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A look at Elon Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump's campaign contacted X to stop the circulation of the hacked JD Vance dossier — Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself.
More: Alternet.org, The Hill, CNN, New York Magazine, Quartz, Raw Story, Mediaite, emptywheel, and New Republic
Threads: @oliverdarcy, @gtconway3dg, @mac_ryan_, @originalspin, @esqueer_, @kateaconger, and @daveleebbg
Mastodon: @wendysiegelman@mastodon …, @Wileymiller@mastodon.social, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @metacurity@infosec.exchange, and @kevincollier@mastodon.social
X: @tvietor08, @timodc, @jason_kint, and @kevincollier
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/politics, and r/pittsburgh
| Norman Goh / Nikkei Asia: |
ByteDance confirms laying off hundreds of TikTok content moderators in Malaysia and plans to invest $2B in 2024 in trust and safety; sources: 700+ were laid off — KUALA LUMPUR — ByteDance, the parent company of social media platform TikTok, confirmed on Friday that it will be laying off hundreds …
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, News.ng, Windows Central, PCMag, Android Headlines, WinBuzzer, CCN.com, Livemint, Tech.co, Silicon UK, Digital Music News, PhoneArena, Wall Street Journal, TBIJ, Verdict, Benzinga, Nairametrics, NewsBytes, Neowin, Proactive, Asia Financial, and Tech in Asia. Forums: r/malaysia
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk unveils a Tesla Cybercab prototype, claims “you will be able to buy one” for under $30K, and expects the robotaxi to be in production “before 2027” — Tesla has finally revealed its Cybercab, and it looks like a smaller, sleeker Cybertruck.
More: The Verge, Pivot to AI, Tesla on YouTube, ZDNET, CNBC, Axios, Fierce Electronics, Around the Next Bend, VICE, NPR, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, The Independent, ExtremeTech, nextpit, PYMNTS.com, Yahoo Finance, MediaPost, International Business Times, Cautious Optimism, Autoweek, Eschaton, Yahoo Lifestyle, Quartz, Semafor, UPI, VentureBeat, The Crypto Basic, Motley Fool, TESLARATI, CleanTechnica, Newser, Gizmochina, The Decoder, NBC News, Bloomberg, AIM, Tesla Oracle, Coinpedia Fintech News, BusinessLIVE, TechCrunch, The Indian Express, Bloomberg, Engadget, Reuters, TechCrunch, and Business Insider
Threads: @karaswisher, @jbillinson, @hikarido1, @dcurtis, @jedrekk, @common.or.garden, @jseibert, @brooksrocco, @mattjrob, @tweet_removed, @davexmit, @vizhal007, @shapeofzen, @eshumarneedi, @jbruck, @moskov, @johnloeffler, @karaswisher, @gwestr, @vantazach, @moskov, @gwestr, @moskov, @firerock31, and @trackingelon
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @fleg@chaos.social
Bluesky: @stribs.bsky.social, @farnaby.bsky.social, and @chickenpuppet.bsky.social
X: @tesla, @realdanodowd, @kvogt, @faizsays, @artemr, @pt, @teroterotero, @banalplay, @dcurtis, @binarybits, @stokel, @mikebutcher, @dcurtis, @rowancheung, @levie, @collinrugg, @sawyermerritt, @chazman, and @ajtourville
LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Patrick Gallagher, and Prof. Ahmed Banafa
Forums: Hacker News, r/economy, r/RealTesla, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/CyberStuck, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/electricvehicles
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to test the ability to stream games that users own but aren't in the Xbox Game Pass library, starting with Xbox Insiders in November — Microsoft is planning to support the streaming of Xbox game libraries next month. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell …
More: 9to5Google, MakeUseOf, Eurogamer.net, Kotaku, Digital Trends, Neowin, Trusted Reviews, Wccftech, and XboxEra
Forums: r/GeForceNOW, r/xcloud, and r/xbox
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Adam Mosseri attributes Instagram and Threads' moderation issues, causing users to lose access to their accounts, to human moderator “mistakes”, not AI systems — Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Friday addressed the moderation issues that saw Instagram and Threads users losing access …
More: The Verge, Android Headlines, Engadget, and Thurrott
Threads: @mosseri, @mossbergwalt, @moskov, @mosseri, @andymstone, @stonekettle, @mosseri, @cult_papa, and @ism.and.ist
Bluesky: @kevinkleinpdx.bsky.social and @linh.social
| NPR: |
Faulty court filing redactions: TikTok executives were unconcerned with the harms the app poses for US teenagers, despite internal research validating concerns — For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers.
More: Inc, Washington Post, Politico, Business Insider, canoe, Louisville Public Media, New Republic, WBUR, Forbes, Quartz, Mashable, Salon, iPhone in Canada Blog, and CNN
Threads: @jawnpaczkowski and @bobbyallyn
X: @peterhamby, @ryanvanvelzer, @bobbyallyn, @ttp_updates, @davidgura, @rylandky, @viacristiano, @darakerr, and @nprinskeep
LinkedIn: Cecily Kellogg, Scott Galloway, and Carl D. Marci
Forums: r/NPR, r/neoliberal, r/law, and r/technology
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Steam now tells its users that they're buying a license, not a game, ahead of a California law that forces companies to do so when customers “buy” digital media — The company appears to be getting ahead of a California law going into force next year.
More: The Verge, Ars Technica, PCWorld, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, MobileSyrup, Gizmodo, IGN, TechSpot, Thurrott, PC Gamer, Gameranx, How-To Geek, Eurogamer.net, Mashable, PlayStation LifeStyle, Game Rant, Digital Trends, and Neowin
Forums: r/SteamDeck, r/technology, r/gamingnews, r/Games, r/pcgaming, and r/technews
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Filing: in OpenAI's $6.6B round, Khosla Ventures invested $405M; the majority, or possibly all, was pooled from other investors via a special purpose vehicle — Khosla Ventures has raised $405 million for OpenAI, according to a regulatory filing. — Based on the filing alone …
More: The Information
| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
The US NLRB accuses Apple of interfering with workers' rights to organize by restricting their social media and Slack use, its second Apple complaint in a month — Apple (AAPL.O) has been accused by a U.S. labor board of interfering with workers' rights to collectively advocate … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some parts of US broadband networks within the past week, and investigators don't know what they were seeking — In letters to AT&T, Verizon and Lumen, lawmakers ask about proposed measures the companies will take to protect U.S. wiretap systems
More: The Register, Nextgov/FCW, CyberScoop, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, and The Record
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Nvidia-backed cloud GPU provider CoreWeave says it has a new $650M credit line and has raised $12.7B from equity and debt investors in the past 18 months — CoreWeave, an Nvidia-backed artificial intelligence startup that rents out chips to other companies, announced Friday …
More: Bloomberg, CoreWeave, Axios, Invezz, Tech Startups, and SiliconANGLE
| Bloomberg: |
Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay — One August morning in south Brooklyn, Mohamed Mohamed did what he's done almost every day for nine years: He woke up at 5 a.m. …
More: New York Post, landing.podtrac.com, and Benzinga
X: @rakeshsfnyc, @ericnewcomer, @keithellison, @bcmerchant, @sarahfrier, @mteuzi, @katiejwells, @rachelmetz, @jamietarabay, @sserve, @marietjeschaake, @moreperfectus, @zerohedge, @faycortez, @pt, @a_w_gordon, @leonyin, @nyccomptroller, @aaschapiro, @pt, @kirker, @leonyin, @leonyin, @axelmerk, @josheidelson, and @rayprisament. LinkedIn: Dana Wollman
Forums: r/newyorkcity and r/nyc
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