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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing making posts from Threads accounts available on “Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol” — Mark Zuckerberg said today that Meta has started testing a feature to show Threads posts on Mastodon and other AcitivityPub protocol-supported networks.
More: The Verge, Engadget, and 9to5Mac
Threads: @zuck, @aaronrosspowell, @m4rk, @micah.pollak, @quillmatiq, @mattnavarra, and @salrodriguez
Mastodon: @jerry@infosec.exchange, @joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org, @wall0159@aus.social, @bikepedantic …, @Chancerubbage@mastodon.social, @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone, @profcarroll@federate.social, @stroughtonsmith …, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @evan@cosocial.ca, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @paul@tapbots.social, and @carnage4life@mas.to
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Google announces Gemini Pro for enterprises, letting Cloud clients build apps for free, with some limits, and plans to add Gemini Pro to AI Studio and Vertex AI — Gemini Pro is aimed at businesses and app developers — Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced a slate of upgraded artificial intelligence features … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Imagen 2, launched in preview in May 2023 and built using Google DeepMind tech, offering “significantly” improved image quality and new features — Google's making the second generation of Imagen, its AI model that can create and edit images given a text prompt …
More: Google Cloud Blog, The Verge, and The Decoder
| Keith Laing / Bloomberg: |
Tesla plans to update Autopilot in 2M+ cars after the NHTSA issued a recall, following a probe that found its means for keeping drivers engaged were inadequate — - US regulator finds system doesn't do enough to prevent misuse — Agency will keep defect investigation open, monitor remedies
More: NHTSA, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Reuters, Washington Post, The Verge, The Register, New York Times, The Information, Ars Technica, VICE, ExtremeTech, Telegraph, HotHardware, MobileSyrup, The Messenger, Reuters, Mashable, Tech Xplore, CNBC, T3, New York Daily News, New York Post, Rolling Stone, TechStartups, Semafor, TechCrunch, Electrek, Gizmodo, Financial Times, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, Wired UK, BGR, SlashGear, The Robot Report, Newser, Axios, NBC News, Metro.co.uk, Notebookcheck, and Yahoo Finance
Threads: @taylorlorenz, @carnage4life, @ramseyramblin, and @lorakolodny. Mastodon: @mattblaze@federate.social. Bluesky: @epro.social
X: @wholemarsblog, @zsk, @carlquintanilla, @wholemarsblog, @troyteslike, and @tomgara
| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Axel Springer signs a multiyear deal with OpenAI, which plans to offer ChatGPT news summaries and use Politico, Business Insider, and others to train AI models — Generative-AI company reaches multiyear pact with owner of Politico, Business Insider and major European properties
More: Axel Springer SE, OpenAI, Engadget, Axios, The Information, Telegraph, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Politico, The Messenger, VentureBeat, WRAL TechWire, The Verge, Fortune, Tech Xplore, The Decoder, KNSD-TV, Reuters, Analytics India Magazine, and MSPoweruser
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: sparked by Spotify's complaint in 2019, the EU may fine Apple in 2024 and plans to ban its anti-steering App Store rules used on music streaming rivals — - EU to ban allegedly abusive App Store rules for music rivals — Antitrust decision due early 2024 and could come with fines| Bloomberg: |
Coinbase rolls out spot crypto trading on its international exchange, starting with BTC-USDC and ETH-USDC pairs via API access for non-US institutional clients — - Hazy regulatory outlook deters some investors from US venues … Institutional investors can initially trade Bitcoin and Ether …
More: Coinbase, CoinDesk, Blockworks, Finbold, The Block, Bitcoin Insider, Crypto Briefing, CryptoPotato, CoinGape, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph. X: @coinbase
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
More: Coinbase, Coinspeaker, Crowdfund Insider, and Crypto Briefing
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: 3AC co-founder Su Zhu for the first time faced questioning in a Singapore court about the fund's collapse; Teneo estimates 3AC owes creditors ~$3.3B — - Failed crypto fund's co-founder Zhu was arrested in September — Liquidators seek information for creditors owed $3.3 billion
More: Bitcoin Insider, Decrypt, Default, crypto.news, Watcher Guru, CoinDesk, CCN.com, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, Blockonomi, Cryptonews, The Block, CryptoPotato, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, and Protos. X: @clemtan
| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The EU Council and Parliament back a deal to reclassify millions of ride-hailing and food delivery app workers as staff, which could cost the industry billions — European Union negotiators backed a deal to reclassify millions of people working for ride-hailing and food-delivery apps …
More: Council of the EU, Engadget, European Parliament, Politico, Tech Xplore, TechCrunch, Financial Times, WeeTracker, Wired, and Euractiv
X: @eucouncilpress, @ep_president, @timchristiaens5, @ben_wray1989, @epsocialaffairs, @nicolasschmiteu, @ben_wray1989, @_aloisi, and @maxvonthun. LinkedIn: Olgu Özdemir Ertürk
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple expands Self Service Repair to the iPhone 15 lineup and M2 Macs, brings the program to 24 more countries, and releases an Apple Diagnostics tool in the US — Apple today announced it has expanded its Self Service Repair program to cover the iPhone 15 lineup and Mac models powered by M2 chips …
More: Apple, Engadget, Thurrott, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, TidBITS, TechRadar, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, iClarified, BGR, Lifewire, AppleInsider, MSPoweruser, iMore, and Supercharged
| Zoë Schiffer / The Verge: |
A look at Twitter's culture before Elon Musk's takeover, when employees focused on improving the health of online conversations rather than growth at all costs — the early '10s, Twitter was at the height of its power. The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role …
More: The Verge, The Verge, Gizmodo, The Hill, The Verge, CNN, The Verge, and Pixel Envy
Threads: @martinsfp, @reckless1280, @qasimnauman, @m0qazi, @andyyang, @technicallymims, @shaneafsar, @cdylanparks, @j.b.robertson, @luke.pfister, @racsterls, @mikecvet, @mikecvet, and @reporterzoe
Mastodon: @anzet@zeppelin.flights and @reichenstein@mastodon.social
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
A profile of Nandini Jammi, a co-founder of Check My Ads, a nonprofit using social media to call out companies whose ads appear on far-right creators' websites — Nandini Jammi is fighting to defund right-wing influencers like Alex Jones — When Elon Musk reinstated far-right influencer … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Your Books, a feature that lets users organize all their books, including print, Kindle, and Audible titles, while providing recommendations — Amazon today is launching its own competitor to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendations site it also owns.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available in beta on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro, for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers — Xbox Cloud Gaming is arriving on Meta's range of VR headsets today. A beta version of the cloud gaming app is now available for the Meta Quest 2, 3, or Pro headsets …
More: Meta, Windows Central, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, CNET, UploadVR, Xbox Wire, Android Central, Dexerto, IGN, Game Rant, and Pure Xbox
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google, Meta, Qualcomm, and seven other tech companies form the Coalition for Open Digital Ecosystems, aiming to promote more open digital ecosystems in the EU — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Meta Platforms (META.O), Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and seven other tech companies on Wednesday teamed …
More: Fortune, MacRumors, The Messenger, Metaverse Post, WinBuzzer, and PYMNTS.com. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Apple updates its law enforcement guidelines to require a judge's order to share users' push notification data, in line with Google, instead of only a subpoena — Apple (AAPL.O) has said it now requires a judge's order to hand over information about its customers' push notification to law enforcement …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, The Hill, PCMag, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Daring Fireball, Fox News, CPO Magazine, XDA Developers, iMore, AppleInsider, MediaNama, Proactiveinvestors NA, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, and PhoneArena
Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social. X: @istrakhov, @reuterslegal, and @jsrailton. Forums: Hacker News
| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Etsy plans to lay off ~11% of its workforce, or ~225 employees, as the e-commerce website grapples with slow consumer spending and rivals like Shein and Temu — Etsy is laying off roughly 11% of its workforce, a spokesperson confirmed, as the e-commerce site that helps small businesses sell …
More: CNBC, Etsy News, Barron's Online, and South China Morning Post
X: @theo_wayt and @buccocapital
| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Google's Epic loss, where a jury found Google guilty on all 11 antitrust claims, may portend its legal fate in two, more significant US antitrust cases in 2024 — A trio of antitrust cases on the docket threaten to reshape Google's business and sap its profits.
More: The Verge, BIG by Matt Stoller, Bloomberg, Tech Xplore, Washington Post, TechCabal, New York Post, The Information, Slate, and CNBC
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance cancels the Pico 5, an upcoming VR headset from its Pico subsidiary, after Pico 4 sales fell far short of expectations and the VR market sags — Chinese tech giant ByteDance might have set Facebook owner Meta Platforms on its heels with its hugely popular TikTok app.| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
A parliamentary report warns that the UK is vulnerable to a “catastrophic ransomware attack at any moment” due to the government's failures to tackle ransomware — Because of the British government's failures to tackle ransomware, there is a “high risk” the country faces a … | Malak Saleh / Engadget: |
Meta is working to extend its fact-checking to Threads in early 2024; ratings currently only appear on Threads content with matching Facebook or Instagram posts — The program will roll out next year, according to executives. — Threads is going to make an effort to moderate more of the user-generated content on the platform.
More: Meta, NBC News, Cryptopolitan, Mashable, Android Headlines, PhoneArena, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, TechCrunch, Social Media Today, and The Verge
Threads: @mosseri, @faith_jvs, @chris, @voorhees_dnb, and @luhtestoni
| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
Abu Dhabi-based Andalusia Labs, which offers risk management services for digital assets, raised a $48M Series A led by Lightspeed at a valuation “north of” $1B — Digital asset risk infrastructure-focused Andalusia Labs, formerly known as RiskHarbor, has raised $48 million …
More: Andalusia Labs
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
The US FCC denies SpaceX's request for $885M to expand Starlink's rural coverage, saying the company “failed to demonstrate” an ability to offer the service — The FCC has made a final denial of Starlink's application for $885 million in public funds to expand … | Bloomberg: |
A profile of Mena Kato, Microsoft's head of Japan partnerships, who is trying to reverse years of failure selling Xbox in a Sony and Nintendo dominated market — - Japanese studios need to go beyond PlayStation, Mena Kato says — Sony and Nintendo command country's video game market
More: MobileSyrup, Windows Central, and Pure Xbox
| Miguel Cordon / Tech in Asia: |
Line Next, an LY Corporation unit that focuses on NFTs and currently has 5.5M users globally, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel-backed Crescendo Equity Partners — Line Next Corporation, a Line unit that focuses on the NFT ecosystem, raised a US$140 million round from a consortium led …
More: LINE Corporation, Cryptonews, and Cointelegraph
| Tom Corrigan / Wall Street Journal: |
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