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Sources: in September, Meta pitched EU regulators a plan to charge Facebook and Instagram desktop users a subscription fee to avoid ads, starting at ~€10/month — European users would have option to pay fee or agree to personalized ads, according to company's pitch to regulators
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| Molly White: |
A preview of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial, which began on October 3 with jury selection: the seven charges, key witnesses, the likely legal strategies, and more — Key witnesses and the likely legal strategies about to unfold in the historic case ahead.
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
Michael Lewis' new book, Going Infinite, depicts SBF as delusional, but says his FTX collapse explanations have “remained irritatingly difficult to disprove” — “Going Infinite,” by Michael Lewis, offers a behind-the-scenes account of Mr. Bankman-Fried's rise and fall.
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| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Apple starts requiring a Chinese government license to publish new apps on its China App Store, after China tightened its mobile app oversight in August 2023 — Apple (AAPL.O) has started requiring new apps to show proof of a Chinese government licence before their release on its China App Store … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Google sets new requirements for emailers sending 5,000+ emails per day to Gmail users, effective February 2024, including adding a one-click unsubscribe button — - Google will make it harder for spammers to land in your email inbox, the company said Tuesday.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find critical now-patched flaws allowing RCE in open-source AI model-serving tool TorchServe and vulnerable instances at tens of thousands of IPs — A set of critical vulnerabilities dubbed ‘ShellTorch’ in the open-source TorchServe AI model-serving tool impact tens of thousands … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Netflix plans to raise the price of its ad-free service a few months after the Hollywood actors strike ends, likely starting with the US and Canada — Company to become latest streamer to lift fees; Disney weighs launching new live-sports tier abroad
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| Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC: |
The FCC fines Dish Network $150K for failing to move its old EchoStar-7 satellite far enough away from others in use, marking the agency's first space junk fine — The US government has issued its first ever fine to a company for leaving space junk orbiting the Earth.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Memo: Meta VP of Media Partnerships Campbell Brown says she's stepping down from the role in the fall but staying as a consultant, as Meta backs away from news — Campbell Brown, the veteran TV anchor who led Meta's foray into news, is leaving the company, according to an internal note obtained by Axios.
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Researchers demo “washing out” watermarks on AI images and adding watermarks to human-generated images, meaning online services can't reliably flag AI content — In a new paper out this week, a group from the University of Maryland found it's too easy to evade current methods of watermarking … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn unveils new OpenAI-powered AI features, including a LinkedIn Learning coach, a marketing campaigns tool, and for its Recruiter and Inside Sales tools — LinkedIn — the Microsoft-owned social platform for those networking for work or recruitment — is now 21 years old, an aeon in the world of technology.
More: OnMSFT.com and Fast Company
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
TikTok confirms the company is running a limited-scale test of an ad-free subscription plan, but only says the market is not the US and does not share the price — TikTok is exploring a new way to make money: The popular video app has kicked off a limited-scale test of a monthly subscription service that eliminates ads.
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| Nikki Ekstein / Bloomberg: |
An interview with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on affordable prices, reliability, proper customer support, using AI for quality control, a loyalty program, and more — “We never fully built the foundation,” Brian Chesky says in a revelatory interview. “It had four pillars when we needed to have 10.”
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2 review: gorgeous build, a 120Hz display, an adaptive touchpad, and a unique hinge, but a poor battery and expensive at $2,000 — Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Studio 2 has new chips, a new touchpad, and a very, very high price tag.
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| Bloomberg: |
Investigation: several Taiwanese tech companies are secretly helping Huawei build chip plants in southern China, an unusual collaboration with political risks — - Critics slam Taiwan's government for inadequate China curbs — Taiwan has pledged to keep advanced tech from Chinese military
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Epic Games plans to add IARC age ratings to Fortnite's “first- and third-party playable content” on November 14; creators can start the process on October 16 — The company says that ‘this is a critical step toward building a metaverse that is safe and fun for everyone.’
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| Steven Ehrlich / Forbes: |
Email: Chainalysis lays off ~150 employees, or 15%+ of its workforce, and plans to focus on government contracts; the company cut staff by ~5% in February 2023 — Chainalysis is laying off approximately 150 employees, or slightly more than 15% of its staff of 900, CEO Michael Gronager told employees …
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| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
In a letter to TikTok, Senators Blackburn and Blumenthal ask about executives who transferred from ByteDance to TikTok in the US despite “its independence” — In a letter to TikTok, Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal seek information about ties to parent company
More: Reuters, The Messenger, The Verge, TNW, Tubefilter, IGN, and The Information
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Frec, which uses AI to let customers create direct indexing investment strategies, comes out of stealth with $26.4M across a seed and a Series A led by Greylock — Emerging from stealth today, fintech startup Frec announced it has raised $26.4 million in seed and Series A funding led by Greylock …
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| Financial Times: |
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