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As X fails to moderate Israel-Hamas misinformation, Meta has an opportunity to make real-time news a pillar of Threads and give the app an existential purpose — Three months into its existence, the app's purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace it
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LinkedIn: Mark Little and Tomer Poran
Forums: r/technology, r/technology, and r/TheMajorityReport
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: X shut down a tool for identifying coordinated disinformation campaigns in recent months, as the company moved services off Google Cloud to cut costs — Elon Musk's X, in the months before conflict erupted in Gaza, ceased utilizing a software tool used to identify organized misinformation …
More: Insider and Silicon Republic
X: @safety, @erinkwoo, @taliaotg, @chrisharihar, and @oalexanderdk
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Unity CEO John Riccitiello resigns in the wake of the company's fee controversy; Unity names former Red Hat President and CEO James Whitehurst as interim CEO — John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of a pricing controversy that left developers in open revolt.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Unity3D, r/gamedev, r/gaming, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Wired: |
As the Israel-Hamas war escalates, a look at the role of hacktivism for both sides, supported by outside groups, including DDoSing Israeli government sites — Hacktivism is increasingly a feature of modern kinetic warfare. It's playing out with particular ferocity in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange. X: @jerusalem_post, @bushidotoken, @bushidotoken, @aejleslie, and @bushidotoken
Forums: r/InfoSecNews and r/2ndYomKippurWar
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU regulators send out questionnaires asking customers and competitors whether Apple's iMessage and Microsoft's Bing should be regulated under the DMA — EU antitrust regulators are asking Microsoft's (MSFT.O) users and rivals whether Bing should comply with new tough tech rules …
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Silicon UK, Ghacks, BigTechWire, Benzinga, Seeking Alpha, and ChinaTechNews.com
X: @fosspatents, @fosspatents, and @idevicehelpus
Forums: Slashdot and MacRumors Forums
| IDC: |
Global PC shipments fell 7.6% YoY to 68.2M in Q3 2023; among the top five vendors, Apple experienced the largest decline, down 23.1%, and only HP grew, up 6.4% — The downward spiral for PC shipments continued during the third quarter of 2023 (3Q23) as global volumes declined 7.6% year … | Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
X now lets users block unverified accounts from replying to their posts, potentially limiting how the community can push back on misinformation — The latest turn in the Elon Musk-directed platform X, previously known as Twitter, is that users can now block unverified accounts from replying to their posts.
More: Engadget, Mashable, Social Media Today, BigTechWire, TechCrunch, and PCMag
X: @x, @elonmusk, @agoldmund, @jarvis, @eve6, @ggooooddddoogg, @tomwarren, @zhugeex, and @mnateshyamalan
| Gavin Bade / Politico: |
A look at the stalled efforts to ban TikTok in the US as defense officials, who want an outright ban, clash with economic officials who back a compromise — The administration is throwing its weight behind a new bill after previous legislative and national security efforts faltered.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google starts prompting users to create a passkey for their account by default, but says passwords will “still remain part of our lives as we make the pivot” — Google is making it easier for users to ditch passwords on their Google accounts in favor of passkeys — a fast … | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Binance founder Changpeng Zhao's Industry Recovery Initiative, aiming to raise $1B after FTX's collapsed, deployed less than $30M since November 2022 — - IRI has invested less than $30 million, wallet analysis shows — Project had big-name backers like Jump Crypto, Animoca
More: The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Cointelegraph
X: @emilyjnicolle, @emilyjnicolle, and @emilyjnicolle
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US judge throws out a $32.5M jury verdict for Sonos in its smart speaker patent case against Google after finding that the Sonos patents were unenforceable — A California federal judge has thrown out a $32.5 million verdict for wireless-audio company Sonos (SONO.O) against rival Google … | Financial Times: |
Some academics in Saudi Arabia worry over Saudi-Chinese AI collaboration, which may jeopardize their access to US chips, as the Gulf states rush to build LLMs — Fears grow at Gulf kingdom's top university that ties to Chinese researchers risk upsetting US government
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