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Apple now lets third-party browsers add web apps to an iPhone's Home Screen using their own custom engine in the EU in iOS 18.2 beta 1 — Apple last year introduced the ability for third-party web browsers to add web apps to the iOS Home Screen, a feature that was previously exclusive to Safari.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Microsoft: Russia, China, and Iran are stepping up cyber-influence efforts on the US election; China has focused on down-ballot candidates and Congress members — Russia, Iran, and China are targeting the US election with an evolving array of influence operations in the last days of campaign season.
More: Microsoft On the Issues, Metacurity, CSO, Associated Press, TechRadar, Recorded Future, Associated Press, Fox Business, Cybernews.com, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, US News, Times Of India on YouTube, India Today, Newsweek, Politico, The Indian Express, Benzinga, Neowin, CNN, Nextgov/FCW, Semafor, and CBS News
X: @irnaenglish, @senatorheinrich, @brianjliston, @recordedfuture, @msftissues, @msftsecintel, and @msftsecintel. LinkedIn: Tom Burt
Forums: r/technology, r/ParlerWatch, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/inthenews, r/politics, and Slashdot
| Catherine Belton / Washington Post: |
More: Election Law Blog and Dark Reading
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Forums: r/Intelligence, r/RussiaLago, r/craftofintelligence, and r/politics
| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Raspberry Pi unveils the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ in 13 and 26 TOPS versions in partnership with Hailo, after announcing branded SSDs, micro SD cards, and a bumper — Raspberry ‘AI’ — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.| Ian Curran / The Irish Times: |
The Irish Data Protection Commission fines LinkedIn €310M over using personal data for behavioral analysis and targeted ads under GDPR, after a 2018 complaint — Penalty relates to social media platform's processing of its members' data for targeted advertising
More: Data Protection Commission, The Independent, Windows Central, TechCrunch, Agence France-Presse, Engadget, LinkedIn Pressroom, Wall Street Journal, Neowin, Cybernews.com, The Cyber Express, The Verge, Silicon Republic, Irish Independent, Associated Press, Irish Examiner, RTÉ, Business Plus, WinBuzzer, Daily Sabah, Bloomberg, Reuters, and TheJournal.ie
X: @privacymatters, @dpcireland, and @dpcireland
| New York Times: |
How the US and Nigeria wrestled over Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan's detention in February 2024, which US officials said hurt the two allies' relationship — The United States and Nigeria often collaborate. But the arrest of an American worker strained their diplomatic relations.
More: CoinDesk, Wired, The Record, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, Financial Express, CoinGeek, The White House, Blockhead, Bitcoin Insider, CryptoPotato, The Crypto Times, DL News, Semafor, CryptoGlobe, Fortune, The Crypto Basic, Politics Nigeria, crypto.news, Benzinga, Financial Times, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin News, Watcher Guru, CoinGape, Decrypt, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, TechCabal, CryptoSlate, and Bloomberg. X: @a_greenberg
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Fortinet discloses a critical FortiManager API flaw being exploited in 0-day attacks to steal sensitive files, after warning customers privately over a week ago — Fortinet publicly disclosed today a critical FortiManager API vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-47575, that was exploited …
More: FortiGuard Labs, DoublePulsar, Ars Technica, CRN, BleepingComputer, SC Media, Google Cloud Blog, Security Affairs, CSO, The Register, SecurityWeek, Cyber Daily, WinBuzzer, The Hacker News, Help Net Security, TechRadar, TechTarget, Security Boulevard, Help Net Security, SecurityWeek, BankInfoSecurity.com, The Record, PaymentSecurity.io, CRN, The Stack, and Security Boulevard
Mastodon: @catc0n@infosec.exchange. X: @mandiant, @uk_daniel_card, @richi, @dinosn, @s0ufi4n3, and @ryanaraine
Forums: r/fortinet and r/cybersecurity
| New York Times: |
Sources: in 2005, Intel CEO Paul Otellini proposed buying Nvidia for $20B, but the board resisted due to concerns over the price tag and integrating Nvidia — A photo illustration of a silicon chip, mounted in a picture frame, on a shelf with cobwebs around it. Kevin Van Aelst
More: Quartz, TVNewsCheck, and Reuters
| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
The Biden administration issues the first-ever National Security Memorandum on AI, detailing how the Pentagon and intel agencies should use and protect AI — A national security memorandum detailed how agencies should streamline operations with artificial intelligence safely.
More: TechCrunch, Washington Post, The Record, The White House, Axios, The White House, Infosecurity, WinBuzzer, Tech Xplore, Bloomberg, Defense One, and The Hill. X: @katrinamanson
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU's Court of Justice sides with Intel over a once-record €1.06B antitrust fine, ruling that regulators failed to prove it gave illegal rebates to PC makers — - Top court sides with chipmaker in landmark EU competition case — Separate appeal over a revised EU penalty is still ongoing| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Finix, a “payments infrastructure” startup that became a payment processor like Stripe in 2023, raised a $75M Series C, bringing its total funding to $208M — Finix has been slowly chipping away at Stripe - which handles payments with millions of businesses - for years now.
More: Axios, Fintech Finance, and Business Insider
| Bloomberg: |
Roblox plans child safety reforms, including a new type of account to let parents monitor their child's online activity and friends, starting in November 2024 — How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay … Hello World| Financial Times: |
General Catalyst raised $8B, the most by a US VC since March 2022, and will put $4.5B in its core funds, $1.5B in creating startups, and $2B in other businesses — General Catalyst has raised $8bn, the largest amount by a US venture capital group in more than two years …
More: TechCrunch, FinSMEs, VCCircle, YourStory.com, General Catalyst, STAT, and Tech Funding News
| Sara Ruberg / New York Times: |
As Kroger and Walmart roll out electronic shelf labels, US lawmakers worry that the tech could allow for dynamic pricing; both deny plans to add dynamic pricing — Some members of Congress have expressed concerns that stores will monitor customers and raise prices.
More: Eater NY and Chain Store Age
| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Apple adds an iMessage child safety feature in iOS 18.2 beta 1 in Australia that will let children report nudity material sent to them to Apple — Change is part of a beta release in Australia that expands on existing detection defaulted for under-13 users
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, NewsBytes, Six Colors, and The Independent
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A profile of ZachXBT, a twentysomething X user with 650K+ followers who tracks down crypto scams and thefts, and has received $1.3M+ in donations since 2021 — He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim. And he has never shown his face.
X: @a_greenberg and @zachxbt
| Financial Times: |
Secondhand fashion site Vinted raised €340M led by TPG at a €5B valuation, as the profitable startup plans to expand beyond clothes into electronics and more — Latest TPG-backed funding round values profitable Lithuanian start-up at €5bn — Second-hand fashion site Vinted plans … | Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Vinod Khosla on Elon Musk, AI, climate tech, Harris and Trump, the US economy, tech regulation, Silicon Valley's Trump supporters, taxation, and more — “Climate debt is much harder to pay off than economic debt,” Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, says on this week's episode of Zero.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches an analysis tool to help Claude write and run JavaScript code, perform calculations, and analyze data from files, in preview — Anthropic's Claude chatbot can now write and run JavaScript code. — Today, Anthropic launched a new analysis tool that helps Claude respond …
More: Anthropic and Android Headlines
| FinSMEs: |
Nimble, which helps companies automate their warehouses using logistics robots, raised a $106M Series C led by FedEx at a $1B valuation — Nimble, a San Francisco, CA-based AI robotics and autonomous e-commerce fulfillment technology company, raised $106M in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation.
More: Nimble Robotics, VC News Daily, and Forbes
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
A profile of, and interview with, Meta VP of AI Research Joelle Pineau on her career path, the FAIR lab, leading ~1,000 people across 10 locations, and more — Meta's head of research into the technology explains the career path that led to weighing questions on society's future| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
IBM reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to $14.97B, vs. $15.07B est., and says bookings for AI consulting and software have exceeded $3B, up more than $1B QoQ — IBM shares moved 3% lower in extended trading on Wednesday after the hardware, software and services provider fell short of Wall Street's revenue expectations for the third quarter.Sponsor Posts
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