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| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Ahead of US midterms, a look at TikTok's struggles to keep misinformation off of its platform during foreign elections, like in Australia and France this year — The fast-growing platform's poor track record during recent voting abroad does not bode well for elections in the U.S., researchers said.
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Mozilla Foundation. Tweets: @nytimes, @will_doran, @vmramos, @guingonabart, @lolnevertweet, @mattyglesias, and @terri_rupar
| David McCabe / New York Times: |
A look at the growing bipartisan scrutiny of TikTok in the US; email: House officials told staff they did not recommend using the app, citing security concerns — National security concerns over the Chinese-owned viral video app remain unresolved. Lawmakers and regulators are increasingly pushing for action.
Tweets: @amanbatheja, @fryan, @danharris, @pkafka, @profcarroll, and @nytimes
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple ads team lead Todd Teresi is now reporting directly to Eddy Cue and wants to increase the group's ad revenues from $4B a year to double digits — Apple is set to expand ads to new areas of your iPhone and iPad in search of its next big revenue driver.
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9to5Mac, Slashdot, The Verge, Appuals.com, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, SlashGear, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Digital Trends, and Wall Street Journal
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Uber plans to end its free loyalty program Uber Rewards on November 1, 2022, to focus on its new Uber One membership program for $10 per month or $100 per year — You have until October 31st to spend your leftover Uber Rewards points — Uber is ending its free loyalty program, Uber Rewards …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Dutch authorities arrest a Tornado Cash developer suspected of involvement in concealing money laundering, two days after the US sanctioned the crypto mixer — - The Tornado Cash developer arrested by Dutch authorities on Wednesday is Alexey Pertsev, his wife has confirmed to The Block.
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Chainalysis, Web3 is going just great, CryptoSlate, The Hacker News, FIOD, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Chain Reaction, Conscious Crypto, The Daily Hodl, Ethereum World News, On Chain, Decrypt, Bitcoin Unlocked, Wccftech, Watcher Guru, Bitcoin News, ETH Daily, NullTX, Coinmonks, CoinGape, The Merkle News, Crypto Kailash, The Record, Bitcoin News, The Verge, Decrypt, Financial Times, Hornbull, CryptoPotato, The Daily Hodl, Inside Bitcoins, PYMNTS.com, Cointelegraph, The Great Reset Diary 2022, Crypto Briefing, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, MacroTactical Crypto, Reuters, Blockworks, Decrypt, ZyCrypto, Gizmodo, CoinGape, Fortune, Crypto Daily, SiliconANGLE, Silvermint, Benzinga, Bitcoinist.com, The Crypto Basic, Engadget, CryptoSlate, Neowin, PCMag, Crypto Adventure, Forbes, and DT Journal
Tweets: @ryansadams, @wublockchain, @stephendpalley, @bennetttomlin, @angusdav, @richardryan, @vsprexe, @laurashin, @cobie, @mdudas, @stackersatoshi, @davidgerard, @jchervinsky, @himgajria, @pedrouid, @cobie, @drwasho, @artusvanfrahm, @lawmaster, @timccopeland, @lefterisjp, @__tux, @annairrera, @_naveenmishra, @chrisblec, @timccopeland, @teddyknox, @bantg, @mayazi, @bantg, @kyle_chasse, @mdudas, @edanyago, @crypto_gateway, @gross_bit, @pt, and @alexhern
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Apple updated its employee conduct policy ~2 years ago to prohibit discrimination on the basis of caste, making it a leader in tech on the issue alongside IBM — America's tech giants are taking a modern-day crash course in India's ancient caste system, with Apple (AAPL.O) …
Tweets: @scribe_it
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stable Diffusion, a DALL-E 2-like system now available to 1K+ researchers, raises tricky ethical questions by allowing depictions of public figures and more — DALL-E 2, OpenAI's powerful text-to-image AI system, can create photos in the style of cartoonists, 19th century daguerreotypists, stop-motion animators and more.
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Artificial Conversation and Stability.Ai
Tweets: @emostaque, @drscotthawley, @zdp189, @xsteenbrugge, @nin_artificial, and @carnage4life
| Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: |
Source: China has blocked Tencent-backed health platform DXY from posting on Weibo, WeChat, and Douyin amid its criticism of China's efforts to fight COVID-19 — Dingxiang Yuan posted articles debunking use of traditional medicine for virus — HONG KONG — China has suspended … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
New York City-based Kumospace, which offers video chat and remote work tools with a “virtual office” feel, has raised a $21M Series A led by Lightspeed — After more than two years of remote work, many employees have no interest in returning to the office — at least not without good reason.
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Built In NYC and What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC
Tweets: @amytongwu, @boldstartvc, @brett1211, and @paulbz
| Anil Ananthaswamy / Quanta Magazine: |
Some computational neuroscientists say self-supervised AI learning models have shown a closer correspondence to brain function than supervised-learning models — Self-supervised learning allows a neural network to figure out for itself what matters. The process might be what makes our own brains so successful.
Tweets: @rossdawson, @freakonometrics, and @sustainhistory
| Financial Times: |
Big investment firms, including Abrdn, BlackRock, and Charles Schwab, are embracing digital assets despite the crypto crash, as consumer groups raise concerns — Abrdn, BlackRock and Charles Schwab have done deals or launched products tied to digital assets this month| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Tencent and Alibaba, whose stocks have dropped 60% and 65% respectively since February 2021, have lost more market value than any other stock globally — Just 18 months ago, Tencent Holdings Ltd. was on the cusp of becoming Asia's second trillion-dollar company …
Tweets: @technology
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