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Adam Mosseri details Threads' fediverse plans, including following non-Threads accounts, showing replies from other platforms, and follower portability — The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year.’
More: The Verge, Hindustan Times, Daring Fireball, and Digiday
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
OpenAI says ByteDance's use of its API was minimal, suspends ByteDance's account while it investigates a report that ByteDance used OpenAI's API for its own LLM — After my report was published, OpenAI spokesperson Niko Felix sent the following statement confirming that ByteDance's account has been suspended:
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
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California drops its 2021 sexual harassment case against Activision Blizzard saying investigations haven't substantiated allegations; Activision will pay ~$54M — The California Civil Rights Department said in a settlement agreement that no “investigation has substantiated any allegations” against the video game maker.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces contingent pricing for subscriptions, letting developers give users a discounted price if they're actively subscribed to another subscription — Apple has announced a new “contingent pricing” feature for subscriptions in the App Store. According to the company …
More: Apple Developer, The Verge, PCMag, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
A look at the race for wearable AI as Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban glasses and a source says OpenAI discussed adding GPT-4 with Vision to Snap devices — Next year's artificial intelligence battle is coming into focus—and it's all about glasses.
More: nextpit, WVFRM Podcast on YouTube, Gizmodo, and Social Media Today
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| Hannah Miao / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood received ~$1.1B in account transfers since it began offering a 1% match on transferred brokerage accounts on October 23, with 150+ transfers of $1M+ — Trading app receives $1.1 billion in account transfers since offering 1% match — Robinhood Markets , known for a clientele …
More: Reuters
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleads guilty to hacking and stealing over $12.3M from Nirvana Finance and an unnamed crypto exchange in July 2022 — Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleaded guilty this week to hacking and stealing over $12.3 million from two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022.| Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk: |
Polygon Labs discontinues contributions to Edge, the OSS used for Dogechain, and shifts towards the Polygon CDK, which is powered by zero-knowledge cryptography — Polygon Labs, a developer of scaling networks for Ethereum, has shifted toward “Polygon CDK,” a blockchain-development kit powered by zero-knowledge cryptography.
More: Polygon Blog, CryptoPotato, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, and The Block
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
An interview with Tim Sweeney about Epic's win over Google and his concerns that Google will “get away with continuing their scheme” through “fake” remedies — ‘Fortnite’ maker's boss Tim Sweeney hopes court will avoid ‘fake’ remedies following landmark legal win over tech giant| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
An interview with Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li on the lack of resources for academic AI, Silicon Valley's “bro” culture, keeping AI safe for humanity, and more — The China-born technologist on Silicon Valley's ‘bro’ culture — and her mission to keep AI safe for humanity| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
How Spamouflage Dragon, China's largest disinformation campaign per Google and Meta, infiltrates platforms to promote Chinese policies and criticize dissidents — ‘Mold of the internet’ has appeared on 50 platforms, researchers say — When a Twitter account for Utah business coach Spencer …
More: ISD. Threads: @jeffstoneyeacool. X: @drlimengyan1, @next_china, @byron_wan, @isdglobal, @isdglobal, @isdglobal, @isdglobal, @isdglobal, and @isdglobal
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple agrees to pay $25M to settle a class action lawsuit alleging Apple misrepresented the way that third-party app subscriptions worked with Family Sharing — Apple has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over Family Sharing, and will pay out $25 million to put an end to the case.Sponsor Posts
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