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A Ukrainian official says the country's hackers carried out a cyberattack that took down the online broadcasts of 20+ Russian broadcasters, including Rossiya 24 (Olesia Safronova/Bloomberg)

A Ukrainian official says the country's hackers ca...

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

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UN report: cyber crime syndicates raked in as much as $37B in 2023 and are growing in Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and across Southeast Asia despite police efforts (Philip Heijmans/Bloomberg)

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How Chinese e-commerce companies like Pinduoduo pushing to lower prices are making China's deflation worse; HSBC says ~60% of Chinese consumers use e-commerce (New York Times)

How Chinese e-commerce companies like Pinduoduo pu...

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The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 agree a deal with Amazon to put free streamer Freely, developed by joint venture Everyone TV, on Amazon's US smart TVs (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

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SportQuake: crypto companies have spent a record of almost £130M on Premier League sponsorship deals for the 2024/25 season, buoyed by tighter gambling rules (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

SportQuake: crypto companies have spent a record o...

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Investigation: police in 15 US states used facial recognition in 1,000+ cases since 2020 and routinely failed to tell defendants about their use of the software (Washington Post)

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Dealroom: US VCs made up 65% of 2024 VC investments in European defense startups, up from 18% in 2023, for a total of $458M or 3x+ more than in any prior year (Sylvia Pfeifer/Financial Times)

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Dealroom: US VCs made up 65% of 2024 VC investments in European defense startups, up from 18% in 2023, for a total of $458M or 3x+ more than in any prior year (Sylvia Pfeifer/Financial Times)

Dealroom: US VCs made up 65% of 2024 VC investment...

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Among US companies founded in the past 20 years, only Meta and Uber have become "scale insurgent", with $10B in annual revenue and $1B of operating cash flow (John Foley/Financial Times)

Among US companies founded in the past 20 years, o...

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An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, AWS' AI chatbot Q, shutting down services, investments in the open-source ecosystem, and more (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on generativ...

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Substack, which still isn't profitable but has added +1M paid subscribers over the last year, is trying to become a primary way creators of all mediums get paid (Max Tani/Semafor)

Substack, which still isn't profitable but has add...

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A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuable startup in 2022 with an estimated $22B valuation, as it faces insolvency and lawsuits in India and the US (Financial Times)

A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuabl...

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Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors, which provide steady "baseload" power, as their carbon emissions climb due to AI tools (Justine Calma/The Verge)

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Sources: Apple plans to launch iOS 18.1 and Apple Intelligence on Oct. 28 and announce new Macs and an iPad mini in late Oct., with shipments starting on Nov. 1 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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A profile of UK teenage hacker Arion Kurtaj, a Lap...

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Some ride-hailing drivers are using Teslas with FSD as makeshift robotaxis, saying it lets them work longer hours by reducing stress, amid safety concerns (Reuters)

Some ride-hailing drivers are using Teslas with FS...

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Taiwan, which is highly dependent on imported fossil fuels, is struggling to meet energy demands from its chip industry; TSMC uses ~9% of Taiwan's electricity (Isabel Hilton/Yale E360)

Taiwan, which is highly dependent on imported foss...

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