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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 GPUs; the RTX 4090 is 2-4x faster than the 3090 Ti, comes with 24GB GDDR6X memory, and arrives October 12 for $1,600 — Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 40-series GPUs today. After months of rumors and some recent teasing from Nvidia, the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 are now both official.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Nvidia details the RTX 4080: 2-4x faster than 3080 Ti, built on TSMC's “4N” 5nm process, starting at $899 for 12GB G6X and $1,200 for 16GB, arriving in November — 4090 launches on October 12, with 4080 to follow in “November.” — After weeks of teases, Nvidia's next generation …
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Crypto market maker Wintermute says hackers stole $160M from its DeFi operations but the firm remains solvent; in total, 90 assets were stolen, most worth <$1M — - Crypto market making firm Wintermute has been hacked. — The firm maintains that it is solvent.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to increase the price of apps and IAP on the App Store in all territories that use the euro and some Asian countries, starting October 5 — Apple announced on Monday that it will soon raise App Store prices in multiple countries, including Japan, South Korea, and many others in Europe.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
YouTube plans to expand its Partner Program to give 45% of Shorts ad revenue to creators with 1,000+ subscribers and 10M views on Shorts within a 90-day period — YouTube just announced a major change to its Partner Program that will allow its short-form video creators to make a lot more money from its platform.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases its first major update to Windows 11, adding Start menu folders, more useful Snap Layouts, broader support for dark mode, Voice Access, more — The first major Windows 11 update makes the renovations feel more complete … When Microsoft launched Windows 11 last year, it was clear the PC was back.
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Sources: the Nasdaq is exploring an institutional crypto custody service, pending regulatory approval, and a crypto-focused division, Nasdaq Digital Assets — - Nasdaq has been plotting a move into crypto custody, according to several sources. — The move is in line with its broader mission …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
A study by Mozilla using YouTube recommendation data from 20,000+ users and 500M+ videos finds the “dislike” and “not interested” buttons have little impact — Even when users tell YouTube they aren't interested in certain types of videos, similar recommendations keep coming, a new study by Mozilla found.
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| Kyle Wiens / iFixit News: |
A teardown of the iPhone 14 Pro Max shows the new X65 satellite modem and a similar internal design to the 13 Pro Max, making the device difficult to repair — The iPhone Pro Max 14 is out, and the general consensus among tech reviewers seems to be that it's better than the last one …
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| J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify launches an audiobooks service in the US with 300,000 titles, letting users purchase and download individual books to play in its app — The audio giant, which is offering 300,000 audiobooks for purchase at launch, is positioning its books service as separate from its Premium subscription for music and podcasts.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia launches new services to help developers adapt large language models to a wide range of use cases, avoid having to create LLMs from scratch, and more — As interest around large AI models — particularly large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-3 — grows …
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
SpeedSmart: iPhone 14 Pro has faster 5G upload/download speeds than the 13 Pro, with peak 5G download speeds of 255.91 Mbps on T-Mobile vs 13 Pro's 173.81 Mbps — The iPhone 14 Pro features faster 5G speeds on the T-Mobile and Verizon networks in the United States compared to the iPhone 13 Pro …
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| Divya Balji / Bloomberg: |
Chamath Palihapitiya plans to close two SPACs, the $1.15B Social Capital Hedosophia VI and $460M Social Capital IV, after failing to find targets to take public — Chamath Palihapitiya said he is winding down two special purpose acquisition companies, including his largest ever …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Nvidia announces Drive Thor processors with 77B transistors for self-driving vehicles, arriving in 2024 for cars coming in 2025 — The AI chip is due to arrive in cars in 2025, Nvidia says at its GTC event to showcase its GPU technology. — Stephen Shankland
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google says it is integrating Google Tasks across Google Assistant and its suite of apps including Calendar — Google is working on a big update to Google Tasks, the company said today. It's bringing a couple of new features to the app, making it easier to add tasks …
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
London-based banking and stock trading app Revolut says a cyberattack exposed the personal details of 50,150 customers, per a breach disclosure in Lithuania — Fintech startup Revolut has confirmed it was hit by a highly targeted cyberattack that allowed hackers to access the personal details of tens of thousands of customers.
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Tweets: @isaacafrica_ and @theryanford
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Slack announces Canvas, a collaboration tool that offers contextual information in each channel, helps users edit documents in Slack, and more, coming in 2023 — Slack is becoming a document editor. The Salesforce-owned company announced today at its developer conference that it is building a new feature …
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| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
In its lawsuit against a crypto influencer, the SEC says Ethereum nodes are “more densely” clustered in the US, implying the entire network is under US purview — In a civil complaint against a crypto influencer, the SEC suggested that it believes the U.S. government has jurisdiction over all Ethereum transactions.
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Tweets: @thecryptolark, @digperspectives, @naomibrockwell, @diaryofamademan, and @thomastthai
| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: the FTC opens an investigation into Amazon's $1.7B iRobot acquisition, requesting documents from both companies; probes typically take up to a year — Federal antitrust agency sought records about deal from Amazon and iRobot this week — WASHINGTON—Federal antitrust enforcers … | Pew Research Center: |
Survey of US adults: 31% get news on Facebook, 25% on YouTube, 14% on Twitter, 13% on Instagram, and 10% on TikTok; 33% of TikTok users get news on the app — Digital news has become an important part of Americans' news media diets, with social media playing a crucial role in news consumption.
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| Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: |
Sardine, a fraud detection service for crypto and fintech clients, raised a $51.5M Series B led by a16z's Growth Fund, after a $19.5M Series A in February 2022 — As fintechs become more efficient, so too do fraudsters. — “Faster instant payments mean faster fraud,” Sardine CEO and co-founder Soups Ranjan told TechCrunch.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
East Coast supermarket chain Wegmans plans to temporarily stop using its Scan self-checkout app, introduced during the pandemic, due to theft and losses — Many grocery stores started using self-checkout technology during the pandemic. Experts say the technology makes it easier for shoplifters to sneak by.
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| Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood adds USDC as the first stablecoin in its crypto lineup, while Binance and WazirX exchanges say they will delist USDC in favor of other stablecoins — Users will be able to transfer the stablecoin from the Polygon and Ethereum networks on Wednesday.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia says its robotics simulation service Isaac Sim is coming soon to the cloud and expands its Jetson system-on-modules with Orin Nano for low-powered robots — Amid the festivities at its fall 2022 GTC conference, Nvidia took the wraps off new robotics-related hardware and services aimed …
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| John Herrman / New York Magazine: |
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