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| Chris Velazco / Washington Post: |
Nothing plans to roll out an early version of Nothing Chats, a Sunbird-based app that lets Phone (2) users send iMessages to iPhone contacts, on November 17 — Nothing, Sunbird and other upstarts are taking iMessage where it's never been before — Here's a glimmer of hope for anyone …
More: Nothing on YouTube, Ars Technica, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, Android Authority, Business Today, T3, Inverse, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, ExtremeTech, Digital Trends, MobileSyrup, The Messenger, Engadget, Macworld, Liliputing, iClarified, iMore, TechRadar, PCMag, Lifewire, IGN, GSMArena.com, Stuff, Android Police, BGR, SamMobile, AppleInsider, Android Central, Droid Life, CNET, and MSPoweruser
Threads: @wongmjane, @nothing, @danseifert, @danseifert, @carnage4life, @chrispirillo, @mishaal_rahman, @parkerortolani, @mishaal_rahman, @saltrif, and @parkerortolani
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Forums: r/technology, r/iphone, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Ryan McNeal / Android Authority: |
To use iMessage via Nothing Chats, users must log in to their iCloud account, and iMessages will be sent via 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: The Verge, 9to5Google, Notebookcheck, nextpit, Appuals, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, and ZDNet. Forums: r/LightPhone
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Intel patches a bug affecting virtually all modern Intel CPUs that allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors, a risk to cloud providers in particular — Among other things, bug allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors. — Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates …
More: Tavis Ormandy, BleepingComputer, Google Cloud Blog, and The Register
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Forums: Slashdot and Ars OpenForum
| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind details weather forecasting AI model GraphCast, more accurate than the best conventional systems for three to 10 day predictions, an AI first — Google DeepMind's model beat world's leading system in 90% of metrics used and took only a fraction of the time
More: Google DeepMind, Science, MarkTechPost, TechCrunch, Nature, South China Morning Post, Wired, Washington Post, Digital Trends, New York Post, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, The Decoder, Tech Brew, Telegraph, Engadget, MIT Technology Review, BGR, Gizmodo, TNW, The Messenger, and The Verge
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure as part of a September plea deal with Sergei Makinin, the hacker behind the operation — The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure this week following a September plea deal with the hacker behind the operation.
More: US Department of Justice, Hackread, Intezer, PCMag, SiliconANGLE, BleepingComputer, The Register, and Flashpoint
X: @intezerlabs and @shanmcf
| Nicola Davis / The Guardian: |
A study found that AI-generated photos of faces, particularly white faces, were perceived as more real by survey participants than photos of actual people — Photographs were seen as less realistic than computer images but there was no difference with pictures of people of colour| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Civitai, where users share AI models and AI-made images, including nonconsensual porn of real people, debuts a bounties feature and raised a $5.1M a16z-led seed — Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early investor in Facebook …
More: TechCrunch and Engadget
Threads: @moskov, @thebrianpenny, and @alex.pagliuca
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU lawmakers are on a tricky knife edge hammering out the AI Act's final shape, as France and Germany push for a regulatory carve-out for foundation models — Negotiations between European Union lawmakers tasked with reaching a compromise on a risk-based framework for regulating applications …
More: Euractiv, Euractiv, The Information, and The Decoder
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Crypto exchange and wallet service Blockchain.com raised a $110M Series E led by Kingsway, a source says at less than half of its $14B valuation in spring 2022 — - Prior investor Kingsway led the Series E funding round — Raise leaves valuation at less than half of prior $14 billion| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Notion unveils Q&A, an AI assistant that answers questions using info from a user's files and apps, as part Notion's AI add-on for $8 to $10 per user per month — The first killer app of AI for businesses, it appears, is a simple thing: to be able to find information in the morass of files …
More: Notion, Supervised, Forbes, and ZDNet
| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Epic v. Google: Sundar Pichai confirms Google paid Apple 36% of the search revenue generated on iPhones, saying the total payment “was well over $10B” in 2022 — Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive, testified on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks to defend his company against monopoly claims.| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge rejects efforts by Alphabet, ByteDance, Meta, and Snap to dismiss hundreds of lawsuits accusing them of enticing and addicting children to their apps — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected efforts by major social media companies to dismiss nationwide litigation accusing …
More: SiliconANGLE, United States District Court, The Verge, The Information, PYMNTS.com, and Search Engine Journal
Threads: @sarabear1317. X: @jess_miers, @jkosseff, @cagoldberglaw, @rebeccamkern, @cagoldberglaw, and @garossino
| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is pausing new ChatGPT Plus signups “for a bit” as “the surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity” — OpenAI has paused new ChatGPT Plus signups due to overwhelming demand for new features introduced at recent DevDay conference.
Source: @sama. More: Business Today, Bloomberg, MSPoweruser, and Analytics India Magazine. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they have uploaded realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including using AI 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 …
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X: @youtubeliaison, @youtubecreators, @nealmohan, @kwebbelkop, @dwiskus, and @kattenbarge. LinkedIn: Usman Bin Khalid. Forums: r/aiwars
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Khosla Ventures is raising a $500M seed fund, a $1.6B venture fund, and a $900M growth fund, larger than their $300M, $1B, and $550M predecessors, respectively — The fundraise is one of the largest completed by a VC firm this year, defying startup slump — Khosla Ventures is in the final stages … | Eyal Press / New Yorker: |
A look at some wrongful arrests in the US due to bad facial recognition matches, and how “automation bias” could lead police to ignore contradictory evidence — Too often, a facial-recognition search represents virtually the entirety of a police investigation.
More: The Information. X: @newyorker, @newyorker, @kashhill, @eyalpress, @glynco, @newyorker, @openmicmedia, and @datasociety
| CNBC: |
Airbnb acquires GamePlanner.AI, its first acquisition as a public company, to accelerate some of its AI projects; sources: deal is valued at just under $200M — - 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.| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Unciphered, which helps recover cryptocurrency, finds a BitcoinJS flaw in some wallets made before 2016 and says that 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.
More: Unciphered, Gizmodo, The Hill, PCMag, and Web3 is Going Just Great
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
WhatsApp for Android's chat and media backups will count toward the Google Account storage limit for beta users as of December 2023, and for all users in 2024 — Google and WhatsApp today announced a change wherein WhatsApp chat and media backups on Android will “start counting toward …
More: Engadget, WhatsApp, Google Help Center, Google, Ghacks, WABetaInfo, MSPoweruser, SamMobile, Droid Life, Wareable, Android Authority, and Android Police
X: @teja2495 and @techykaptan
| 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, 9to5Mac, CNBC, MacDailyNews, BGR, Financial Times, RTÉ, and Reuters
X: @htsfhickey and @benlovejoy
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