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President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial — Pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company — President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao …
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Mastodon: @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/CryptoCurrency, r/politics, r/Economics, r/JoeRogan, r/Economics, r/inthenews, r/Humanitydool, r/DeFranco, r/Buttcoin, r/politics, r/binance, r/politics, and r/Destiny
| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality — The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.
More: U.S. House Committee …, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Crypto Times, Raw Story, al.com, France 24, BeInCrypto, Cryptonews, Yahoo Finance, Proactive, and Baller Alert. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Mico, a new character for Copilot's voice mode that responds with real-time expressions and is enabled by default, available in the US — Copilot now has its own virtual character for its voice mode. … It's been nearly 30 years since Microsoft's Office assistant …
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LinkedIn: Catrin Hinkel, Janny Woo, Aishwarya Nagarajan, and Peter Hames
Bluesky: @taumuyi, @moreorloess, @carnage4life, @tyleraking.com, @acidrains, and @tomwarren.co.uk
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: Moneycontrol, Business Standard, Axios, BGR, The Decoder, Windows Central, and ZDNET
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Anthropic and Google announce their cloud partnership worth tens of billions of dollars, giving Anthropic access to 1M TPUs and 1GW of capacity in 2026 — Anthropic and Google officially announced their cloud partnership Thursday, a deal that gives the artificial intelligence company access …
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LinkedIn: MacKenzie Sigalos and Krishna Rao
Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q3 revenue up 3% YoY to $13.7B, vs. $13.2B est., and net income of $4.1B, vs. a net loss of $16.6B in Q3 2024; INTC jumps 7%+ after hours — Intel reported better-than-expected revenue on Thursday, signaling that demand for its core x86 processors for PCs has recovered.
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Forums: r/TechHardware and r/intel
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon blames a rare software bug and “faulty automation” for this week's massive AWS glitch, and says it has turned off the flawed automation worldwide — In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.
More: Amazon Web Services, iTnews, The Guardian, BBC, and The Verge
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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Forums: r/hardware, r/technology, r/technews, and Ars OpenForum
| Brooke Singman / Fox Business: |
Apple's Houston manufacturing facility, originally scheduled to open in 2026, is now shipping AI servers that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute — Apple's Houston manufacturing facility is operating ahead of schedule — EXCLUSIVE: Apple is now building and shipping American …
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, which is building an AI-powered user interface for macOS and raised $6.5M from Sam Altman and others — OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Inc., a startup building an AI-powered user interface for Mac desktops …
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
EA and Stability AI announce a partnership to build game developer tools, including “smarter paintbrushes” to quickly generate high-quality 2D textures — Video game giant Electronic Arts has struck a new partnership with generative tech company Stability AI …
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Bluesky: @saltcreekbrews and @wario64
| Kate Rogers / CNBC: |
Trump says he canceled plans for a “surge” of National Guard to San Francisco after speaking to “great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others” — President Donald Trump said in a post on Thursday that the federal government was preparing to “surge” … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October 23; in 2024, a gun sold for $1M — The market for digital items in the popular video-game Counter—Strike fell 25% overnight, following an update by the title's developer Valve Corp.
More: Polygon.com, Forbes, Eurogamer.net, GamesRadar, PC Gamer, Comic Book, and Kotaku
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| Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: |
A US judge says Meta lawyers told staff to block or remove parts of internal teen mental health research to limit liability; Meta says no findings were removed — Meta Platforms Inc.'s lawyers advised employees to block or remove portions of internal research on teen mental health harm … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft won't provide erotica AI services and that “other companies will build that”, after Sam Altman said ChatGPT would offer erotica — Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said the software giant won't build artificial intelligence services that provide … | Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal rules against Apple in a lawsuit accusing it of abusing its dominant position by charging a 30% App Store commission — Apple (AAPL.O) on Thursday lost a London lawsuit accusing the U.S. tech company of abusing its dominant position by charging app developers …
More: Reuters, Benzinga, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Financial Times, Moneycontrol, Sky News, Digital Music News, The US Sun, iClarified, Neowin, iPhone in Canada, Telegraph, and PYMNTS.com
X: @reuterslegal, @kayjebelli, @appleinsider, @kayjebelli, and @jason_kint. Mastodon: @brucelawson@social …
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple may turn off App Tracking Transparency in Europe due to “intense lobbying efforts” in Germany and other countries over alleged anticompetitive conduct — In a statement to the German Press Agency, Apple claimed that it may have to turn off App Tracking Transparency in Europe as a result of “intense lobbying efforts”.
More: Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Tech Times, EPIC, MacRumors, and AppleInsider
| Bloomberg: |
Sources and docs: the US DOJ charged an ex-director of zero-day vendor L3Harris' Trenchant with stealing secrets from two companies to sell to a Russian buyer — A director at a company that sells computer vulnerabilities has been charged with stealing secrets to sell to an unspecified buyer in Russia …
More: TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Reuters, CyberScoop, The Register, The Cyber Express, and PCMag
X: @runasand and @lorenzofb
LinkedIn: Bart Preneel and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
| Nick Turner / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Applied Materials plans to cut ~4% of its global workforce and expects the layoffs to cost $160M to $180M; it had 36,100 employees as of the end of July — Applied Materials Inc., the largest US producer of chipmaking equipment, plans to cut 4% of its global workforce as it copes with a sales slowdown and trade turmoil.
More: Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, and CNBC
| Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker: |
Filing: Strava voluntarily dismissed its patent lawsuit against Garmin, for allegedly infringing its heat map and segments features, just 21 days after filing — Strava's multifaceted legal (and social media) attack on Garmin was short-lived. Just 21 days after filing … | Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: |
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