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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD launches the Instinct MI325X GPUs to compete with Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell chips, and plans to start production before the end of 2024 — AMD launched a new artificial-intelligence chip on Thursday that is taking direct aim at Nvidia's data center graphics processors, known as GPUs.
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| Gavin Bonshor / The Register: |
Intel unveils its Arrow Lake desktop processors, with an NPU, better power efficiency at higher clock speeds, and 2X the graphics performance vs. its 14th Gen — New silicon, new architecture, and loads of new motherboards rise to support it, but will power be anchored down?
More: The Verge, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, Game Rant, PC Gamer, TweakTown, How-To Geek, Digital Trends, PCWorld, Wccftech, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, Guru3D, HotHardware, PCGamesN, Laptop Mag, ExtremeTech, XDA Developers, and Club386
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| Jack Kubinec / Blockworks: |
Stripe reintegrates crypto payments in the US, letting users pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, after disabling the feature in 2018 — Customers can pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, while US-based merchants are paid in dollars| Bloomberg: |
Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services — Apple will begin selling TV+ subscriptions through Prime later this month, Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Amazon Prime Video …
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| Joyu Wang / Wall Street Journal: |
Taiwan says China detained four employees at Foxconn's iPhone factory in Zhengzhou and says Foxconn said it didn't suffer a financial loss tied to their actions — Taiwan says investor confidence may be damaged after four Taiwanese are held — TAIPEI—Four Taiwanese employees …
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
WordPress.org adds a checkbox to confirm users aren't “affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise” before they log in or register an account — WordPress.org users are now required to agree that they are not affiliated with website hosting platform WP Engine before logging in.| David Heinemeier Hansson / HEY: |
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| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
The FBI reveals it created Ethereum-based token NexFundAI with the help of “cooperating witnesses” to investigate price manipulation in crypto markets — The FBI created a cryptocurrency as part of an investigation into price manipulation in crypto markets, the government revealed Wednesday.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9 — Internet Archive's “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole …
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
How Ryan Salame, an FTX executive who gave millions to GOP politicians, and Michelle Bond, who ran for Congress, went from crypto power couple to facing prison — Ryan Salame, an FTX executive, and Michelle Bond, a crypto policy advocate, were once a Washington power couple. Now they both face prison time.
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose term ended in September 2024, as a bipartisan club of tech figures and VCs, including Reid Hoffman, call for her ouster — Biden's FTC chair has toughened merger oversight, taken on noncompetes and made the donor class crazy.
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| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Four of Musk's Tesla direct reports, including its CIO and global vehicle automation and safety policy lead, recently resigned, ahead of Tesla's robotaxi event — - Four Tesla execs announced in the past week that they were leaving or had already left the company.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Chinese researchers debut AI model Pyramid Flow, which makes a five-second, 384p video in 56 seconds, built using a new technique called pyramidal flow matching — The number of AI video generation models continues to grow with a new one, Pyramid Flow, launching this week … | Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
ByteDance debuts its first earbuds, open-ear wearables called Ola Friend that have audio access to its Doubao chatbot, shipping on October 17 in China for ~$170 — The Ola Friend earphones are linked to ByteDance's self-developed chatbot, Doubao, currently China's most popular GenAI app
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI says it has disrupted 20+ operations and deceptive networks in 2024 so far that tried to use its models, including four that had election-related content — OpenAI is increasingly becoming a platform of choice for cyber actors looking to influence democratic elections across the globe.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A SCOTUS decision means that the US now legally owns the 69,370 BTC obtained during its Silk Road probe; the ex-IRS agent who seized them is in a Nigerian jail — The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Numeric, which wants to use AI to automate accounting tasks, raised a $28M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, five months after raising a $10M seed — Accountants generally dread month-end and quarter-end closings. That's because finalizing financial records for a specific period is generally a manual … | CNBC: |
Sources detail Meta's work on a consumer version of Orion, which could be built within two years, plans to bring Orion wristband tech to its other devices, more — When Facebook changed its name to Meta in October 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the occasion to show the world his vision …
Threads: @jonathan_vanian_1 and @salrodriguez
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
An investigation details a $243M crypto heist in August 2024 where attackers used a phone-based social engineering attack on a user of Gemini's crypto exchange — The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August …
More: Cybernews.com. Mastodon: @acdha@thepit.social and @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
X: @moo9000 and @cybernews
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/Connecticut
| BBC: |
The US and UK announce a joint agreement aimed at keeping children safer online, including the setting up of an online safety working group to share expertise — The argument over smartphones in schools has been “won”, the technology secretary Peter Kyle has told the BBC …
More: TechCrunch, GOV.UK, Reuters, ComputerWeekly.com, London Evening Standard, and The Independent
| Financial Times: |
How Google plans to deflect and delay the US breakup threat; a remedies ruling is likely in mid-2025 and legal timelines may let it put off any impact for years — Search group claims regulators are overreaching just as foreign and domestic rivals are gaining ground
More: Bloomberg, Ars Technica, MediaPost, ITPro, Techstrong.ai, The Nation, Barron's Online, and ComputerWeekly.com
X: @adamkovac, @leehepner, @econliberties, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
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