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| 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: BetaNews, Android Headlines, Liliputing, Digital Trends, TechRadar, The Independent, Spyglass, Boing Boing, and GSMArena.com
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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: About Amazon, The Verge, Thurrott, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Investor's Business Daily, Gizmodo, Wired, Mashable, About Amazon, Engadget, TechCrunch, Engadget, GeekWire, SlashGear, Lifewire, Tabletmonkeys, Android Authority, Pocket-lint, WinBuzzer, Android Central, PhoneArena, Android Police, and T3
Threads: @scruffybookdude and @ampressman
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| 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.| 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.
More: 9to5Toys, Tom's Guide, Barron's Online, CNBC, Good e-Reader, and The Indian Express
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The US FTC adopts its final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up, after proposing the rule in 2023 — The US Federal Trade Commission is taking action against subscriptions that are difficult to get rid of.
More: Federal Trade Commission, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, Reuters, PCMag, Quartz, MediaPost, MakeUseOf, The Hill, The Streamable, Nieman Lab, and NBC News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mistral releases Les Ministraux AI models in 3B and 8B sizes with 128K context windows, aimed at on-device translation, internet-less smart assistants, and more — French AI startup Mistral has released its first generative AI models designed to be run on edge devices, like laptops and phones.
More: Mistral AI and WinBuzzer
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| Bloomberg: |
ASML's stock falls the most since 1998 after projecting sluggish 2025 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%| 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: Barron's Online, Benzinga, Business Insider, Reuters, The Motley Fool, Neowin, Capacity Media, Bloomberg, and Proactive. X: @mvpeers
| 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, Mashable, and The Verge
| 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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| Diana Olick / CNBC: |
Amazon signs three deals to help develop small modular nuclear reactors in the US, with Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund leading a $500M Series C-1 for X-energy — WATCH NOW — Amazon Web Services is investing more than $500 million in nuclear power, announcing three projects from Virginia to Washington state.
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| 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.
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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
| Daniel Thorp-Lancaster / Wired: |
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus review: thin design, spacious 15.6" screen, great performance, Quick Insert key, and solid battery life, but average speakers — This powerful clamshell Chromebook packs an AMOLED screen and is one of the first with the new Quick Insert key. — Rating:
More: Android Authority, ZDNET, Android Central, and SamMobile
| 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: The Crypto Times, Cryptopolitan, Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, CoinGape, crypto.news, and CoinJournal
| 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.| Jessica Piper / Politico: |
FTC data: three crypto super PACs have spent $82M in 19 races, including $40M in Ohio and $10M in Arizona; the ads focus on candidates and rarely mention crypto — Super PACs funded by the crypto industry are pouring massive amounts into congressional races, and not a single ad actually mentions crypto.
More: Coinspeaker, The Colorado Sun, CryptoPotato, and Washington Examiner
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| 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, WinBuzzer, Silicon Republic, and Platformer
Threads: @crumbler. X: @cfgeek, @david_kasten, @kimmonismus, @michael05156007, @adonis_singh, and @jasondclinton
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| 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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| 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
X: @megan_nicolett and @megan_nicolett
| 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: The Verge, Engadget, Airbnb Newsroom, TechCrunch, Skift, The Times, Ad Age, PhocusWire, and The Independent
| 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: LatticeFlow, WinBuzzer, and TechCrunch
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