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Interview with founders of Character.ai, who say they left Google's LaMDA project to let users experiment with large language models through the use of chatbots — The creators of Google's LaMDA have launched the chatbot startup Character.ai, which is open for anyone to try| Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: |
DappRadar: Decentraland had a maximum of 675 daily active users ever and The Sandbox had ~4,503; Messari: both metaverse platforms have market caps of ~$1.3B — While metaverse platforms Decentraland and The Sandbox both have below 1,000 daily active users, they each have over $1 billion in valuation.
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A look at business email compromise scams in the US involving real estate, and the Secret Service team that helped recover $244M in stolen BEC funds since 2019 — For weeks, the Secret Service agent had been trying to identify the scammers moving millions of stolen dollars through banks around the New York tri-state area.
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Blizzard plans to require Overwatch 2 and Modern Warfare 2 players to use 2FA system SMS Protect to combat toxicity, but won't accept prepaid and VoIP numbers — Just like Overwatch 2, you'll need to attach a phone number to your Battle.net account to play Modern Warfare 2—and prepaid phones aren't allowed.
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How HBO Max, Prime Video, and other streamers are trying to grow in a crowded market, including, sources say, via discounted bundles and deals with rivals — In a crowded marketplace, Amazon, HBO Max and other streamers explore discounted packages and partnerships with rivals
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An interview with CEO George Kurtz as CrowdStrike surpasses $2B in annual revenue and looks to become a bigger player in data observability and IT operations — CrowdStrike is finding massive traction in areas outside its core endpoint security products, setting up the company to become … | Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Hong Kong-based About Capital acquires Huobi, a top 10 crypto exchange by trading volume; Huobi says the ownership transfer won't impact trading operations — The terms of the deal were not disclosed. — Crypto exchange Huobi Global, one of the biggest token trading outposts in the Asia markets … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Biden signs an EO to implement Privacy Shield 2.0, the EU-US data transfer framework seeking to address EU concerns of surveillance by US intelligence agencies — - President Joe Biden signed an executive order to implement a new framework to protect the privacy of personal data shared between the U.S. and Europe.
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FTX partners with Visa to offer debit cards linked to users' FTX accounts in 40 countries, focusing on Latin America, Europe, and Asia, after their US rollout — - Visa is teaming up with global crypto exchange FTX to offer debit cards in 40 countries with a focus on Latin America, Asia and Europe.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A look at Ukraine's efforts to block crypto donations to Russia's military and paramilitary groups, which, researchers say, received $4M+ since the invasion — Blockchain investigators have uncovered at least $4 million—and counting—in cryptocurrency donations to Russia's violent militia groups.| Casey Ross / STAT: |
New US federal rules requiring health care organizations to give patients access to their full health records in a digital format went into effect on October 6 — The American Revolution had July 4. The allies had D-Day. And now U.S. patients, held down for decades by information hoarders …
Tweets: @matthewherper, @erictopol, @dradamdangoor, @rasushrestha, and @caseymross
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An overview of Parag Agrawal's tenure as Twitter's CEO, struggling with a declining business performance and a plunging morale amid Elon Musk's takeover bid — The tech prodigy's battles with a mercurial opponent are coming to a head — It's hard to know which part of Parag Agrawal's job … Sponsor Posts
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