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Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
The US Treasury's FinCEN proposes labeling international crypto mixing as a “primary money laundering concern”, citing its use by Hamas and other illicit actors  —  Under pressure to address reports that Hamas and other terrorist groups are partially funded with crypto …
RT Watson / The Block:
Chainalysis says some recent media reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses”  —  - Chainalysis said some recent reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses.”
New York Times:
Jon Stewart's Apple TV+ show ends after two seasons, sources say over creative differences; source: Stewart said China and AI topics concerned Apple executives  —  Mr. Stewart and Apple are parting ways because of creative differences over “The Problem,” people with knowledge of the decision said.
Mark Hachman / PCWorld:
AMD unveils the Radeon RX 7900M, the first mobile GPU to use a chiplet design and a rival to Nvidia's RTX 4080, available with Dell's Alienware m18  —  It will debut in the new Alienware m18, launching today.  —  AMD is setting its sights on Nvidia's RTX 4080 mobile GPU with the Radeon RX 7900M …
Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
AMD announces new Ryzen Threadripper 7000 CPUs for desktops and workstations, offering up to 96 cores on the 7000 Pro series, shipping on November 21 for $1500+
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
23andMe is investigating a possible new data leak of 4M users' records on BreachForums; the hacker claims the dataset includes info on people from Great Britain  —  The same hacker who leaked a trove of user data stolen from the genetic testing company 23andMe two weeks ago has now leaked millions of new user records.
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
New York AG Letitia James sues lender Genesis, its parent company DCG, and the Winklevoss' exchange Gemini for allegedly defrauding 230K+ investors of $1B+  —  New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing the Winklevoss twin-led exchange Gemini along with the crypto lending firm Genesis …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
The FCC unanimously approves a petition by Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others for access to the 6GHz band for Wi-Fi tethering for AR and VR headsets  —  The FCC has unanimously approved plans by several tech companies to use the 6GHz band for wireless devices.
Jim Salter / Associated Press:
The FBI and the DOJ say thousands of IT workers sent by North Korea to work remotely for US companies using false IDs have sent millions in wages to North Korea  —  Thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars …
CoinDesk:
Filing: the US SEC drops charges alleging Ripple executives Brad Garlinghouse and Chris Larsen aided and abetted the company in violating securities laws  —  The regulator had included them as defendants in its securities violation case revolving around XRP transactions, and the agency now says it's just pursuing Ripple for damages.
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
The FCC votes 3-2 to invite the US public to comment on re-establishing net neutrality rules; the broader effort still faces a long legal and political battle  —  The Federal Communications Commission officially began its effort to re-establish net neutrality at its monthly meeting today …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
India's Central Bureau of Investigation works with Microsoft and Amazon to raid 76 locations in a nationwide crackdown on tech support scams and crypto fraud  —  India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided 76 locations in a nationwide crackdown on cybercrime operations behind tech support scams and cryptocurrency fraud.
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Source: X removed the main New York Times account's “verified” badge on October 17 without notice; source: X traffic to the NYT is down ~50% since August 2023  —  The unexplained decision removes the only symbol distinguishing the news organization from impostors and comes amid …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
A researcher details malicious and convincing Google ads linking to a fake site for password manager KeePass; Google shows a verified advertiser paid for them  —  Google-verified advertiser + legit-looking URL + valid TLS cert = convincing look-alike.  —  Google has been caught hosting …
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
OpenAI rolls out DALL-E 3 access to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise subscribers, after preparing a safety mitigation stack to ready the model for expanded release  —  OpenAI is launching wider availability of its latest text-to-image generator.  On Thursday, the company is giving ChatGPT Plus …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Discord overhauls its moderation tools with a new warning system and a teen safety assist feature, plans to roll out an in-app store for all users, and more  —  Discord is overhauling the way it moderates its platform with a new warning system and teen safety assist feature.
Maria Heeter / The Information:
Trucking marketplace Convoy starts shutting down; sources: the startup had ~$320M in 2023 revenue by early October, on pace to fall short of the $630M in 2022  —  Trucking startup Convoy is shutting down, the company told employees and investors on Thursday, in a dramatic collapse of a business …
John Thornhill / Financial Times:
Meta's Yann LeCun says regulating R&D for AI “is incredibly counterproductive” and would only serve to reinforce Big Tech's dominance and stifle competition  —  Artificial intelligence is still dumber than cats, says pioneer Yann LeCun, so worries over existential risks are ‘premature’
Financial Times:
Mustafa Suleyman, Eric Schmidt, and others propose an IPCC-like International Panel on AI Safety, an objective advisory body to help shape protocols and norms
Financial Times:
Sources: the UK plans to announce an international advisory group on AI, loosely modeled on the UN's IPCC, at the November 2023 AI summit in Bletchley Park
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
US v. SBF: FTX's ex-top lawyer says SBF asked him to form “legal justifications” for why FTX was missing $7B in user funds, undermining SBF's good-faith defense  —  Cryptocurrency exchange FTX's former top lawyer testified on Thursday at its founder Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial …
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
US v. SBF: accounting professor Peter Easton testifies that FTX used $1B+ of its customer funds to buy back Binance's FTX stake, which Binance bought in 2019

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Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix wins rights to the Sesame Street movie; Rideback, the production company behind live-action Lilo & Stitch and Aladdin movies, will produce the feature

Max Tani / Semafor:
The Atlantic ramps up its video podcasts, doubling its video team from ~10 to ~20, and says its podcast revenue is up 104% YoY and downloads rose ~50% YoY

New York Times:
People Inc., a major food content creator, is ramping up social media video production that emphasizes human-made recipes and testing to stand out from AI slop

More News

Allison Johnson / The Verge:
OnePlus Open review: thin and light for a foldable and good multitasking support, but no full water resistance or wireless charging, and $1,700 is too expensive
Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Law enforcement agencies, including from the US, the EU, and Japan, seize the RagnarLocker ransomware group's dark web portal as part of an “ongoing action”
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
US v. Google: Pandu Nayak, Google's first witness and a VP of Search, testifies that smart employees are behind Google's success and innovations, such as LLMs

Earlier Picks

Pew Research Center:
A May 2023 survey of 5,101 US adults: 78% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans support more government regulation over what companies can do with people's data
Wayne Ma / The Information:
Sources: Apple fired at least five employees who worked on the company's App Store in China, following an internal investigation into their business misconduct
Reuters:
Meta introduces temporary limits on “potentially unwelcome or unwanted comments” on Facebook posts about the Israel-Hamas war created by users “in the region”
Emma Roth / The Verge:
WhatsApp plans to start letting Android users switch between two accounts in the coming weeks; a second account will still need a separate phone number and SIM
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Google plans to start assembling the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro in India and begin India-made shipments in 2024, but didn't reveal its local manufacturing partners
Bloomberg:
TSMC reports Q3 revenue down 14.6% YoY to ~$17.28B, net income down 24.9% YoY to ~$6.5B, and projects $32B in capital spending for 2023, vs. $30.5B est.
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nokia plans to cut up to 14,000 jobs, or ~16% of its 86,000 employees, and reports Q3 2023 net sales down 20% YoY to €4.98B and profit down 69% YoY to €133M
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google updates Play Protect with real-time scanning at the code level, prompting users to scan unknown Android apps before sideloading, starting in India
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