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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An analysis of OpenAI's DevDay keynote: impressive live demos, the shift from plugins to custom GPTs, Microsoft's role in making GPT-4 Turbo cheaper, and more — In 2013, when I started Stratechery, there was no bigger event than the launch of the new iPhone; its only rival was Google I/O …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple last week paused developing iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, and watchOS 11 to fix bugs and improve performance, and plans to resume work this week — - Rare move designed to focus on improving quality, performance — Despite pause, software releases will likely stay on schedule
More: 9to5Mac, Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Trusted Reviews, Tom's Guide, Neowin, Forbes, Supercharged, and BGR
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Ahead of former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony, documents and sources detail staff debates over fostering growth while protecting young users — A former engineering and product leader at Meta is expected to testify in Congress about how Meta ignored warnings about youth safety
More: Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Engadget, The Hill, The Record, BBC, CNBC, Hartford Courant, and Public Citizen
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The Tech Coalition, which includes Discord, Google, Meta, Roblox, Snap, and Amazon, unveil Lantern to share “signals” about child sexual exploitation and abuse — The Tech Coalition, the group of tech companies developing approaches and policies to combat online child sexual exploitation …
More: Tech Coalition, The Messenger, The Verge, Tech Xplore, Meta, and Neowin
LinkedIn: Vincent Courson, Nicola Mendelsohn Cbe, and Lauren Tharp
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue — Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …
More: Associated Press, Washington Examiner, Reuters, and Washington Post
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
IBM debuts a $500M enterprise AI venture fund to invest in startups across all stages, with no set target of annual investments or capital deployment timeline — IBM is dedicating $500 million to invest in generative AI startups focused on business customers.
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Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. LinkedIn: Patrick Moorhead, Sebastian Krause, William, Dylan Gochie-Amaro, and Roger Premo
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
A recap of day one of the Epic v. Google antitrust trial; opening statements, Epic Games Store GM Steve Allison revealing the store isn't profitable, and more — The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company's 18A chip design will move into test production by Q1 2024, part of its bet to reclaim chipmaking leadership by 2025 — Chipmaker is chasing Samsung and TSMC as Qualcomm and Apple pose fresh challenge — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says his company's … | Francesco Guarascio / Reuters: |
More: TechSpot, The Register, TechRadar, Livemint, Wall Street Journal, and Tech in Asia. LinkedIn: Jonas Sundqvist
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
An interview with Blizzard President Mike Ybarra about the studio's future under Microsoft, wrestling over releasing a game without live components, and more — Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio's future. … The dust is finally starting to settle from Microsoft's huge acquisition …
More: Bloomberg, PC Gamer, Gamereactor UK, Metro.co.uk, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, WinBuzzer, Pure Xbox, Wccftech, Dexerto, VG Charts, The Loadout, IGN on YouTube, TheGamer, and Video Games Chronicle
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| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
Google Photos' Magic Editor will now refuse to edit photos of ID cards, human faces and body parts, receipts, and other images of personally identifiable info — - Code within the latest version of Google Photos includes specific error messages that highlight the edits that Magic Editor will refuse to do.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google pushes a Pixel update with security fixes and to address an Android 14 storage bug that locked some owners who use multiple profiles out of their devices — Google's “solution” can't do anything for bootlooping devices. — It's the start of November, and that means a new Android security patch.
More: Android Open Source Project, Tom's Guide, T3, TechRadar, HotHardware, The Verge, Android Authority, PhoneArena, and Android Police
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Docs: Cruise knew its cars struggled to detect large holes and had trouble recognizing children in certain scenarios, prior to its California permitting crisis — In Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and San Francisco, hundreds of so-called autonomous vehicles, or AVs …
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LinkedIn: Matthew Clarke, Will Handzel, and Noah Gift
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| Cyrus Farivar / Forbes: |
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
A look at Neuralink: neuroscientists worry over hype given the level of coverage, but its FDA-approved trial is exciting and its tech is potentially miraculous — Neuralink has FDA clearance to start messing with people's heads—and not just figuratively. — Elon Musk is preparing for the most consequential launch of his career.| Stefania Palma / Financial Times: |
The CFPB proposes new powers to oversee companies that offer digital wallets and payment apps facilitating 5M+ transactions per year, or currently ~17 companies — Proposal would subject tech companies such as Apple and Google to new rules — The top US consumer finance regulator is seeking … | Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Crunchyroll debuts Game Vault, offering five mobile games for free to subscribers of its two higher-cost tiers, and promises a “new wave of titles coming soon” — Crunchyroll is making a bigger push into games. … The new feature is called the Crunchyroll Game Vault and is available starting today.
More: Gizmodo, Decrypt, VentureBeat, Android Headlines, Lifewire, TouchArcade, Mashable, GameSpot, SlashGear, CNET, Destructoid, Variety, and IGN. Bluesky: @epro.social
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung launches a $99 S Pen Creator Edition in the US, offering a larger, Apple Pencil-like design while lacking many S Pen smart features, like Air Commands — The S Pen has been a key selling point of many of Samsung's products over the years, and the company is now debuting a …
More: The Verge, Android Police, Android Central, How-To Geek, Mashable, SamInsider, Android Authority, ZDNet, KnowTechie, T3, and PhoneArena
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft adds a no-cost Azure AI option for Nvidia GPU clusters to its Startups Founders Hub, in preview first for YC startups and coming later to M12 startups — In the midst of an AI chip shortage, Microsoft wants to give a privileged few startups free access to “supercomputing” … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Ancestry, MyHeritage, and 23andMe begin notifying their users to say their accounts will use 2FA by default, following the theft of millions of 23andMe records — DNA testing and genealogy companies are stepping up user account security by mandating the use of two-factor authentication …
More: 23andMe Blog. Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social. LinkedIn: Arvil Nagpal and John Loughney
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
European Parliament lawmakers approve ad rules forcing Meta, Google, and others to clearly label political ads, who paid, how much, and for which elections — Big Tech firms will face new European Union rules to clearly label political advertising on their platforms, who paid … | Katie Paul / Reuters: |
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LinkedIn: Jerry Nevins, David Lavine, and TG ✨Gergely Teglasy
| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp gives its beta users the ability to search for messages by date in its web client — WhatsApp is releasing a new search message by date feature to some beta testers who previously joined the official beta program of WhatsApp Web, making it easier for them to quickly search …
More: Times of India, Android Police, Android Headlines, Gadgets 360, The News International, and Tuko.co.ke. X: @sahilk
| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
eBay reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $2.5B, gross merchandise volume up 2% YoY to $18B, and forecasts its Q4 revenue and profit below estimates; EBAY drops 5%+ — E-commerce platform eBay (EBAY.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday as rising competition … | Reuters: |
Bumble reports Q3 revenue up 18.4% YoY to $275.5M, vs. $277M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; BMBL drops 6%+ — Bumble (BMBL.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, in a sign that sticky inflation and growing competition were weighing …
More: Observer, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg, and Bumble Inc.
| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $467M, vs. $478.9M est., trading revenue down 11% YoY to $185M, including crypto trading down 55% YoY; HOOD drops 8%+ — - Third-quarter crypto notional volumes fell 55% on the year — Online brokerage plans to launch EU crypto trading in weeks| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit starts testing its own add-ons, including those that make posts with live scoreboards and that help mods ban spammers, with a small number of subreddits — Reddit is beginning to test the first of its own add-ons built through its Developer Platform.Sponsor Posts
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