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| 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: About Amazon, The Verge, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Mashable, Thurrott, Engadget, Engadget, TechCrunch, GeekWire, About Amazon, Android Authority, Lifewire, Tabletmonkeys, Pocket-lint, Wired, WinBuzzer, Android Central, PhoneArena, Android Police, and T3
Threads: @scruffybookdude and @ampressman
X: @bookofjoe, @maxwinebach, @maxwinebach, @panos_panay, and @amazon
| 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: Reuters, Liliputing, Digital Trends, The Independent, Boing Boing, TechRadar, Spyglass, and GSMArena.com
Threads: @jhaaren and @parkerortolani
| 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, MakeUseOf, Tom's Guide, CNBC, Barron's Online, Good e-Reader, and The Indian Express
| 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.
More: ZDNET, Ars Technica, T3, The Independent, Forbes, Bloomberg, Fortune, Quartz, TechEBlog, TechPowerUp, Neowin, Digital Trends, BGR, and Good e-Reader
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Kindle Scribe hands-on: AI, annotations, and other software updates help the 2-in-1 e-reader and writing tablet more closely mimic real books and notebooks — AI and annotations help the Scribe more closely mimic real books and notebooks. — Deputy Editor, Reviews — Seventeen years is an odd anniversary to call out.| 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%| 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.
More: Federal Trade Commission, PCMag, Quartz, Gizmodo, The Hill, The Streamable, and NBC News
| 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.
More: Benzinga, Business Insider, Reuters, The Motley Fool, Neowin, Capacity Media, Bloomberg, and Proactive. X: @mvpeers
| 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: TechCrunch, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Tech Startups, HPCwire, Lightmatter, and Lightmatter
| 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, SecurityWeek, and Forbes
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| 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: Cryptopolitan, The Crypto Times, CoinJournal, Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, CoinGape, and crypto.news
| 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, @kimmonismus, @michael05156007, @adonis_singh, and @jasondclinton
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| 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
X: @megan_nicolett and @megan_nicolett
| 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 and The Verge
| 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
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
YouTube rolls out a new “captured with a camera” label, using the C2PA standard to detect if the video came from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound — YouTube is rolling out new labels that tell if uploaded videos come from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound.| 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
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| 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: TechCrunch, The Times, Airbnb Newsroom, Ad Age, PhocusWire, Skift, and The Independent
| 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.
More: Coinspeaker, The Colorado Sun, CryptoPotato, and Washington Examiner
X: @jeffhauser, @ericgeller, and @daveweigel
| 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.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A teardown of Microsoft's diskless Xbox Series X, which was released today, shows a redesigned motherboard, a 6nm chip, and a new cooling system — Microsoft's discless Xbox Series X goes on sale today, and while it looks slightly different on the outside thanks to a white paint job and lack …
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X: @wario64, @tomwarren, and @fsapojake
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| 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, TechCrunch, and WinBuzzer
| 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 …
More: South China Morning Post, CHINAdaily, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, PCMag, Nikkei Asia, Asia Financial, WinBuzzer, SHINE, and Reuters
X: @angelusm0rt1s, @onlyyoontv, and @briantycangco
| 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.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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