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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Docs: Humane's $699 Ai Pin will have a $24/month subscription including a phone number, cell data, cloud storage, and access to Microsoft and OpenAI AI models — It's scheduled to launch the Pin on Thursday, but The Verge has obtained documents detailing practically everything about the device ahead of its official launch.
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Forums: r/hardware and Beehaw
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Signal is testing usernames, allowing users to set the phone number linked to their account as private and not share it on their profile — Offering usernames will allow people to stop giving out their phone number —a sensitive piece of information— in order to connect with others on the messaging app.
More: Signal Community, BleepingComputer, and Reclaim The Net
| Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
Activision Blizzard is transitioning away from the Overwatch League to evolve the esports competition in a “new direction”; exiting teams may get a $6M payout — Competitive Overwatch may return, but not in its current form. — Earlier this year, Activision Blizzard expressed doubt …
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Unsealed court documents allegedly show how Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly thwarted initiatives meant to improve the well-being of teens on Facebook and Instagram — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives meant to improve the well-being of teens on Facebook and Instagram …
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| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
A US judge rules that automakers' use of on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept owners' texts and call logs doesn't violate Washington state law — A federal judge on Tuesday refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google expands its Search Generative Experience to 120+ new countries and territories and adds support for Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and Indonesian languages — Google is bringing its Search Generative Experience (SGE) to more than 120 new countries, including Mexico, Brazil, South Korea …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to add Windows Copilot to Windows 10, still on ~1B monthly active devices, after adding the AI assistant to Windows 11 in September — Microsoft wants to get Windows Copilot in front of as many users as possible. — Microsoft began rolling out its new AI assistant …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy AI, a “comprehensive mobile AI experience” that includes a translation feature called AI Live Translate Call, coming “early next year” — Samsung wants to make sure you know it cares about AI, too. In a new blog post, the company previewed what it calls … | Connor Jones / The Register: |
Atlassian raises the severity rating of a vulnerability in its Confluence Data Center and Server to maximum, and confirms the flaw is being actively exploited — Attackers secure admin rights after vendor said they could only steal data — Atlassian reassessed the severity rating …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney CEO Bob Iger says a beta test of an app combining Disney+ and Hulu will launch in December 2023 and an official launch will follow in spring 2024 — Disney, which is in the home stretch of swinging the deal to become the full owner of Hulu, will launch a beta test of an app next month …
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it's grappling with “abnormal traffic” and has spotted signs of a DDoS attack resulting in periodic outages of its services — - OpenAI says on its site it's grappling with “abnormal traffic” — The US startup introduced a preview version of GPT-4 Turbo| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub plans to release a Copilot Enterprise plan that lets companies customize for their codebase, available from February 2024 for $39 per month per user — GitHub today announced plans for an enterprise subscription tier that will allow companies to fine-tune its Copilot pair-programmer based on their internal codebase.
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.03B, vs. $985M est., 306K+ active customer accounts, vs. 280K+ YoY, and a Q4 guidance above estimates; TWLO jumps 7%+ — Shares of the communications and customer engagement platform provider Twilio Inc. rose more than 7% in late trading today … | Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Take-Two reports Q2 net bookings down 4% YoY to $1.44B, net revenue down 7% YoY to $1.3B, and forecasts Q3 net bookings below expectations — Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO.O) on Wednesday forecast third-quarter net bookings below market expectations, hurt by a slowdown in spending …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
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| Kate Irwin / Decrypt: |
Game developers, voice actors, writers, and others criticize Inworld AI and Xbox partnering to create AI game development tools, after layoffs in the industry — Microsoft is making more AI tools, but game industry talent are very concerned that the Xbox AI push will lead to more job losses.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Epic v. Google: Google exec Purnima Kochikar says Google offered to pay Epic $147M over a three years period ending in 2021 to launch Fortnite on Play Store — Google has confirmed in court that Epic was offered a $147 million deal to launch its hit game Fortnite on Android's Google Play store.| Tom Krisher / Associated Press: |
Cruise recalls all 950 of its autonomous cars to update their software after one dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street on October 2 — General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update software after one of them dragged a pedestrian …
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X: @zacestrada, @kirstenkorosec, and @audreylafrst. LinkedIn: Missy Cummings. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Bessie Liu / Blockworks: |
Ritual, which is building a network for decentralized AI models, emerges from stealth with a $25M seed led by Archetype, and plans to launch in early 2024 — The Ritual platform is set to launch in early 2024 — Decentralized AI platform Ritual came out of stealth after securing $25 million in a seed funding round led by Archetype.
More: Ritual, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, Fortune, and The Block
| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
Sony reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$18.5B, operating profit down 29% YoY to ~$1.74B, chips division profit down 38%, and 4.9M PS5 sales, vs. 3.3M in Q2 2022 — Sony's (6758.T) operating profit fell 29% in the July-September quarter as the company was hit by a weaker performance at its image sensor and financial divisions.
More: Bloomberg, Nikkei Asia, Variety, CNBC, and The Wrap
| Washington Post: |
Tech executives and officials detail how the Indian government used new rules, censorship, and law enforcement to break Twitter's resistance to takedown orders — NEW DELHI — For years, a committee of executives from U.S. technology companies and Indian officials convened every two weeks …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bob Iger says Disney “would like to stay” in India as Hotstar struggles to avoid churn; Hotstar lost ~23M subscribers in the past year including 2.8M in Q4 2023 — Bob Iger said Wednesday that Disney “would like to stay” in India and is considering its options in the world's … Sponsor Posts
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