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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google updates Lens to let users take a video and use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile — If you can't capture what you want to search for with just a picture, Google Lens will now let you take a video — and even use your voice to ask about what you're seeing.
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LinkedIn: Rachel Gruner and Robby Stein
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
More: Google, MSPoweruser, MEDIANAMA, WinBuzzer, Semafor, Adweek, XDA Developers, Thurrott, The Drum, Search Engine Land, The Information, Fortune, and Search Engine Journal
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @yifanlu@mastodon.social
X: @lilyraynyc, @newsfromgoogle, and @glenngabe
LinkedIn: Shashidhar, Dan Taylor, and Vidhya Srinivasan
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: South China Morning Post, Hindustan Times, TipRanks Financial, Business Standard, SE Ranking Blog, Android Police, Associated Press, Adweek, Mashable, and 9to5Google
X: @pbannist, @jason_kint, @lilyraynyc, @ajkohn, @pbannist, @lilyraynyc, @lilyraynyc, and @jackmarshall. Forums: r/artificial
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring 2025, will have Apple's first 5G modem, the iPhone 15's rear camera, and an A18 and 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence — Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches canvas, a ChatGPT interface with a workspace for writing and coding projects, similar to Anthropic's Artifacts, in beta for Plus and Team users — OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.”
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Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …. X: @karinanguyen_, @openai, @btibor91, @openai, @benjamindekr, @openai, @sama, @sama, @sama, @altcap, @pranaveight, @bilawalsidhu, @localghost, @emollick, @deedydas, @nbashaw, @maxwinebach, @paul_cal, @morqon, @noahlt, @andrewcurran_, @_jasonwei, @stokel, @reece___rogers, @ryanmorrisonjer, @ctjlewis, @yoheinakajima, @emollick, @itsurboyevan, @gdb, @sulmanrc, @iansilber, @ericsmith1302, @bradlightcap, @danielmiessler, @openai, @rowancheung, @romainhuet, and @openaidevs
LinkedIn: Minisha Goel and Daniel Levine
Forums: r/ChatGPTPro, r/cursor, and Slashdot
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, or ~8.4% of staff, took a “generous” severance package offered to those who disagreed with WordPress' direction — Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package …
More: Matt Mullenweg and Automattic
Mastodon: @preshit@mastodon.social and @shawnhooper@fosstodon.org
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
More: Automattic, Ars Technica, Kellie Peterson, MEDIANAMA, CIO.com, The Verge, Tedium, The Information, Engadget, Automattic, and The Register
Mastodon: @fraying@xoxo.zone and @aardrian@toot.cafe
X: @gergelyorosz, @wpengine, @kellie, @hashim_warren, @ericlbarnes, @chriswallace, @billy_boozer, @miprofithunter, @sc_codeum, @hashim_warren, @ryancduff, @ryancduff, @cowkitty, @ctrlaltdwayne, @jeffr0, @ryancduff, @zimm3rmann, @dwlz, @blackqueeriroh, @bgardner, and @automattic. Forums: r/technology
| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016 — - Russian group Star Blizzard targeted civil society, US says — Group has conducted election influence operations in UK
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LinkedIn: Jeremy Dallman, Ben Johnson, and Amy Hogan-Burney
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking — Apple today released iPadOS 18..1 for the iPad, and it brings iPadOS 18 to the for M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since …
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X: @markgurman, @aaronp613, @brandonbutch, @stephenrobles, @iryantldr, and @tgod34748
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems — The European Union's top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta's data retention policies.
More: The Markup, Reuters, noyb, Politico, RTÉ, BBC, Associated Press, Fortune, Court of Justice of the European Union, and Bloomberg
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google is “running a small experiment” showing blue verified checkmarks beside business links in its search results that indicate the company is genuine — Google is experimenting with a new verification feature in search that should make it easier for users to avoid clicking on fake or fraudulent website links.| Lucy Craymer / Reuters: |
Google says it'll stop linking to news content and drop its deals with news orgs in New Zealand if NZ passes a law forcing digital platforms to pay for content — Google said on Friday it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles and ditch the agreements it has with local news organisations … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model blames “a bug in the initial code for benchmarking”, after evaluators couldn't reproduce some claimed results — On September 5th, 2024, Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of the startup Hyperwrite AI (also known as OthersideAI) … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
CCData: Binance's trading volume in the $2T digital asset market fell from 42.7% at the start of 2024 to 36.6% in September, the lowest share since January 2021 — - Overall market share fell to 36.6% last month, CCData says — Binance saw the most severe share drop among top exchanges
More: Protos, NewsBTC, crypto.news, and CoinDesk
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube updates Shorts with the ability for creators to upload up to three-minute videos, a streamlined Shorts player, templates, and a new trends mobile page — YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts.
More: YouTube Official Blog, Tech Advisor, The Hindu, ZDNET, The Verge, PetaPixel, MySmartPrice, Phandroid, The Shortcut, Music Ally, Android Authority, 9to5Google, RM Update News, Sammy Fans, esports.gg, Press Start, GSMArena.com, Creator Insider on YouTube, Android Police, MobileSyrup, Android Central, Android Headlines, Search Engine Journal, Tubefilter, Engadget, Dexerto, PhoneArena, MakeUseOf, Thurrott, What's Trending, NewsBytes, and Mashable
X: @youtubeliaison, @stufflistings, @liahaberman, @robbydude, @yodontmentionme, @nealmohan, @bricksbymind, @teamyoutube, @0marutg, @youtubeliaison, and @reneritchie
LinkedIn: Vadim Lavrusik and Gwen Miller
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
How Sam Altman concentrated his power as OpenAI's CEO since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; source: Altman is not looking to hire a CTO for now — Five years ago, OpenAI was a scrappy startup run by a handful of executives, with a heavy emphasis on research.
More: Observer, Neowin, Legit.ng, and DatacenterDynamics
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
More: OpenAI, Silicon Republic, Maginative, Forbes, PYMNTS.com, The Information, San Francisco Business Times, Benzinga, New York Times, Bloomberg, Engadget, TechCrunch, Business Standard, Quartz, and Bloomberg
X: @carnage4life, @divestech, @emostaque, @ericgarland, @ryan_browne_, @amir, @beth_kindig, @beth_kindig, @morningbrew, @bgurley, @semil, @rohanpaul_ai, @andrewcurran_, @grady_booch, @haydenfield, and @togelius
Forums: r/singularity, r/technology, and Slashdot
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