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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says X plans to launch two new premium tiers: a lower cost tier with all features, but no reduction in ads, and a more expensive tier with no ads  —  Elon Musk today said that X (formerly Twitter) is going to soon launch two new premium tiers, confirming previous reports and code sightings.
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
The US Treasury's FinCEN proposes labeling international crypto mixing as a “primary money laundering concern”, citing its use by Hamas and other illicit actors  —  Under pressure to address reports that Hamas and other terrorist groups are partially funded with crypto …
RT Watson / The Block:
Chainalysis says some recent media reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses”
New York Times:
News publishers scramble to adjust to declining referral traffic, as Meta, X, and even Google become less dependable at amplifying and supporting journalism  —  News organizations are scrambling to adjust to the latest rift in the long-fractious relationship between publishers and tech platforms.
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Source: X removed the main New York Times account's “verified” badge on October 17 without notice; source: X traffic to the NYT is down ~50% since August 2023
Willa Rowe / Inverse:
Doug Bowser on how Nintendo Account may help Switch transition to the next generation, Nintendo's approach to game development, why Nintendo has no union, more  —  Video game consoles come and go, but the Nintendo Switch is forever.  At least, that's how it sometimes seems.
Mark Hachman / PCWorld:
AMD unveils the Radeon RX 7900M, a rival to Nvidia's RTX 4080 and the first laptop GPU to use a chiplet design, available in Dell's new Alienware m18 laptop  —  It will debut in the new Alienware m18, launching today.  —  AMD is setting its sights on Nvidia's RTX 4080 mobile GPU with the Radeon RX 7900M …
Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
AMD announces new Ryzen Threadripper 7000 CPUs for desktops and workstations, offering up to 96 cores on the 7000 Pro series, shipping November 21 for $1,500+
Davide Castelvecchi / Nature:
IBM researchers unveil a “brain-inspired” NorthPole chip prototype that removes the need to frequently access external memory and consumes vastly less power  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  A brain-inspired computer chip …
Alexander Lee / Digiday:
FaZe Clan is acquired by esports holding company GameSquare Holdings in a deal valuing Faze at ~$16M, down from a $725M market cap at its 2022 SPAC merger  —  FaZe Clan's billion-dollar journey has taken an unexpected — but perhaps inevitable — turn.  Burned by controversy and facing …
The Irish Times:
Google, Meta, Intel, Siemens and others pull out from this year's Web Summit, after its CEO Paddy Cosgrave accused Israel of war crimes  —  Intel, Siemens and actor Gillian Anderson previously said they were withdrawing  —  Google and Facebook-owner Meta have become the latest tech giants …
New York Times:
Jon Stewart's Apple TV+ show abruptly ends, sources say over creative differences; source: Stewart said potential China and AI topics concerned Apple executives  —  Mr. Stewart and Apple are parting ways because of creative differences over “The Problem,” people with knowledge of the decision said.
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New York Times:
A look at Cameo's peak during the pandemic and subsequent fall due to trouble recruiting big stars, the CEO's haphazard leadership, and more  —  A start-up that offers fans a way to buy personalized videos from celebrities was supercharged by pandemic boredom and venture capital.
CoinDesk:
Filing: the US SEC drops charges alleging Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Chairman Chris Larsen aided and abetted the company in violating securities laws  —  The regulator had included them as defendants in its securities violation case revolving around XRP transactions, and the agency now says it's just pursuing Ripple for damages.
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
The FCC votes 3-2 to invite the US public to comment on re-establishing net neutrality rules; the broader effort still faces a long legal and political battle  —  The Federal Communications Commission officially began its effort to re-establish net neutrality at its monthly meeting today …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
The FCC unanimously approves a petition by Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others for access to the 6GHz band for Wi-Fi tethering for AR and VR headsets

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Associated Press:
The DOJ withdraws subpoenas that would have forced three NYT reporters to testify about sources, after a federal judge criticized the DOJ for sloppy legal work

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A judge extends the temporary order pausing the Paramount-WBD merger for 14 more days and writes that the WGA can participate in a scheduled hearing on August 3

Natalie Korach / @nataliekorach:
Memo: HuffPost EIC informs staff that ~15 editorial jobs will be cut, the first layoffs under new owner Byron Allen, and executive editor Kate Palmer is leaving

More News

William D. Cohan / Washington Post:
Writers and publishers need to band together to lobby against OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, fighting for proper compensation and a share of AI's value
Jane Zhang / Bloomberg:
Beijing-based generative AI startup Beijing Zhipu Huazhang has raised ~$342M from Alibaba, Tencent, Ant Group, Xiaomi, HongShan, Meituan, and others in 2023
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
23andMe is investigating a possible new data leak of 4M users' records on BreachForums; the hacker claims the stolen dataset includes info on people from the UK

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
India's Central Bureau of Investigation works with Microsoft and Amazon to raid 76 locations in a nationwide crackdown on tech support scams and crypto fraud
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
OpenAI rolls out DALL-E 3 access to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise subscribers, after preparing a safety mitigation stack to ready the model for expanded release
Maria Heeter / The Information:
Trucking marketplace Convoy starts shutting down; sources: the startup had ~$320M in 2023 revenue by early October, on pace to fall short of the $630M in 2022
Jim Salter / Associated Press:
The FBI and the DOJ say thousands of IT workers sent by North Korea to work remotely for US companies using false IDs have sent millions in wages to North Korea
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
New York AG Letitia James sues lender Genesis, its parent company DCG, and the Winklevoss' exchange Gemini for allegedly defrauding 230K+ investors of $1B+
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nokia plans to cut up to 14,000 jobs, or ~16% of its 86,000 employees, and reports Q3 2023 net sales down 20% YoY to €4.98B and profit down 69% YoY to €133M
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