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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is testing making posts from Threads accounts “available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol” — Mark Zuckerberg said today that Meta has started testing a feature to show Threads posts on Mastodon and other AcitivityPub protocol-supported networks.
More: The Verge, New.blicio.us, Social Media Today, Engadget, and 9to5Mac
Threads: @zuck, @quillmatiq, @tomwarrenuk, @mosseri, @corybe, @joenandez, @chris, @anildash, @thebrianpenny, @m4rk, @jasontheknight, @karissabe, @mattnavarra, @aaronrosspowell, @mmasnick, @jonporteruk, @salrodriguez, @micah.pollak, and @jonporteruk
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @Chancerubbage@mastodon.social, @jerry@infosec.exchange, @wall0159@aus.social, @stroughtonsmith …, @evan@cosocial.ca, @stroughtonsmith …, @bikepedantic …, @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @b3ll@mastodon.social, @timbray@cosocial.ca, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @paul@tapbots.social, @joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org, @profcarroll@federate.social, @danyork@mastodon.social, @carnage4life@mas.to, and @TNLNYC@mastodon.social
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Google announces Gemini Pro for enterprises, letting Cloud clients build apps for free, with some limits, and plans to add Gemini Pro to AI Studio and Vertex AI — Gemini Pro is aimed at businesses and app developers — Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced a slate of upgraded artificial intelligence features … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Imagen 2, launched in preview in May 2023 and built using Google DeepMind tech, offering “significantly” improved image quality and new features — Google's making the second generation of Imagen, its AI model that can create and edit images given a text prompt … | Keith Laing / Bloomberg: |
Tesla plans to update Autopilot in 2M+ cars after the NHTSA issued a recall, following a probe that found its means for keeping drivers engaged were inadequate — - US regulator finds system doesn't do enough to prevent misuse — Agency will keep defect investigation open, monitor remedies
More: NHTSA, CNN, Associated Press, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Washington Post, Reuters, New York Times, The Messenger, Bloomberg, TweakTown, SiliconANGLE, PCMag, Rolling Stone, CNBC, iTnews, TechRadar, Tech Xplore, TechStartups, T3, Telegraph, The Information, New York Post, Reuters, BGR, TechSpot, MobileSyrup, SlashGear, The Robot Report, Mashable, Kotaku, The Register, HotHardware, Ars Technica, VICE, Newser, Digital Trends, New York Daily News, ExtremeTech, NBC News, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Axios, Financial Times, Wired UK, Semafor, Engadget, Electrek, Metro.co.uk, and Los Angeles Times
Threads: @taylorlorenz, @lorakolodny, @carnage4life, and @ramseyramblin. Mastodon: @mattblaze@federate.social. Bluesky: @epro.social
X: @wholemarsblog, @zsk, @carlquintanilla, @wholemarsblog, @troyteslike, and @tomgara
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Twitch now allows some previously prohibited sexual content, including “deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or pelvic region”, with a sexual themes label — Twitch is updating the way it responds to sexual content. As part of the change, the streaming platform will now allow …
More: Twitch, TechCrunch, The Messenger, Dexerto, Variety, Dexerto, Dot Esports, Dexerto, Dexerto, and TweakTown
Mastodon: @kierkegaank@mastodon.sdf.org. X: @saruei_, @faaairlydecent, @infernoomni, @arilovetv, @madkurious, @alexia_moi_voss, @keyokku, and @twitch
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available in beta on the Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro, for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers — Xbox Cloud Gaming is arriving on Meta's range of VR headsets today. A beta version of the cloud gaming app is now available for the Meta Quest 2, 3 …
More: Meta, Xbox Wire, Thurrott, Road to VR, Dexerto, Neowin, Windows Central, Game Rant, Android Headlines, Mashable, CNET, Pure Xbox, IGN, Android Central, 9to5Google, TweakTown, and TechCrunch
Threads: @boztank. X: @benz145, @purplemikey, @cixliv, @xbox, @xbox, and @metaquestvr. LinkedIn: Bruno Cendon. Forums: Slashdot
| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Axel Springer signs a multiyear deal with OpenAI, which plans to offer ChatGPT news summaries and use Politico, Business Insider, and others to train AI models — Generative-AI company reaches multiyear pact with owner of Politico, Business Insider and major European properties
More: Axel Springer SE, OpenAI, The Atlantic, Axios, Decrypt, Financial Times, The Guardian, SiliconANGLE, Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, Politico, Bloomberg, CNBC, Analytics India Magazine, The Decoder, Engadget, TechCrunch, Telegraph, The Information, OODA Loop, Fortune, WRAL TechWire, The Hollywood Reporter, VentureBeat, Reuters, MSPoweruser, The Messenger, and Tech Xplore
X: @openai, @ednewtonrex, @jason, @jeffjarvis, @jyarow, @jessicalessin, @axelspringer_en, and @mushtaqbilalphd. LinkedIn: Tom Keller
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: sparked by Spotify's complaint in 2019, the EU may fine Apple in 2024 and plans to ban its anti-steering App Store rules used on music streaming rivals — - EU to ban allegedly abusive App Store rules for music rivals — Antitrust decision due early 2024 and could come with fines| Bloomberg: |
Coinbase rolls out spot crypto trading on its international exchange, starting with BTC-USDC and ETH-USDC pairs via API access for non-US institutional clients — - Hazy regulatory outlook deters some investors from US venues … Institutional investors can initially trade Bitcoin and Ether …
More: Coinbase, The Block, CoinDesk, Blockworks, Cryptonews, Crypto Briefing, CryptoPotato, Finbold, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, crypto.news, Bitcoin Insider, and Cointelegraph. X: @coinbase
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Your Books, a feature that lets users organize all their books, including print, Kindle, and Audible titles, while providing recommendations — Amazon today is launching its own competitor to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendations site it also owns.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $5.05B, vs. $5.03B est., Digital Media revenue up 13% YoY to $3.72B, and FY 2024 guidance below est.; ADBE drops 5%+ — - Adobe's fiscal fourth-quarter results surpassed expectations, but guidance for fiscal 2024 trailed estimates.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
More: SiliconANGLE, Business Today, Dow Jones Newswires, and TweakTown
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The US, the UK, and Poland say that since September 2023, state-backed Russian group APT29 has targeted servers hosting Czech firm JetBrains' TeamCity software — Government agencies in the U.S., Poland and the U.K. said on Wednesday that Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) …
More: Cybersecurity …, Dark Reading, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, and BleepingComputer. Mastodon: @shadowserver@infosec.exchange
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
A profile of Nandini Jammi, a co-founder of Check My Ads, a nonprofit using social media to call out companies whose ads appear on far-right creators' websites — Nandini Jammi is fighting to defund right-wing influencers like Alex Jones — When Elon Musk reinstated far-right influencer … | Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Etsy plans to lay off ~11% of its workforce, or ~225 employees, as the e-commerce website grapples with slow consumer spending and rivals like Shein and Temu — Etsy is laying off roughly 11% of its workforce, a spokesperson confirmed, as the e-commerce site that helps small businesses sell …
More: CNBC, Etsy, Inc., Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, South China Morning Post, Investor's Business Daily, and The Messenger
X: @buccocapital and @theo_wayt
| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The EU Council and Parliament back a deal to reclassify millions of ride-hailing and food delivery app workers as staff, which could cost the industry billions — European Union negotiators backed a deal to reclassify millions of people working for ride-hailing and food-delivery apps …
More: SiliconANGLE, European Parliament, Council of the EU, Engadget, Tech Xplore, Electrek, Politico, WeeTracker, TechCrunch, Euractiv, Wired, and Financial Times
X: @eucouncilpress, @ep_president, @timchristiaens5, @ben_wray1989, @epsocialaffairs, @nicolasschmiteu, @ben_wray1989, @_aloisi, and @maxvonthun. LinkedIn: Olgu Özdemir Ertürk
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple expands Self Service Repair to the iPhone 15 lineup and M2 Macs, brings the program to 24 more 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 … | 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: Decrypt, CCN.com, Bitcoin Insider, CryptoSlate, Cryptonews, Blockonomi, CryptoPotato, Protos, Default, Cointelegraph, The Block, and CoinDesk. X: @clemtan
| Reuters: |
Cruise says nine key executives, including COO Gil West, have departed the company, after its initial analysis of an October 2 pedestrian incident — General Motors' Cruise robotaxi unit dismissed nine key people amid an ongoing safety investigation, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Wednesday … | AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Microsoft seizes US-based infrastructure and websites used by cybercrime group Storm-1152 that created ~750M fraudulent Microsoft accounts, after a court order — Relying on a court order, the tech giant seized websites belonging to a top purveyor of fraudulent Microsoft accounts.
More: Microsoft On the Issues, GeekWire, BleepingComputer, Arkose Labs, and Bloomberg Law
X: @itsreallynick, @sixdub, and @msftsecintel
| 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: Payments Dive, The Verge, Reuters, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Washington Post, BIG by Matt Stoller, New York Post, and CNBC
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance cancels the Pico 5, an upcoming VR headset from its Pico subsidiary, after Pico 4 sales fell far short of expectations and the VR market sags — Chinese tech giant ByteDance might have set Facebook owner Meta Platforms on its heels with its hugely popular TikTok app.
More: UploadVR, Road to VR, and MIXED Reality News
| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
Abu Dhabi-based Andalusia Labs, which offers risk management services for digital assets, raised a $48M Series A led by Lightspeed at a valuation “north of” $1B — Digital asset risk infrastructure-focused Andalusia Labs, formerly known as RiskHarbor, has raised $48 million …
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