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Wikipedia partners with The Internet Archive to turn book citations into links to two-page previews, using Archive's scanned-in books as sources for ~130K links — The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.
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The Verge and Mashable
Tweets: @ryanmerkley, @internetarchive, @sfmnemonic, @textfiles, and @krmaher
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils a new logo for Edge Chromium, ahead of the release of the final version of the browser — The new icon is a wave surfing the web — Microsoft is refreshing the logo for its Chromium-based Edge browser. The software giant originally unveiled its Edge icon more than four years ago …
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Firstpost Tech, Gizmodo, Thurrott, Digital Trends, AskWoody, Memeburn, Engadget, MSPoweruser, Pureinfotech, CNET, OnMSFT.com, and Mashable
Tweets: @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @harrymccracken, @dcominottim, @reapercapital, and @numbersmuncher
| Wall Street Journal: |
Evan Spiegel on Facebook, Snap's turnaround, and how the controversial redesign, after some tweaking, increased the time users spent on premium content — As the company turns a corner, the CEO says Snapchat's controversial redesign is paying off — Last year, Snap Inc. Chief Executive …
Tweets: @unhedgedchatter, @wsj, @georgia_wells, @theryanford, @wsj, and @carnage4life
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers spot the first successful attack using Windows BlueKeep vulnerability; the exploit is not a worm and installs cryptominers, instead of ransomware — After months of warnings, the first successful attack using Microsoft's BlueKeep vulnerability has arrived—but isn't nearly as bad as it could have been.| david.dev: |
Apple is now rejecting Mac apps using modern versions of Electron, citing private API usage, warns developers repeated App Store submissions can lead to a ban — Allright, as a follow up to the previous chapter in this odyssey I can now state that, apparently, you cannot submit an electron 6 or 7 app to the apple store:
| South China Morning Post: |
A look at China-backed News Break, which was the top downloaded Android and #2 iOS news app in the US from Jan. through Sept., topping ByteDance's TopBuzz — Both news aggregation apps provide a more personalised news-reading experience, but ‘David’ is beating ‘Goliath’ in this case News Break …
Tweets: @scmpnews
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Unprotected database for popular “camgirl” sites run by Spain-based VTS Media exposed months worth of user activity logs and chats, details about sex workers — A number of popular “camgirl” sites have exposed millions of sex workers and users after the company running the sites left the back-end database unprotected.| Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading — Jim Simons was a middle-aged mathematician in a strip mall who knew little about finance. He had to overcome his own doubts to turn Wall Street on its head.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Android bug impacting all Android 8 or later devices lets hackers plant malware via NFC beaming and circumvent the installation security prompt; patch available — All Android 8 (Oreo) or later devices are impacted. Google released a patch last month, in October 2019.| Natasha Frost / Quartz: |
How Oulu, Finland, 5+ years after Nokia's collapse in smartphones, has become an entrepreneurial tech hub and home to 1,175 new companies in 2017 alone — In the early days of the mobile phone, Nokia was everywhere—ubiquitous, inescapable, supreme. It created the best-selling 1100 …
Tweets: @infoecon and @marcgayle
| Darla Mercado / CNBC: |
Brian Chesky says Airbnb will ban “party houses” after five people died in a shooting at a Halloween party in a California home rented through the service — - Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, tweeted on Saturday that the company would bar “party houses” and step up its efforts against unauthorized parties.
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Tweets: @bchesky, @bchesky, @kate_kelly_esq, @ladyhaja, @chief_spagnoli, @lizayuzda, @bchesky, @bchesky, @dgolumbia, @ghosthayes, @mgafni, @sfchronicle, @bchesky, and @bchesky
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Interview with Micron Technology VP Steve Pawlowski about the recent acquisition of AI startup FWDNXT and why the memory chip maker is moving into AI processing — I did a double-take last week when Micron Technology, one of the world's largest memory chip makers, acquired artificial intelligence hardware and software startup Fwdnxt.Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
Will Reed:
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
Zoho:
Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.
Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Sources:
Qualcomm's CEO on the coming AI phone supercycle
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
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The Upstarts Podcast:
Bringing Back Mammoths And Building Noah's Ark 2.0 | Colossal's Ben Lamm
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
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Great Chat:
The launch industrial complex
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
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Big Technology Podcast:
Can AI Keep Growing Exponentially? Let's Ask SemiAnalysis — With Dylan Patel and Jordan Nanos
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
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Channels with Peter Kafka:
Larry Ellison's Media Ambitions & Kevin Roose on AI's Biggest Gamble
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
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Training Data:
Google's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AI
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
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