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Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to begin selling DALL-E 2-generated stock imagery “in the coming months” and launches a Contributor Fund to reimburse creators — Will AI image generators kill the stock image industry? It's a question asked by many following the rise of text-to-image AI models in recent years.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at crypto and blockchains: the underlying tech, its uses and meaning, the crypto financial system, and trust, money, and community — - What If You Don't Like It? — Digital Cash — Part II — What Does It Mean? — A Store of Value — A Distributed Computer
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
WhatsApp says it has fixed an issue that caused a major outage worldwide, lasting from around 3AM to 5AM ET — WhatsApp went down in a major outage affecting the communications app for two hours today. The service started experiencing issues at around 3AM ET, with users greeted with a “connecting” message.
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| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Australia's AG unveils plans for tougher online privacy laws after several major data breaches, including increasing fines from AU$2.22M to AU$50M or more — Australia plans to strengthen its online privacy laws following several major data breaches, attorney-general Mark Dreyfus said in a statement on Saturday.
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| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Sources: Microsoft stocks up on Chinese games to emulate Sony's success with Genshin Impact; filings show Microsoft paid $4.8M for Snail Games' ARK and ARK 2 — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is stocking up on Chinese video game content to emulate Sony Group Corp's (6758.T) success with “Genshin Impact” …
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Appuals.com, Video Games Chronicle, TheGamer, GamesIndustry.biz, OnMSFT.com, Wccftech, TrueAchievements, and Gameranx
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Pro 9 review: a 120Hz display with dynamic refresh, 5G, and a 1080p camera, but pricey without accessories, slow apps, and just two USB ports — Exceptional hardware is still marred by incompatibilies … Video calling. — After several days of using …
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| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Sources: ByteDance launched audits into TikTok's global CSO Roland Cloutier before he quit, hamstringing his efforts to build a robust security team — Roland Cloutier, a U.S. Air Force veteran and former law enforcement officer, stepped down as TikTok's Global Chief Security Officer …
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| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Samsung rolls out Maintenance Mode, meant to keep a device's data safe during repair, to select Galaxy devices with One UI 5 worldwide — Handing your phone off to be repaired can be a little anxiety-inducing, given that it contains your valuable info. Samsung has a new “Maintenance Mode” …
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| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the increased use of celebrity deepfakes in ads, with or without their permission, raising legal and ethical questions for the marketing industry — Digital simulations of Elon Musk, Tom Cruise, Leo DiCaprio and others have shown up in ads, as the image-melding technology grows … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple's new App Store guidelines say that social networking apps that sell “boosts” for posts must use in-app purchases for the transactions — With the release of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1, Apple has updated the App Store review guidelines that are provided to developers who create apps for iPhones and iPads.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
| Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
NEAR Protocol shuts down USN, its stablecoin launched in April 2022, “to safeguard USN holders” after USN exhibited risky characteristics like those of TerraUSD — To avoid another LUNA debacle, the undercollateralized USN will be phased out. — A stablecoin project …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Amazon begins letting select US customers pay with Venmo on its site and in its mobile app, with plans to roll out the option to all US shoppers by Black Friday — Amazon announced that it will now allow customers to make payments through Venmo on its platform.
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| Kari McMahon / The Block: |
BitMEX CEO Alexander Höptner steps down as CEO of the crypto exchange with immediate effect, replaced by CFO Stephan Lutz; Höptner joined BitMEX in January 2021 — - Alexander Höptner is departing from his role as CEO of crypto exchange BitMex with immediate effect.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
The UK's FCA starts investigating Apple's, Amazon's, Google's, and Meta's moves into retail financial services over competition and consumer harm concerns — Financial Conduct Authority says Silicon Valley's resources might harm competition and disadvantage others
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Financial Conduct Authority, The Guardian, MacDailyNews, Crowdfund Insider, ExchangeWire.com, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, 9to5Mac, and Finextra
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A book excerpt details law enforcement's efforts to catch Alpha02, who in 2014 created AlphaBay, the largest online drug and crime bazaar, and ran the service — The notorious Alpha02 oversaw millions of dollars a day in online narcotic sales. For cybercrime detectives, he was public enemy number one—and a total mystery.
Tweets: @a_greenberg, @caitlin__kelly, and @aaronlammer
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
macOS Ventura review: Stage Manager has some good ideas and runs much better on the Mac than on the iPad, the new System Settings app is inconsistent, and more — A pleasantly surprising new multitasking UI and app redesigns define macOS 13. — If you asked me to tell you all the most exciting things …
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MacRumors, Christopher Lawley on YouTube, Macworld, Wccftech, Silicon Republic, Clicked, ZDNet, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @basicappleguy, @viticci, @thomasareed, @johnvoorhees, @bzamayo, @bzamayo, @mathowie, @chris_lawley, @steipete, @johnvoorhees, and @epro
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @stevesi, @pierce, @ryanaraine, @ryanaraine, @rjonesy, @jonyiveparody, and @dimensionmedia
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Netherlands-based Axelera AI, which is developing AI acceleration cards, systems, and software, raised a $27M Series A led by Innovation Industries — Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou …
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SiliconANGLE and Axelera AI
| Financial Times: |
A look at TSMC's efforts to build ever-smaller, ever-faster, and more energy-efficient semiconductors, as Samsung and Intel race to catch up and erode its edge — Taiwan chipmaker ‘could stumble’ as industry is forced to develop new transistor technology — Smartphone chip design house MediaTek … | Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
Purdue University expands semiconductor education as some estimates say the US' chip reshoring effort needs 50,000+ new engineers over the next five years — Purdue University races to expand semiconductor education to fill yawning workforce gap that threatens reshoring effort| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
NYC-based Bilt Rewards, which runs a loyalty program and a credit card to convert rent payments into points, raised $150M led by Left Lane at a $1.5B valuation — Bilt Rewards, which operates a loyalty program and credit card that converts rent payments into points, said its valuation more than quadrupled to $1.5 billion.
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Kairos HQ, Crunchbase News, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, and The 21 Hats Morning Report. Tweets: @gilliantan
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