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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An analysis of OpenAI's DevDay keynote: impressive live demos, the shift from plugins to custom GPTs, Microsoft's role in making GPT-4 Turbo cheaper, and more — In 2013, when I started Stratechery, there was no bigger event than the launch of the new iPhone; its only rival was Google I/O … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple last week paused developing iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, and watchOS 11 to fix bugs and improve performance, and plans to resume work this week — - Rare move designed to focus on improving quality, performance — Despite pause, software releases will likely stay on schedule
More: 9to5Mac, Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, Tom's Guide, Trusted Reviews, Neowin, Forbes, Supercharged, and BGR
X: @markgurman and @stevemoser
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Ahead of former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony, documents and sources detail staff debates over fostering growth while protecting young users — A former engineering and product leader at Meta is expected to testify in Congress about how Meta ignored warnings about youth safety
More: Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Engadget, The Hill, The Record, BBC, CNBC, Hartford Courant, and Public Citizen
Threads: @drewharwell. X: @vaishnavi, @jason_kint, @franceshaugen, @zsk, @ttp_updates, @franceshaugen, @marshablackburn, and @_andyburrows
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The Tech Coalition, which includes Discord, Google, Meta, Roblox, Snap, and Amazon, unveil Lantern to share “signals” about child sexual exploitation and abuse — The Tech Coalition, the group of tech companies developing approaches and policies to combat online child sexual exploitation …
More: Tech Coalition, The Messenger, The Verge, Tech Xplore, Meta, and Neowin
LinkedIn: Vincent Courson, Nicola Mendelsohn Cbe, and Lauren Tharp
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue — Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
A recap of day one of the Epic v. Google antitrust trial; opening statements, Epic Games Store GM Steve Allison revealing the store isn't profitable, and more — The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified.
More: The Verge, The Verge, CNBC, TweakTown, MediaPost, New York Post, Silicon UK, WRAL TechWire, GamesIndustry.biz, Games, Pocket Gamer.biz, Verdict, Technowize, BBC, CoinStats, The Verge, Bloomberg, Benzinga, ReadWrite, Anadolu Ajansı …, Courthouse News Service, The Verge, Stock Market News, The Japan Times, Times Colonist, The Verge, TechCrunch, UPI, New York Times, HotHardware, Daily Sabah, Seeking Alpha, Financial Times, and TipRanks Financial
X: @swiftstories, @swiftstories, @playerign, and @florian4gamers
Forums: r/gaming, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, and r/fuckepic
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
IBM debuts a $500M enterprise AI venture fund to invest in startups across all stages, with no set target of annual investments or capital deployment timeline — IBM is dedicating $500 million to invest in generative AI startups focused on business customers.
More: IBM, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, The Information, Cointelegraph, CIO Dive, CryptoSlate, AIN.Capital, WRAL TechWire, and CoinStats
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. LinkedIn: Patrick Moorhead, Sebastian Krause, William, Dylan Gochie-Amaro, and Roger Premo
| Nikkei Asia: |
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company's 18A chip design will move into test production by Q1 2024, part of its bet to reclaim chipmaking leadership by 2025 — Chipmaker is chasing Samsung and TSMC as Qualcomm and Apple pose fresh challenge — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says his company's … | Francesco Guarascio / Reuters: |
More: TechSpot, The Register, TechRadar, Livemint, Wall Street Journal, and Tech in Asia. LinkedIn: Jonas Sundqvist
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
An interview with Blizzard President Mike Ybarra about the studio's future under Microsoft, wrestling over releasing a game without live components, and more — Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio's future. … The dust is finally starting to settle from Microsoft's huge acquisition …
More: Bloomberg, PC Gamer, Gamereactor UK, Metro.co.uk, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, WinBuzzer, Pure Xbox, Wccftech, Dexerto, VG Charts, The Loadout, IGN on YouTube, TheGamer, Video Games Chronicle, and Gameranx
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Docs: Cruise knew its cars struggled to detect large holes and had trouble recognizing children in certain scenarios, prior to its California permitting crisis — In Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and San Francisco, hundreds of so-called autonomous vehicles, or AVs …
More: Gizmodo, Silicon Republic, Robotics & Automation News, Forbes, The Verge, and CNBC
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LinkedIn: Matthew Clarke, Will Handzel, and Noah Gift
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| Cyrus Farivar / Forbes: |
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| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
Google Photos' Magic Editor will now refuse to edit photos of ID cards, human faces and body parts, receipts, and other images of personally identifiable info — - Code within the latest version of Google Photos includes specific error messages that highlight the edits that Magic Editor will refuse to do.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google pushes a Pixel update with security fixes and to address an Android 14 storage bug that locked some owners who use multiple profiles out of their devices — Google's “solution” can't do anything for bootlooping devices. — It's the start of November, and that means a new Android security patch.
More: Android Open Source Project, Tom's Guide, T3, TechRadar, HotHardware, The Verge, Android Authority, PhoneArena, and Android Police
Forums: r/Android and Ars OpenForum
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
A look at Neuralink: neuroscientists worry over hype given the level of coverage, but its FDA-approved trial is exciting and its tech is potentially miraculous — Neuralink has FDA clearance to start messing with people's heads—and not just figuratively. — Elon Musk is preparing for the most consequential launch of his career.| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Crunchyroll debuts Game Vault, offering five mobile games for free to subscribers of its two higher-cost tiers, and promises a “new wave of titles coming soon” — Crunchyroll is making a bigger push into games. … The new feature is called the Crunchyroll Game Vault and is available starting today.
More: Gizmodo, Decrypt, VentureBeat, Android Headlines, Lifewire, TouchArcade, CNET, Mashable, GameSpot, SlashGear, Destructoid, Variety, and IGN. Bluesky: @epro.social
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft adds a no-cost Azure AI option for Nvidia GPU clusters to its Startups Founders Hub, in preview first for YC startups and coming later to M12 startups — In the midst of an AI chip shortage, Microsoft wants to give a privileged few startups free access to “supercomputing” … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Ancestry, MyHeritage, and 23andMe begin notifying their users to say their accounts will use 2FA by default, following the theft of millions of 23andMe records — DNA testing and genealogy companies are stepping up user account security by mandating the use of two-factor authentication …
More: 23andMe Blog. Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social. LinkedIn: Arvil Nagpal and John Loughney
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung launches a $99 S Pen Creator Edition in the US, offering a larger, Apple Pencil-like design while lacking many S Pen smart features, like Air Commands — The S Pen has been a key selling point of many of Samsung's products over the years, and the company is now debuting a …
More: The Verge, Android Police, How-To Geek, ZDNet, Mashable, SamInsider, Android Authority, T3, KnowTechie, and PhoneArena
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit starts testing add-ons, first with a small number of communities, including tools to make posts with live scoreboards and to help mods ban spammers — Reddit is beginning to test the first of its own add-ons built through its Developer Platform. The company's first add-ons … | WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp gives its beta users the ability to search for messages by date in its web client — WhatsApp is releasing a new search message by date feature to some beta testers who previously joined the official beta program of WhatsApp Web, making it easier for them to quickly search …
More: Android Headlines, Times of India, Android Police, Gadgets 360, The News International, and Tuko.co.ke. X: @sahilk
| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $9.3B, a $221M net income, gross bookings up 21% YoY to $35.3B, trips up 25% YoY to 2.4B, and a record 6.5M drivers — Revenue was up 11 percent from a year earlier, helping to generate $221 million in net income. — Uber on Tuesday reported financial results …
More: Uber, CNBC, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, The Information, PhocusWire, and Barron's Online. X: @economyapp
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$2.2B and profit down 19% YoY to ~$603M, both above est.; Switch sales from April to September grew 2% YoY to 6.84M — - Nintendo reported better-than-expected sales and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Tuesday as it continues to get a bump from the …
More: Dexerto, Video Games Chronicle, The Verge, Bloomberg, Video Games Chronicle, Nintendo - Investor Relations, GameSpot, KNSD-TV, TechSpot, T3, IGN, Game Developer, RTÉ, Kotaku, Associated Press, GamesIndustry.biz, VentureBeat, Wccftech, Reuters, and Cryptopolitan
X: @oatmealdome, @deeketweak, @deeketweak, @deeketweak, and @domsplaying
LinkedIn: Richard King and Paolo Dal Santo
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Shein aims for an $80B to $90B valuation in its US IPO, vs. a $50B to $60B valuation in recent private trades; Shein was valued at $100B in April 2022 — - Timing of Shein's IPO remains uncertain given volatile market — Valuation dropped to $50 billion in recent private trades
More: TechCrunch, The Messenger, TechStartups, The Information, Financial Times, and Tech in Asia. Forums: Hacker News
| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
eBay reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $2.5B, gross merchandise volume up 2% YoY to $18B, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; EBAY falls 5%+ — E-commerce platform eBay (EBAY.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday as rising competition from the likes … | CNBC: |
Cloud monitoring company Datadog's stock jumps ~30% after reporting Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $547.5M, vs. $524.1M est., and forecasting Q4 sales above estimates — - Datadog surged nearly 30% in Tuesday trading after the company reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings and full-year guidance.
More: SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, The Motley Fool, Reuters, Tomasz Tunguz, Barron's Online, and KNSD-TV
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