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Applying risk and reliability analysis across industries

Applying risk and reliability analysis across indu...

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A deep dive on super PACs like Fairshake, Chris Lehane, and recent political savagery from some Silicon Valley execs, effectively targeting Katie Porter, others (Charles Duhigg/New Yorker)

A deep dive on super PACs like Fairshake, Chris Le...

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Filing: KoBold Metals, which uses ML to help it sift through datasets to identify large deposits of various metals, has raised $491M of a targeted $527M round (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)

Filing: KoBold Metals, which uses ML to help it si...

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Cancer biologists discover a new mechanism for an old drug

Cancer biologists discover a new mechanism for an ...

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How Malaysia's Johor went from a backwater to having one of the world's biggest AI data center construction projects, with an estimated ~$3.8B invested in 2024 (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)

How Malaysia's Johor went from a backwater to havi...

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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...

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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)

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

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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)

UN report: cyber crime syndicates raked in as much...

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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)

The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 agree a dea...

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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)

Investigation: police in 15 US states used facial ...

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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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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)

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eye...

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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)

Sources: Apple plans to launch iOS 18.1 and Apple ...

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FlexiSpot G7 review: stars made solid, and adjustable

FlexiSpot G7 review: stars made solid, and adjusta...

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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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Amkor and TSMC sign an MOU to collaborate on advanced chip packaging for AI, HPC, PC, and mobile processors at Amkor's planned ~$2B facility in Peoria, Arizona (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

Amkor and TSMC sign an MOU to collaborate on advan...

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eMarketer: Google's share of the US search ad market is expected to drop below 50% in 2025 for the first time in 10+ years, as Amazon, TikTok, and others rise (Wall Street Journal)

eMarketer: Google's share of the US search ad mark...

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Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the world's greatest living mathematician, on OpenAI's o1, how AI might be useful to mathematicians, and more (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)

Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the...

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A deep dive into "AI Neoclouds", a new breed of cloud compute providers built to offer GPU rentals, like Crusoe, Lambda Labs, and CoreWeave, and their economics (SemiAnalysis)

A deep dive into "AI Neoclouds", a new breed of cl...

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Google rolls out Android theft protection features: Theft Detection Lock, which uses AI to detect motion indicating theft, Offline Device Lock, and Remote Lock (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Google rolls out Android theft protection features...

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Grindr is testing an AI "wingman" that will enable users to track conversations with their favorites, recommend long-term relationship candidates, and more (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Grindr is testing an AI "wingman" that will enable...

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Grindr is testing an AI "wingman" that will enable users to track conversations with their favorites, recommend long-term relationship candidates, and more (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Grindr is testing an AI "wingman" that will enable...

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An interview with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney about how the company became "financially sound", Unreal Engine 6, building a "persistent universe" with Disney, and more (Jay Peters/The Verge)

An interview with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney about how t...

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Foxconn Q3: revenue up 20.2% YoY to ~$57.3B on strong AI server demand; consumer electronics revenue, including iPhones, was flat YoY; stock is up ~86% in 2024 (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)

Foxconn Q3: revenue up 20.2% YoY to ~$57.3B on str...

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Mullenweg says "WordPress.org just belongs to me personally", as his WP Engine feud blurs the lines between WordPress.org, WordPress Foundation, and Automattic (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Mullenweg says "WordPress.org just belongs to me p...

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A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersecurity firm led by ex-NSA director Keith Alexander and whose valuation crossed $3B after it went public in 2021 (Alan Suderman/Associated Press)

A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersec...

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Octopus Arcade Stick review: a premium fight stick with versatility to match

Octopus Arcade Stick review: a premium fight stick...

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How Beixiazhu, a Chinese village that was a hotspot of activity during the livestream shopping boom on Douyin, Kuaishou and other apps, became a cautionary tale (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)

How Beixiazhu, a Chinese village that was a hotspo...

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A look at Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which was built by Google Labs and has gone viral thanks to its the Deep Dive podcast with two AI hosts (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview featu...

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An executive says GM is working on a Level 3 eyes-off, hands-off driving system, but does not provide a timeline for when it might become publicly available (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

An executive says GM is working on a Level 3 eyes-...

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Cyber Crimes Center, a division of the US DHS, says it has disrupted 500+ ransomware attacks and seized $4.3B in crypto since 2021, including $180M last year (Jeff Stone/Bloomberg)

Cyber Crimes Center, a division of the US DHS, say...

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Google ramps up efforts to integrate AI across its products in India, where it has 700M to 800M users, including launching Gemini Live in nine Indian languages (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Google ramps up efforts to integrate AI across its...

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Sources: China-linked hacking campaign dubbed Salt Typhoon breached networks of a wide swath of US broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: China-linked hacking campaign dubbed Salt...

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Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Brazilian digital fraud prevention provider ClearSale for $350M; the deal is expected to close in H1 2025 (Reuters)

Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Bra...

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Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Brazilian digital fraud prevention provider ClearSale for $350M; the deal is expected to close in H1 2025 (Reuters)

Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Bra...

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In an email to a16z employees, Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a "significant" personal donation to Harris' campaign; he endorsed Trump in July (Dan Primack/Axios)

In an email to a16z employees, Ben Horowitz says h...

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In an email to a16z employees, Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a "significant" personal donation to Harris' campaign; he endorsed Trump in July (Dan Primack/Axios)

In an email to a16z employees, Ben Horowitz says h...

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Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model that can generate a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU, using a single image (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI...

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As Mark Zuckerberg aims to be politically "neutral", some argue he's placating critics like Trump; source: Nick Clegg now makes most election policy decisions (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

As Mark Zuckerberg aims to be politically "neutral...

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Cloudflare says it stopped a month long DDoS campaign targeting orgs in financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, that peaked at 3.8Tbps (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)

Cloudflare says it stopped a month long DDoS campa...

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