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Sources: Twitter agreed to delay a deposition of Elon Musk by its lead litigation attorney on October 6 in Austin, as both sides hash out closing the $44B deal — Tesla chief and social media group are negotiating end to legal fight to finalise $44bn buyout
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Sources: in the weeks before Elon Musk's renewed $44B bid, his representatives asked Twitter about redoing the deal for up to a 30% discount, a ~$31B valuation — Before Mr. Musk renewed his $44 billion proposal, he and the company haggled in discussions that ultimately did not advance.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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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Bloomberg, NetSPI, DataBreachToday.com, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Star Tribune, Channel Futures, SecurityWeek, CRN, and FinSMEs
| 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 … Thanks:@mikebutcher
| Brendan Vaughan / Fast Company: |
Fast Company brings its site, Inc, and Mansueto back online after eight days, saying a cyberattack hit its CMS and no customer or advertiser info 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 … | Lauly Li / Financial Times: |
Dutch chip manufacturer STMicroelectronics plans to invest €730M to build a chip materials plant in Italy for a more self-reliant supply chain amid shortages — Factory in Italy will help region become more self-reliant in key semiconductor market — STMicroelectronics … | 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, @jayalammar, and @paraschopra
| 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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Spotify, TechCrunch, Reclaim The Net, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Android Headlines, Neowin, Engadget, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @ainekerr, @ianbetteridge, @seldo, @runasand, and @donie
| 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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Meta, 9to5Mac, Meta AI, The Verge, Dan's Stack, Thurrott, Search Engine Land, SiliconANGLE, Wccftech, Popular Science, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, BGR, KnowTechie, XDA Developers, Bloomberg, Mashable, BigTechWire, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @alexvoica, @alexvoica, @heidilegg, @facebook, @medvidekpu, @missladyniobe, and @nickclegg
| David Erickson / Missoulian: |
Montana-based onX, which makes navigation apps for hunting, hiking, off-roading, and other outdoor activities, raised an $87.4M Series B led by Summit Partners — Missoula tech company onX, announced Monday that they've landed a $87.4 million Series B venture capital investment.Sponsor Posts
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