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WP Engine sends a cease-and-desist letter to Automattic to “retract false, harmful, and disparaging statements”, after Matt Mullenweg called it a “cancer” — WordPress hosting service WP Engine on Monday sent a cease-and-desist letter to Automattic …
More: r/Wordpress, TechRadar, WordPress News, Search Engine Journal, and Sherwood News
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Wordpress
| Sam Altman: |
Sam Altman claims “deep learning worked”, superintelligence may be “a few thousand days” away, and “astounding triumphs” will incrementally become commonplace — In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.
More: TechCrunch, Axios, The Verge, Fortune, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, PC Gamer, Music Ally, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Spyglass, The Indian Express, AIM, Business Today, WinBuzzer, Cryptopolitan, CryptoGlobe, The Rundown AI, Information Age, Moneycontrol, acecomments.mu.nu, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, Ars Technica, Hindustan Times, Cointelegraph, VentureBeat, and The Decoder
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Futurology, r/OpenAI, and Ars OpenForum
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google plans to include the standalone Gemini app as standard in its Workspace Business, Enterprise, and Frontline plans from Q4, replacing the Gemini add-on — Google is making Gemini AI a core part of its Workspace productivity suite, which could see the chatbot adopted by millions more users.
More: SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, Android Authority, TechRepublic, The Keyword, and The Keyword
| Bloomberg: |
Memo: a US arbitrator awards a full severance package to a former Twitter employee who was laid off when Musk took over, a possible precedent for 2K+ complaints — Elon Musk lost a legal fight over unpaid severance to a former Twitter employee who was laid off when he took over the social media platform …
More: Wccftech. Threads: @kurtwag8, @kurtwag8, and @karaswisher. Bluesky: @carljanderson.bsky.social
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google updates Google Photos' mobile video editor for Android and iOS, adding editing tools and AI presets that should make trimming and tweaking clips easier — Features coming to Android devices include a new “Speed” tool for creating slo-mo or sped-up videos, a new “Auto enhance” … | Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Collaboration software maker Smartsheet agrees to be acquired by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners for ~$8.4B, or $56.50/share, set to close in January 2025 — Collaboration software maker Smartsheet announced Tuesday Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners will acquire it in an all-cash deal valuing the company at about $8.4 billion.
More: Smartsheet, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Constellation Research, and Bloomberg
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
TikTok says it plans to shut down TikTok Music on November 28 and delete user data; originally called Resso, the app launched in 2019 and was in five countries — TikTok Music will go offline on Nov. 28 and customer data will be deleted, the music division said in a post on its website.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Spotify rolls out its AI Playlist feature in beta to Premium subscribers in the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, after launching in the UK and Australia — Spotify is expanding an AI feature that creates customized playlists from your text descriptions to additional English-speaking regions.| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: some key staff working on Microsoft's distilled AI models like Phi, trained on synthetic data, have left the Microsoft AI unit led by Mustafa Suleyman — In case you missed it, my colleagues broke news yesterday about Anthropic's attempt to draft off OpenAI's pending fundraising, by looking to do its own funding round.| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
A profile of Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs' head of stock research who has become Wall Street's leading AI skeptic after joining the bank in 2000 as a tech analyst — Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs's head of stock research, warned that building too much of what the world doesn't need “typically ends badly.”| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub says all enterprise cloud customers will be able to select an EU region for Azure, in the Netherlands or Sweden, to store all their code from October 29 — GitHub will soon allow cloud customers to store their code data in the European Union (EU), part of a growing push in the technology realm …
More: The GitHub Blog, CNBC, Neowin, and TechRadar
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
TikTok permanently removes accounts associated with the parent organizations of Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik, citing “covert influence operations” — Social media rivals Meta and YouTube have announced similar suspensions of Russian state media accounts this month.| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
More: Reuters, CNN, NPR, Cybernews.com, The Crypto Times, Washington Examiner, ODNI, USA Today, ABC News, and Cryptopolitan
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Roku unveils the $100 Roku Ultra, which is 30% faster than its other streaming players and has Wi-Fi 6, HDMI 2.1, Dolby Atmos, the Voice Remote Pro, and more — One day after the Google TV Streamer hit stores, Roku is announcing its latest streaming player.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Portland-based Torq, which helps IT teams automate security workflows, raised a $70M Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners, for $192M in total funding — As the volume of cyberattacks grows, there's increasing interest from the corporate sector in tech to help automate responses to breaches.
More: CRN, Reuters, Globes Online, GovInfoSecurity.com, Torq, and SiliconANGLE
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Scale AI nearly quadrupled sales YoY to ~$400M in H1 2024 and had ~$980M in cash; the data labeling startup raised $1B at a $13.8B valuation in May — Helping artificial intelligence companies improve the accuracy of their large language models is turning into a giant business for Scale AI … | Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
The Celestia Foundation, which is behind the Celestia modular blockchain network, raised $100M led by Bain Capital Crypto, taking its total raised to $155M — - The organization behind the modular blockchain network has raised $100 million in a round led by Bain Capital Crypto, bringing its total financing to $155 million.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
US customers of Kaspersky antivirus find that UltraAV was installed remotely to replace Kaspersky on their PCs, after a Kaspersky deal with UltraAV owner Pango — Customers of Kaspersky antivirus in the United States found out in the last few days that their cybersecurity software …
More: BleepingComputer, The Register, PCMag, Ghacks, CSO, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, WinBuzzer, The Hacker News, Cybernews.com, BetaNews, SecurityWeek, The Cyber Express, Dark Reading, Help Net Security, MakeUseOf, and Neowin
Forums: r/nottheonion, r/technews, r/antivirus, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Kaspersky finds a new Necro malware version in Google Play apps with 11M+ total downloads; in 2019, researchers found Necro in Play apps with 100M+ downloads — The Necro trojan was found in two Android applications in Google Play with a combined downloads count of over 11 million.
More: BleepingComputer, Securelist, Ars Technica, The Register, TechRadar, OC3D, NewsBytes, PhoneArena, Tom's Guide, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, How-To Geek, PCMag, and Forbes. Forums: r/technews
| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Source: Meta plans to launch the voices of Judi Dench, Kristen Bell, John Cena, Awkwafina, and Keegan-Michael Key for its Meta AI chatbot at Connect this week — Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) is planning to announce this week that it has secured deals with actors including Judi Dench … | New York Times: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the Phone-Free Schools Act, which will require schools to restrict cellphone use during school hours by July 1, 2026 — Calls for crackdowns have mounted with reports of cyberbullying and studies indicating that smartphones are harmful to children's mental health.| New York Times: |
How WhatsApp Channels, launched in late 2023, are driving traffic to digital news outlets, especially readers from outside the US, as social media traffic falls — An illustration of a man sitting on a green chair reading a newspaper called “World News” as he looks at his phone behind it.Jackson Gibbs
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