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| Zoë Schiffer / The Verge: |
A look at Twitter's culture prior to Elon Musk's acquisition, when the company focused on improving the health of online conversations, not growth at all costs — the early '10s, Twitter was at the height of its power. The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role …
More: The Verge, The Verge, The Verge, The Verge, Law & Crime, Pixel Envy, and Cryptopolitan
Threads: @martinsfp, @qasimnauman, @reckless1280, @m0qazi, @andyyang, @technicallymims, @shaneafsar, @cdylanparks, @j.b.robertson, @luke.pfister, @racsterls, @mikecvet, @mikecvet, and @reporterzoe
Mastodon: @anzet@zeppelin.flights and @reichenstein@mastodon.social
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Sources: X generated just over $600M in ad revenue in each of 2023's first three quarters, down from $1B+ per quarter in 2022 and on track for ~$2.5B in 2023 — - X to miss internal goals for ad revenue, people familiar say — Musk's personal tweets continue to scare off advertisers
More: PYMNTS.com, Reuters, The Verge, and 9to5Mac
Threads: @carnage4life, @pkafka, @alexkantrowitz, @esg.hound, and @ashzade_. Bluesky: @intelwire.bsky.social
X: @kantrowitz and @_danilo
| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple releases an iOS beta with Stolen Device Protection; if enabled, the feature limits actions like Apple ID password resets when not in a “familiar location” — Stolen Device Protection can prevent criminals from using your passcode to change your Apple account
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X: @harryxru, @joannastern, @krausefx, @nicnguyen, @briantong, @bradhowardnews, @rsgnl, @kuba_suder, and @jonyiveparody. Forums: Slashdot
| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The EU Council and Parliament agree a deal to reclassify millions of ride-hailing and food delivery app workers as staff, possibly costing the industry billions — European Union negotiators backed a deal to reclassify millions of people working for ride-hailing and food-delivery apps … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix publishes its first What We Watched report, detailing the most-watched content from January to June 2023; The Night Agent was #1 with 812M+ hours viewed — Netflix is going to start publishing a new report twice a year that details the most popular shows and movies on the platform.
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X: @tvgrimreaper, @xenocryptsite, @loudmouthjulia, and @business
| Keith Laing / Bloomberg: |
Tesla recalls 2M+ vehicles after the NHTSA said its means for keeping drivers engaged in Autopilot were inadequate and open to misuse, part of a yearslong probe — - US regulator finds system doesn't do enough to prevent misuse — Agency will keep defect investigation open, monitor remedies
More: Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press, Barron's Online, and Financial Times. Forums: Hacker News
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Asset Management debuts Project Diamond, combining Coinbase's custody tools, wallet, L2 network Base, and Circle's USDC to create a capital marketplace — “Project Diamond” lets institutions create and trade digital native versions of financial instruments such as debt using Base in a regulated manner.
More: Coinbase, Coinspeaker, Crypto Briefing, Benzinga, Blockworks, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, and CoinGape
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: 3AC co-founder Su Zhu for the first time faced questioning in a Singapore court about the fund's collapse; Teneo estimates 3AC owes creditors ~$3.3B — - Failed crypto fund's co-founder Zhu was arrested in September — Liquidators seek information for creditors owed $3.3 billion
More: The Block, CoinDesk, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, Watcher Guru, CoinGape, and Default. X: @clemtan
| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Google's Epic loss, where a jury found Google guilty on all 11 antitrust claims, may portend its legal fate in two, more significant US antitrust cases in 2024 — A trio of antitrust cases on the docket threaten to reshape Google's business and sap its profits.
More: Bloomberg, Washington Post, BIG by Matt Stoller, The Information, TechCabal, Tech Xplore, Slate, CNBC, gamedeveloper, iTnews, Reuters, PCMag, Cryptopolitan, and Engadget
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases Phi-2, an AI language model the company says outperforms Mistral and Llama 2 at 7B and 13B parameters and is small enough to run on a phone — The rapid pace of generative AI news and announcements isn't slowing down, even as we reach the final stretches of 2023 and the traditional winter holiday quiet period.
More: Microsoft Research, Decrypt, Analytics India Magazine, SiliconANGLE, and The Information
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses as an early access beta in the US, letting Meta AI answer voice queries by taking and analyzing photos — I tried these Ray-Ban AI glasses, and they're pretty wild. Here's how the experimental feature works. — “Hey, Meta.
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X: @haltor, @jetscott, @jetscott, and @heaney555
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| Malak Saleh / Engadget: |
Meta is working to extend its fact-checking to Threads early next year; its fact-checking now only rates Threads content matching posts on Facebook or Instagram — The program will roll out next year, according to executives. — Threads is going to make an effort to moderate more of the user-generated content on the platform.
More: Meta, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, MSPoweruser, Social Media Today, and The Verge
Threads: @mosseri, @voorhees_dnb, @faith_jvs, @chris, and @luhtestoni
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google plans to shorten Maps' default auto-delete history feature from 18 months to three months and let users store Maps Timeline data locally on their devices — Google Maps has gotten some fun updates recently, and now it's offering some more privacy-forward tweaks as it adds more ways to control your location data.| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
The FCC issues a final denial of Starlink's request for $885M to expand rural coverage, saying Starlink “failed to demonstrate” an ability to offer the service — The FCC has made a final denial of Starlink's application for $885 million in public funds to expand … | Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division announces the end of perpetual licenses and a move to subscriptions, and simplifies its product portfolio — Also kills perpetual licenses, adds a vSphere bundle for smaller users — +COMMENT Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division has announced …
More: VMware, Silicon Republic, TechRadar, ITPro, New.blicio.us, SiliconANGLE, VMware Workstation Zealot, The Stack, Ars Technica, Constellation Research, and OSnews
Mastodon: @wndlb@mas.to. X: @nixcraft, @leviathan_it3, @sysadafterdark, @rseroter, and @theblindhacker
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Apple updates its law enforcement guidelines to now require a judge's order before handing over users' push notification data, instead of only a subpoena — Apple (AAPL.O) has said it now requires a judge's order to hand over information about its customers' push notification to law enforcement … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft warns that threat actors are misusing OAuth apps to automate phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for crypto mining — Microsoft warns that financially-motivated threat actors are using OAuth applications to automate BEC and phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for cryptomining.| Tim McDonnell / Semafor: |
The US DOE opens The Office of Critical and Emerging Technology to coordinate the use of AI and other tech to fight climate change, prevent pandemics, and more — The U.S. Department of Energy today opened a new office tasked with coordinating the government's support for and use …
More: Wall Street Journal, Energy.gov, The Messenger, Cryptopolitan, The Hill, and FedScoop
| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
A parliamentary report warns the UK is vulnerable to a “catastrophic ransomware attack at any moment” because of the government's failures to tackle ransomware — Because of the British government's failures to tackle ransomware, there is a “high risk” the country faces a … | Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate claims to have hacked Russia's state tax service and that Russia has been trying to restore the service for four days — Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate (GUR) said it infected thousands of servers belonging to Russia's state tax service with malware …
More: gur.gov.ua, Cybernews.com, Infosecurity, OODA Loop, Security Affairs, BleepingComputer, and SiliconANGLE. Forums: Slashdot
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Foxconn plans to invest at least $1B more, on top of the $1.6B allocated earlier, in to its 300-acre Bengaluru plant to make Apple devices — - World's largest iPhone maker setting aside more money for site — Apple's partners are shifting capacity away from China
More: 9to5Mac, Business Today, Patently Apple, and Reuters
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Kakao names Shina Chung, the head of its corporate VC arm, as its next CEO; Chung is a rare female leader in South Korea's male-dominated business sphere — The company plans to formally announce the appointment of Shina Chung, 48, as its new chief executive officer following a board meeting … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple expands Self Service Repair to the iPhone 15 lineup and M2 Macs, brings the program to 24 new countries, and releases an Apple Diagnostics tool in the US — Apple today announced it has expanded its Self Service Repair program to cover the iPhone 15 lineup and Mac models powered by M2 chips …
More: AppleInsider, Apple, iMore, and The Apple Post
| Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times: |
Pro-government news outlets and influencers in Bangladesh are promoting AI-generated disinformation created with cheap tools ahead of elections in January 2024 — Ahead of South Asian nation going to the polls in January, AI-generated disinformation has become a growing problem
X: @1br0wn, @areeqchowdhury, @tobywalsh, and @valayism
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