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In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more — The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …
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Threads: @carnage4life. X: @safety, @thierrybreton, @elonmusk, @lindayax, @thierrybreton, @globalaffairs, @isabelle_szcz, @erinkwoo, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @thierrybreton, @anneapplebaum, @jason_kint, @guyverhofstadt, @pinboard, @jason_kint, @zsk, and @pinboard
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Letter: European regulator Thierry Breton urges Mark Zuckerberg to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation from Meta's platforms during the Israel-Hamas war — - European regulator Thierry Breton shared a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday urging the billionaire to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram head Adam Mosseri reiterates Threads' position on hard news, saying that Threads does not intend to “amplify” news because it's currently “too risky” — Instagram's new Twitter-like app Threads is not prepared to truly challenge Elon Musk's X …
More: Hindustan Times and Neowin
| Jake Piazza / CNBC: |
Microsoft receives Notices of Proposed Adjustment from the IRS for an additional $28.9B tax payment; Microsoft plans to appeal, a process expected to take years — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at federal court on October 2, 2023 in Washington, DC. Nadella is testifying …
More: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft On the Issues, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, The Verge, Business Post, Tech.co, Android Headlines, Engadget, Reuters, IGN, Tech Xplore, AppleInsider, Neowin, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, Cryptopolitan, Thurrott, CryptoSlate, South China Morning Post, iTnews, CRN, The Register, Associated Press, Financial Times, PCMag, The Information, Tuko.co.ke, StreetInsider.com, Forbes, CNBC Television on YouTube, MarketWatch, Barron's Online, CNN, GeekWire, Dow Jones Newswires, and Bloomberg
Threads: @daveleebbg. Mastodon: @angiebaby@mas.to. X: @bdsams, @mgsiegler, @fosspatents, and @fosspatents
LinkedIn: Bill Gately and Tom Krazit
Forums: r/microsoft, r/Superstonk, r/news, and r/wallstreetbets
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Caroline Ellison's well-prepared testimony painted Sam Bankman-Fried as the ultimate decision-maker at FTX and a corrupting influence on his subordinates — - Government prosecutors completed their direct examination of former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison on Wednesday in the fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried.
More: Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Unchained Crypto, Crypto Daily, CryptoGlobe, Blockonomi, Coinspeaker, The Verge, Inside Bitcoins, Decrypt, Insider, and New York Times
X: @teddyschleifer, @innercitypress, @scottmelker, @innercitypress, @thecryptojourno, @innercitypress, @molly0xfff, @molly0xfff, @innercitypress, @blknoiz06, @molly0xfff, @tomimtk, @trustlessstate, @soncharm, @hedgedhog7, @smtuffy, @smtuffy, @adam3us, @coffeebreak_yt, @silvermanjacob, @zackdabrams, and @zackdabrams
| New York Times: |
At SBF's trial, the personal dynamics between him and his friends are a vital component of the case, making clear how much his inner circle has turned on him — The FTX founder's criminal trial has made clear just how much his inner circle has turned against him.| Bloomberg: |
US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says SBF asked her to make false balance sheets to hide debt, he considered offering FTX shares to the Saudi crown prince, and more — - Ellison takes witness stand for second day at SBF trial — Ellison discusses mounting loans to Alameda Research
More: Decrypt, CNN, The Information, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, CoinDesk, CoinDesk, The Block, Fast Company, crypto.news, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, and CoinDesk
Threads: @tschleifer, @tschleifer, @tschleifer, @highyield.harry, @tschleifer, and @tschleifer
X: @aditya_baradwaj, @aditya_baradwaj, @innercitypress, @adamscochran, @abu9ala7, @autismcapital, @davidzmorris, @adamscochran, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, @thestalwart, @jruss_jruss, @jruss_jruss, @deitaone, @rscharf_, @rscharf_, @rscharf_, @tuurdemeester, @patio11, @rscharf_, @alice_comfy, @asvanevik, @chafkin, @bennetttomlin, @remusofmars, @adamscochran, @zoeclaire_, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @yueqi_yang, @innercitypress, @deitaone, @davidzmorris, @innercitypress, and @innercitypress. LinkedIn: Stacy-Marie Ishmael. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
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Automattic expands ActivityPub support to WordPress.com hosted sites, letting blog owners reach 13.3M users across the fediverse, including Mastodon's 1.8M MAUs — Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse …
More: WordPress.com News, The Verge, and BGR
Threads: @chrispirillo. Mastodon: @clintlalonde@mastodon …, @dilmandila@mograph.social, @randomwizard@social …, @anildash@me.dm, @mergesort@macaw.social, and @tchambers@indieweb.social. X: @seo_theory. Forums: Hacker News
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok updates its $6M Effect Creator Rewards fund to add lower eligibility rules, a revamped payout model, and a lower threshold to start collecting rewards — TikTok is updating its Effect Creator Rewards program with lower eligibility requirements, a revamped payout model … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Piper Sandler survey of 9,000+ US teens: 29.1% of their daily video consumption time is on YouTube, beating Netflix for the first time at 28.7%, and ~7% on Hulu — - Teenagers in the United States say they watch more video on YouTube than Netflix, according to a new survey from investment bank Piper Sandler.| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Hands-on with Best Take for Pixel 8, which uses AI to replace people's faces, a fun camera tool that worryingly helps AI standardize what happiness looks like — A new AI function called Best Take in Google's Pixel 8 lets you replace people's faces, saving memories of moments that never actually happened.| Gabe Bullard / Nieman Reports: |
Internal memo: NPR lost a negligible amount of traffic in the six months since leaving X, after the service labeled the outlet “US state-affiliated media” — The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn't worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic
More: Digiday, Pixel Envy, and The Verge
Threads: @aulia, @travelfishery, @travelfishery, @mosseri, and @karaswisher
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social, @thekenyeung@mastodon.social, @lrhodes@merveilles.town, @karengregory@mastodon.scot, and @claesdevreese@mastodon.social
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/technology, r/Twitter, r/NPR, r/inthenews, r/Journalism, and Beehaw
| Noema: |
Current advanced LLMs from OpenAI and others have many flaws but they will, decades from now, be recognized as the first true examples of AGI, similar to ENIAC — Today's most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence.
Mastodon: @rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf. X: @shanelegg, @melmitchell1, @stefanfschubert, @noemamag, @blaiseaguera, and @garymarcus
Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/singularity, and Beehaw
| Tom Ivan / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony plans to launch PS5 game cloud streaming for PlayStation Plus Premium members in Japan on October 17, Europe on October 23, and North America on October 30 — Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced plans to launch cloud streaming for PlayStation 5 this month.
More: PlayStation.Blog, The Verge, PlayStation on YouTube, Tom's Guide, T3, Ars Technica, Destructoid, 9to5Google, Kotaku, PlayStation LifeStyle, VG Charts, IGN, GameSpot, Eurogamer.net, and Thurrott
Threads: @seanhollister and @durrell.randle
| Bloomberg: |
How Google Chrome's Discover feed on Android serves up misleading propaganda to Russian audiences; a source says Russian-languages services are a lower priority — Mobile users in Russia are being served pro-war propaganda from sources Google has blocked elsewhere.| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to unveil major developer updates on November 6, like memory storage in its tools and vision capabilities to analyze and describe images — OpenAI plans to introduce major updates for developers next month to make it cheaper and faster to build software applications based … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Singapore's biggest tech hopes, Grab, Sea, and Razer, have stumbled, which may show why VCs were premature in calling Singapore the “Silicon Valley of Asia” — Grab's rough journey helps explain why the island nation has struggled to become the region's Silicon Valley.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro review: useful, if troubling, AI photo editing tools, Face Unlock now works for payments, but the Tensor G3 runs hot occasionally — These might just be the Pixel phones we've been waiting for, but it all depends on how much trust you're willing to put into Google.
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Threads: @thescottpeachey, @jmmlamont, @nexusben, @heymarkl, @joemaring1, and @legendaryscoop
X: @adamconwayie, @maxwinebach, @nexusben, @greenshades9, @mishaalrahman, @maxwinebach, @nexusben, @shishirshelke1, @mkbhd, @maxwinebach, @milesabovetech, @mkbhd, and @maxwinebach
LinkedIn: Kerry W., Mark Spoonauer, Max Buondonno, and Jason Cipriani
Forums: r/GooglePixel and r/Android
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
More: Droid Life on YouTube, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, Samachar Central, Wallpaper*, CNET on YouTube, Tom's Guide on YouTube, PCMag, Stuff, MobileSyrup, 9to5Google, Android Police, Android Central, Droid Life, T3, Pocket-lint, XDA Developers, ZDNet, CNET, Engadget, Android Police, and Android Authority
Mastodon: @vicmsong@mastodon.social. X: @snazzylabs, @dylanmcd8, and @maxwinebach. Forums: r/Android
| BBC: |
Investigation: instant loan app scams push people in India and other countries into a spiral of debt, driving many to suicide after shame and blackmail — A blackmail scam is using instant loan apps to entrap and humiliate people across India and other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
More: BBC World Service on YouTube, Hindustan Times, Newslaundry, and The Messenger
Mastodon: @gcluley@mastodon.green. X: @soutikbbc, @bbcindia, @pro_bharati, @bbcindia, @bbcindia, @orgetorix, @calamur, @nalakag, and @nalakag. Forums: r/privacy
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