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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Discord estimates that 70,000 users globally may have had government ID photos exposed in a September 20 data breach of third-party customer service Zendesk — Discord claims that the attackers are circulating inaccurate information about the breach of a customer service provider as part of an extortion attempt.
More: BleepingComputer, TheGamer, Engadget, Crikey, 80 Level, Cyber Security News, Tom's Guide, Destructoid, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Cryptonews, Protos, and Cointelegraph
X: @vxunderground and @cameronwilson
Bluesky: @jaypeters.net, @cameronwilson, and @phoul
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Apple removes Eyes Up, which archives video evidence of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, Eyes Up doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations — Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned.
More: Migrant Insider, Engadget, The Verge, The Overspill, SiliconANGLE, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, Tech Times, and Pixel Envy
X: @404mediaco and @jonathancohn
Bluesky: @bennjordan, @reichlinmelnick, @infrequently.org, @mims, @jonathancohn, @josephcox, @coachfinstock, @questingvole, @jasonkoebler, and @josephcox
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @paul@tapbots.social, and @slightlyoff@toot.cafe
Forums: r/apple, r/politics, r/technology, r/ThePeoplesPress, r/ICE_Raids, and r/EyesOnIce
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
A Samsung researcher introduces the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7M-parameter model that was able to outperform LLMs 10,000x larger like o3-mini on specific problems — The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger …
More: arXiv.org, Analytics India Magazine, and AI News
X: @jm_alexia and @rasbt
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Vince Quill / Cointelegraph: |
The Ethereum Foundation announces the “Privacy cluster”, a team of 47 blockchain industry experts developing protocol-level privacy features for the network — The team of 47 professionals from the blockchain industry will help research and develop privacy features for the Ethereum layer-1 network.
More: Ethereum Foundation Blog, The Block, Blockonomi, crypto.news, and The Crypto Times
| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that will require web browsers to add settings that allow residents to opt out of third-party data collection — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill which requires web browsers to make it easier for Californians to opt-out of allowing third parties to sell their data.| Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt: |
YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs, announces a $1B Builder Fund to support long-term builders developing on BNB Chain in areas like trading, AI, and DeFi — YZi Labs, the venture office of Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao and formerly known as Binance Labs, is creating a $1 billion fund … | Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Verizon signs a commercial agreement with AST SpaceMobile to offer satellite-to-phone connectivity in cellular dead zones starting in 2026; ASTS closed up 8.6% — As SpaceX races to dominate satellite-to-phone services, Verizon is doubling down on rival AST SpaceMobile instead.| Masha Abarinova / Fierce Network: |
More: The Verge, The Fast Mode, PCMag, The Boston Globe, Benzinga, Engadget, Telecompetitor, Capacity, TelecomTV, Cord Cutters News, and Dow Jones Newswires. Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DHS has reassigned hundreds of CISA staffers to jobs that support deportations, including at ICE, and said it would dismiss anyone who refused — The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel …
Bluesky: @drewharwell.com, @patrickhowelloneill.com, and @ericjgeller.com
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Google Pixel Watch 4 review: a significant leap in Google's smartwatch lineup with a nice domed display, but Gemini is unreliable and GPS maps are still wonky — Five years ago, I used to groan when it came time to review an Android smartwatch. Back then, anything that wasn't a Samsung watch was disappointing at best.
More: Engadget, Wired, Trusted Reviews, ZDNET, Wareable, Droid Life, PCMag, New York Times, Pocket-lint, Android Headlines, Mashable, 9to5Google, CGMagazine, Wired, Wired, Android Central, and Android Authority
X: @androidcentral, @maxwinebach, @engadget, @cnet, @caro_milanesi, and @maxwinebach. Bluesky: @vicmsong
Forums: r/Android and r/PixelWatch
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
More: MrMobile [Michael Fisher] on YouTube, Gizmodo, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, The Indian Express, Trusted Reviews, blog.google/intl/en-in, Mashable, CNET on YouTube, Jon Valiagas on YouTube, ZDNET, CNET, Multicore, iPhone in Canada, Hindustan Times, Android Authority, Android Police, Stuff, Tech Advisor, 9to5Google, CGMagazine, Engadget, Tom's Guide, The Verge, SlashGear, and Bloomberg
X: @cnet, @raywongy, @maxwinebach, @raywongy, @markgurman, @madebygoogle, @business, and @tomsguide. Threads: @captain2phones
Forums: r/Android and Ars OpenForum
| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix is making its video games available on smart TVs and streaming devices like Roku for the first time, with phones serving as controllers — Netflix Inc. wants you to play Boggle in between binges of Stranger Things. — The streaming service is making its video games available … | Los Angeles Times: |
US prosecutors say the evidence against a man accused of starting what became the Pacific Palisades fire includes a ChatGPT-generated image of a burning city — - Authorities have arrested a suspect in the Palisades fire after a nine-month investigation into the blaze that killed 12 people.
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X: @acyn, @antoniogm, @mymixtapez, @petertwinklage, @neil_chilson, @watchchad, @agpambondi, @richardhanania, @behizytweets, @usattyessayli, @senrickscott, @phil_lewis_, and @collinrugg. LinkedIn: Lawrence Rogak
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Filing: Elon Musk and X settle a lawsuit by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, and others over $128M+ in unpaid 2024 severance — The settlement agreement over withheld severance is dependent on Musk meeting ‘certain conditions.’| Financial Times: |
During a Mumbai trade visit, UK PM Keir Starmer hailed India's digital ID program Aadhaar as a “massive success”, as the UK plans to introduce digital ID cards — British prime minister shrugs off criticism of controversial database as he prepares plans for UK scheme
More: The Guardian, The Irish News, Mirror, Fortune India, Bloomberg, GB News, BBC, and HuffPost
| Amy X. Wang / New York Times: |
A look at the risks of BNPL apps like Klarna on users' financial health, as credit cards adopt BNPL features and regulators struggle to categorize BNPL services — Bryn Mawr, Pa., is one of those grand American towns that double as showrooms for grand American dreams.
Forums: r/MoneyDiariesACTIVE, r/neoliberal, r/technology, r/Longreads, and r/longform
| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft is planning a major healthcare push for Copilot in partnership with Harvard Medical School, as it seeks to reduce its dependence on OpenAI — Company is seeking to move away from dependence on its partner OpenAI and build a consumer base for its Copilot chatbot
More: Implicator.ai, The Indian Express, and Reuters
| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Anthropic's weeklong anti-AI slop pop-up in NYC's West Village, part of its “Keep Thinking” Claude push, drew 5,000+ people and 10M+ social media impressions — Anthropic says it isn't trying to compete in the attention economy. But a new brand campaign and NYC pop-up is drawing a lot of eyes.
X: @claudeai, @claudeai, @alexeheath, @sammcallister, @keshav_lohiaaa, @sam_d_1995, @nikkihnguyen, @martyswant, @parkerortolani, @adweek, @jeffbuze, @whizwang, and @signulll. LinkedIn: Trishla Ostwal. Bluesky: @samd. Instagram: Claude by Anthropic
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
New York City sues Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and ByteDance, accusing them of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media — - City alleges gross negligence, creating public nuisance — ‘Subway surfing’ deaths attributed to social media — Google denies accusations about YouTube| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
David AI, which sells audio data sets for AI training, raised a $50M Series B, sources say at a $500M valuation, up from ~$100M from its $25M Series A in May — David AI Labs Inc. a startup selling audio data sets to help train artificial intelligence models, has raised $50 million …
More: David AI. X: @michaelandma, @badgalgge, @withdavidai, @lizwessel, @jaltma, @barrnanas, @atkurland, and @ycombinator
| Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
A teardown of the $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display reveals a system of mirrors enabling its “geometric” waveguide tech, setting it apart from other AR glasses — Meta Ray-Ban Display Teardown — If wearables are going to replace our phones, they need to age as gracefully as our favorite pair of glasses.| Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: |
Sources: Cursor-maker Anysphere is considering investment offers at a ~$30B valuation; Cursor generates $500M in ARR as of June, third highest for an AI app — Anysphere, the maker of coding assistant Cursor, is considering offers to invest in the startup at around a $30 billion valuation … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Relace, which makes tools and specialized language models to help AI agents code faster for customers like Lovable and Figma, raised a $23M Series A led by a16z — Countless startups sell tools to software engineers, such as version control systems to track who's making changes to a codebase …
More: Relace, SiliconANGLE, and Andreessen Horowitz
| CryptPad Blog: |
Open letter: 40+ European companies oppose the EU's “Chat Control” proposal, which would force services to scan messages for CSAM, fearing a backdoor mandate — Today we are adding our signature (and that of our parent company XWiki SAS) to a new open letter against the so-called “Chat Control” EU regulation.
More: Tuta, Patrick Breyer, European Commission, HotAir, WinBuzzer, Implicator.ai, and heise online News
X: @signalapp, @globalaffairs, and @wcathcart
Bluesky: @nemeciii and @cryptpad.org
Forums: r/privacy, r/stupidpol, r/privacy, r/europe, and Lobsters
| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
More: The Register, DeviceSecurity.io, TechRadar, CyberScoop, Reclaim The Net, Implicator.ai, The Economic Times, Tech Xplore, ZeroHedge News, GovInfoSecurity.com, and Politico
Forums: r/europe and r/BuyFromEU
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