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Spotify starts rolling out music videos in beta for Premium subscribers in 85 additional markets, after introducing the feature in 12 markets earlier in 2024 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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WordPress plugin Jetpack releases a critical security update to fix a bug letting logged-in users access forms from website visitors, in all versions since 2016 (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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Oura Ring 4 review: more sizes, slimmer body, redesigned app, and better battery life and auto workout detection, but needs a subscription and no charging case (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Oura Ring 4 review: more sizes, slimmer body, rede...

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The US awards $750M to Wolfspeed, which makes EV chips, alongside $750M in financing led by Apollo to build new $6B+ factories in North Carolina and New York (Bloomberg)

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The NYT sends a cease-and-desist letter to AI startup Perplexity to stop using its content; Perplexity says it is "interested in working with every" publisher (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)

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Lillian Schwartz, one of the first artists to use a computer to make films and who brought together art, science, and tech communities in the 1970s, died at 97 (Chris Kornelis/New York Times)

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Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), a foundational technology of the internet age, died at age 78 on October 11 (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

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UK podcaster Harry Stebbings' 20VC raised a $400M fund for early stage startups, one of Europe's biggest venture funds; the podcast recently hosted Sam Altman (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

UK podcaster Harry Stebbings' 20VC raised a $400M ...

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Deloitte expects chip industry revenue to grow 16% YoY in 2024 to a record $611B, and to reach $1T by 2030, despite the industry facing a talent shortage (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Deloitte expects chip industry revenue to grow 16%...

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Analysis: since ChatGPT's launch about two years ago, the US DOD has awarded ~$670M in contracts to ~323 companies for AI projects, up 20% from 2021 and 2022 (Kali Hays/Fortune)

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In a report, China's cybersecurity agency rejects US and Microsoft claims that Chinese hackers were behind Volt Typhoon, calling the claims a "political farce" (Bloomberg)

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FIDO Alliance announces Credential Exchange Protocol, a specification to make passkeys portable across systems, and Passkey Central, a resource website for devs (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

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Sources: the US mulls capping AI chip sales from Nvidia and others on a country-specific basis, with a focus on the Middle East, for national security reasons (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

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Adobe says its Firefly Video Model is the first "commercially safe" text-to-video generative AI model that was trained on licensed and public domain content (Jeremy Gray/PetaPixel)

Adobe says its Firefly Video Model is the first "c...

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Q&A with Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn on gamifying language learning, how the app makes money, investing in AI, founder mode, return to office, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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Google signs an agreement to purchase nuclear energy generated from multiple small modular reactors developed by Kairos Power, targeting 500 MW by 2035 (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Microsoft lost billions of dollars on HoloLens before discontinuing it and is pulling back work on IVAS, the combat goggles for the US Army (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

Sources: Microsoft lost billions of dollars on Hol...

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Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft's VP of GenAI research who is known for his work on Microsoft's Phi small language models, is leaving the company to join OpenAI (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft's VP of GenAI research...

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