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Google and Apple removed Red Dot, an app for reporting ICE sightings; Google says the app was being used to share the location of a “vulnerable group” — Both Google and Apple recently removed Red Dot, an app people can use to report sightings of ICE officials, from their respective app stores, 404 Media has found.
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| Ashley Oliver / Fox Business: |
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app — Bondi confirmed the department reached out to Apple on Thursday to demand it remove ICEBlock
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's removal of ICEBlock raises questions about the limits of what the company will resist under the Trump administration's increasingly outrageous demands — Ashley Oliver, reporting for Fox Business: … Fox, in its opening paragraph, describes Bondi as having “asked” …
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI's invite-only Sora app becomes the top free app in the US App Store three days after its launch, ahead of Gemini in second and ChatGPT in third — OpenAI now has two of the top three free apps in Apple's App Store, and its new video generation app Sora has snagged the coveted No. 1 spot.
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| Politico: |
CISA 2015, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down on October 1 — “We are without this critical line of defense,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Chipmaker Cerebras withdraws its IPO, a little over a year after filing its IPO prospectus; it announced a $1.1B raise at a $8.1B valuation on September 30 — Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras on Friday filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission withdrawing plans for an initial public offering.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase applies for a national trust company charter, says it “has no intention of becoming a bank” and the charter will allow expansion in areas like payments — Coinbase Global Inc., the largest US crypto exchange, is seeking a national trust company charter from the Office …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles for free without an Xbox Game Pass subscription — Microsoft employees can now access an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming ahead of a public test.| TechCrunch: |
Lapsus$ publishes a data leak site on the dark web that threatens to release ~1B records allegedly stolen from dozens of companies' Salesforce-hosted databases — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker — A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website …
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Supabase, an open-source rival to Google's Firebase, raised a $100M Series E led by Accel and Peak XV at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $500M+ — The vibe coding movement, as Paul Copplestone figures it, started last December—and we're already a few eras in.
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| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Moonlake AI, which creates tools to “vibe code virtual worlds”, including for gaming, animation, and filmmaking, comes out of stealth with a $28M seed — Plus: Hollywood rejects an “AI actress.” — Welcome back to The Prompt. … Artificial intelligence is facing an existential crisis.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao is in talks to raise $1B led by a16z at a $5B valuation for his new AI hardware startup Unconventional — Naveen Rao, who was formerly the head of artificial intelligence at Databricks, is in talks to raise a $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation … | Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: |
AI inference chip startup Groq, last valued at $6.9B, says it plans to establish 12+ new data centers in 2026; Groq has set up 12 data centers in 2025 so far — The company, which makes chips and software to run artificial-intelligence models, was last valued at $6.9 billion| Associated Press: |
Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill that gives ride-hailing drivers in California the right to unionize while remaining classified as independent contractors — More than 800,000 drivers for ride-hailing companies in California will soon be able to join a union and bargain collectively … Sponsor Posts
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