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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Amazon updates Kindle Paperwhite, adding a larger, brighter 7" display and faster page turns for $160+, and Kindle, adding color options and speed improvements — Amazon introduced updated versions of the Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite on Wednesday, only a few hours after inadvertently leaking them both.
More: The Verge, About Amazon, Mashable, Engadget, Engadget, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, GeekWire, About Amazon, Android Authority, Wired, WinBuzzer, BGR, Android Central, PhoneArena, and Android Police
Threads: @scruffybookdude and @ampressman
X: @maxwinebach, @panos_panay, and @amazon
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils the $280 Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, its first color e-reader with a Paperwhite-like design and color E Ink display, shipping October 30 — For years, Kindle users have asked Amazon to make a color version of its e-reader. … The Colorsoft costs $279.99 and starts shipping on October 30th.
More: T3, The Independent, Tom's Guide, TechPowerUp, Digital Trends, Boing Boing, TechRadar, and GSMArena.com
Threads: @jhaaren and @parkerortolani
X: @maxwinebach, @panos_panay, @panos_panay, and @connorjewiss
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Amazon updates the Kindle Scribe to add modest design improvements like white bezels, a new stylus, and a more paper-like feel, shipping December 4 for $400 — Ever since Amazon launched the Kindle Scribe in 2022, the company has been noticing some unusual ways people are using the device.| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Kindle Scribe hands-on: AI, annotations, and other software updates help the 2-in-1 e-reader and writing tablet more closely mimic real books and notebooks — AI and annotations help the Scribe more closely mimic real books and notebooks. — Deputy Editor, Reviews — Seventeen years is an odd anniversary to call out.| Tony Polanco / Tom's Guide: |
Kindle Colorsoft hands-on: bold and sharp color on a 7" display, wireless charging, and comfortable, lightweight design, but pricier than other Kindles at $280 — The Kindle Colorsoft is shaping up to be a winner — Early Verdict … The Kindle Colorsoft ($279) is the first color Kindle and something I've been waiting years for.
More: Reuters, Forbes, Bloomberg, Fortune, Neowin, The Independent, 9to5Toys, Spyglass, and Good e-Reader
| Bloomberg: |
ASML's stock falls the most since 1998 after projecting sluggish sales, erasing €50B from its market cap and causing Nvidia and other chip stocks to fall — - Magnitude of ASML's forecast cut was a surprise, Citi says — Peer Tokyo Electron among worst hit stocks in Asia, down 10%| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Q&A with Kevin Rose on Digg, what Reddit got right, the rise of news feeds, why there is no universal internet homepage like Techmeme is for tech, and more — a couple of years, there was nothing on the internet so simultaneously thrilling and terrifying as having your website hit the front page of Digg.| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics with waveguides instead of wires in chips, raised a $400M Series D led by T. Rowe Price at a $4.4B valuation — Investors put $400 million into the company, which aims to make it faster to build new AI software.
More: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, HPCwire, Lightmatter, and Lightmatter
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
YouTube rolls out a new “captured with a camera” label, using the C2PA standard to detect if the video came from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound — YouTube is rolling out new labels that tell if uploaded videos come from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound.| CoinDesk: |
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial crypto project gets off to a bumpy start, as its website crashes and WLFI token sales fall far short of the $300M target — A blockchain wallet connected to the token holds nearly $4 million worth of ether (ETH), $1.2 million of tether (USDT) and around $250,000 USD Coin (USDC) tokens.
More: CNBC, The Hill, Blockworks, The Verge, The Independent, Wired, The Coin Republic, Cryptonews, CCN.com, BizPac Review, Joe.My.God., Coinpedia Fintech News, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, Unchained, The Crypto Times, CryptoSlate, DL News, Bitcoin Insider, Decrypt, New York Times, Crypto Briefing, Forbes, and CoinGape
X: @zekefaux, @lindapatch, @grindingpoet, @grady_booch, and @therickwilson
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Elon Musk poured ~$75M into his pro-Trump America PAC, making seven donations between July 3 and September 5; Musk was the PAC's only donor — - Disclosure is first look into Musks' donations to Trump group — Super PAC spent $69 million to bolster Trump's ground game
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of Palantir, joins OpenAI as its CISO and will serve alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight — Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of analytics firm Palantir, has joined OpenAI as its newest CISO, serving alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight.
More: Maginative, Bloomberg, SecurityWeek, and Forbes
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| Wired: |
A review of Character.AI finds several instances of AI personas being created without a person's consent, seemingly violating the company's terms of service — Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.
More: Washington Post. Threads: @kylie.robison, @cwarzel, and @laurengoode
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| Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg: |
Filing: US prosecutors ask a judge to sentence Ilya Lichtenstein, mastermind of the 2016 Bitfinex hack, to five years in prison; sentencing is due in November — - Ilya Lichtenstein pled guilty to 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack — He and rapper-wife Razzlekhan conspired to launder proceeds
More: Cryptopolitan, CoinJournal, Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, CoinGape, and crypto.news
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU declines to designate X as a DMA gatekeeper after an investigation found that “X is not an important gateway for business users to reach end users” — Elon Musk's X won't be regulated under the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) the Commission decided Wednesday …
More: European Commission. X: @wholemarsblog, @davidgerard, and @eu_competition. Forums: Hacker News
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, setting benchmarks for when an AI model's abilities reach a point where additional safeguards are necessary — Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the popular Claude chatbot, today announced a sweeping update …
More: Anthropic, Silicon Republic, and Platformer
Threads: @crumbler. X: @cfgeek, @david_kasten, @kimmonismus, @michael05156007, @adonis_singh, and @jasondclinton
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| The Citizen Lab: |
An analysis of WeChat's network protocol MMTLS finds that it is a modified version of TLS 1.3 and WeChat developers' changes to its cryptography add weaknesses — Key contributions — We performed the first public analysis of the security and privacy properties of MMTLS …
X: @citizenlab, @thegrugq, @jsrailton, and @citizenlab
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb launches the Co-Host Network to help homeowners hire fellow hosts to manage their rentals in the US, the UK, Canada, France, Spain, and Brazil — - Homeowners can pay co-hosts to set up listing, manage guests — Firm won't take commission when hosts connect with each other
More: TechCrunch, The Times, Ad Age, Airbnb Newsroom, The Independent, PhocusWire, and Skift
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A teardown of Microsoft's diskless Xbox Series X, which was released today, shows a redesigned motherboard, a 6nm chip, and a new cooling system — Microsoft's discless Xbox Series X goes on sale today, and while it looks slightly different on the outside thanks to a white paint job and lack …
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X: @wario64, @tomwarren, and @fsapojake
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| Martin Coulter / Reuters: |
LatticeFlow's LLM Checker, which analyzed models from Meta, Alibaba, Mistral, Anthropic, and OpenAI against the EU's AI Act, finds some compliance issues — Some of the most prominent artificial intelligence models are falling short of European regulations in key areas such as cybersecurity resilience …
More: Endor Labs, TechCrunch, LatticeFlow, and WinBuzzer
| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources detail how Nvidia and TSMC's lucrative AI alliance is showing signs of stress as AI booms; sources say Nvidia found flaws in TSMC-made Blackwell chips — The most successful and lucrative partnership in the artificial intelligence business is showing signs of strain.
More: Benzinga, Business Insider, Reuters, The Motley Fool, Neowin, Capacity Media, and Bloomberg
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Android 15 to Pixel devices, adding privacy features like a “private space” for apps, security tools, and foldable and tablet improvements — Android 15 is now rolling out to Pixel devices, bringing them new privacy features, security tools, and improvements for foldables and tablets.
More: The Keyword, Android Police, ASUS, T3, Android Authority, TalkAndroid.com, TechRadar, Pocket-lint, KnowTechie, Android Faithful, Android Faithful, Android Authority, TechIssuesToday.com, SammyGuru, Android Authority, Cybernews.com, Business Standard, Business Today, RM Update News, Benzinga, GSMArena.com, Forbes, NewsBytes, nextpit, AndroidGuys, Liliputing, Redmond Pie, Sammy Fans, Neowin, Android Headlines, Phone Scoop, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Faithful, 9to5Google, Thurrott, Android Faithful, SlashGear, PCMag, The Shortcut, How-To Geek, HotHardware, Engadget, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Trusted Reviews, Sam Lover, and Huawei Central
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
The Cybersecurity Association of China says Intel products sold in the country should be subject to a security review, alleging it has “constantly harmed” China — Intel (INTC.O) products sold in China should be subject to a security review, the Cybersecurity Association of China …
More: South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal, PCMag, CHINAdaily, Bloomberg, Nikkei Asia, Asia Financial, SHINE, WinBuzzer, and Reuters
X: @angelusm0rt1s, @briantycangco, and @onlyyoontv
| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
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