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As X fails to moderate Israel-Hamas misinformation, Meta has an opportunity to make real-time news a pillar of Threads and give the app an existential purpose — Three months into its existence, the app's purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace it
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LinkedIn: Mark Little and Tomer Poran
Forums: r/technology and r/TheMajorityReport
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: X shut down a tool for identifying coordinated disinformation campaigns in recent months, as the company moved services off Google Cloud to cut costs — Elon Musk's X, in the months before conflict erupted in Gaza, ceased utilizing a software tool used to identify organized misinformation …
More: Silicon Republic, Business Today, Tech Xplore, and Insider
X: @safety, @taliaotg, @chrisharihar, @oalexanderdk, and @erinkwoo
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
X now lets users block unverified accounts from replying to their posts, potentially limiting how the community can push back on misinformation — The latest turn in the Elon Musk-directed platform X, previously known as Twitter, is that users can now block unverified accounts from replying to their posts.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Unity CEO John Riccitiello resigns in the wake of the company's fee controversy; Unity names former Red Hat President and CEO James Whitehurst as interim CEO — John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of a pricing controversy that left developers in open revolt.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Unity3D, r/gamedev, r/gaming, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU regulators send out questionnaires asking customers and competitors whether Apple's iMessage and Microsoft's Bing should be regulated under the DMA — EU antitrust regulators are asking Microsoft's (MSFT.O) users and rivals whether Bing should comply with new tough tech rules …
More: The Verge, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Ghacks, BigTechWire, Benzinga, Seeking Alpha, and ChinaTechNews.com
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US judge throws out a $32.5M jury verdict for Sonos in its smart speaker patent case against Google after finding that the Sonos patents were unenforceable — A California federal judge has thrown out a $32.5 million verdict for wireless-audio company Sonos (SONO.O) against rival Google … | Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, the $10/month AI assistant with 1.5M+ users, loses an average of $20+/month per user and as much as $80/month for some users — Microsoft, Google and others experiment with how to produce, market and charge for new tools
More: Cryptopolitan, SiliconANGLE, BigTechWire, Neowin, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, Thurrott, and The Verge
X: @cityofthetown and @raamana_
LinkedIn: Sumit Gupta, Alex Onsager, and Michael Running Wolf
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| IDC: |
Global PC shipments fell 7.6% YoY to 68.2M in Q3 2023; among the top five vendors, Apple experienced the largest decline, down 23.1%, and only HP grew, up 6.4% — The downward spiral for PC shipments continued during the third quarter of 2023 (3Q23) as global volumes declined 7.6% year … | Collin Binkley / Associated Press: |
Many US school districts spent millions in US pandemic relief money on edtech, such as apps, games, and tutoring sites, but the results for students are unclear — As soon as the federal pandemic relief started arriving at America's schools, so did the relentless calls.| Fiona Alston / Tech.eu: |
London-based kennek, which offers SaaS tools for open banking, open finance, and payments, raised a $12.5M seed led by HV Capital — London fintech kennek secures $12.5 million in Seed funding to expand its tech team and explore European markets. Its SaaS tools aim to simplify lending operations.
More: FinTech Global, Finextra, EU-Startups, and Silicon Canals
| Brian McGleenon / The Block: |
As the UK FCA widens its financial promotions rules for crypto, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, and others partner with UK companies to try to keep serving UK customers — - Coinbase and OKX have partnered with crypto startup Archax to get financial promotions approved.
More: Financial Conduct Authority, Financial Conduct Authority, Cointelegraph, Blockonomi, Bloomberg, Bitcoin News, Unchained Crypto, Inside Bitcoins, CryptoPotato, OKX, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, Protos, Decrypt, Bitcoinist.com, Binance Blog, Coinspeaker, CCN.com, Finextra, CryptoGlobe, Blockworks, Cryptopolitan, Crypto Daily, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoSlate, Metaverse Post, CoinJournal, crypto.news, CoinGape, PYMNTS.com, and Bitcoin News
X: @thefca, @zachxbt, @functi0nzer0, @moo9000, @functi0nzer0, @langcatmike, @emilyjnicolle, @wublockchain, @wublockchain, @prestonjbyrne, and @emilyjnicolle. LinkedIn: Oliver Scherenberg. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based Saronic, a startup developing autonomous ships for the US Navy and US-aligned defense customers, raised a $55M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital — Saronic, a startup developing autonomous ships for defense, has raised $55 million in a Series A round led by Caffeinated Capital …
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