoinJS flaw in some wallets made before 2016 and says that up to $1B of crypto is at risk of theft — A company that helps recover cryptocurrency discovered a software flaw putting as much as $1 billion at risk from hackers.
More: Unciphered, Gizmodo, The Hill, PCMag, and Web3 is Going Just Great
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Crypto exchange and wallet service Blockchain.com raised a $110M Series E led by Kingsway, a source says at less than half of its $14B valuation in spring 2022 — - Prior investor Kingsway led the Series E funding round — Raise leaves valuation at less than half of prior $14 billion
More: Decrypt, Blockchain.com, Blockworks, Bitcoin Insider, The Block, and Cointelegraph
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
WhatsApp for Android's chat and media backups will count toward the Google Account storage limit for beta users as of December 2023, and for all users in 2024 — Google and WhatsApp today announced a change wherein WhatsApp chat and media backups on Android will “start counting toward …
More: WhatsApp, Google, WABetaInfo, Wareable, Android Authority, Droid Life, PYMNTS.com, and Android Police
X: @teja2495 and @techykaptan
| Reuters: |
Cruise says it will pause all supervised and manual car trips in the US while it undergoes a full safety review and that it will hire an outside safety expert — General Motors' (GM.N) Cruise driverless car unit said on Tuesday it will pause all supervised and manual car trips in the U.S … | Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Filing: Google sues two men in California who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to spam Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices, targeting up to 620K URLs — While all non-compliant DMCA takedown notices are invalid by default, there's a huge difference between those sent in error and others crafted for purely malicious purposes.| Scott Patterson / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Aurora, the Intel- and HPE-made, Argonne National Laboratory-based supercomputer, set to be the first to hit two quintillion operations per second — That's two billion billion operations a second, enough to explore the brain and discover drugs — LEMONT, Ill.—Inside …
More: Runtime, The Messenger, HPCwire, and DatacenterDynamics
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
More: HotHardware, HPCwire, SiliconANGLE, ExtremeTech, TechPowerUp, PCMag, Wccftech, The Register, Phoronix, The Next Platform, insideHPC, The New Stack, and Network World
X: @agamsh, @eurohpc_ju, @hpc_guru, @hpc_guru, @intelai, @iancutress, and @eurocc_sweden. LinkedIn: Conrado Villasenor. Forums: r/hardware
| Bloomberg: |
Foxconn reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$47.7B and net income up 11% YoY to ~$1.3B, and lowers its outlook for its components business to flat YoY — - It also revised down forecast for components business segment — Company beat average profit estimate in the September quarter
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