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Meta Investor Relations:
Meta reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to $40.59B, net income up 35% YoY to $15.69B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 3.29B on average for September 2024  —  Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has almost 275M MAUs and is adding more than a million sign ups per day, while Meta AI has passed 500M MAUs in less than a year  —  Threads has surged to reach “almost 275 million” people, Mark Zuckerberg said.  —  Last month at Meta Connect …
Wired:
Zuckerberg says Meta is training Llama 4 models on a cluster of 100K+ H100 chips, “or bigger than anything that I've seen reported for what others are doing”
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:
Mark Zuckerberg says the company's AI-driven feed and video recommendations have led to an 8% increase in time spent on Facebook and a 6% increase on Instagram
Microsoft:
Microsoft reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $65.6B, Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services up 13%, LinkedIn up 10%, and net income up 11% to $24.7B  —  Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives First Quarter Results REDMOND, Wash. — October 30, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
Ina Fried / Axios:
Microsoft says its AI business is on track to surpass a $10B annual revenue run rate in Q2, its fastest product category to reach that milestone yet
Financial Times:
China sanctions Skydio, the US' largest drone maker and a supplier to Ukraine's military; sources say Skydio is rushing to find new suppliers for critical parts  —  Skydio, the US's largest drone maker and a supplier to Ukraine's military, faces a supply chain crisis after Beijing imposed sanctions …
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Nintendo launches Nintendo Music, an iOS and Android app that lets Switch Online subscribers stream or download gaming tunes from Nintendo titles  —  This time, it's a mobile app called Nintendo Music, which lets users listen to classic gaming tunes from Nintendo games spanning the last few decades …
New York Times:
Kraken lays off workers and names Arjun Sethi as co-CEO; sources: the cuts total 15% of staff, or ~400, including COO Gilles BianRosa and CTO Vishnu Patankar  —  The influential cryptocurrency exchange has undergone several reorganizations in recent years.  —  Kraken, one of the world's …
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Coinbase reports Q3 revenue up 79% YoY to $1.21B, vs. $1.26B est., a $75M net income, vs. a $2.3M loss in Q3 2023, and announces a $1B stock buyback  —  Coinbase Wednesday reported weaker-than-expected third-quarter results, weighed down by muted trading in the cryptocurrency market.
Kali Hays / Fortune:
Internal memo: Block CEO Jack Dorsey says Tidal is in for another mass layoff; insiders say as many as 100 people could be laid off, or ~25% of Tidal's staff  —  Block CEO and founder Jack Dorsey wants streaming music app Tidal to operate like a startup again - and that means layoffs
John O'Nolan:
Ghost's CEO details the organization's governance structure and says the open-source CMS generates ~$7.5M in annual revenue and has been profitable for 12 years  —  Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license.
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
A look at X's Election Integrity Community, a feed to “share potential incidents of voter fraud” that has 50K+ members, launched by Elon Musk's America PAC  —  Elon Musk has turned X into a political weapon.  —  Elon Musk didn't just get a social network—he got a political weapon.
ProPublica:
An investigation finds eight deceptive operations on Meta's platforms that collectively controlled 340+ Pages and placed 160K ads to collect users' information  —  Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism  — Deceptive Political Ads: Eight deceptive advertising networks …
Kwanwoo Jun / Wall Street Journal:
Samsung reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to ~$57.4B, net profit up 73% to ~$7.3B, operating profit of ~$6.7B, and chip unit operating profit down 40% QoQ to ~$2.8B  —  Net profit for the July-September period up 73% from a year earlier  —  Samsung Electronics reported better-than-expected net profit …
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
A look at VMware one year after Broadcom's acquisition: some customers say costs have risen 300%, Broadcom stopped selling perpetual VMware licenses, and more  —  Ars speaks with users and partners unhappy with Broadcom's changes. … After closing a $69 billion deal to buy virtualization …
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New York Times:
Former FTX chief engineer Nishad Singh avoids prison time over his role in the collapse of FTX, after a US judge lauded his cooperation with prosecutors  —  Mr. Singh, who was a top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried's business empire, had pleaded guilty to fraud and campaign finance violations that contributed to the collapse of FTX.
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
A profile of Pepijn Van der Stap, a Dutch cyber prodigy who stole thousands of companies' data while also doing legitimate cybersecurity and is now in prison  —  Pepijn Van der Stap stayed up through the night of Jan. 22, 2023, repairing one of his computers in silence save for the whirring of its fan.
Washington Post:
CCDH: of 283 X posts in 2024 with false election claims that Community Notes members had responded to, only 20 had notes with enough votes to be publicly shown  —  X's crowdsourced fact-checking program has been hailed as a bold idea for social media.  Research shows it's failing at a critical moment.

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Steven Waldman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Jeff Bezos should donate The Washington Post to a public charity that maintains its quality and independence, as he is too financially compromised to own it

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In its Q3 earnings call, Comcast CEO Mike Cavanagh says the company is weighing spinning off its cable networks and open to “partnerships in streaming”

Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Disney+ rolls out a top 10 list on the app's home screen, in line with Netflix, Max, Apple TV+, and Prime Video

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Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Many long-time game workers are ditching large productions in favor of smaller teams, enabled by growing accessibility of Unreal Engine and other powerful tools

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Alexandra Canal / Yahoo Finance:
Roku reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to $1.06B, vs. $1.02B est., 85.5M streaming households, up 2M QoQ, and Q4 guidance below est.; ROKU drops 11%+
Jasper Ward / Reuters:
Colorado says that some partial passwords for the state's voting systems were accidentally posted online but pose no threat to the November 5 general election
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