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Instagram unveils Teen Accounts, a sweeping update to boost privacy and limit intrusive effects for under-18 users, including making accounts private by default — The app, which is popular with teenagers, introduced new settings and features aimed at addressing inappropriate online contact and content …
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 10 review: sleep apnea detection has potential, bigger but not bulky display, and much faster charging, but no blood oxygen feature in the US — The Series 10 bets big on a larger display and a more wearable design. As far as iterative updates go, that's a savvy choice.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Snap unveils new Spectacles that it will lease to Snapchat AR lens developers, with a more immersive display, longer battery life, and a more lightweight design — Will developers finally help Snap take AR glasses mainstream? … Snap's fifth-generation Spectacles have a richer, more immersive display.| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Snapchat gets a redesign, simplifying from five to three tabs: Chats, Camera, and a new unified For You feed of full-screen videos from publishers and creators — Snapchat is undergoing its biggest redesign in years by simplifying from five to three tabs: one for messages and Stories with friends … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla says it will shut down its Mastodon server, Mozilla.social, giving users until December 17 to export their data and migrate to another instance — Mozilla is exiting the fediverse. Though the concept of the open social web, also known as the fediverse, has been picking … | Victor Tangermann / Futurism: |
OpenAI confirms fixing an issue “where it appeared as though ChatGPT was starting new conversations”, after users reported ChatGPT was reaching out proactively — “Did you just message me first?” — Over the weekend, a redditor going by the name of SentuBill posted …
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The EU picks veteran Finnish lawmaker Henna Virkkunen to take over from Thierry Breton, pending her confirmation; Virkkunen was instrumental in creating the DSA — - Finnish lawmaker Henna Virkkunen was instrumental on DSA — Virkkunen emphasized importance of European competitiveness| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google plans to flag AI-made images with C2PA metadata in “about this image” in Search and integrate C2PA metadata into its ad systems over the coming months — Google is planning to roll out a technology that will identify whether a photo was taken with a camera …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM acquires Kubecost, a FinOps startup launched in 2019 that helps companies monitor and optimize Kubernetes clusters; Kubecost had raised $30M+ in funding — IBM today announced that it has acquired Kubecost, a FinOps startup that helps teams at companies like Allianz, Audi …
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EssilorLuxottica and Meta sign a multiyear deal to keep developing smart eyewear into the 2030s, after creating two generations of Ray-Ban glasses since 2019 — EssilorLuxottica (ESLX.PA) said on Tuesday it had extended its partnership with Meta Platforms (META.O) by agreeing a 10-year deal to continue developing smart eyewear.
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Trump launches World Liberty Financial, a DeFi lending project on Ethereum underpinned by the WLFI governance token; up to 63% of WLFI can be sold to the public — - Donald Trump helped unveil a few details of his highly anticipated cryptocurrency project, World Liberty Financial, on Monday night.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Workday acquires Evisort, an AI-powered contract management service that had raised $155.6M in capital and debt — Workday announced on Tuesday that it's acquiring Evisort, an AI-powered contract management platform, for an undisclosed amount. — In a statement, Terrance Wampler … | NBC News: |
Meta bans Russian media outlet RT from its apps globally, days after the Biden administration accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow's spy agencies — U.S. officials on Friday accused RT of carrying out covert information warfare operations around the world as an arm of Russia's spy agencies.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Armenian startup EasyDMARC, which uses the DMARC standard to simplify email security and authentication, raised a $20M Series A led by Radian Capital — EasyDMARC, a B2B SaaS startup out of Armenia that aims to simplify email security and authentication, said it has raised $20 million … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Discord says it is beginning to roll out end-to-end encryption to voice and video chats in DMs, Group DMs, voice channels, and Go Live streams — Discord, one of the largest group chat apps in the world, announced on Tuesday that audio and video calls inside the platform will now be end-to-end encrypted …
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| Gabriel Stargardter / Reuters: |
A look at France's LOPMI law, enacted in January 2023 to criminalize tech executives whose platforms allow illegal activities, as Pavel Durov remains on bail — When French prosecutors took aim at Telegram boss Pavel Durov, they had a trump card to wield - a tough new law with no international equivalent … | Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Dreamforce 2024 takeaways: Salesforce upgrades all customers from Einstein Copilot to Agentforce, Slack is positioned as an agentic AI-enhanced work OS, more — Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff laid out the company's AI vision, which revolves around autonomous agents working with humans and the end of the “hit or miss” copilot era.| Financial Times: |
Sources: BlackRock is aiming to launch a $30B+ AI investment fund with Microsoft, to build data centers and energy projects that meet the growing demands of AI — Nvidia and Abu Dhabi-backed MGX will join effort as energy-intensive tech strains power and data grids
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| Alicia Clanton / Bloomberg: |
Pew survey: 17% of US adults say they regularly get news on TikTok in 2024, up from 14% in 2023 and 3% in 2020; 39% aged 18 to 29 do so, up from 32% a year ago — - Almost 40% of young adults regularly get news from the app — TikTok faces a ban in the US if parent company doesn't divest
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| Christopher Grimes / Financial Times: |
How Netflix staged a remarkable recovery since its 2022 stock crash, adding 45M+ subscribers via a password crackdown and gaining an edge over Hollywood rivals — The company has staged a remarkable recovery since the ‘great correction’ of 2022 and now has the edge over Hollywood rivals| Curtis Heinzl / Bloomberg: |
Uber says it plans to start checking US passengers' account info against third-party ID verification databases; drivers will be able to see a user's blue badge — - Verified riders will receive a blue tick visible to drivers — Uber will match passengers against third-party databases
More: PYMNTS.com, Reuters, The Verge, and Engadget
| Emily Flitter / New York Times: |
The US FDIC proposes rules for banks holding customer funds for money management apps, to track customers' balances, citing harms done when Synapse cratered — Banks holding customer funds for money management apps should keep track of customers' identities and balances, the agency says.| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Denver-based Hotel Engine, a hotel booking and management service, now called Engine, raised a $140M Series C at a $2.1B valuation, up from $1.3B in late 2021 — Elia Wallen never expected this. — Wallen started Hotel Engine as a subsidiary of corporate housing company Travelers Haven in 2015 …
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