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Some Ukrainian soldiers say SpaceX has not done enough to crack down on illicit use of Starlink terminals by Russia to power its advance in Ukraine (Washington Post)

Some Ukrainian soldiers say SpaceX has not done enough ...

Washington Post: Some Ukrainian soldiers say SpaceX has not done enough to crack...

SpaceX's Starship Cleared For New Test Flight

SpaceX's Starship Cleared For New Test Flight

SpaceX is squaring off against government regulators as it seeks to test launch ...

Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)

Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of form...

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of f...

Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only presents a significant conflict of interest but has also dragged the WordPress community into a legal mess (Mathew Ingram/The Torment Nexus)

Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only presents ...

Mathew Ingram / The Torment Nexus: Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only...

The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)

The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and ...

Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milto...

This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat

This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat

Yann LeCun, an NYU professor and senior researcher at Meta Platforms, says warni...

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 (Bloomberg)

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC driv...

Bloomberg: Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred a...

An essay on what a "powerful AI" may look like and how it could positively transform the world in biology, neuroscience, economic development, work, and more (Dario Amodei)

An essay on what a "powerful AI" may look like and how ...

Dario Amodei: An essay on what a “powerful AI” may look like and how it could po...

TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including less than 500 in Malaysia, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation (Rozanna Latiff/Reuters)

TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, in...

Rozanna Latiff / Reuters: TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, i...

The Dark Side of Meta's Algorithms

The Dark Side of Meta's Algorithms

Key articles from The Wall Street Journal’s 2023 investigation into how Instagra...

Filing: TikTok's European revenue grew to $4.57B in 2023, up from $2.6B in 2022; losses grew to $1.3B, up from $512M YoY; ByteDance set aside $1B for EU fines (Iain Martin/Forbes)

Filing: TikTok's European revenue grew to $4.57B in 202...

Iain Martin / Forbes: Filing: TikTok's European revenue grew to $4.57B in 2023, ...

Faulty court filing redactions show TikTok executives were unconcerned with the harms the app poses for teenagers despite internal research validating concerns (NPR)

Faulty court filing redactions show TikTok executives w...

NPR: Faulty court filing redactions show TikTok executives were unconcerned with...

Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some parts of US broadband networks within the last week, and investigators don't know what they were seeking (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some ...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some part...

TikTok Makes Layoffs as It Rejigs Content Moderation Operations

TikTok Makes Layoffs as It Rejigs Content Moderation Op...

The China-owned social-media platform is laying off employees as part of a revam...

They're Desperate for Work&&&and Being Brutally Open About It

They're Desperate for Work&&&and Being Brutally Open Ab...

Job seekers are putting pink banners and the word #Desperate on their LinkedIn p...

LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its Services Marketplace for freelancers, up 48% in the last year; it launched the marketplace in 2021 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its Ser...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its ...

Glooko, whose diabetes management app is used by more than 4.4M patients and 10K clinics globally, raised a $100M Series F led by Georgian (Conor Hale/Fierce Biotech)

Glooko, whose diabetes management app is used by more t...

Conor Hale / Fierce Biotech: Glooko, whose diabetes management app is used by mo...

Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox App on Android starting in November, after a judge ordered Google to open up Play Store (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games...

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games ...

Taiwan says China detained four employees at Foxconn's iPhone factory in Zhengzhou and says Foxconn said it didn't suffer a financial loss tied to their actions (Joyu Wang/Wall Street Journal)

Taiwan says China detained four employees at Foxconn's ...

Joyu Wang / Wall Street Journal: Taiwan says China detained four employees at Fo...

How crypto power couple Ryan Salame, an FTX executive who gave millions to GOP politicians, and Michelle Bond, who ran for Congress, now both face prison time (David Yaffe&Bellany/New York Times)

How crypto power couple Ryan Salame, an FTX executive w...

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: How crypto power couple Ryan Salame, an FT...

Garmin Fenix 8 review: the $1,000 smartwatch has excellent battery and fitness tracking and an OLED display, but costs $350 more than the Fenix 7 and lacks LTE (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Garmin Fenix 8 review: the $1,000 smartwatch has excell...

Victoria Song / The Verge: Garmin Fenix 8 review: the $1,000 smartwatch has exce...

Grabango, which provided cashierless checkout tech and raised just over $73M, shuts down after failing to secure enough funding to continue its services (CNBC)

Grabango, which provided cashierless checkout tech and ...

CNBC: Grabango, which provided cashierless checkout tech and raised just over $7...

The US GSA says Login.gov is opening up its face recognition capabilities, which compare a live selfie with the photo on a photo ID, to government agencies (Natalie Alms/Nextgov/FCW)

The US GSA says Login.gov is opening up its face recogn...

Natalie Alms / Nextgov/FCW: The US GSA says Login.gov is opening up its face rec...

Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a "malicious cyberattack", about two weeks after hackers put 31M customers' alleged personal data on Telegram (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a "m...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a...

Amazon to Add 20 New U.S. Cities to Same&Day Pharmacy Delivery Business

Amazon to Add 20 New U.S. Cities to Same&Day Pharmacy D...

Amazon.com said it plans to further expand its pharmacy business by more than do...

London&based Basecamp Research, which says its BaseFold model outperforms AlphaFold 2 at predicting proteins, raised a $60M Series B, for $85M in total funding (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

London&based Basecamp Research, which says its BaseFold...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Basecamp Research, which says its BaseF...

Ring unveils a new $20 per month Ring Home Premium subscription, adding 24/7 recording and AI&powered Smart Video Search from November 5 in the US (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Ring unveils a new $20 per month Ring Home Premium subs...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ring unveils a new $20 per month Ring Home Premium su...

The All England Club says AI will make "out" and "fault" calls at the Wimbledon tennis championships starting in 2025, replacing line judges, after a 2024 test (Associated Press)

The All England Club says AI will make "out" and "fault...

Associated Press: The All England Club says AI will make “out” and “fault” calls...

A Godfather of AI Just Won a Nobel. He Has Been Warning the Machines Could Take Over the World.

A Godfather of AI Just Won a Nobel. He Has Been Warning...

Geoffrey Hinton hopes the prize will add credibility to his claims about the dan...

OpenAI to Open Asia&Pacific Hub in Singapore

OpenAI to Open Asia&Pacific Hub in Singapore

The maker of ChatGPT plans to open a Singapore office later this year to serve a...

HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery says Peter Todd, known for his Bitcoin codebase contributions, is Satoshi Nakamoto, a claim Todd denies (Joel Khalili/Wired)

HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery s...

Joel Khalili / Wired: HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery says...

Brazil&based Asaas, which offers payment processing, invoicing, fraud protection, and other financial services to SMBs, raised a $148M Series C led by BOND (Jacob Robbins/PitchBook)

Brazil&based Asaas, which offers payment processing, in...

Jacob Robbins / PitchBook: Brazil-based Asaas, which offers payment processing, ...

Anthropic launches Message Batches API in beta, for batches of up to 10K queries that are processed within 24 hours and cost 50% less than standard API calls (Michael Nu&ntilde;ez/VentureBeat)

Anthropic launches Message Batches API in beta, for bat...

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Anthropic launches Message Batches API in beta, for...

X Can Resume Operations in Brazil After Paying Millions in Fines

X Can Resume Operations in Brazil After Paying Millions...

Elon Musk’s social-media platform was banned in August for defying the country’s...

Samsung Apologizes for Falling Behind in AI Chips Race

Samsung Apologizes for Falling Behind in AI Chips Race

The South Korean tech giant’s rivals seize ground in memory and contract manufac...

Short Seller Hindenburg Goes After Roblox

Short Seller Hindenburg Goes After Roblox

The research firm alleges that the videogame company has exaggerated user data a...

Adobe launches a Content Authenticity web app to let creators use its Content Credentials "nutrition labels" to apply attribution and opt out of AI training (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Adobe launches a Content Authenticity web app to let cr...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe launches a Content Authenticity web app to le...

Bellevue, Washington&based Auger, founded by ex&Amazon and Flexport exec Dave Clark to offer AI&powered supply chain tools, raised a $100M seed led by Oak HC/FT (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Bellevue, Washington&based Auger, founded by ex&Amazon ...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Bellevue, Washington-based Auger, founded by ex-Amazo...

Crypto.com sues the US SEC after receiving a Wells notice that the agency plans to bring an enforcement action against it; Consensys sued the SEC in April 2024 (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

Crypto.com sues the US SEC after receiving a Wells noti...

Sarah Wynn / The Block: Crypto.com sues the US SEC after receiving a Wells notic...

LG Electronics Projects Quarterly Profit Drop, Missing Consensus

LG Electronics Projects Quarterly Profit Drop, Missing ...

LG Electronics forecast a decline in third-quarter operating profit partly due t...

Samsung's Chip Tech Falls Behind in Early Innings of AI Game

Samsung's Chip Tech Falls Behind in Early Innings of AI...

The South Korean tech giant’s rivals seize ground in memory and contract manufac...

Samsung Electronics issues a rare apology for posting disappointing preliminary Q3 results and plans to review its organizational culture and processes (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Samsung Electronics issues a rare apology for posting d...

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung Electronics issues a rare apology for posting di...

Samsung estimates Q3 operating profit up 274% YoY to ~$6.78B, falling short of analysts' estimates of ~$7.66B, as it struggles to capitalize on AI chips demand (Reuters)

Samsung estimates Q3 operating profit up 274% YoY to ~$...

Reuters: Samsung estimates Q3 operating profit up 274% YoY to ~$6.78B, falling s...

Two Russian YouTube channels posted videos of an alleged new 14&inch M4 MacBook Pro base model, in what could be the worst Apple product leak since the iPhone 4 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Two Russian YouTube channels posted videos of an allege...

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Two Russian YouTube channels posted videos of an alle...

One of the Biggest AI Boomtowns Is Rising in a Tech&Industry Backwater

One of the Biggest AI Boomtowns Is Rising in a Tech&Ind...

Blackstone and TikTok’s parent are among the companies investing in data centers...

Google Must Make It Easier for App Stores to Compete on Android, Judge Rules

Google Must Make It Easier for App Stores to Compete on...

An injunction was issued after Epic Games won an antitrust lawsuit—the latest le...

No More Blurry Images: Your Texts Are Getting an Upgrade

No More Blurry Images: Your Texts Are Getting an Upgrade

RCS lets you see read receipts, typing indicators and high-resolution images.

SCOTUS rejects X's appeal over a secret DOJ search warrant from Special Counsel Jack Smith for records related to Donald Trump's Twitter account (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)

SCOTUS rejects X's appeal over a secret DOJ search warr...

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: SCOTUS rejects X's appeal over a secret DOJ search warra...

Ukraine says the country's hackers carried out a cyberattack that took down the online broadcasts of 20+ Russian broadcasters on Vladimir Putin's 72nd birthday (Olesia Safronova/Bloomberg)

Ukraine says the country's hackers carried out a cybera...

Olesia Safronova / Bloomberg: Ukraine says the country's hackers carried out a c...

Samsung says it is not interested in spinning off its contract chip manufacturing business; sources say it has struggled to win big orders to fill chip capacity (Reuters)

Samsung says it is not interested in spinning off its c...

Reuters: Samsung says it is not interested in spinning off its contract chip man...

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