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Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
Cybersecurity firm Okta's stock closes down 11.57% after the company said a hacker accessed its support system using a stolen credential and viewed client files  —  - Cybersecurity firm Okta said an unidentified hacker had accessed the company's support system and viewed client files.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says X plans to launch two new premium tiers: a lower cost tier with all the 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.
Davide Castelvecchi / Nature:
IBM researchers unveil a “brain-inspired” NorthPole chip prototype that removes the need to frequently access external memory while consuming vastly less power  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  A brain-inspired computer chip …
The Irish Times:
Google, Meta, Intel, Siemens, and other companies pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event co-founder and 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 …
Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:
Why LLMs, which don't induce an algorithm that computes multiplication, still don't truly understand multiplication no matter how much data they are trained on  —  No matter how much data you train them on, they still don't truly understand multiplication.  —  Some Reply Guy on X assured me yesteday that “transformers can multiply”.
Willa Rowe / Inverse:
Doug Bowser on how Nintendo Account may help Switch users move to the next console, Nintendo's game development approach, why Nintendo has no unions, and more  —  Video game consoles come and go, but the Nintendo Switch is forever.  At least, that's how it sometimes seems.
Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
Nvidia Research announces Eureka, an AI agent powered by GPT-4 that autonomously writes reward algorithms to teach robots to perform complex skills like a human  —  Nvidia Research announced today that it has developed a new AI agent, called Eureka, that is powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 and can autonomously teach robots complex skills.
Alexander Lee / Digiday:
Holding company GameSquare acquires FaZe Clan, valuing the Texas-based esports company at ~$16M, down from a $725M market cap at its SPAC merger in July 2022  —  FaZe Clan's billion-dollar journey has taken an unexpected — but perhaps inevitable — turn.  Burned by controversy and facing …
New York Times:
A look at Cameo's peak during the pandemic and subsequent fall due to its trouble recruiting big stars, CEO Steven Galanis' unfocused management style, and more  —  A start-up that offers fans a way to buy personalized videos from celebrities was supercharged by pandemic boredom and venture capital.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Meta releases Habitat 3.0, a simulator that supports robots and humanoid avatars for collaboration, and HomeRobot, a home robot hardware and software platform  —  Researchers from Meta Platforms Inc.'s Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research team said today they're releasing …
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

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube launches genre-specific YouTube TV Plans as lower-cost alternatives to the $82.99 monthly subscription; the Sports Plan is priced at $64.99 per month

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
E. W. Scripps agrees to sell its multicast network Court TV to Law&Crime owner Jellysmack, as it seeks to reduce debt tied to its Ion and Katz acquisitions

Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Academy will no longer show Oscar-nominated films to members on big screens after the screenings drew “an average of five members” over the last years

More News

Adam Liptak / New York Times:
SCOTUS pauses a ruling that banned Biden administration officials from engaging in many kinds of contact with social media platforms as it hears a DOJ appeal
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
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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+
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