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An in-depth look at crypto and blockchains: the underlying tech, its 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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
WhatsApp says it has fixed an issue that caused a major outage 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.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to begin selling DALL-E 2-generated stock imagery “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.| 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” … | 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 is updating the App Store review guidelines that are provided to developers who create apps for iPhones and iPads.| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
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Microsoft Surface Pro 9 review: 120Hz display, 5G, and 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 the Qualcomm-powered Surface Pro 9 … | Monica Chin / The Verge: |
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A look at the increased use of celebrity deepfakes in advertising, with or without their permission, raising legal and ethical questions — Digital simulations of Elon Musk, Tom Cruise, Leo DiCaprio and others have shown up in ads, as the image-melding technology grows more popular and presents … | 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.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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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 … | 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 2021 — - Alexander Höptner is departing from his role as CEO of crypto exchange BitMex with immediate effect.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
The UK's FCA plans to investigate Apple, Amazon, Google, 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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A book excerpt details US law enforcement efforts to catch Alpha02, who created AlphaBay, the largest online drug and crime bazaar, in 2014 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.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Amazon begins letting select US customers make payments using Venmo, and plans to roll out the option to all US shoppers before Black Friday — Amazon announced that it will now allow customers to make payments through Venmo on its platform. The company said this option will be available … | Financial Times: |
A look at TSMC's efforts to build ever-smaller, more powerful, and energy efficient semiconductors, as competitors race to catch up and erode its edge — Taiwan chipmaker ‘could stumble’ as industry is forced to develop new transistor technology — Smartphone chip design house MediaTek … | Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
NYC-based Bilt Rewards, which runs a loyalty program and a credit card to convert rent payments into points, raised $150M led by Left Lane at a $1.5B valuation — Bilt Rewards, which operates a loyalty program and credit card that converts rent payments into points, said its valuation more than quadrupled to $1.5 billion.| 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 … | Sujith Somraaj / Decrypt: |
Compound Finance's DAO votes to keep its users from lending relatively illiquid tokens BAT, ZRX, MKR, and YFI to protect against a Mango Markets-style attack — Users won't be able to temporarily use 0x (ZRX), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Maker (MKR), and Yearn Finance (YFI) on Compound now.| Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
Purdue University expands semiconductor education as some estimates say the US' chip reshoring effort needs 50,000+ new engineers over the next five years — Purdue University races to expand semiconductor education to fill yawning workforce gap that threatens reshoring effort
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