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| Chris Velazco / Washington Post: |
Nothing plans to roll out an early version of Nothing Chats, which can send iMessages to contacts with iPhones, to Phone (2) users, in partnership with Sunbird — Nothing, Sunbird and other upstarts are taking iMessage where it's never been before — Here's a glimmer of hope for anyone …
More: The Verge, Nothing on YouTube, 9to5Google, PCMag, Android Police, AppleInsider, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, Inverse, TechRadar, IGN, Lifewire, GSMArena.com, Stuff, BGR, SamMobile, Android Central, Droid Life, CNET, and Phone Scoop
Threads: @danseifert, @danseifert, @carnage4life, @chrispirillo, @mishaal_rahman, @parkerortolani, @mishaal_rahman, @saltrif, and @parkerortolani
X: @ianzelbo, @theryanprhodes, @abhishekmarkets, @camcovington, @mkbhd, @getpeid, @jonesyoutubejt, @nandoprince93, and @nothing. Forums: Slashdot
| Ryan McNeal / Android Authority: |
To use Nothing's new Nothing Chats, users must connect their iCloud account to send iMessages, run from a virtual Mac mini, which may weaken data security — Nothing Chats will be exclusive to the Nothing Phone 2. — TL;DR — Nothing is launching a new messaging app called Nothing Chats on November 17.
More: ZDNet, Redmond Pie, Supercharged, and OS X Daily
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they have uploaded realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including using its own tools, in 2024 — Site's creators who repeatedly fail to disclose AI use will face penalties — YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet Inc.'s Google … | Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind details GraphCast AI, a weather forecasting AI that is more accurate for 3-10 day predictions than the best conventional systems, a first for AI — Google DeepMind's model beat world's leading system in 90% of metrics used and took only a fraction of the time
More: Science, Google DeepMind, Engadget, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Messenger, MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, TNW, Wired, and BGR
X: @joenandez, @peterwbattaglia, @googledeepmind, @googledeepmind, @rlove, @aravindeo, and @demishassabis. LinkedIn: Michael Eigenmann. Forums: Hacker News
| James Somers / New Yorker: |
A eulogy for coding, which has felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after LLMs swallowed bodies of knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master — Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
More: Unite.AI and Voicebot.ai
Mastodon: @mergesort@macaw.social, @shish@techhub.social, @carnage4life@mas.to, @jgordon@appdot.net, and @craigmod@mastodon.social
X: @dannygroner, @thorstenball, @ianpatterson99, @chrismaddern, @diopfode, @ldignan, @cloudmarooned, and @pbwinston
LinkedIn: Tom Elliott, Peter Connolly, Emrul Zawad, Sanjay Kalra, Stefan Blickensdörfer, Daniel Ayub, Christopher Bull, Daniel Tunkelang, John J Boren, Kinan Faham, Rushi Luhar, and Sumit Chachra
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, and r/MediaSynthesis
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Google's main economics expert says Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue earned from search ads via Safari, a figure that was meant to stay secret — Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google's defense at the Justice Department's antitrust trial in Washington.
More: Ars Technica, BBC, Insider, Silicon Valley Business …, The Verge, CNBC, Wccftech, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, New York Times, Android Authority, iDownloadBlog.com, PCMag, iMore, Android Headlines, iThinkDifferent, WinBuzzer, Digital Trends, WRAL TechWire, The Information, New York Post, Beyond Search, Gizmodo, Neowin, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Supercharged, BGR, 9to5Mac, iClarified, and AppleInsider
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Mastodon: @slightlyoff@toot.cafe, @slightlyoff@toot.cafe, @asymco@mastodon.social, and @schizanon@mas.to. Bluesky: @epro.social
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, Beehaw, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Civitai, where users share AI-made images, including nonconsensual porn of real people, announces a $5M seed led by a16z, after launching a “bounties” feature — Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early investor in Facebook … | Bloomberg: |
Foxconn reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$47.7B and net income up 11% YoY to ~$1.3B, and lowers its outlook for its components business to flat YoY — - It also revised down forecast for components business segment — Company beat average profit estimate in the September quarter
More: Nikkei Asia, CNBC, 9to5Mac, Financial Times, MacDailyNews, BGR, Reuters, and RTÉ
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Irish Council for Civil Liberties: data brokers collect and sell browsing data in greater detail than previously known, including on those in sensitive jobs — Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail
More: 9to5Mac, Forbes, and Irish Council …
X: @johnnyryan, @wolfiechristl, @floorter, and @johnnyryan
| Reuters: |
Sources: for over six months, the FBI has known the identities of 12+ hackers tied to the MGM and Caesars breaches, baffling experts by the lack of arrests — The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that's been tormenting corporate America … | Scott Patterson / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Aurora, the Intel- and HPE-made, Argonne National Laboratory-based supercomputer, set to be the first to hit two quintillion operations per second — That's two billion billion operations a second, enough to explore the brain and discover drugs — LEMONT, Ill.—Inside … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
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X: @agamsh, @eurohpc_ju, @hpc_guru, @hpc_guru, @intelai, @iancutress, and @eurocc_sweden. LinkedIn: Conrado Villasenor. Forums: r/hardware
| Nathan Grayson / Aftermath: |
Amazon restructures its games division to focus on free streaming games offered with Prime and eliminates 180+ jobs, the unit's second round of layoffs in 2023 — Video game workers just can't catch a break — Video game layoff season - an extension of what has basically …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, CNBC, The Information, Video Games Chronicle, Gamereactor UK, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Ghacks, KNSD-TV, Gameranx, Polygon, IGN, MobileSyrup, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, Game Rant, Seattle Business Journal, Stevivor, ComingSoon.net, Gizmodo, Neowin, GameSpot, Pocket Gamer.biz, Destructoid, Engadget, Thurrott, GeekWire, GamesIndustry.biz, Dot Esports, Game Developer, Kotaku, TheGamer, PC Games Insider, RAIN News, and Reuters
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Forums: r/newworldgame, r/gamingnews, r/gaming, r/Games, and Slashdot
| Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Filing: Google sues two men in California who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to spam Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices, targeting up to 620K URLs — Two men who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to bombard Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs … | Reuters: |
Microsoft and Google do not plan to challenge their EU DMA “gatekeeper” status, before a November 16 deadline; sources say TikTok and Meta may file challenges — Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google will not challenge an EU law that would require them to make it easier … | CNBC: |
Sources: Airbnb acquires Gameplanner.AI, in a deal valued at just under $200M, to accelerate some of its AI projects, its first acquisition as a public company — - Airbnb has made its first acquisition as a public company, in a deal valued at just under $200 million, sources familiar with the deal told CNBC.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Trump Media & Technology Group SPAC partner DWA's filing shows that Truth Social lost $73M on just $3.7M in net sales from its early 2022 launch through H1 2023 — The company that TMTG is planned to merge with, DWAC, broke out the surprising results in a securities filing Monday.
More: Reuters, Telegraph, Axios, NBC News, Forbes, Silicon Republic, Wccftech, MarketWatch, Deadline, The Hill, Rolling Stone, and The Messenger
Mastodon: @emilygorcenski@indieweb …. Bluesky: @alanbaxter.bsky.social, @lschmeiser.bsky.social, @cmhenry.bsky.social, and @caseynewton.bsky.social
X: @alexweprin, @davidlaz, @akilahobviously, @bradmossesq, @prestonjbyrne, @alexweprin, @tomaxwell, @asilbwrites, @alexweprin, and @kimmasters
LinkedIn: Patrick Mincey, Carol Raffi Tavares LidoAlbiza, and Daniel Tunkelang
Forums: Hacker News, r/AntiTrumpAlliance, r/Conservative, r/technology, r/politics, r/TimPool, r/Fauxmoi, r/DWAC, and r/uspolitics
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A profile of, and interview with, tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee on how he changed tech gadget reviews, business strategy, reaching 17.7M subscribers, and more — Marques Brownlee has rewired the way people shop for gadgets—and how companies sell them. Inside the humble workshop …
More: The Verge. Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon …. X: @mkbhd and @mikehofman. LinkedIn: Farul Mohd Ghazali
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out the option for users to delete their Threads profile without having to delete their Instagram account, addressing an early complaint with the app — Meta is rolling out a way for you to delete your Threads profile without having to delete your Instagram account, too.
More: New York Times, Gizmodo, PCMag, ZDNet, BBC, Android Authority, IGN, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, Sam Lover, Wccftech, SamMobile, MacRumors, Insider, MySmartPrice, FE Tech Bytes, KnowTechie, The Indian Express, The Economic Times, NewsBytes, Hindustan Times, Phandroid, Social Media Today, GSMArena.com, Neowin, Android Headlines, 9to5Mac, and Engadget
Threads: @mosseri, @mosseri, @parkerortolani, @kmarford, @guillecummings, @louisetilbrookdesigns, and @cmcalgary. Forums: r/technology
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Unciphered, a company that helps recover cryptocurrency, finds a flaw affecting some wallets made before 2016 and says up to $1B of crypto is at risk of theft — A company that helps recover cryptocurrency discovered a software flaw putting as much as $1 billion at risk from hackers.| Tonya Riley / Bloomberg Law: |
Over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups urge Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to not reauthorize FISA's Section 702, set to expire on December 31, 2023 — More than 30 civil liberties and privacy groups wrote to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday urging …
More: Wired, Wired, Washington Post, Cybernews.com, and Techdirt
X: @parents4privacy and @cendemtech
| Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg: |
Sources: instead of a 51% stake, Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its search engine, after pressures tied to Russia's war in Ukraine — - Deal to sell Russian unit may be announced in December — Dutch-registered Yandex previously planned to sell a 51% stake
More: Reuters
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