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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.
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X: @ajassy, @panos_panay, @caro_milanesi, @raywongy, @apollozac, @quinnypig, @maxwinebach, @panos_panay, and @connorjewiss. LinkedIn: Avani Parakh
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon discontinues the Kindle Oasis, which was the only Kindle still available with physical page-turn buttons, introduced in 2016 and last refreshed in 2019 — Amazon has discontinued the Kindle Oasis, which was the only Kindle still available with physical page-turn buttons.
More: Good e-Reader, Six Colors, and Engadget
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Threads: @scruffybookdude and @ampressman
X: @bookofjoe, @maxwinebach, @maxwinebach, @panos_panay, and @amazon
LinkedIn: Nageswara Rao Tadepalli and Eric Saarnio
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Forums: r/kindlescribe, r/technology, and r/ereader
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
The US charges two Sudanese brothers with running Anonymous Sudan, a cyberattack-for-hire gang allegedly responsible for 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year — Government says two brothers targeted big U.S. corporations, a hospital and an Israeli defense system in a mostly ideologically driven operation.| 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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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Uber has explored a possible bid for Expedia as it seeks to grow into a super app; Expedia, valued at nearly $20B, would be Uber's largest acquisition — Buying the travel website would be the ride-hailing group's biggest deal as it looks to diversify
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| 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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Mastodon: @khthoniaa@pagan.plus. X: @ftc, @petebuttigieg, @buildingback_us, @agrobbonta, @horsleyscott, @horsleyscott, and @senwarren
LinkedIn: Jordan Thompson, Natalie Foster, Adam Riemer, and Andrew
Forums: r/Destiny, r/uspolitics, r/PlanetFitnessMembers, r/antiMLM, and r/politics
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's first chief people officer, Carol Surface, who joined in early 2023, is leaving; retail chief Deirdre O'Brien is reassuming oversight of human resources — - Carol Surface joined Apple from Medtronic in 2023 for new role — The short tenure for a senior executive is rare at Apple
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple is expanding Apple Business Connect to let businesses, including those without a physical location, manage their presence in Mail, Phone, and Tap to Pay — Apple on Wednesday announced an expanded series of tools that will allow businesses to increase their visibility on Apple's platforms via …
More: Apple, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, iDrop News, Cult of Mac, zollotech on YouTube, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Accel: VC funding for cloud startups in the US, Europe, and Israel to rise 27% YoY to $79.2B in 2024, with 40% of the funding going to generative AI startups — Generative artificial intelligence startups are getting 40% of all the venture capital funding that flows into cloud companies, according to venture investors Accel.
More: Accel, Philippe Botteri on LinkedIn, Reuters, Benzinga, Accel, and Tech Startups
| Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: |
Winamp owner Llama Group deletes the GitHub repository of the legacy player's source code posted on September 24, following criticism on the way it was released — Winamp, through its Belgian owner Llama Group, posted the source for its “Legacy Player Code” on September 24 so that developers could …
More: The Register, Tom's Hardware, Hackaday, Adafruit Industries, and How-To Geek
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Forums: Hacker News, r/StallmanWasRight, and r/technology
| Chester Dawson / Bloomberg: |
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute partner to speed up development of humanoid robots using TRI's large behavior models and Boston Dynamics' Atlas — Research effort aims to develop, deploy multi-tasking robots at scale. … Toyota Motor Corp.'s research unit … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Brazilian authorities have arrested a hacker, known as USDoD, who they allege is linked to breaches of National Public Data, the FBI's InfraGard, and others — A notorious hacker named USDoD, who is linked to the National Public Data and InfraGard breaches, has been arrested …
More: DataBreaches.Net, Cyber Daily, Security Affairs, Hackread, and The Record
| Reuters: |
Robinhood launches its long-awaited desktop platform Robinhood Legend, and plans to add futures and index options trading to its mobile app in the coming months — Robinhood (HOOD.O) launched its long-awaited desktop platform and added futures and index options trading features to its mobile app …
More: Benzinga, Decrypt, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Investopedia, Benzinga, and Barron's Online
X: @robinhoodapp, @robinhoodapp, and @pitdesi
| Google Online Security Blog: |
Google projects the number of reported Android memory safety flaws to be 36 by the end of 2024, down from 220+ in 2019, after adopting memory safety in new code — Error-prone interactions between software and memory 1 are widely understood to create safety issues in software.
More: The Register. Mastodon: @ravirockks@infosec.exchange and @chandlerc@hachyderm.io
X: @richgel999, @ayper, @chandlerc1024, and @argvee
Forums: Hacker News, r/cpp, r/programming, r/rust, and lobste.rs
| Jessie Yeung / CNN: |
Hong Kong police arrested 24+ members of an alleged pig butchering crime ring, which they say used deepfake AI to lure its victims across Asia and raked in $46M — Hong Kong CNN — She appeared to be a beautiful woman and in the minds of men across Asia, the video calls they spoke on confirmed their newfound love was real.| Patrick Kho / Rest of World: |
Support groups in the Philippines blame GCash, the country's most popular payment app with 90M+ active users, for a rise in gambling addiction in the country — The GCash app is ubiquitous in the Philippines, and is being blamed for rising gambling addiction in the country, particularly among women.| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to ~$23.6B and net income up 54.2% YoY to ~$10.1B, both above estimates, boosted by strong sales of Nvidia AI chips — - The chipmaker reported a 54% rise in quarterly net income — ADRs climb on Robinhood's overnight trading platform
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