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October 22, 2024, 4:05 AM

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Robert Triggs / Android Authority:
Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile SoC, with two prime and six performance CPU cores, claiming 45% faster CPU and NPU over the 8 Gen 3, and more  —  The new name marks a major departure from previous Snapdragons.  —  •  —  After much speculation …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign up for and buy subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store, avoiding Apple's cut  —  Disney is no longer allowing its customers to sign up for and purchase subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Meta is testing facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to help enable faster recovery of compromised Facebook and Instagram accounts  —  Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the Facebook owner announced Monday.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Blade Runner 2049's producer sues Musk, Tesla, and WBD for allegedly using AI to create imagery close to the film, despite a denied request, to promote Cybercab  —  Alcon Entertainment, the Hollywood company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” said it had denied a request to use images from the movie but that Mr. Musk did so anyway.
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Stripe announces it has finalized a deal to acquire stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal was worth $1.1B  —  Bridge, which has raised $54 million in funding, previously said it aspired to become the blockchain version of Stripe, operating a global system in which other developers could integrate
Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
The Biden admin unveils proposed rules for restricting the transfer of US citizens' sensitive data, including biometric and genomic info, to adversarial nations  —  The Biden administration announced on Monday new proposed rules for regulating the transfer of certain data to adversarial countries …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Ireland adopts an Online Safety Code for video-sharing platforms headquartered in the country, including TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, effective next month  —  Ireland's media and internet watchdog, Coimisiún na Meán, has adopted and published an Online Safety Code that will apply …
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
A look at some use cases of Anthropic's Claude Artifacts, which lets users create interactive single-page apps via prompts  —  I'm a huge fan of Claude's Artifacts feature, which lets you prompt Claude to create an interactive Single Page App (using HTML, CSS and JavaScript) …

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