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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to let users generate stock images using DALL-E 2 “in the coming months” and launches a Contributor Fund to reimburse creators — Will AI image generators kill the stock image industry? It's a question asked by many following the rise of text-to-image AI models in recent years.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at crypto and blockchains: bitcoin and the underlying tech, the uses and meaning, the crypto financial system, and trust, money, and community — - What If You Don't Like It? — Digital Cash — Part II — What Does It Mean? — A Store of Value — A Distributed Computer
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
WhatsApp says it has fixed an issue that caused a major outage for the app worldwide, lasting from around 3AM to 5AM ET — WhatsApp went down in a major outage affecting the communications app for two hours today. The service started experiencing issues at around 3AM ET, with users greeted with a “connecting” message.
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| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Internal research: Twitter has been losing “heavy tweeters”, who tweet more than three times a week, since the pandemic began, despite overall growth in DAUs — “Is Twitter dying?” billionaire Elon Musk mused in April, five days before offering to buy the social media platform.
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| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Australia's AG unveils plans for tougher online privacy laws after several major data breaches, including increasing fines from AU$2.22M to AU$50M or more — Australia plans to strengthen its online privacy laws following several major data breaches, attorney-general Mark Dreyfus said in a statement on Saturday.
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| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the increased use of celebrity deepfakes in ads, with or without their permission, raising legal and ethical questions for the marketing industry — Digital simulations of Elon Musk, Tom Cruise, Leo DiCaprio and others have shown up in ads, as the image-melding technology grows … | Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Sources: Microsoft stocks up on Chinese games to emulate Sony's success with Genshin Impact; filings show Microsoft paid $4.8M for Snail Games' ARK and ARK 2 — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is stocking up on Chinese video game content to emulate Sony Group Corp's (6758.T) success with “Genshin Impact” …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Pro 9 review: a 120Hz display with dynamic refresh, 5G, and a 1080p camera, but pricey without accessories, slow apps, and just two USB ports — Exceptional hardware is still marred by incompatibilies … Video calling. — After several days of using …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
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| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Samsung rolls out Maintenance Mode, meant to keep a device's data safe during repair, to select Galaxy devices with One UI 5 worldwide — Handing your phone off to be repaired can be a little anxiety-inducing, given that it contains your valuable info. Samsung has a new “Maintenance Mode” … | Alphabet: |
Alphabet Q3: revenue of $69.09B, down from $65.1B YoY, net income of $13.9B, down from $18.9B YoY, headcount of 186,779, up from 150,028 YoY; stock drops 5%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 25, 2022 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022.
| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Sources: ByteDance launched audits into TikTok's global CSO Roland Cloutier before he quit, hamstringing his efforts to build a robust security team — Roland Cloutier, a U.S. Air Force veteran and former law enforcement officer, stepped down as TikTok's Global Chief Security Officer …
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Q1: revenue up 11% YoY to $50.1B, net income down 14% YoY to $17.6B, Azure and other cloud services revenue up 35% YoY, LinkedIn revenue up 17% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — October 25, 2022 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended September 30 …
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube's Q3 ad revenue dropped 1.9% YoY to $7.07B, below expectations of $7.42B and marking YouTube's slowest ad growth in at least two years — Overall, Alphabet, Google's parent company, also came in below analyst estimates. The company posted revenue of $69.1 billion and earnings per share of $1.06 for Q3.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
The UK's FCA starts investigating Apple's, Amazon's, Google's, and Meta's moves into retail financial services over competition and consumer harm concerns — Financial Conduct Authority says Silicon Valley's resources might harm competition and disadvantage others
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Financial Conduct Authority, PYMNTS.com, iMore, The Guardian, MacDailyNews, Crowdfund Insider, ExchangeWire.com, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, 9to5Mac, and Finextra
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Amazon begins letting select US customers pay with Venmo on its site and in its mobile app, with plans to roll out the option to all US shoppers by Black Friday — Amazon announced that it will now allow customers to make payments through Venmo on its platform.
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ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, About Amazon, GeekWire, CNN, PayPal Newsroom, PYMNTS.com, PCMag, Livemint, 9to5Mac, The Verge, CNBC, Bloomberg, Engadget, and WRAL TechWire. Tweets: @tonyajoriley
| Kari McMahon / The Block: |
BitMEX CEO Alexander Höptner steps down as CEO of the crypto exchange with immediate effect, replaced by CFO Stephan Lutz; Höptner joined BitMEX in January 2021 — - Alexander Höptner is departing from his role as CEO of crypto exchange BitMex with immediate effect.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple's new App Store guidelines say that social networking apps that sell “boosts” for posts must use in-app purchases for the transactions — With the release of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1, Apple has updated the App Store review guidelines that are provided to developers who create apps for iPhones and iPads.| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Netherlands-based Axelera AI, which is developing AI acceleration cards, systems, and software, raised a $27M Series A led by Innovation Industries — Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A book excerpt details law enforcement's efforts to catch Alpha02, who in 2014 created AlphaBay, the largest online drug and crime bazaar, and ran the service — The notorious Alpha02 oversaw millions of dollars a day in online narcotic sales. For cybercrime detectives, he was public enemy number one—and a total mystery.
Tweets: @a_greenberg, @caitlin__kelly, and @aaronlammer
| Sujith Somraaj / Decrypt: |
Compound Finance's DAO votes to keep its users from lending the relatively illiquid tokens BAT, ZRX, MKR, and YFI to protect against a Mango Markets-like attack — Users won't be able to temporarily use 0x (ZRX), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Maker (MKR), and Yearn Finance (YFI) on Compound now.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
China's path to chip self-sufficiency is extremely complicated and relies upon re-creating multiple supply chain components without outside help — Intel may not be the most obvious place to start when it comes to the China chip sanctions announced by the Biden administration three weeks ago … | Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
NEAR Protocol shuts down USN, its stablecoin launched in April 2022, “to safeguard USN holders” after USN exhibited risky characteristics like those of TerraUSD — To avoid another LUNA debacle, the undercollateralized USN will be phased out. — A stablecoin project …
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NEAR Protocol, MUO, Decentral Bank, Blockchain News, Inside Bitcoins, Protos, crypto.news, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, The Defiant, Blockworks, Cryptopolitan, and CryptoPotato
Tweets: @nearprotocol, @riddle245, @icodrops, @spin_fi, @wublockchain, and @seldo
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases iOS 16.1, iPadOS 16.1, and macOS Ventura, with iCloud Shared Photo Library, Continuity Camera, Stage Manager for the Mac and the iPad, and more — Apple has released iOS 16.1, iPad OS 16.1 and macOS 13, as it announced it would do last week.
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Apple, ZDNet, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Forbes, MacStories, WebKit, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, SlashGear, BGR, OS X Daily, BGR India, Digit, KnowTechie, and Macworld
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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MacRumors, Christopher Lawley on YouTube, BGR, Clicked, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, and Wccftech
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