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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft reorganizes its Xbox teams, promoting Matt Booty to game content president and Sarah Bond to Xbox president; CMO Chris Capossela leaves after 32 years — Microsoft is reorganizing its Xbox gaming and marketing leadership, less than two weeks after acquiring Activision Blizzard.
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Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/xbox, r/XboxSeriesX, r/XboxSeriesX, r/Games, and Beehaw
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
The UK's controversial Online Safety Bill becomes law, allowing fines of up to £18M or 10% of global turnover; Ofcom now plans to publish its codes of practice — The UK's Online Safety Bill, a wide-ranging piece of legislation that aims to make the country “the safest place in the world to be online” …
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Forums: r/privacy, r/unitedkingdom, r/CryptoCurrency, and Slashdot
| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Internal docs: Google worked to limit Apple's search ambitions after Spotlight's 2021 update; sources say Google paid Apple ~$18B in 2021 to remain the default — Google has worried for years that Apple would one day expand its internet search technology, and has been working on ways to prevent that from happening.
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, MobileSyrup, MacDailyNews, Android Headlines, and Business Times
X: @nicoagrant, @matthew_d_green, @econliberties, and @clarksp
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| Wall Street Journal: |
X's tumultuous first year under Elon Musk: mobile DAUs down 16% from October 2022 to September 2023, app downloads fell post X rebrand, and investor markdowns — The platform struggles to attract users and advertisers, third-party data suggest, while Musk has voiced optimism
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out new Google Maps features, including updating search to more easily find things nearby and expanding Immersive View for Routes to 15 new cities — Google is adding a slew of new updates for Maps, including a few AI-powered features that are designed to make it easier for users to search … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI forms Preparedness, a new team to assess, evaluate, and probe AI models to protect against “catastrophic risks”, including biological and nuclear threats — OpenAI today announced that it's created a new team to assess, evaluate and probe AI models to protect against what it describes as “catastrophic risks.”
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| Bloomberg: |
A live blog of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried's testimony at his own criminal fraud trial in NYC over the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange — Welcome to TOPLive. FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is taking the witness stand at his own fraud trial in New York over the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange.| CNBC: |
Uber starts offering rides in fully autonomous Waymo cars in Phoenix, Arizona; users can accept or reject the autonomous option, which includes a 24/7 helpline — - Uber users in Phoenix, Arizona, will be able to ride in a fully autonomous car, Uber announced Thursday.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon Q3: ad revenue up 26% YoY to $12.1B, vs. $11.6B est., subscription revenue up 14% YoY to $10.2B, and North America segment sales up 11% YoY to $87.9B — Amazon reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results. — Earnings per share: 94 cents per share vs. 58 cents per share expected … | Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Kids are attending virtual pro-Palestine protests on Roblox in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war; one virtual protest area has been visited 275K+ times — - Kids are attending virtual pro-Palestine protests on Roblox in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, and so far, one virtual protest area has been visited more than 275,000 times.
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
Leica releases the $9,480 M11-P camera, which watermarks photos with the Content Credentials metadata system, created by advocacy groups to fight misinformation — It automatically watermarks photos with Content Credentials metadata. — It's getting to the point these days that we can't even trust … | Sarah Fielding / Engadget: |
Google expands its bug bounty program to add generative AI, which has unique security issues, like model manipulation and unfair bias, requiring new guidance — New guidance outlines what discoveries garner financial rewards. — With concerns around generative AI ever-present … | Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan's Global Head of Payments says the blockchain-based JPM Coin now handles $1B in transactions per day and the bank plans to continue widening its usage — - JPM Coin allows blockchain-based payments by wholesale clients — Token is a rare instance of live blockchain use by a big bank
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| Matthieu Faou / WeLiveSecurity: |
Pro-Russia hacking group Winter Vivern is targeting European governmental entities' Roundcube Webmail servers; viewing an email triggers a Roundcube zero-day — ESET Research recommends updating Roundcube Webmail to the latest available version as soon as possible
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Forums: r/technology and Ars OpenForum
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Xiaomi unveils the 6.36" Xiaomi 14 and 6.73" Xiaomi 14 Pro, offering the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 50MP camera sensors, a Leica lens on the Pro, and LTPO 120Hz panels — Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 just this week as Android's next flagship chipset, and now Xiaomi is already announcing …
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Samsung offers Galaxy smartphone and tablets running One UI 6 a Temporary Cloud Backup feature with unlimited storage for up to 30 days for free, matching Apple — Samsung is starting to roll out a “Temporary Cloud Backup” feature to Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets running on One UI 6, the company announced on Thursday.
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Kioxia investor SK Hynix isn't agreeing to the Kioxia-Western Digital merger “at this time” due to “the overall impact on the value of the company's investment” — - Its opposition introduces more uncertainty to a landmark deal — Western Digital and Kioxia have talked for years about a combo
More: Nikkei Asia, Tom's Hardware, CRN, Barron's Online, Reuters, The Register, TechCrunch, and Financial Times
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Michigan-based Censys, which monitors internet hosts and their security statuses, raised a $50M Series C and $25M in debt, taking its total funding to $128.1M — Investments in cybersecurity companies are beginning to turn a corner, seemingly. — After a brutal summer …
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta declines its Oversight Board's advice from August 2023 to tighten its oversight of drug-related posts; the Oversight Board calls the decision “unfortunate” — - Board found ‘inconsistent enforcement’ of drug-related posts — Instagram, Facebook owner may consider a review in 2024| Politico: |
UK PM Rishi Sunak announces plans to set up a UK-based AI Safety Institute and an AI research network modeled on the IPCC, ahead of the UK AI Summit in November — British PM defended seeking Chinese buy-in for a bevvy of new AI governance initiatives he is set to launch next week.
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LinkedIn: Phillip Souta, Jonas Schuett, and Savvina Papadaki
| Stephanie Barnes / Engadget: |
X rolls out opt-out audio and video calling to some users, who can allow incoming calls from users in their address book, users they follow, and Premium users — Just call them or not. — It's finally happening: X (formerly known as Twitter) has begun rolling out yet another feature nobody asked for.
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