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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at possible outcomes for Twitter under Elon Musk: firing Parag Agrawal, a revolt by employees, bringing back Donald Trump, adding new features, and more — His deal to buy the company is back on. Here are six predictions about Twitter under Musk's control, if it happens. — Buckle up.
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| Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: |
Elon Musk claims that buying Twitter “is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”; in August 2022, Musk teased launching X.com as a social media site — Entrepreneur's first big hit was with X.com, an online bank that was acquired by PayPal; he re-acquired the rights …
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| Ed Hammond / Bloomberg: |
SEC filing: in a letter to Twitter, Elon Musk revives his original bid for $54.20 per share, aiming to avoid a courtroom fight — Elon Musk is proposing to buy Twitter Inc. for the original offer price of $54.20 a share, Bloomberg News reports.Musk made the proposal in a letter to Twitter …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
What to expect from the “Made by Google” event on October 6: Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel Watch, and potentially Nest hardware and previews of Pixel devices — - Wildcards: More Pixel device previews and Nest hardware — Google's fall hardware event promises to be special this year.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Blizzard President Mike Ybarra says Overwatch 2 servers are “experiencing a mass DDoS attack”, preventing users from joining the game's early access launch — Overwatch 2's early access launch has been marred by a few bugs and a massive DDoS attack preventing players from getting into the game.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A Chess.com report alleges a pattern of likely widespread cheating in 100+ online games by Hans Moke Niemann, whom champion Magnus Carlsen accused of cheating — An internal report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal alleges a previously unknown pattern of likely widespread cheating by Hans Moke Niemann …
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| Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters: |
Spotify buys Kinzen, which helps identify misinformation and hate speech; the Dublin-based company partnered with Spotify in 2020, initially on election content — Audio-streaming service Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) on Wednesday said it has acquired Kinzen, a firm that has helped it identify harmful content on the platform.
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Tesla plans to remove ultrasonic sensors from some new Model 3 and Y cars in October 2022 and Model S and X cars in 2023, in favor of camera and software — Tesla is removing ultrasonic sensors from Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, the next step in CEO Elon Musk's plan to only use cameras …
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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: in a first, Apple asks suppliers to move some AirPods and Beats devices production to India as early as 2023; some AirPods are already made in Vietnam — iPhone maker taps South Asian nation again in push to diversify from China — TAIPEI — Apple is asking suppliers to move …
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| Associated Press: |
A US judge sentences Capital One hacker Paige Thompson, who accessed data on over 100M people, to five years of probation; DOJ says it is “very disappointed” — A former Seattle tech worker convicted of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies …
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Meta details updates to the Facebook Feed to let users increase or decrease posts from friends, Groups, and Pages, helping improve Meta's AI-based ranking — With profits shrinking of late, Facebook has been shutting down unpopular apps and focusing on its core services.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Coin: A Founder's Story, a documentary that Brian Armstrong commissioned to show the “good, bad, and ugly”, feels more like a hagiography to reset his narrative — Pass the popcorn. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong just announced a new film titled Coin: A Founder's Story …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A review of Intel's $329 Arc A770 and $289 Arc A750: solid 1080p performance, slick design and materials, but weird driver bugs and not enough software controls — Intel's GPU effort is impressive but early … Intel's Arc graphics cards are finally here, and they're priced to take on Nvidia's popular RTX 3060 for budget PC gamers.
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
DeepMind uses its AlphaTensor AI to quickly solve a matrix multiplication problem by building a custom TensorGame board game, beating a 50-year-old record — The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication, a core problem in computing that affects thousands of everyday computer tasks.| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
In a first, Amazon plans to give $150M through 2023 to 10+ outside VC funds to invest in underrepresented startup founders at or before the seed stage — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is investing in outside venture capital funds for the first time, saying on Wednesday it planned to hand $150 million …
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| Ken Sweet / Associated Press: |
A report by Senator Warren's office: fraud and scams are occurring more often on P2P payments app Zelle, with banks only reimbursing ~47% of defrauded customers — Incidents of fraud and scams are occurring more often on the popular peer-to-peer payment service Zelle, according …
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| Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg: |
Experts say political ads on Meta's platforms no longer represent good ROI, thanks to a stagnating user base and policy changes that make targeting voters hard — Beth Becker had just finished teaching Democrats how to use Facebook's digital tools at the Netroots conference in Pittsburgh … | Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
LA County arrests election software maker Konnech's CEO Eugene Yu over the alleged theft of data on poll workers and says some data was found stored in China — The executive, Eugene Yu, and his firm, Konnech, have been a focus of attention among election deniers.
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| Suzanne Smalley / CyberScoop: |
A CISA report finds multiple government hacking groups kept “long-term” access to a US military contractor's network via the open-source Python toolkit Impacket — U.S. cybersecurity, law enforcement and intelligence officials revealed on Tuesday that sophisticated hackers infiltrated …
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| Heather Murphy / New York Times: |
A look at the CBP prioritizing facial recognition to verify ~85% of the 221K daily travelers entering the US, replacing passport lines and self-serve kiosks — More than 80 percent of all travelers entering the U.S. are now verified by facial recognition. The loss of older, seemingly more convenient methods has many perplexed.
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