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Rachyl Jones / Fortune:
Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto lists trust and safety, sustainability, and tech ethics as “enemies”, says AI is “our Philosopher's Stone”, and more  —  In a 5,200-word manifesto published by the venture capitalist and billionaire Marc Andreessen on Monday …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Cisco says a zero-day flaw in its IOS XE software has been exploited in the wild since at least September 18; Shodan shows up to 80K devices could be affected  —  An unknown threat actor is exploiting the vulnerability to create admin accounts.  —  Cisco is urging customers to protect …
Stephen Council / SFGATE:
Music storefront Bandcamp lays off nearly 50% of its workforce, or 58 employees, as part of Songtradr's acquisition of the company from Epic Games in September  —  Bandcamp built a unique music business: profitable and good for artists with a popular editorial arm.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta identifies and fixes a bug after thousands of Palestinian supporters say their posts were suppressed or removed from Facebook and Instagram  —  Meta has cautioned that some posts may be temporarily suppressed or suspended as it sifts through millions of posts spreading across its platforms.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail Netflix's deepening gaming push: more games based on its shows, including Squid Game and Wednesday, discussions about a GTA game, and more  —  Streamer to put greater emphasis on developing games based on its popular programming, including ‘Squid Game,’ ‘Wednesday,’ ‘Black Mirror’
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
The FTX estate floats an amended proposal to return up to 90% of creditor holdings, divided into three pools, and plans to formally file the plan by December 16  —  An amended proposal released early Tuesday will be filed by the FTX Debtors by mid-December if approved.
New York Times:
US v. SBF: Nishad Singh says SBF used customer funds for spending sprees that “reeked of excess” and he learned of an $8B hole two months before FTX collapsed
Adamya Sharma / Android Authority:
Xiaomi unveils the Android-based HyperOS, set to debut with the Xiaomi 14 series and gradually replace the company's 13-year-old MIUI OS for all Xiaomi devices  —  HyperOS will cater to Xiaomi's wide range of products beyond just smartphones.  —  •  —  TL;DR
Justine Calma / The Verge:
Stand.earth: Apple is ahead of Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Dell, and HP in climate initiatives and is the only one that has renewable targets for its suppliers  —  A new report compares climate initiatives by Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Microsoft, and Nvidia.  Apple's far from perfect, but so far …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
LinkedIn plans to lay off 668 staff, mostly from its engineering team, after cutting 716 jobs in May 2023; a source says LinkedIn is ramping up hiring in India  —  - LinkedIn is cutting almost 700 employees as revenue growth has slowed over the past two years.
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Binance halts user signups in the UK, after the FCA restricted a local partner's ability to approve communications for crypto companies with customers  —  - UK's financial promotions regime was widened to include crypto  — Exchange plans to hire a new approver for its communications
James Titcomb / Telegraph:
Israel plans to boycott Europe's biggest tech conference, Web Summit, after the event's co-founder accused Israel of war crimes, as many tech companies pull out  —  Dozens of companies pull out of Lisbon event following a wave of protest from tech bosses  —  Israel has said it will boycott …
The Markup:
Analysis: X throttles traffic to Patreon, WhatsApp, and at times Messenger by 2.5 seconds on average; Patreon creators say doing so undermines their livelihood  —  Markup readers helped uncover the link delays, which also affect WhatsApp and Messenger.  —  Twitter is now slowing down traffic …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

More News

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
WhatsApp plans to roll out passkeys to all Android users in the coming months to replace passwords; support for passkeys on WhatsApp for iOS is unclear
Bloomberg:
Baidu co-founder Robin Li unveils Ernie 4.0 and claims that the language model is on par with OpenAI's GPT-4 in terms of sophistication and general capabilities

Earlier Picks

Victoria Kennedy / Eurogamer.net:
Bethesda Head of Publishing Pete Hines plans to leave after 24 years, just weeks after the release of Starfield, to begin an “exciting new chapter”
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Stack Overflow lays off 100+ people, or 28% of its workforce, to “significantly” reduce its “go-to-market organization”, after doubling its size to 500+ in 2022
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Some influencers and CEOs are building their brands on LinkedIn, which is easier due to less creator competition, a committed user base, and a safer feel than X
Jonathan Rothwell / Gallup:
A survey of 1,567 US adolescents: 51% spend at least four hours on social media apps per day; 13-year-olds spent 4.1 hours, rising to 5.8 hours for 17-year-olds
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Intel plans to launch its 14th Gen desktop CPUs on October 17, offering up to 6GHz for its flagship $589 Core i9-14900K and increased core count on the $409 i7
Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Mojang announces 300M+ copies of Minecraft sold in ~15 years; Rockstar's GTA V is the second best-selling game ever after reportedly selling ~185M in ~10 years
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