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A look at Elon Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump's campaign contacted X to stop the circulation of the hacked JD Vance dossier — Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself.
More: The Information, Alternet.org, CNN, The Hill, New York Magazine, Raw Story, Quartz, Mediaite, emptywheel, New Republic, and Washington Post
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Mastodon: @wendysiegelman@mastodon …, @Wileymiller@mastodon.social, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @metacurity@infosec.exchange, and @kevincollier@mastodon.social
X: @tvietor08, @timodc, @jason_kint, and @kevincollier
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/inthenews, r/politics, and r/pittsburgh
| Norman Goh / Nikkei Asia: |
ByteDance confirms laying off hundreds of TikTok content moderators in Malaysia and plans to invest $2B in 2024 in trust and safety; sources: 700+ were laid off — KUALA LUMPUR — ByteDance, the parent company of social media platform TikTok, confirmed on Friday that it will be laying off hundreds …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to test the ability to stream games that users own but aren't in the Xbox Game Pass library, starting with Xbox Insiders in November — Microsoft is planning to support the streaming of Xbox game libraries next month. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell …
More: 9to5Google, Game Rant, Android Headlines, MakeUseOf, Eurogamer.net, Kotaku, Digital Trends, Neowin, Benzinga, XboxEra, GameSpot, Wccftech, Trusted Reviews, Android Authority, and Windows Central
Forums: r/GeForceNOW, r/xcloud, r/xbox, and r/Games
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Faulty court filing redactions: TikTok executives were unconcerned with the harms the app poses for US teenagers, despite internal research validating concerns — For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers.
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LinkedIn: Cecily Kellogg, Scott Galloway, and Carl D. Marci
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/NPR, r/law, and r/technology
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Adam Mosseri attributes Instagram and Threads' moderation issues, causing users to lose access to their accounts, to human moderator “mistakes”, not AI systems — Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Friday addressed the moderation issues that saw Instagram and Threads users losing access …
More: The Verge, Digital Trends, Android Headlines, Thurrott, and Engadget
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk unveils a Tesla Cybercab prototype, claims “you will be able to buy one” for under $30K, and expects the robotaxi to be in production “before 2027” — Tesla has finally revealed its Cybercab, and it looks like a smaller, sleeker Cybertruck.
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LinkedIn: Patrick Gallagher, Emil Protalinski, and Prof. Ahmed Banafa
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Steam now tells its users that they're buying a license, not a game, ahead of a California law that forces companies to do so when customers “buy” digital media — The company appears to be getting ahead of a California law going into force next year.
More: The Verge, Ars Technica, PCWorld, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, IGN, MobileSyrup, Gameranx, PC Gamer, How-To Geek, TechSpot, Eurogamer.net, Mashable, Thurrott, PlayStation LifeStyle, Game Rant, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Neowin, PC Games Insider, and Cryptopolitan
Forums: r/SteamDeck, r/gamingnews, r/Games, r/pcgaming, r/technology, and r/technews
| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
The US NLRB accuses Apple of interfering with workers' rights to organize by restricting their social media and Slack use, its second Apple complaint in a month — Apple (AAPL.O) has been accused by a U.S. labor board of interfering with workers' rights to collectively advocate … | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Filing: in OpenAI's $6.6B round, Khosla Ventures invested $405M; the majority, or possibly all, was pooled from other investors via a special purpose vehicle — Khosla Ventures has raised $405 million for OpenAI, according to a regulatory filing. — Based on the filing alone … | Bloomberg: |
Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay — One August morning in south Brooklyn, Mohamed Mohamed did what he's done almost every day for nine years: He woke up at 5 a.m. …
More: New York Post, landing.podtrac.com, Benzinga, and FlowingData
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Forums: r/newyorkcity and r/nyc
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Nvidia-backed cloud GPU provider CoreWeave says it has a new $650M credit line and has raised $12.7B from equity and debt investors in the past 18 months — CoreWeave, an Nvidia-backed artificial intelligence startup that rents out chips to other companies, announced Friday …
More: Bloomberg, CoreWeave, Axios, Invezz, Tech Startups, and SiliconANGLE
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some parts of US broadband networks within the past week, and investigators don't know what they were seeking — In letters to AT&T, Verizon and Lumen, lawmakers ask about proposed measures the companies will take to protect U.S. wiretap systems
More: The Register, Nextgov/FCW, CyberScoop, Washington Examiner, The Record, and Bloomberg
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