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Experts say a new feature in iOS 18.1 causes iPhone to reboot after few days of inactivity, which improves security and has caused concern among law enforcement — Apple quietly introduced code into iOS 18.1 which reboots the device if it has not been unlocked for a period of time …
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Chegg lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT's launch, and its stock is down 99% from early 2021, as students looking for homework help turn to free AI tools — Chegg's stock is down 99%, and students looking for homework help are defecting to ChatGPT — Most companies are starting to figure … | The Information: |
Sources: the jump in quality from GPT-4 to Orion is far smaller than the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4; Orion may not outperform predecessors in tasks like coding — The number of people using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products is soaring. The rate of improvement …
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| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
The 2024 US election cycle showed how crypto has turned out to be a practically perfect special interest group for an era of unlimited corporate spending — The industry made a $135 million bet on the election. It paid off spectacularly. — On Nov. 5, a few dozen Bitcoiners …
More: Bloomberg, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, Reuters, The Economic Times, and The Merkle News
| Chun Han Wong / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Chen Yixin, a Xi Jinping protégé who heads the Chinese intelligence agency accused of likely steering the Salt Typhoon cyberattacks on the US — Agency accused of vast cyberattacks on U.S. has grown more powerful with trusted protégé of Chinese leader at the helm| Nikkei Asia: |
The Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association says Taiwan's semiconductor production is on track to increase 22% YoY to a record $165B in 2024 on AI demand — HSINCHU, Taiwan — Taiwan's semiconductor production is on track for a 22% increase this year to a record 5.3 trillion New Taiwan dollars …
Bluesky: @helloyorick.bsky.social
| Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: |
Ethereum Foundation financial report: $970.2M in treasury as of Oct. 31, down from $1.6B in March 2022; ~80% of holdings in ETH, which declined 20%+ since 2022 — The foundation has spent roughly $240 million since March 2022, and holds most of its treasury in ether, which has slid roughly 22% since the last financial report.
More: Ethereum Foundation, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptopolitan, Cryptonews, crypto.news, CryptoPotato, Blockchain News …, Blockonomi, CoinGape, and Cointelegraph. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Ben Holland / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: US private construction spending on data centers grew to ~$30B/year, over 2x the amount in late 2022; global spending is on track to reach $250B/year — US companies are plowing money into building data centers as they race to get ahead in artificial intelligence.
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Data shows open interest on Polymarket fell 64% from $510.95M on November 5 to $184.16M by November 8, highlighting the platform's reliance on political betting — - Open interest on Polymarket soared to $510.95 million by Nov. 5 and subsequently fell to $184.16 million by Nov. 8, The Block's data shows.| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
ChatGPT gave ~2M responses asking users to get election news elsewhere on Nov. 5 and Nov. 6, and rejected 250K+ requests for DALL-E images of Trump and others — Now that the election is over, the dissection can begin. As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a significant part …
More: OpenAI, NBC News, The Decoder, Engadget, Cryptopolitan, Mashable, Neowin, Business Insider, The Indian Express, The Economic Times, and The Hill
| Bloomberg: |
FTX sues Anthony Scaramucci, Crypto.com, Zuckerberg's FWD.US, and others to recoup SBF's “investments” as part of his “campaign of influence-buying” in 2022 — - Lawsuit says $67 million was invested into Skybridge endeavors — FTX Says investments conveyed ‘little to no benefit’
More: TechCrunch, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, and CryptoSlate
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| Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov to 12.5 years for operating crypto mixer Bitcoin Fog from 2011 to 2021, laundering ~$400M — The founder of a cryptocurrency mixing service known as Bitcoin Fog was ordered to serve 12 1/2 years in prison for laundering tens …
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