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| RT Watson / The Block: |
Chainalysis says recent media reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses” — - Chainalysis said some recent reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses.”
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
New York AG Letitia James sues the Winklevoss' Gemini, Genesis, and its parent Digital Currency Group, alleging the companies defrauded 230K investors of $1B+ — New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing the Winklevoss twin-led exchange Gemini along with the crypto lending firm Genesis …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK plans to announce an international advisory group on AI, loosely modeled on the UN's IPCC, at the November 2023 AI summit in Bletchley Park — The British government wants to draw on expert knowledge about the fast-developing technology — The UK is planning to announce … | John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A researcher details a malicious and convincing Google ad linking to a fake site for password manager Keepass; Google shows a verified advertiser paid for them — Google-verified advertiser + legit-looking URL + valid TLS cert = convincing look-alike. — Google has been caught hosting …
More: Malwarebytes Labs. Mastodon: @hanno@mastodon.social, @briankrebs@infosec.exchange, and @karadoc@aus.social
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X: @medidigitalmark, @safespace4space, and @wrthfl
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
WhatsApp plans to let users switch between two accounts on Android in the coming weeks; a second account will still need a separate phone number and SIM card — If you use two different WhatsApp accounts, you'll soon be able to access both from just one device.
More: Meta, Thurrott, BleepingComputer, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Tech Advisor, TechCrunch, Cybernews.com, Android Police, Neowin, Ghacks, PhoneArena, BetaNews, T3, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, Gizchina, Android Authority, MSPoweruser, Pocket-lint, Mashable, and Engadget. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp rolls out a view once mode for voice notes to some beta users on iOS and Android, after launching the feature for photos and videos in August 2021 — WhatsApp is introducing a new feature to allow users to share voice notes with view once mode enabled for added privacy.
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| Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports Q3 revenue down 14.6% YoY to ~$17.28B, net income down 24.9% YoY to ~$6.5B, and expects to spend $32B on growing and upgrading capacity in 2023 — - Sales and capex projections both came in ahead of estimates — World's most advanced chipmaker is struggling with a downturn| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 7.8% YoY to $8.54B, vs. $8.54B est., and global paid memberships up 10.8% YoY to 247.15M, vs. 243.88M est.; NFLX jumps 18%+ — - Netflix shares popped more than 13% after it posted earnings. — The company reported a boost in subscriber growth driven …
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| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Reuters: |
Meta introduces temporary limits on “potentially unwelcome or unwanted comments” on Facebook posts about the Israel-Hamas war for users “in the region” — Facebook-owner Meta Platforms (META.O) on Wednesday introduced temporary measures to limit … | Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company's App Store in China following an internal investigation into business misconduct — Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company's App Store in China following an internal probe into business misconduct …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to start assembling the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro in India and begin India-made shipments in 2024, but didn't reveal its local manufacturing partners — Google will start assembling the Pixel smartphone lineup in India, a company executive said, becoming the latest tech giant … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nokia plans to cut up to 14,000 jobs, or ~16% of its 86,000 workforce, and reports Q3 2023 net sales down 20% YoY to €4.98B and profit down 69% YoY to €133M — - Nokia said it would cut up to 14,000 jobs as part of a cost cutting plan following third quarter earnings that plunged.
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery system to the UK, Italy, and a third US city in late 2024 and integrate Prime Air into its delivery network — The company will also bring the Prime Air program to a third US city by the end of 2024. — Amazon has some big plans …
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
An international group of law enforcement agencies, including the US, the EU, and Japan, seizes the dark web portal used by the RagnarLocker ransomware group — An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web portal used by the notorious RagnarLocker ransomware group, TechCrunch has learned.| Pew Research Center: |
A May 2023 survey of 5,101 US adults: 78% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans support more government regulation over what companies can do with people's data — The role of technology companies, AI and regulation - plus personal experiences with data breaches, passwords, cybersecurity and privacy policies
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
US v. Google: Pandu Nayak, Google's VP of Search and first witness, testifies that smart employees explain its success and lead to innovations, such as on LLMs — While the Justice Department says Google has squeezed partners and made expensive deals to maintain its search dominance, the company has a more genteel story to tell.
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| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD announces new Ryzen Threadripper 7000 CPUs for desktops and workstations, offering up to 96 cores on the 7000 Pro series, shipping November 21 for $550+ — Having just recently crossed the one-year anniversary of AMD's first Zen 4 architecture CPUs - the Ryzen 7000 series …
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X: @amdryzen, @aschilling, and @aschilling
| Financial Times: |
The US House's China committee asks about Sequoia's investments since 2010 in AI, quantum, and chip companies based, or with “significant operations”, in China — Scrutiny of California VC firm comes amid mounting tension between Washington and Beijing
More: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren …, The Information, South China Morning Post, and TechCrunch
X: @dimi and @georgenhammond
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Stanford unveils the Foundation Model Transparency Index, featuring 100 indicators; Llama 2 led at 54%, GPT-4 placed third at 48%, and PaLM 2 took fifth at 40% — Stanford researchers have ranked 10 major A.I. models on how openly they operate. — How much do we know about A.I.?
More: crfm.stanford.edu, Silicon Republic, Stanford HAI, CoinDesk, PetaPixel, WinBuzzer, Beyond Search, Reuters, The Verge, MediaNama, AI Snake Oil, and SiliconANGLE
Mastodon: @AnnemarieBridy@mastodon … and @coggins@mastodon.social
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
US v. SBF: accounting professor Peter Easton testifies that FTX used “over a billion dollars” of customer funds to buy back Binance's FTX stake, bought in 2019 — Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a 2022 post the company had received over $2.1 billion in binance usd (BUSD) stablecoins and FTX's FTT tokens.
More: CryptoPotato, Bitcoin Insider, NewsBTC, and DL News
X: @tiffanyfong_, @elonmusk, @wublockchain, @wublockchain, @innercitypress, @eleanorterrett, @innercitypress, @johnedeaton1, and @autismcapital. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU's antitrust order requiring Google to let Android users select a search engine boosts usage of Russia's Yandex, now a top five option in Germany and more — - EU antitrust remedy opened door to Yandex popularity in Europe — Yandex has faced EU criticism for Kremlin propaganda| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Play Protect with real-time scanning at the code level, prompting users to scan unknown Android apps before sideloading, starting in India — To avoid detection, Google has found that malicious parties are looking beyond the Play Store to infect Android devices with malware.
More: Google Online Security Blog, Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, The Verge, Security Boulevard, Laptop Mag, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Hacker News, Cybernews.com, SecurityWeek, Ghacks, Sammy Fans, Sam Lover, MSPoweruser, Android Headlines, Thurrott, Android Authority, Infosecurity, Tom's Guide, The Messenger, BGR, and Android Headlines. Forums: Slashdot
| Natalie Alms / Nextgov/FCW: |
The US GSA plans to add facial recognition tech to Login.gov in 2024 and another digital identity verification option for those who don't want to use the tech — The General Services Administration is changing its digital identity service to allow users to authenticate themselves by matching …
More: GSA, TechRadar, Federal News Network, and FedScoop
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