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Sources: in the weeks before Elon Musk's renewed bid, his representatives asked Twitter about redoing the deal at a lower price, for as much as 30% less — Before Mr. Musk renewed his $44 billion proposal, he and the company haggled in discussions that ultimately did not advance.
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Sources: Elon Musk and Twitter have not yet reached an agreement to end litigation — Elon Musk and Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) have not yet reached an agreement to end the litigation and clear the way for the world's richest person to close his $44-billion deal for the social media platform … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at possible outcomes for Twitter under Elon Musk: firing Parag Agrawal, a revolt by employees, bringing back Donald Trump, adding new features, and more — His deal to buy the company is back on. Here are six predictions about Twitter under Musk's control, if it happens. — Buckle up.| Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: |
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
A US federal court jury finds ex-Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan guilty for not disclosing a 2016 breach of customer and driver records to regulators — A jury found Joe Sullivan, who led security at the ride-hailing company, guilty on two different counts.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils two text-to-video AI generators: Imagen Video, a higher image quality system, and Phenaki, which prioritizes coherency and length over quality — Not to be outdone by Meta's Make-A-Video, Google today detailed its work on Imagen Video, an AI system that can generate video clips given …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
What to expect from the “Made by Google” event on October 6: Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel Watch, and potentially Nest hardware and previews of Pixel devices — - Wildcards: More Pixel device previews and Nest hardware — Google's fall hardware event promises to be special this year.
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
DeepMind uses its AlphaTensor AI to solve a matrix multiplication problem by building a 3D TensorGame board game, beating a record that has stood for 50+ years — The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication, a core problem in computing that affects thousands of everyday computer tasks.
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| David Cohen / Adweek: |
Twitter rolls out its mixed media feature globally, letting Android and iOS users include up to four videos, images, and GIFs in the same tweet — Up to 4 GIFs, photos and/or videos can be included
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Source: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong commissioned a documentary about his company and himself as he thinks the media has a malicious agenda to smear tech execs — Pass the popcorn. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong just announced a new film titled Coin: A Founder's Story will be available …
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| Yousef Saba / Reuters: |
Chainalysis: MENA's crypto market grew the fastest from July 2021 to June 2022, with transaction volume up 48% YoY to $566B; Latin America was second at 40% YoY — The Middle East and North Africa are the world's fastest-growing cryptocurrency markets, with the volume of crypto received …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Meta details updates to the Facebook Feed that let users show more or fewer posts from friends, Groups, and Pages, helping improve Meta's AI-based ranking — With profits shrinking of late, Facebook has been shutting down unpopular apps and focusing on its core services.
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| Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters: |
Spotify acquires Kinzen, which identifies misinformation and hate speech; the Dublin-based company partnered with Spotify in 2020, initially on election content — Audio-streaming service Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) on Wednesday said it has acquired Kinzen, a firm that has helped it identify harmful content on the platform.
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| Bloomberg: |
Roblox and Discord are accused of enabling adult men to sexually and financially exploit a California girl in a lawsuit filed by a social media watchdog group — Roblox Corp. and Discord Inc. were accused of enabling adult men to sexually and financially exploit a California girl in a lawsuit filed by a social-media watchdog group.
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Tesla plans to remove ultrasonic sensors from some new Model 3 and Y cars in October 2022 and Model S and X cars in 2023, in favor of camera and software — Tesla is removing ultrasonic sensors from Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, the next step in CEO Elon Musk's plan to only use cameras …
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| Lauly Li / Financial Times: |
Dutch chip manufacturer STMicroelectronics plans to invest €730M to build a chip materials plant in Italy to create a self-reliant supply chain amid shortages — Factory in Italy will help region become more self-reliant in key semiconductor market — STMicroelectronics … | Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Minneapolis-based NetSPI, which offers penetration testing and attack surface management services, raised $410M from KKR, bringing its total funding to $500M — Although venture funding in cybersecurity has taken a slight dip this year—as it has in most sectors—that does not mean large growth rounds do not exist.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
A look at Iranian activists' fight for internet access amid the regime's crackdowns, including using Tor servers inside Iran to bypass internet blockades — Activists in Iran are working with outsiders to fight the regime's censorship — As protesters flooded the streets of Iran in September … | Brendan Vaughan / Fast Company: |
Fast Company brings its site back online after eight days offline, saying a cyberattack hit its CMS and “no customer or advertiser information was disclosed” — Eight days. That's how long FastCompany.com was offline after we were targeted in a cyberattack, first on the afternoon of Sunday … | Jay Alammar: |
An illustrated guide showing how Stable Diffusion generates images from text using a CLIP-based text encoder, an image information creator, and an image decoder — AI image generation is the most recent AI capability blowing people's minds (mine included).
Tweets: @jayalammar, @paraschopra, and @jayalammar
| Wall Street Journal: |
A Chess.com report alleges a pattern of likely widespread cheating in 100+ online games by Hans Moke Niemann, whom champion Magnus Carlsen accused of cheating — An internal report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal alleges a previously unknown pattern of likely widespread cheating by Hans Moke Niemann …
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| Associated Press: |
A US judge sentences Paige Thompson, who accessed the data of 100M+ Capital One customers in 2019, to five years of probation; the DOJ is “very disappointed” — A former Seattle tech worker convicted of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies … Sponsor Posts
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