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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils the $280 Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, its first color e-reader with a Paperwhite-like design and color E Ink display, shipping October 30 — For years, Kindle users have asked Amazon to make a color version of its e-reader. … The Colorsoft costs $279.99 and starts shipping on October 30th.
More: About Amazon, Thurrott, Gizmodo, ExtremeTech, TechRadar, Android Headlines, SlashGear, Liliputing, Quartz, The Independent, Spyglass, Lifewire, WinBuzzer, Good e-Reader, Digital Trends, The Indian Express, Notebookcheck, Boing Boing, and GSMArena.com
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X: @ajassy, @caro_milanesi, @panos_panay, @connorjewiss, @raywongy, @panos_panay, @quinnypig, and @maxwinebach. Forums: Slashdot
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Amazon updates the Kindle Scribe to add modest design improvements like white bezels, a new stylus, and a more paper-like feel, shipping December 4 for $400 — Ever since Amazon launched the Kindle Scribe in 2022, the company has been noticing some unusual ways people are using the device.
More: 9to5Toys, NBC News, Barron's Online, Notebookcheck, and Good e-Reader
| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Amazon updates Kindle Paperwhite, adding a larger, brighter 7" display and faster page turns for $160+, and Kindle, adding color options and speed improvements — Amazon introduced updated versions of the Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite on Wednesday, only a few hours after inadvertently leaking them both.
More: The Verge, About Amazon, Ars Technica, Wired, Mashable, Investor's Business Daily, TechCrunch, Liliputing, BetaNews, Engadget, Engadget, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Tom's Guide, Neowin, Android Authority, Pocket-lint, and Tabletmonkeys
Threads: @scruffybookdude and @ampressman
X: @amazon, @maxwinebach, @bookofjoe, @panos_panay, and @maxwinebach
LinkedIn: Nageswara Rao Tadepalli and Eric Saarnio
| Tony Polanco / Tom's Guide: |
Kindle Colorsoft hands-on: bold and sharp color on a 7" display, wireless charging, and comfortable, lightweight design, but pricier than other Kindles at $280 — The Kindle Colorsoft is shaping up to be a winner — Early Verdict … The Kindle Colorsoft ($279) is the first color Kindle and something I've been waiting years for.| Diana Olick / CNBC: |
Amazon signs three deals to help develop small modular nuclear reactors in the US, with Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund leading a $500M Series C-1 for X-energy — Amazon Web Services is investing more than $500 million in nuclear power, announcing three projects from Virginia to Washington state.
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LinkedIn: Chris Walker, Adam Stein, PhD, Christian Hoff, Jake Oster, Erika Reynoso, Dillon Allen, and Mohsen Moazami
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/environment, r/UraniumSqueeze, r/unusual_whales, r/nuclear, r/NuclearPower, and Slashdot
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
The Cybersecurity Association of China says Intel products sold in the country should be subject to a security review, alleging it has “constantly harmed” China — Intel (INTC.O) products sold in China should be subject to a security review, the Cybersecurity Association of China … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The US FTC adopts its final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up, after proposing the rule in 2023 — The US Federal Trade Commission is taking action against subscriptions that are difficult to get rid of.
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X: @senwarren, @ftc, @buildingback_us, @horsleyscott, and @horsleyscott
Forums: r/antiMLM and r/politics
| Bloomberg: |
ASML's stock falls the most since 1998 after projecting sluggish 2025 sales, erasing €50B from its market cap and causing Nvidia and other chip stocks to fall — - Magnitude of ASML's forecast cut was a surprise, Citi says — Peer Tokyo Electron among worst hit stocks in Asia, down 10%| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mistral releases Les Ministraux AI models in 3B and 8B sizes with 128K context windows, aimed at on-device translation, internet-less smart assistants, and more — French AI startup Mistral has released its first generative AI models designed to be run on edge devices, like laptops and phones.
More: Mistral AI, AIM, MarkTechPost, and WinBuzzer
X: @guillaumelample, @albertqjiang, @theo_gervet, @anjneymidha, and @teknium1. LinkedIn: Barry Conklin
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb launches the Co-Host Network to help homeowners hire fellow hosts to manage their rentals in the US, the UK, Canada, France, Spain, and Brazil — - Homeowners can pay co-hosts to set up listing, manage guests — Firm won't take commission when hosts connect with each other
More: PYMNTS.com, Airbnb Newsroom, The Verge, Engadget, Fox Business, Skift, TechCrunch, Ad Age, PhocusWire, The Times, and The Independent
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU declines to designate X as a DMA gatekeeper after an investigation found that “X is not an important gateway for business users to reach end users” — Elon Musk's X won't be regulated under the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) the Commission decided Wednesday …
More: European Commission, The Verge, Eunews, and Mashable
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics with waveguides instead of wires in chips, raised a $400M Series D led by T. Rowe Price at a $4.4B valuation — Investors put $400 million into the company, which aims to make it faster to build new AI software.
More: Crunchbase News, Capital Brief, Lightmatter, Reuters, FinSMEs, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, HPCwire, Lightmatter, Tech Startups, and VC News Daily. LinkedIn: Ritesh Jain
| Daniel Thorp-Lancaster / Wired: |
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus review: thin design, spacious 15.6" screen, great performance, Quick Insert key, and solid battery life, but average speakers — This powerful clamshell Chromebook packs an AMOLED screen and is one of the first with the new Quick Insert key. — Rating:
More: ZDNET, Android Authority, Android Central, and SamMobile
| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources detail how Nvidia and TSMC's lucrative AI alliance is showing signs of stress as AI booms; sources say Nvidia found flaws in TSMC-made Blackwell chips — The most successful and lucrative partnership in the artificial intelligence business is showing signs of strain.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of Palantir, joins OpenAI as its CISO and will serve alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight — Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of analytics firm Palantir, has joined OpenAI as its newest CISO, serving alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight.
More: Maginative, Bloomberg, and SecurityWeek
X: @cryps1s, @sama, @nearcyan, @i_dg23, @bobmcgrewai, @jawwwn_, and @basedbeffjezos
| The Citizen Lab: |
An analysis of WeChat's network protocol MMTLS finds that it is a modified version of TLS 1.3 and WeChat developers' changes to its cryptography add weaknesses — Key contributions — We performed the first public analysis of the security and privacy properties of MMTLS …
X: @citizenlab, @thegrugq, @jsrailton, and @citizenlab
| Jessica Piper / Politico: |
FTC data: three crypto super PACs have spent $82M in 19 races, including $40M in Ohio and $10M in Arizona; the ads focus on candidates and rarely mention crypto — Super PACs funded by the crypto industry are pouring massive amounts into congressional races, and not a single ad actually mentions crypto.| Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg: |
Filing: US prosecutors ask a judge to sentence Ilya Lichtenstein, mastermind of the 2016 Bitfinex hack, to five years in prison; sentencing is due in November — - Ilya Lichtenstein pled guilty to 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack — He and rapper-wife Razzlekhan conspired to launder proceeds
More: CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, CoinGape, crypto.news, CoinJournal, Cryptopolitan, Cryptonews, and The Crypto Times
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Q&A with Kevin Rose on Digg, what Reddit got right, the rise of news feeds, why there is no universal internet homepage like Techmeme is for tech, and more — a couple of years, there was nothing on the internet so simultaneously thrilling and terrifying as having your website hit the front page of Digg.| New York Times: |
Filings: Trump's campaign hasn't bought an ad on Snapchat this election cycle; Trump's personal Snap account, banned after January 6, 2021, remains banned — The former president, whose personal account was banned after the Capitol riot, has refused to spend campaign money on Snapchat ads …
Bluesky: @dmnd.me
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Elon Musk poured ~$75M into his pro-Trump America PAC, making seven donations between July 3 and September 5; Musk was the PAC's only donor — - Disclosure is first look into Musks' donations to Trump group — Super PAC spent $69 million to bolster Trump's ground game
More: Federal Election Commission, Reuters, CNBC, The Guardian, The Wrap, ZeroHedge News, Gizmodo, Fortune, CCN.com, The Crypto Times, Quartz, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, Australian Financial Review, Washington Post, Fox Business, Raw Story, The Hill, Financial Times, Forbes, Business Insider, Semafor, Politico, and Bloomberg
Threads: @carnage4life. Bluesky: @paleofuture.bsky.social. X: @brendan_fischer, @wendysiegelman, @wendysiegelman, @teddyschleifer, @taylorgiorno_, @schwartzbcnbc, @emrwilkins, @teddyschleifer, @americapaconeth, and @brendan_fischer
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, setting benchmarks for when an AI model's abilities reach a point where additional safeguards are necessary — Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the popular Claude chatbot, today announced a sweeping update …
More: Anthropic, Silicon Republic, WinBuzzer, and Platformer
Threads: @crumbler. X: @cfgeek, @david_kasten, @michael05156007, @adonis_singh, @kimmonismus, and @jasondclinton
Forums: Hacker News and r/ClaudeAI
| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Neuralink's top neurosurgeon Matthew MacDougall, who has worked there for seven years and is an even-keeled, affable counterbalance to Elon Musk — While the controversial CEO sees a future merging of human minds with machine, Matthew MacDougall may actually be the man you'd want putting a chip in your brain.
X: @mcbridesg
| Wired: |
A review of Character.AI finds several instances of AI personas being created without a person's consent, seemingly violating the company's terms of service — Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.
More: Washington Post. Threads: @kylie.robison, @cwarzel, and @laurengoode. Mastodon: @crecente@games.ngo
X: @megan_nicolett and @megan_nicolett
| Saul Klein / Wired: |
A look at a cluster of European cities within a five-hour train ride of London that collectively have 500+ startups with at least $100M of annual revenue — A cluster of European cities within a five-hour train ride of London could become a unicorn factory to rival Silicon Valley, argues tech investor Saul Klein.| Martin Coulter / Reuters: |
LatticeFlow's LLM Checker, which analyzed models from Meta, Alibaba, Mistral, Anthropic, and OpenAI against the EU's AI Act, finds some compliance issues — Some of the most prominent artificial intelligence models are falling short of European regulations in key areas such as cybersecurity resilience …
More: LatticeFlow, WinBuzzer, and TechCrunch
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