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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
US v. Google: Google's search head testifies that the company spent $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine in multiple browsers, phones, and platforms — Even if it's easy to switch browsers or platforms or search engines, the one that appears when you turn it on matters a lot.
More: Bloomberg Law, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, Windows Central, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Financial Times, Engadget, Reuters, The Information, Fortune, Android Headlines, Insider, Daring Fireball, OSnews, PhoneArena, and New York Times
X: @sandeepvaheesan, @adamkovac, @ddayen, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @mer__edith, @stevesi, @rakeshlobster, @timsweeneyepic, @stevesi, @superwuster, @jeremys, @timsweeneyepic, @lutherlowe, @pg, @leah_nylen, @leah_nylen, @ananyyye, and @alexeheath
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
X adds a $16/mo. Premium+ plan with no ads in For You or Following and the “largest reply boost”, and a $3/mo. Basic plan with a “small boost” but no checkmark — X, the platform previously known as Twitter, has introduced a new $16 per month Premium Plus plan …
More: X, The Information, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Neowin, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Android Headlines, 9to5Mac, and Engadget
X: @premium, @premium, @xdaily, @lindayax, @hughrbrechin, @tailosivetech, @minimaxir, @zpostfacto, @oalexanderdk, @billym2k, @david_leavitt, @liuyuxxd, @harrymccracken, @adamscochran, @x, @tomwarren, @wazzcrypto, @ptraughber, @functi0nzer0, and @ptraughber. Forums: r/Twitter
| Associated Press: |
Internet and phone services collapse in the Gaza Strip as Israel's military expands its ground operations, largely cutting off communications for 2.3M residents — DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Internet and phone services collapsed in the Gaza Strip under intensified bombardment Friday night …
More: Wired, New York Times, The Verge, Politico, and The Record
X: @leloveluck, @raniakhalek, @joebrolly1993, @pkafka, @sprinter99800, @sharifkouddous, and @motazazaizagaza. Forums: Hacker News
| Wall Street Journal: |
Google invests $500M upfront in Anthropic and agrees to add $1.5B more over time, after investing $550M in the generative AI startup earlier in 2023 — Google move follows Amazon investment as tech giants place bigger bets on startups racing to develop artificial intelligence| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's “Scary Fast” event on October 30: high-end MacBook Pros with M3 Pro and M3 Max, a new 24-inch iMac with an M3, and USB-C accessories — The company is poised to introduce computers with speedier chips. — Apple Inc.'s last product unveiling …
More: MacRumors, The Verge, MacRumors, The Information, MacRumors, TechRadar, MacRumors, Engadget, Notebookcheck, Cult of Mac, iThinkDifferent, Android Headlines, Tom's Guide, Wccftech, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet, iClarified, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, BGR, iMore, AppleInsider, Mashable, and Digital Trends
Mastodon: @davemark@mastodon.social. X: @rsgnl, @rsgnl, @rsgnl, @stevemoser, @markgurman, and @tomwarren
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, MacRumors Forums, and MacRumors Forums
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says he wants Threads to be the “de facto platform for public conversations online” and web app is not a “primary focus” as mobile usage is higher — Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has high ambitions for Threads: he wants it to become the …
Threads: @mosseri, @devahaz, @rnib, @datadrivenmd, @datadrivenmd, @searchenginedude, @kiriappeee, @datadrivenmd, @notwittyvicki, @datadrivenmd, @ipedro, @ipedro, @mosseri, @mosseri, @mosseri, @mosseri, @w3stfa11, @datadrivenmd, @datadrivenmd, @mosseri, @mosseri, and @jasonycw1992
Bluesky: @playcritically.bsky.social and @mhwilliams.bsky.social
X: @t0nin1, @methodistguy, and @omarsultan
| Financial Times: |
SBF testifies that he only understood “pieces” of the full financial state of his companies and was “surprised” by FTX's $8B balance-sheet hole in October 2022 — Former billionaire denies intending to defraud customers in testimony to the jury at trial
More: CNBC, Insider, The Verge, DL News, The Information, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, Matthew Russell Lee's …, Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, The Block, Tech Xplore, New York Times, Reuters, CoinDesk, and Cryptopolitan
Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com. X: @innercitypress, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, @innercitypress, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @innercitypress, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, @danprimack, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @coindesk, @adamscochran, and @deitaone
| Financial Times: |
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X: @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @technology, @eriqgardner, @cryptadamist, @bitmexresearch, @mikeburgersburg, @eleanorterrett, @ashbennington, @awice, @nikhileshde, @watcherguru, @katiebakes, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, @innercitypress, @leomschwartz, @poordart, @coinbureau, @inkbacker, @adamscochran, @autismcapital, @iamnomad, @nikhileshde, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @zackdabrams, @adamscochran, @innercitypress, @adamscochran, @dawn_kopecki, @petebrush, @leomschwartz, @tiffanyfong_, @caspiancey, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, @dylanleclair_, @ddiamond, @jacqmelinek, @cuntycakes123, @leahlibresco, @janesports, @allnick, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, @leomschwartz, @jespow, @theklineventure, @spreekaway, @adamscochran, @jacqmelinek, @jackfarley96, @bendwalsh, @silvermanjacob, @zguz, @bitmexresearch, @visionaryreaper, @jayshams, @mikeburgersburg, @ryansadams, @davidzmorris, @autismcapital, @jonathanreidr, @lex_node, @molly0xfff, @edgefills, @adamscochran, @leomschwartz, @silvermanjacob, @autismcapital, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, and @molly0xfff. LinkedIn: Ursula Schmidt
| Julia Black / The Information: |
Sources: Humane timed its ~$1K Ai Pin launch to the October 14 eclipse, but moved it to November 9 after reports broke about Sam Altman and Jony Ive's AI device — In late September, a stakeholder in Humane received a humbled message from the startup. The Information had just broken …
More: The Verge. Threads: @martinsfp. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @devadasrajaram, @mjnblack, and @steph_palazzolo. LinkedIn: Jon Steinberg
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Pixel owners using the multiple profiles feature say their devices are becoming “unusable” due to an Android 14 bug that is locking them out of device storage — Users with multiple profiles are getting locked out of local storage and losing data.
Mastodon: @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social. X: @glitch_wolfe and @jrssnet
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Apple fixed an old iOS bug that let nearby wireless routers gather real MAC addresses even when Private Wi-Fi Address is enabled, including in Lockdown Mode — “From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14. — Three years ago, Apple introduced …
More: The Register, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, TechRadar, MacDailyNews, Macworld, Help Net Security, and Android Authority
Mastodon: @mysk@defcon.social and @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …
X: @mysk_co, @mysk_co, @cryptonator1337, @gaetanoz, @vanhoefm, @evacide, and @benhammersley
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, r/technology, r/gadgets, r/privacy, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Filing: Gemini sues Genesis Global, its former business partner for its Gemini Earn product, over 60M GBTC shares, worth $1.6B+, that were pledged as collateral — Gemini has filed a lawsuit against Genesis over 60 million GBTC shares that were pledged as collateral. — Register Now
More: Bloomberg, Blockworks, Gizmodo, Cointelegraph, Axios, CoinGape, Decrypt, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, crypto.news, Unchained Crypto, and The Block
| Liz Young / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Flexport is in talks to acquire collapsed digital freight startup Convoy's tech, a move that would expand Flexport's push into the US trucking market — The deal would move the digital-focused freight forwarder into the domestic trucking market — Flexport is in talks to buy …
More: The Information, FreightWaves, and GeekWire
LinkedIn: Brittain Ladd, Gregg Romanzo, Nathan L., Liz Young, and Chris Fields
| Simon Willison's Weblog: |
How OpenAI uses ChatGPT prompt engineering to get around DALL-E 3's fundamental biases, discourage DALL-E 3 from recreating the work of living artists, and more — Last year I wrote about my initial experiments with DALL-E 2, OpenAI's image generation model.
Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social, @waxy@xoxo.zone, and @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
X: @joedevon, @katebevan, @bjh_ip, and @simonw
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Source: during an all-hands, Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino referenced ambitions to create XWire, a press release service that would rival Cision's PR Newswire — Executives at X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, said they see YouTube and LinkedIn as future competitors …
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Threads: @martinsfp. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @pi8you.bsky.social and @waxmonkey.bsky.social
X: @xpangler, @mediaevan, and @alexeheath
LinkedIn: Theodora Lau, Thomas Kramer, Athanasios Rebelos, and Nick Brackney
Forums: r/ethtrader and Ars OpenForum
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