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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, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, The Messenger, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Engadget, Macworld, Inverse, ZDNet, Liliputing, MobileSyrup, Wccftech, ExtremeTech, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, Appuals, Phandroid, PCMag, Pocket-lint, iMore, TechRadar, IGN, Android Central, SamMobile, Android Police, AppleInsider, CNET, Lifewire, Redmond Pie, BGR, GSMArena.com, Stuff, Droid Life, Notebookcheck, and Phone Scoop
Threads: @chrispirillo, @carnage4life, @danseifert, @mishaal_rahman, @mishaal_rahman, @saltrif, @parkerortolani, @parkerortolani, and @danseifert
X: @nothing, @jonesyoutubejt, @ianzelbo, @mkbhd, @om, @nandoprince93, @theryanprhodes, @abhishekmarkets, @getpeid, @camcovington, and @nothing. LinkedIn: Kyle Kiang
Forums: r/technology and r/iphone
| 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, MacRumors, CNET, MobileSyrup, Supercharged, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Forums: Slashdot
| 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 …
More: YouTube Official Blog, The Verge, 9to5Google, NPR, SiliconANGLE, NBC News, The Hill, Insider, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, BGR, Social Media Today, IGN, Mashable, The Messenger, The Decoder, MSPoweruser, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Neowin, PCMag, The Guardian, WRAL TechWire, iPhone in Canada Blog, Kotaku, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Cybernews.com, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard
| 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
| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind details weather forecasting AI model GraphCast AI, 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, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Tech Brew, Telegraph, Washington Post, The Decoder, Wired, Engadget, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, BGR, TNW, and The Messenger
X: @googledeepmind, @aravindeo, @joenandez, @peterwbattaglia, @googledeepmind, @rlove, 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, Voicebot.ai, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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LinkedIn: Kinan Faham, John J Boren, Tom Elliott, Sanjay Kalra, Sumit Chachra, Peter Connolly, Stefan Blickensdörfer, Rushi Luhar, Daniel Ayub, Christopher Bull, Daniel Tunkelang, and Emrul Zawad
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, and r/MediaSynthesis
| 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: PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Search Engine Journal, and United States District Court
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| 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.| 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 … | 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: WhatsApp, PYMNTS.com, Android Police, Droid Life, Android Authority, Google, WABetaInfo, and Wareable
X: @teja2495 and @techykaptan
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU lawmakers struggle to reach a compromise on the final shape of the AI Act, as France and Germany push for a regulatory carve-out for foundational models — Negotiations between European Union lawmakers tasked with reaching a compromise on a risk-based framework for regulating applications …
More: Euractiv, Euractiv, and The Decoder
X: @ai_ctrl, @zach_cer, @stevesi, @bertuzluca, @tegmark, @ylecun, and @krishnanrohit
| 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 …
More: Crunchbase News
| 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: |
More: HotHardware, SiliconANGLE, HPCwire, Wccftech, ExtremeTech, TechPowerUp, PCMag, The Register, Phoronix, The Next Platform, insideHPC, The New Stack, and Network World
X: @agamsh, @eurohpc_ju, @hpc_guru, @hpc_guru, @intelai, @iancutress, and @eurocc_sweden. LinkedIn: Conrado Villasenor. Forums: r/hardware
| 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, Irish Council …, and Forbes
X: @johnnyryan, @wolfiechristl, @floorter, and @johnnyryan
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Unciphered, which helps recover cryptocurrency, finds a LibbitcoinJS 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: Gizmodo, PCMag, Unciphered, and Web3 is Going Just Great
| 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
| 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 … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Anu Hariharan, the former head of YC Continuity, which Y Combinator scrapped in March 2023, started Avra, a “YC for growth” fund aiming to raise ~$350M — Anu Hariharan, who led YC Continuity before the storied accelerator scrapped the program, has partnered … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Notion unveils Q&A, an AI assistant that gives answers using information from a user's workspace, as part of the $8-$10/month-per-person Notion AI add-on — 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, ZDNet, and Forbes
X: @gerrardl_, @nicolas_ouporov, @notionhq, @akothari, @bentossell, @josephmwood, and @rauchg
| 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 …
More: iTnews, Thurrott, WinBuzzer, and The Information
| 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, Techdirt, and Center for Democracy …
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