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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the company's first AR glasses, a cheaper Quest 3S headset, new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, and more are expected — Over the past year, Meta has made a big push to integrate AI features into the platforms it owns: whether it be through its ChatGPT rival …
More: TechCrunch, The Information, Engadget, TechCrunch, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, RTÉ, Android Central, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, Laptop Mag, TechRadar, and The Mirror
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta unveils a prototype of Orion, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors — Orion is an impressive demo of AR glasses, but can Mark Zuckerberg beat everyone else to the next big platform?
More: Meta, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Bloomberg, PhoneArena, Meta, and TechRadar
Threads: @robsherman, @pkafka, and @boztank
| David Lumb / CNET: |
Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones — The new models are small enough to assist in tasks on people's phones... and potentially smaller accessories, too.
More: TechCrunch, Meta, VentureBeat, and The Verge
X: @saboo_shubham_, @benbajarin, and @aravsrinivas
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+ — Meta finally announced the very heavily leaked Quest 3S VR headset, and the leaks were right: it's a $299.99 headset that looks like a mix of the Quest 2 and Quest 3.
More: UploadVR, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Sun, Road to VR, UploadVR, UploadVR, Engadget, Engadget, Gizmodo, UploadVR, Polyarc Games on YouTube, IGN, PC Gamer, New York Times, The Independent, The Mirror, Android Central, Yahoo Lifestyle, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Wired, PhoneArena, CNBC, Digital Trends, NewsBytes, Connect The Watts, The Indian Express, BroBible, Tyriel Wood - VR Tech on YouTube, OtterWorldly on YouTube, Cas and Chary XR on YouTube, Erik Hartley on YouTube, David Duggan on YouTube, Gamertag VR on YouTube, Adam Savage’s Tested on YouTube, Meta, Laptop Mag, Video Games Chronicle, Neowin, Android Central, Lifewire, and MIXED Reality News
Threads: @mgsiegler, @laurengoode, and @boztank
X: @tomwarren, @munster_gene, @dilmerv, @hmltn, @anshelsag, @kentbye, @benbajarin, @benbajarin, and @kifleswing
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta AI's Imagine features are now being expanded across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram, letting users generate AI photos, image captions, and more — Meta AI's Imagine features, which use generative AI to turn text prompts into images, are now being expanded across Facebook and Instagram …
More: Meta, CNET, The Verge, Android Central, TechRadar, and The Independent
| Meta for Developers on Facebook: |
Livestream of Meta Connect 2024 — Join Mark Zuckerberg as he shares Meta's vision for AI and the metaverse, including Meta's newest product announcements. Then stay with us for the Developer Keynote, where you'll hear from executives across Meta on how our latest technologies …
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Google files an EU antitrust complaint alleging Microsoft engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers' reliance on products like Windows — Search giant seeks antitrust probe of Big Tech rival over dominance of Azure platform
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X: @florian4gamers, @florian4gamers, and @lewis_crofts
| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing it of tracking Firefox users on websites without consent — Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority …
More: noyb, Engadget, The Record, The Hacker News, The Register, HotHardware, MakeUseOf, Nairametrics, Neowin, TechCrunch, Cybernews.com, and Silicon Republic
Forums: r/technology, r/privacy, r/browsers, r/technews, and r/linux
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Sony announces seven more games that the $700 PS5 Pro, arriving November 7, will enhance via AI-powered “PSSR” upscaling, taking the total to 20 Enhanced games — Sony has just revealed seven additional games that'll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed.| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
A look at Caroline Ellison's motivations in the FTX fraud, including her relationship with SBF; the judge said he had “never seen” a cooperator like Ellison — The story of Sam Bankman-Fried was obvious enough: a Shakespearean level of arrogance that led to tragedy.
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| Brady Dale / Axios: |
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Forums: r/neoliberal and r/news
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme, active since 2018, operated by group UNC5267 — It's difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder. — Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently … | Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
X releases its first transparency report since Elon Musk took over; X took action on 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021 — In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps — Anyone who works at a computer for eight-plus hours a day will likely know that the amount of tools and “context switching” required to stay productive can be overwhelming.
More: The Verge, Raycast, XDA Developers, Tech.eu, 9to5Mac, Neowin, EU-Startups, and Silicon Canals. LinkedIn: Thomas Paul Mann
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent a C&D letter on September 23 — The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks.
More: The Register and Automattic
Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io. X: @automattic, @photomatt, @carnage4life, and @carnage4life. Forums: Hacker News
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How a security researcher used a now-fixed flaw to store false memories in ChatGPT via indirect prompt injection to exfiltrate all user input in perpetuity — Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories. — When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/technews, and Ars OpenForum
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google's $2.7B Character.AI deal was primarily to rehire founder Noam Shazeer, who quit Google in 2021 and made hundreds of millions from the deal — Amid debate on whether tech companies are overspending on AI, Google's pricey reunion with Noam Shazeer draws attention
More: The Daily Beast and Benzinga
X: @rolfewinkler and @grady_booch
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| Peter Saalfield / Decrypt: |
Researchers detail an AI model that they claim can solve Google's reCAPTCHAv2 challenges with 100% accuracy using a similar number of attempts as human users — Researchers from ETH Zurich used advanced machine learning to solve 100% of Google's reCAPTCHAv2, designed to distinguish humans from bots.
More: arXiv, The Decoder, Forbes, WinBuzzer, New Scientist, Coinotag News, TechRadar, Tech Xplore, and ZDNET. X: @quinnypig
| Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
US federal court records: the DOJ has been investigating SAP, Carahsoft, and others for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies over a decade — - DOJ investigating billions in purchases from SAP over a decade — Other companies under scrutiny in civil False Claims Act probe
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Book excerpt: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the video game industry's unstoppable pair, had a falling out from 2013 — Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime were the video game industry's unstoppable pair, until they fought each other. An excerpt from the new book Play Nice.
More: Thurrott. Mastodon: @RYStorm@mastodon …. X: @jasonschreier, @jasonschreier, @jasonschreier, @ben_heathstone, and @skoll_shorties
| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers — House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again.
More: The Committee on Homeland Security, BBC, The Record, Cybersecurity Dive, Metacurity, New York Times, ComputerWeekly.com, The Independent, The Stack, Sky News, SC Media, WinBuzzer, Cyber Daily, Homeland Security Committee on YouTube, Associated Press, and Benzinga
X: @cspan, @malwarejake, @irnestkaplan, @homelandgop, @zsk, and @ryanaraine
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records; Threads.com was owned by a Slack alternative startup acquired by Shopify in June — Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records of the URL that were updated on September 24.
More: DomainInvesting.com, NamePros, and The Verge
Threads: @creativenewman and @crumbler
X: @dinvesting and @mattrosoff
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China-linked hackers have broken into a handful of US ISPs in recent months in pursuit of sensitive info, in a campaign investigators call Salt Typhoon — It is latest intrusion into core U.S. infrastructure by entities linked to China — Hackers linked to the Chinese government … | Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to integrate Samsung's SmartThings IoT platform with future car infotainment systems developed by Hyundai and Kia — Samsung and fellow South Korean giants Kia and Hyundai have struck up an IoT alliance that will see cars drive home appliances … Sponsor Posts
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