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Coinbase says it will delist all unauthorized stablecoins, like Tether's USDT, from its exchange in the EEA by 2024's end, to comply with the EU's MiCA rules (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

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Meta launches a Gen-Z focused redesign for Facebook, including a Local tab in 10 US cities, an Explore tab, and a full screen video player in the Video tab (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Meta launches a Gen-Z focused redesign for Facebook, including a Local tab in 10 US cities, an Explore tab, and a full screen video player in the Video tab (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Researchers say a Linux malware named "perfctl" has been targeting Linux servers to mine the hard-to-trace Monero cryptocurrency for at least three years (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Researchers say a Linux malware named "perfctl" ha...

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Sources: Tencent and Ubisoft's founding Guillemot family are considering options including a buyout of Ubisoft after it lost 50%+ of its market value this year (Bloomberg)

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Meta announces Movie Gen, which creates videos up to 16 seconds long based on a text prompt; Meta plans to make it available on its apps in 2025 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta announces Movie Gen, which creates videos up ...

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Meta announces Movie Gen for generating realistic video and audioclips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Audio has 13B; it is not publicly available (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Meta announces Movie Gen for generating realistic ...

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The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Faceb...

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Robinhood plans to debut margin trading in UK in the coming weeks; it is exploring offering retirement products and letting British users invest in UK stocks (Bloomberg)

Robinhood plans to debut margin trading in UK in t...

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Google is "running a small experiment" showing blue verified checkmarks beside business links in its search results that indicate the company is genuine (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Google is "running a small experiment" showing blu...

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Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, ~8.4% of staff, accepted a generous buyout package offered to those who disagreed with his direction of WordPress (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, ~8.4...

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The CJEU sides with Max Schrems over his privacy dispute with Meta after an Austrian court asked CJEU if Facebook undermines GDPR with its use of data for ads (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

The CJEU sides with Max Schrems over his privacy d...

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A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model blames "a bug in the initial code for benchmarking", after evaluators couldn't reproduce some claimed results (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model ...

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Google says it'll stop linking to news content and cut ties with news orgs in New Zealand if the country passes law forcing digital platforms to pay for content (Lucy Craymer/Reuters)

Google says it'll stop linking to news content and...

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CCData: Binance's share of digital asset trading volume fell to 36.6% in September, down from 42.7% at the start of 2024, the lowest level in four years (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

CCData: Binance's share of digital asset trading v...

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Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value it at up to $3B; source: its ARR has grown from $25M at the end of 2023 to ~$80M in recent months (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that co...

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Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 t...

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Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TikTok for allegedly violating a new state law by sharing and selling minors' personal information without parental consent (Pooja Salhotra/The Texas Tribune)

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TikTok for allegedly viol...

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Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems, raised a $20M Series A from CRV, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, bringing its total funding to $28M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems...

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Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring, will have Apple's first 5G modem, A18 and 8GB of RAM to enable Apple Intelligence, and same rear camera as iPhone 15 (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring, will h...

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Laura Lewis and Jing Kong receive postdoctoral mentoring award

Laura Lewis and Jing Kong receive postdoctoral men...

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Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and faster variant of 1.5 Flash, with 50% lower price, 2x higher rate limits, and lower latency on small prompts (Google Developers Blog)

Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and...

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The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016 (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Ru...

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OpenAI launches a new canvas ChatGPT interface in beta that opens a separate window beside the normal chat window for writing and coding projects (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

OpenAI launches a new canvas ChatGPT interface in ...

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How Sam Altman concentrated his power at OpenAI since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; sources: burnout has become a key issue for some employees (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

How Sam Altman concentrated his power at OpenAI si...

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Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews when a user's question has a "commercial angle", and identifies the ads with a "sponsored" header, on mobile in the US (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews when a user's...

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Google updates Lens to let users take a video or use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google updates Lens to let users take a video or u...

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Zepz, the money transfer service formerly called WorldRemit and valued at $5B in 2021, raised $267M to fund an expansion in its core African markets and beyond (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Zepz, the money transfer service formerly called W...

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Google Search rolls out "Organized with AI", grouping results with "unique, AI-generated headlines" in the US, and brings ads to mobile US search AI Overviews (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Google Search rolls out "Organized with AI", group...

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YouTube unveils Shorts updates, including letting creators upload three-minute videos, updating the Shorts player, introducing templates, and a new trends page (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, launches an API in beta and its latest image generation model Flux1.1 Pro (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Source: on top of the $6.6B in funding, OpenAI got a $4B revolving line of credit from JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and others, bringing its total liquidity to $10B+ (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Source: on top of the $6.6B in funding, OpenAI got...

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Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini Live's language support to French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, and Spanish, after launching in English (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini...

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PayPal completes its first business payment using its proprietary PYUSD stablecoin, paying an E&Y invoice on September 23 via SAP's digital currency hub (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

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Uber partners with Avride to use its sidewalk robots, first in Austin, then Dallas and Jersey City in 2024, and its autonomous cars, starting in Dallas in 2025 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Uber partners with Avride to use its sidewalk robo...

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Spotify launches Offline Backup, a playlist of downloaded songs that users recently listened to, available automatically for Premium users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Spotify launches Offline Backup, a playlist of dow...

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Analysis: Nvidia execs and directors have sold nearly 11M shares, worth $1.8B+, in 2024 so far, the most since at least 2020; there are 24.5B outstanding shares (Bloomberg)

Analysis: Nvidia execs and directors have sold nea...

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Gurbir Grewal, the US SEC's top enforcement official since 2021, who oversaw 2,400+ enforcement actions and the crypto crackdown, plans to leave on October 11 (Nicola M. White/Bloomberg)

Gurbir Grewal, the US SEC's top enforcement offici...

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Barcelona-based Submer, which submerges data center server racks in its proprietary coolant, raised a $55.5M Series C at a ~$500M post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Barcelona-based Submer, which submerges data cente...

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Analysis: London's Met police used facial recognition 117 times in 2024 to August, up from 32 times in total from 2020 to 2023; ~770,966 people were scanned (Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu/Financial Times)

Analysis: London's Met police used facial recognit...

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Oura unveils the $349+ Oura Ring 4, with a slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes, shipping October 15, and completely redesigns the Oura app (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Oura unveils the $349+ Oura Ring 4, with a slimmer...

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As Satya Nadella says AI models are becoming "more of a commodity", OpenAI faces formidable challenges, including burning through cash and intense competition (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

As Satya Nadella says AI models are becoming "more...

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How chips made by US companies like Analog Devices, Germany's Infineon, and others helped power a Russian missile used in Ukraine, despite US export controls (Bloomberg)

How chips made by US companies like Analog Devices...

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Researchers: hackers are actively exploiting a recently disclosed RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers triggered by sending emails to the SMTP server (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Researchers: hackers are actively exploiting a rec...

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A look at the prevalence of deepfake porn in South Korea, where its parliament has revised a law to make watching or possessing deepfake porn content illegal (Hyung-Jin Kim/Associated Press)

A look at the prevalence of deepfake porn in South...

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An in-depth account of how CD Projekt Red recovered from the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077, using a fully parallelized engine to test and resolve issues (Chris Tapsell/Eurogamer.net)

An in-depth account of how CD Projekt Red recovere...

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Two Harvard students demo using Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, PimEyes, and other tools to instantly identify strangers' names, phone numbers, addresses, and more (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Two Harvard students demo using Ray-Ban Meta Smart...

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Dogecoin has become surprisingly popular among businesses looking to accept crypto for real-world purchases, largely due to the memecoin's low transaction costs (Teresa Xie/Bloomberg)

Dogecoin has become surprisingly popular among bus...

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Analysis: OpenAI, the third-most valuable VC-backed company after SpaceX and ByteDance, is worth far more than any VC-backed company at the time of their IPO (Rosie Bradbury/PitchBook)

Analysis: OpenAI, the third-most valuable VC-backe...

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PitchBook: Q3 US VC investments rose 8% YoY to $37.9B across 3,777 deals; AI firms got 36% of deal value and 27% of deal count in the first nine months of 2024 (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

PitchBook: Q3 US VC investments rose 8% YoY to $37...

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