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| Zoë Schiffer / The Verge: |
A look at Twitter's culture prior to Elon Musk's acquisition, when the company focused on improving the health of online conversations, not growth at all costs — the early '10s, Twitter was at the height of its power. The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role …
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Threads: @martinsfp, @qasimnauman, @reckless1280, @m0qazi, @andyyang, @technicallymims, @shaneafsar, @cdylanparks, @j.b.robertson, @luke.pfister, @racsterls, @mikecvet, @mikecvet, and @reporterzoe
Mastodon: @anzet@zeppelin.flights and @reichenstein@mastodon.social
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Sources: X generated just over $600M in ad revenue in each of 2023's first three quarters, down from $1B+ per quarter in 2022 and on track for ~$2.5B in 2023 — - X to miss internal goals for ad revenue, people familiar say — Musk's personal tweets continue to scare off advertisers
More: Newser, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, The Verge, and 9to5Mac
Threads: @carnage4life, @pkafka, @alexkantrowitz, @esg.hound, and @ashzade_. Bluesky: @intelwire.bsky.social
X: @kantrowitz and @_danilo
| Keith Laing / Bloomberg: |
Tesla plans to update Autopilot in 2M+ vehicles after the NHTSA issued a recall and called its safety measures inadequate and open to misuse, after a long probe — - US regulator finds system doesn't do enough to prevent misuse — Agency will keep defect investigation open, monitor remedies
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X: @carlquintanilla, @troyteslike, @zsk, @wholemarsblog, @wholemarsblog, and @tomgara. Forums: Hacker News
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Apple updates its law enforcement guidelines to now require a judge's order before handing over users' push notification data, instead of only a subpoena — Apple (AAPL.O) has said it now requires a judge's order to hand over information about its customers' push notification to law enforcement … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: 3AC co-founder Su Zhu for the first time faced questioning in a Singapore court about the fund's collapse; Teneo estimates 3AC owes creditors ~$3.3B — - Failed crypto fund's co-founder Zhu was arrested in September — Liquidators seek information for creditors owed $3.3 billion
More: Decrypt, CoinDesk, The Block, CryptoSlate, Cryptonews, Cointelegraph, Blockonomi, CryptoPotato, Default, crypto.news, Watcher Guru, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Metaverse Post. X: @clemtan
| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The EU Council and Parliament agree a deal to reclassify millions of ride-hailing and food delivery app workers as staff, possibly costing the industry billions — European Union negotiators backed a deal to reclassify millions of people working for ride-hailing and food-delivery apps … | Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Google's Epic loss, where a jury found Google guilty on all 11 antitrust claims, may portend its legal fate in two, more significant US antitrust cases in 2024 — A trio of antitrust cases on the docket threaten to reshape Google's business and sap its profits.
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X: @jason_kint, @mishichoudhary, @mschruers, and @mschruers
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple releases an iOS beta with Stolen Device Protection; if enabled, the feature limits actions like Apple ID password resets when not in a “familiar location” — Stolen Device Protection can prevent criminals from using your passcode to change your Apple account
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| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Axel Springer signs a multiyear licensing deal with OpenAI, which will pay to use content from Politico, Business Insider, and others to train its AI models — Generative-AI company reaches multiyear pact with owner of Politico, Business Insider and major European properties| Malak Saleh / Engadget: |
Meta is working to extend its fact-checking to Threads early next year; its fact-checking now only rates Threads content matching posts on Facebook or Instagram — The program will roll out next year, according to executives. — Threads is going to make an effort to moderate more of the user-generated content on the platform.
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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Asset Management debuts Project Diamond, combining Coinbase's custody tools, wallet, L2 network Base, and Circle's USDC to create a capital marketplace — “Project Diamond” lets institutions create and trade digital native versions of financial instruments such as debt using Base in a regulated manner.| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple expands Self Service Repair to the iPhone 15 lineup and M2 Macs, brings the program to 24 new countries, and releases an Apple Diagnostics tool in the US — Apple today announced it has expanded its Self Service Repair program to cover the iPhone 15 lineup and Mac models powered by M2 chips …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google, Meta, Qualcomm, and seven other tech companies form the Coalition for Open Digital Ecosystems, aiming to promote open digital ecosystems in the EU — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Meta Platforms (META.O), Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and seven other tech companies on Wednesday teamed up to push … | Alexander Martin / The Record: |
A parliamentary report warns the UK is vulnerable to a “catastrophic ransomware attack at any moment” because of the government's failures to tackle ransomware — Because of the British government's failures to tackle ransomware, there is a “high risk” the country faces a … | Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate claims to have hacked Russia's state tax service and that Russia has been trying to restore the service for four days — Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate (GUR) said it infected thousands of servers belonging to Russia's state tax service with malware …
More: Reuters, gur.gov.ua, Cybernews.com, Security Affairs, BleepingComputer, and OODA Loop
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix publishes its first What We Watched report, detailing the most-watched content from January to June 2023; The Night Agent was #1 with 812M+ hours viewed — Netflix is going to start publishing a new report twice a year that details the most popular shows and movies on the platform.| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Google announces Gemini Pro for enterprises, letting developers build apps, available for free at launch with limits, and adds Pro to AI Studio and Vertex AI — Gemini Pro is aimed at businesses and app developers — Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced a slate of upgraded artificial intelligence features …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
The FCC issues a final denial of Starlink's request for $885M to expand rural coverage, saying Starlink “failed to demonstrate” an ability to offer the service — The FCC has made a final denial of Starlink's application for $885 million in public funds to expand … | Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Foxconn plans to invest at least $1B more, on top of the $1.6B allocated earlier, in to its 300-acre Bengaluru plant to make Apple devices — - World's largest iPhone maker setting aside more money for site — Apple's partners are shifting capacity away from China
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Reuters, Patently Apple, and Business Today
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft warns that threat actors are misusing OAuth apps to automate phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for crypto mining — Microsoft warns that financially-motivated threat actors are using OAuth applications to automate BEC and phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for cryptomining.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases Phi-2, an AI language model the company says outperforms Mistral and Llama 2 at 7B and 13B parameters and is small enough to run on a phone — The rapid pace of generative AI news and announcements isn't slowing down, even as we reach the final stretches of 2023 and the traditional winter holiday quiet period.
More: Microsoft Research, Decrypt, WinBuzzer, Analytics India Magazine, SiliconANGLE, and The Information
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
A Pew survey of US adults finds ~38% support a federal TikTok ban, down from 50% in March 2023; Republicans' support of a ban dropped from 60% to 50% — A new Pew survey suggests that the Republican-led push to ban the app will face a huge challenge in persuading voters, many of whom use the app themselves
More: The Hill, Associated Press, Tubefilter, Music Ally, Silicon Florist, and New York Times
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses as an early access beta in the US, letting Meta AI answer voice queries by taking and analyzing photos — I tried these Ray-Ban AI glasses, and they're pretty wild. Here's how the experimental feature works. — “Hey, Meta.
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X: @haltor, @heaney555, @jetscott, and @jetscott
LinkedIn: Lee Callender and Neil Redding
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google plans to shorten Maps' default auto-delete history feature from 18 months to three months and let users store Maps Timeline data locally on their devices — Google Maps has gotten some fun updates recently, and now it's offering some more privacy-forward tweaks as it adds more ways to control your location data.| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division announces the end of perpetual licenses and a move to subscriptions, and simplifies its product portfolio — Also kills perpetual licenses, adds a vSphere bundle for smaller users — +COMMENT Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division has announced …
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