Casey Hall / Reuters: Documents: Shein and PDD’s Temu file joint declarations in the US to end their legal fights, asking judges to dismiss the cases “without prejudice” — Fierce rivals Shein and PDD Holdings-owned (PDD.O) Temu have applied to end their legal fights with each other in the U.S. …
Read MoreDavid Gilbert / Wired: Some TikTok creators are running “Israel vs. Palestine live matches”, where the side with the most gifts from followers wins; TikTok takes a 50% cut of earnings — TikTokkers are using a little-known livestreaming feature to falsely represent Israelis and Palestinians …
Read MoreBefore there were massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) like EverQuest, the genre was called a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD), following in the trend of calling text adventures at that time ‘dungeon crawlers’. These multi-player games required you to bring along your own imagination, for these were purely text-based affairs. Despite the first of these (MUD1)
Read MoreTwo days after safety fears led regulators to suspend Cruise’s self-driving permit for San Francisco, the company says its fleet in Austin and other US cities will now operate with human supervision.
Read MoreAll I am going to say is that the Fifth Amendment exists for a reason. | Photo illustration by Cath Virgina / The Verge | Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images Somehow, the least suspicious parts of his defense are the 288 auto-deleting Signal conversations. Continue reading…
Read MoreDuncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cranium, which provides enterprise AI security and trust software and spun out of KPMG in April 2023, raised a $25M Series A led by Telstra Ventures — Artificial intelligence security and trust software firm Cranium.ai Corp., which was spun off as a separate company from KPMG LLC in April …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Elon Musk wants X to be the center of your financial world, handling anything in your life that deals with money. He expects those features to launch by the end of 2024, he told X employees during an all hands call on Thursday, saying that people will be surprised with “just how
Read MoreComputers, surveillance systems, and online agents are perceiving us all the time these days. Most of the time, it takes place in the shadows, and we’re supposed to be unaware of this activity going on in the background. The Blatano art piece from [Leigh] instead shows a digital being that actively displays its perception of
Read MoreKirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Cruise pauses all driverless operations two days after the California DMV suspended its permits, but will continue operating supervised autonomous vehicles — Cruise said Thursday evening it has paused all driverless operations, a decision that comes just two days after the California Department …
Read MoreIonut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: Microsoft publishes a profile of Octo Tempest, a “dangerous” hacking group targeting organizations across tech, gaming, financial services, and other sectors — Microsoft has published a detailed profile of a native English-speaking threat actor with advanced social engineering capabilities …
Read MoreWe have seen a lot of changes in social media of late. Twitter became X, and Jack Dorsey’s BlueSky Social started gaining traction. It’s left many contemplating which social media platform is right for them. Here’s a Bluesky Social vs X comparison to help you decide. Bluesky Social vs X: How we’ll compare Bluesky Social
Read MoreDuncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cranium, which provides enterprise AI security and trust software and spun out of KPMG in April 2023, raised a $25M Series A led by Telstra Ventures — Artificial intelligence security and trust software firm Cranium.ai Corp., which was spun off as a separate company from KPMG LLC in April …
Read MoreIn a bold move to challenge the dominance of Apple and Intel in the laptop market, Qualcomm announced its most powerful and ambitious system-on-a-chip (SoC) for Windows PCs yet – the Snapdragon X Elite. Unveiled at the company’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii on Tuesday, the new chip is poised to shake up the laptop landscape
Read MorePhoto by Scott Olson/Getty Images Ford is postponing $12 billion in EV factory building, including a planned battery factory in Kentucky. The reasons given were an unwillingness by customers to pay extra for its electric vehicles. You see, they’re too expensive, and now Ford’s massive transformation into an EV company is now going to take
Read MoreDon’t expect Infiniti to make an EV like this any time soon. | Image: Infiniti Infiniti is looking to launch its first electric vehicle ever: a super sporty fastback sedan based on a newly revealed concept it calls the Vision Qe. The luxury brand of Nissan debuted the new concept at Japan’s Mobility Show 2023
Read MoreDon’t expect Infiniti to make an EV like this any time soon. | Image: Infiniti Infiniti is looking to launch its first electric vehicle ever: a super sporty fastback sedan based on a newly revealed concept it calls the Vision Qe. The luxury brand of Nissan debuted the new concept at Japan’s Mobility Show 2023
Read MoreXiaomi’s 14 phones run a new Android skin called HyperOS designed to run across different kinds of devices. | Image: Xiaomi Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is just a couple of days of old, and per usual, Xiaomi has already announced new flagship phones that put it to use. The Xiaomi 14 and 14 Pro
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I know, I know, my headline is a lot — but it’s true! Intel, the chipmaker, has turned its iconic five-note Intel Bong sound mark into a piece of music that now greets investors, analysts, and journalists who tune in to the company’s earnings calls. It’s got a
Read MoreYou never forget your first diorama, especially when it’s interactive. Although admittely a bit late to celebrate Erntedankfest (Germanic Thanksgiving), [Markus Bindhammer] is ahead of the curve when it comes to the American version. This interactive diorama lamp features a cute chameleon that [Markus sculpted from a wire frame and a lump of clay]. In
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Meta is going to let you make polls and insert GIFs right from the Threads post composer, the company announced on Thursday. Later in the day, Instagram head Adam Mosseri revealed that the company is testing view counts on Threads posts and pinned posts on profiles and in your replies. The polls
Read MoreFinancial Times: In a testimony without the jury present, SBF says he followed the counsel of lawyers to make critical decisions around passing FTX customer money to Alameda — Former crypto billionaire blames lawyers as court hears first snippets of testimony without jury present
Read MoreChavi Mehta / Reuters: Intel reports Q3 revenue down 8% YoY to $14.2B, Data Center and AI Group revenue down 10% YoY to $3.8B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; INTC jumps 5%+ — Intel (INTC.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Thursday, optimistic of a healthy rebound …
Read MoreNext.js 14, the latest version of Vercel’s React-based framework for web development, previews a compiler improvement for dynamic content. Introduced October 26, Next.js 14 offers an experimental preview of partial prerendering, a compiler optimization for dynamic content that generates a fast initial static response. Partial prerendering builds on research and development into server-side rendering, static-site
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: AWS Q3: sales up 12% YoY to $23.06B, vs. $23.2B est., operating income up 29% YoY to $6.98B, vs. $5.63B est., operating margin of 30.3%, the widest in two years — – Amazon Web Services widened its operating profit margin, delivering higher operating income than expected, but revenue came in a
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Almost every tech company has expounded the virtues of generative AI in 2023, from OpenAI and Google to Microsoft and more. In fact, we’ve also seen the likes of Qualcomm and HONOR tout expanded support for the tech just this week.
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