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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, or ~8.4% of staff, took a “generous” severance package offered to those who disagreed with WordPress' direction — Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package …
More: The Verge, Matt Mullenweg, Engadget, Ars Technica, Kellie Peterson, Automattic, Naoko Takano, MEDIANAMA, CIO.com, Tedium, and The Register
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Wordpress
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Meta announces Movie Gen, a collection of AI models for generating realistic video and audioclips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Audio has 13B — The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim. — Meta just announced …
More: Meta, New York Times, Financial Times, and TechCrunch
Threads: @aiatmeta, @chriscox, @jakebailey, @evolving.ai, @aaldahle, @chriscox, @thiccreese, and @aiatmeta. Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta announces Movie Gen, which creates videos up to 16 seconds long based on a text prompt; Meta plans to make it available on its apps in 2025 — Movie Gen tool can create short videos from a text prompt — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new artificial intelligence tool …
More: Axios, SiliconANGLE, and Reuters
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems — The European Union's top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta's data retention policies.
More: The Markup, Reuters, noyb, Politico, UPI, RTÉ, BBC, Associated Press, Fortune, Court of Justice of the European Union, and BNN Bloomberg
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google confirms it is “running a small experiment” showing blue verified checkmarks beside official site links for companies like Microsoft, Meta, and, Apple — Google is experimenting with a new verification feature in search that should make it easier for users to avoid clicking on fake or fraudulent website links.| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring 2025, will have Apple's first 5G modem, the iPhone 15's rear camera, and an A18 and 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence — Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches canvas, a ChatGPT interface with a workspace for writing and coding projects, similar to Anthropic's Artifacts, in beta for Plus and Team users — OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.”
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LinkedIn: Justin Grammens, Minisha Goel, and Daniel Levine
Forums: r/ChatGPTPro, r/cursor, and Slashdot
| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016 — - Russian group Star Blizzard targeted civil society, US says — Group has conducted election influence operations in UK
More: Microsoft On the Issues, US Department of Justice, Metacurity, CSO, The Record, Tech.co, Access Now, Help Net Security, The Register, UPI, CNN, SiliconANGLE, PCMag, CRN, The Hill, BankInfoSecurity.com, The Citizen Lab, NBC Bay Area, SecurityWeek, Nextgov/FCW, CyberScoop, and ComputerWeekly.com
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LinkedIn: Jeremy Dallman, Ben Johnson, and Amy Hogan-Burney
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking — Apple today released iPadOS 18..1 for the iPad, and it brings iPadOS 18 to the for M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since …
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X: @markgurman, @aaronp613, @brandonbutch, @stephenrobles, @iryantldr, and @tgod34748
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google updates Lens to let users take a video and use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile — If you can't capture what you want to search for with just a picture, Google Lens will now let you take a video — and even use your voice to ask about what you're seeing.
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LinkedIn: Rachel Gruner and Robby Stein
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
More: Google, MSPoweruser, MEDIANAMA, WinBuzzer, Semafor, Adweek, XDA Developers, Thurrott, The Drum, Search Engine Land, The Information, Fortune, and Search Engine Journal
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @yifanlu@mastodon.social
X: @lilyraynyc, @newsfromgoogle, and @glenngabe
LinkedIn: Shashidhar, Dan Taylor, and Vidhya Srinivasan
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Lucy Craymer / Reuters: |
Google says it'll stop linking to news content and drop its deals with news orgs in New Zealand if NZ passes a law forcing digital platforms to pay for content — Google said on Friday it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles and ditch the agreements it has with local news organisations … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model blames “a bug in the initial code for benchmarking”, after evaluators couldn't reproduce some claimed results — On September 5th, 2024, Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of the startup Hyperwrite AI (also known as OthersideAI) … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
CCData: Binance's trading volume in the $2T digital asset market fell from 42.7% at the start of 2024 to 36.6% in September, the lowest share since January 2021 — - Overall market share fell to 36.6% last month, CCData says — Binance saw the most severe share drop among top exchanges
More: Protos, NewsBTC, crypto.news, and CoinDesk
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
How Sam Altman concentrated his power as OpenAI's CEO since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; source: Altman is not looking to hire a CTO for now — Five years ago, OpenAI was a scrappy startup run by a handful of executives, with a heavy emphasis on research.
More: PYMNTS.com, Observer, Neowin, and Legit.ng
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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