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In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more — The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …
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Forums: r/worldnews and r/technology
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram head Adam Mosseri reiterates Threads' position on hard news, saying that Threads does not intend to “amplify” news because it's currently “too risky” — Instagram's new Twitter-like app Threads is not prepared to truly challenge Elon Musk's X …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/inthenews
| New York Times: |
At SBF's trial, the personal dynamics between him and his friends are a vital component of the case, making clear how much his inner circle has turned on him — The FTX founder's criminal trial has made clear just how much his inner circle has turned against him.| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Caroline Ellison's well-prepared testimony painted Sam Bankman-Fried as the ultimate decision-maker at FTX and a corrupting influence on his subordinates — - Government prosecutors completed their direct examination of former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison on Wednesday in the fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried.
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| Jake Piazza / CNBC: |
Microsoft receives Notices of Proposed Adjustment from the IRS for an additional $28.9B tax payment; Microsoft plans to appeal, a process expected to take years — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at federal court on October 2, 2023 in Washington, DC. Nadella is testifying …
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| Noema: |
Current advanced LLMs from OpenAI and others have many flaws but they will, decades from now, be recognized as the first true examples of AGI, similar to ENIAC — Today's most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence.
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| Karen Hao / The Atlantic: |
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
CCData: Coinbase's quarterly spot trading volume fell 52% YoY to $76B in Q3, likely the lowest volume since Coinbase's direct listing on Nasdaq in April 2021 — - Transaction revenue accounts for about half of total revenue — Quarterly spot trading volume fell to $76 billion, CCData says| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
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| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Atlassian plans to acquire video messaging platform Loom for around $975M, made up of $880M in cash and the rest in stock, closing in Q1 2024 — Atlassian (TEAM.O) said on Thursday it had agreed to acquire privately held video messaging platform Loom for about $975 million …
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Elliptic: the Russia-linked unidentified FTX hackers who stole $415M to $432M in November 2022 started moving the haul in October, the first time in 2023 — Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—and eventually some that look Russian in origin.
More: CoinDesk, Unchained Crypto, Bloomberg, Elliptic, BBC, The Block, Cointelegraph, Washington Post, Elliptic Connect, Cryptopolitan, and Forkast. X: @a_greenberg
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic expands ActivityPub support to WordPress.com hosted sites, letting blog owners reach 13.3M users across the fediverse, including Mastodon's 1.8M MAUs — Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Piper Sandler survey of 9,000+ US teens: 29.1% of their daily video consumption time is on YouTube, beating Netflix for the first time at 28.7%, and ~7% on Hulu — - Teenagers in the United States say they watch more video on YouTube than Netflix, according to a new survey from investment bank Piper Sandler.
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Hands-on with Best Take for Pixel 8, which uses AI to replace people's faces, a fun camera tool that worryingly helps AI standardize what happiness looks like — A new AI function called Best Take in Google's Pixel 8 lets you replace people's faces, saving memories of moments that never actually happened.| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is generating $1.3B in revenue per year, implying the company is now generating $100M+/month, up 30% in three months — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is generating revenue at a pace of $1.3 billion a year, CEO Sam Altman told staff this week, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok updates its $6M Effect Creator Rewards fund to add lower eligibility rules, a revamped payout model, and a lower threshold to start collecting rewards — TikTok is updating its Effect Creator Rewards program with lower eligibility requirements, a revamped payout model … | Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Surface Laptop Go 3 review: premium design but low-resolution screen, no keyboard backlighting, limited port selection, and too expensive for what it offers — The Go 3 is a nice-looking and well-built device, but the $999 price makes no sense. … The chassis looks identical …
More: 9to5Toys and XDA Developers
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Block acquires Hifi, which launched in 2020 as a financial rights organization for artists and recently rolled out Cash Flow to pay artists a bi-monthly salary — Block, the Jack Dorsey-founded fintech company previously known as Square, has acquired Hifi, a music-focused fintech startup.| Bloomberg: |
How Google Chrome's Discover feed on Android serves up misleading propaganda to Russian audiences; a source says Russian-languages services are a lower priority — Mobile users in Russia are being served pro-war propaganda from sources Google has blocked elsewhere.| Gabe Bullard / Nieman Reports: |
Internal memo: NPR lost a negligible amount of traffic in the six months since leaving X, after the service labeled the outlet “US state-affiliated media” — The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn't worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic
More: Digiday and Pixel Envy
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