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| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
A jury finds Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts of fraud and conspiracy in the FTX trial; the judge sets SBF's sentencing for March 28, 2024 — Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been found guilty …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/wallstreetbets, r/nyc, r/Buttcoin, r/technology, r/GME, r/Superstonk, and Beehaw
| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
US v. SBF: in closing statements, the US relied heavily on evidence to argue SBF is guilty and he was “greedy” while SBF's defense managed to make things worse — Mistakes aren't illegal, but fraud is — and Bankman-Fried's lawyers never made his defense land.
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| Apple: |
Apple reports Q4 revenue down 1% YoY to $89.5B, vs. $89.3B est., net income up 11% to $22.9B, Americas sales up 0.8% to $40.1B, Europe sales down 1.5% to $22.5B — iPhone revenue sets September quarter record Services revenue reaches new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results …
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q4 revenue: iPhone up 3% YoY to $43.81B, Mac down 34% to $7.61B, iPad down 10% to $6.44B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 3% to $9.32B — - Apple reported fourth-fiscal quarter earnings on Thursday that beat analyst expectations for sales and earnings per share …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Secure Future Initiative, which includes responding faster to vulnerabilities and using AI and automation to improve software security — Microsoft has had a rough few years of cybersecurity incidents. It found itself at the center of the SolarWinds attack nearly three years ago …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Chrome team stops considering a Web Integrity API proposal that aimed to help enforce IP rights, count ad views, and limit bots, after DRM comparisons — Back in July, Google's work on a Web Integrity API emerged and many equated it to DRM. While prototyped, it was only at the proposal stage …
More: Android Developers Blog, The Register, Web Environment Integrity, and Chrome for Developers
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| Reuters: |
Elon Musk says Starlink is cash-flow breakeven; in 2021, Musk said SpaceX would spin off and take Starlink public once its cash flow was reasonably predictable — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday the rocket company's satellite internet unit, Starlink, had achieved cash flow breakeven.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr release Now and Then, the first “new” Beatles song since 1995, created using AI and an old lo-fi John Lennon recording — Today marks the release of the first “new” song by the Beatles since 1995. “Now and Then” is available on streaming services …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google AdSense will soon move from paying per click to paying per impression and split the revenue share into separate rates for the buy-side and sell-side — Google today announced two changes to AdSense, but doesn't “expect publishers to see a change in their earnings” and payments.
More: The Keyword and Social Media Today
| Bloomberg: |
The FTC says Jeff Bezos ordered Amazon executives to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to early 2022 — - FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
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| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Ex-Instagram consultant Arturo Bejar, set to testify in Congress on Nov. 7, says Meta didn't sufficiently act on its Well-Being Team's findings to protect teens — When a Meta security expert told Mark Zuckerberg that Instagram's approach to protecting teens wasn't working, the CEO didn't reply.
More: Design It For Us and Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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| Bloomberg: |
Coinbase reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $674M, vs. $654.7M est., net loss down 99.6% YoY to $2.3M from $545M YoY, and $76B in trading volume, vs. $80.4B est. — Revenue increased 14% to $674 million, compared with a forecast of $654.7 million by analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
More: Coinbase, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, CoinGape, and Cryptopolitan
| Financial Times: |
Meta, OpenAI, and others sign a non-binding document to let the US, the UK, and other nations test AI models for national security risks prior to their release — OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Meta among those who signed legally non-binding document at UK's AI safety summit
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Cloudflare says it has restored most services after power outages at multiple data centers impacted many, including Cloudflare API and Stream API — An ongoing Cloudflare outage has taken down many of its products, including the company's dashboard and related application programming interfaces …
More: Cloudflare Status, DatacenterDynamics, and ZDNet
Forums: Hacker News, r/InfoSecNews, and Slashdot
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to remove the free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most staff in Jan. 2024; Phil Spencer said he was unaware and is looking into it — Microsoft is removing the free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most of its 238,000 employees and some aren't happy about it.
More: Dexerto and Pure Xbox
Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social. X: @wario64, @twthereddragon, @ethangach, @tomwarren, and @twthereddragon. Forums: r/XboxSeriesX
| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
US v. Google: Apple's Eddy Cue sent Tim Cook a presentation in 2013 that declared “Android is a massive tracking device” and detailed Google's privacy practices — - Apple's internal presentation from 2013 is part of new exhibits posted by the Department of Justice in the ongoing Google antitrust trial.
More: The Verge, U.S. Department of Justice, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, PCMag, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup, Android Headlines, Trusted Reviews, Benzinga, Wccftech, and Bloomberg
Mastodon: @null@puddle.town. Bluesky: @voyamj.bsky.social. X: @jason_kint, @tomwarren, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
Forums: Hacker News and r/Android
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Brave releases its AI assistant Leo to all desktop users and unveils Leo Premium, offering access to faster and better LLMs and higher rate limits for $15/month — Brave, a company building an alternative web browser, is releasing its AI-powered assistant, Leo, to all desktop users.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta announces new creator tools, including a Reels A/B testing mobile tool for testing different thumbnails and captions for a Reel to see which performs best — Creators on Facebook are getting a handful of new tools on the platform — including the ability to test how different Reels perform against each other.| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
YouTube begins restricting how often US teens receive repeated video recommendations about sensitive topics like body image and plans to expand globally in 2024 — Starting November 2nd, YouTube will impose restrictions on how often teens receive repeated video recommendations related …
More: YouTube Official Blog, Social Media Today, Tech Xplore, Gizmodo, and TechCrunch
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