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Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: Meta will also block sharing of Ken Klippenstein's newsletter and other sources with the JD Vance dossier, citing foreign meddling and hacked materials policies  —  The platform blocked a journalist from sharing a purported research document on the candidate, mirroring its past controversy.

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft details how it has overhauled its controversial AI-powered Recall feature, including making it opt-in and giving users an option to uninstall  —  In response to security concerns, Microsoft is detailing how it has overhauled its controversial AI-powered Recall feature …

Eric Tucker / Associated Press: The US DOJ charges three hackers employed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard for allegedly hacking Trump's presidential campaign and disseminating stolen info  —  The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Friday against three Iranian operatives suspected of hacking Donald Trump's presidential campaign …

Nicola Jones / Nature: Study: newer, bigger versions of LLMs like OpenAI's GPT, Meta's Llama, and BigScience's BLOOM are more inclined to give wrong answers than to admit ignorance  —  - Nicola Jones  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  A study of newer …

Bloomberg: In a filing, Oracle reveals a 29% stake in server CPU design startup Ampere with an option to own; Ampere's CEO Renee James is stepping down from Oracle's board  —  - Ampere's CEO also is stepping down from Oracle's board  — Oracle says it owns 29% of the server processor maker

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Sources: IBM's AI isn't up to the job to meet CEO Arvind Krishna's commitment to replace ~7,800 staff and some of the people who could fix that have been let go  —  So say our sources, who warn job cuts, outsourcing risk depriving biz of seasoned technical talent

Karoun Demirjian / New York Times: A US Senate security office email says a “deepfake” caller posed as the former foreign minister of Ukraine in a recent Zoom call with Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin  —  A figure impersonating Dmytro Kuleba, the former foreign minister of Ukraine, targeted Senator Benjamin L. Cardin …

Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: A look at Chinese PE firm CSC Group, which has stakes in 360 US tech startups via Hone Capital that is reportedly under an FBI probe over IP transfers to China  —  Shan Xiangshuang's $10bn buyout group quietly became a top US tech investor.  That has triggered official concern

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: a16z is a prosecution witness in the DOJ's case against BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji, who raised hundreds of millions dollars for his failed crypto startups  —  Just east of Princeton University in central New Jersey lies Lake Carnegie, a three-mile stretch of glistening …

The Hacker News: Google says its transition to memory-safe languages like Rust led to memory-safe vulnerabilities in Android dropping from 76% in 2019 to 24% in 2024  —  Google has revealed that its transition to memory-safe languages such as Rust as part of its secure-by-design approach has led to the percentage …

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and WP Engine customers having trouble with their sites should contact WP Engine support  —  WordPress on Wednesday escalated its conflict with WP Engine, a hosting provider, by blocking the latter's servers …

Anniek Bao / CNBC: SK Hynix starts mass producing its new 12-layer HBM3E chips with 36GB per chip capacity, up 50% from its previous gen, slated for delivery by the end of 2024  —  SK Hynix shares surged more than 9% Thursday morning after the company said it has started mass production of a new version …

Surbhi Misra / Reuters: Blackstone confirms a £10B investment for an AI data center in northeast England; UK PM Keir Starmer says the construction will create 4,000 jobs in 2025  —  U.S. private equity firm Blackstone (BX.N) has confirmed a 10 billion pound ($13.3 billion) investment for an artificial intelligence data centre …

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Tokyo-based Dinii, which lets diners order food from restaurants and shops through a mobile platform, raised a ~$48M Series B led by Bessemer and Hillhouse  —  Japan has always been a strong market for bringing technology into the experience of consuming food, and now one of the startups leading …

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: a demo of Sora initially took 10+ minutes to make a 1-minute clip; source: OpenAI execs spoke of training an improved Sora that could quickly make clips  —  Between OpenAI's long-awaited Strawberry launch and its monster ongoing fundraising, it might be easy to forget about Sora …

Pritam Biswas / Reuters: PayPal says it is enabling US merchants to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly from their PayPal business accounts, except in New York state at launch  —  PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O) announced on Wednesday it is enabling U.S. merchants to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency from their business accounts.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, are leaving the company; OpenAI names Mark Chen as new SVP of Research, and more  —  OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, have left the company hours after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she would be departing.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta says Horizon Store now supports 2D apps built as PWAs, Android native apps, or via the new Meta Spatial SDK, which lets developers use Android dev tools  —  During its developer keynote at the Meta Connect conference on Wednesday, the company pitched its Quest mixed reality platform to developers as the next big app store.

Digbijay Mishra / The Economic Times: Myntra founder Mukesh Bansal's Nurix AI, which builds custom AI agents for enterprise services, raises a $27.5M seed from Accel, General Catalyst, and others  —  The new company, Nurix AI, which builds custom AI agents for enterprise services like sales and customer support in initial use cases …

Bloomberg: Memo: an arbitrator awards full severance package to an ex-Twitter employee, who was laid off when Elon Musk took over, first such resolution of 2K+ complaints  —  Elon Musk lost a legal fight over unpaid severance to a former Twitter employee who was laid off when he took over the social media platform …

Astha Rajvanshi / TIME: Q&A with Vinod Khosla on investing in AI and OpenAI, AI risks, the impact of AI in the labor market, regulation, dominance within the global AI race, and more  —  When Vinod Khosla had a skiing accident in 2011 that led to an ACL injury in his knee, doctors gave conflicting opinions over his treatment.

Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: A teardown of Huawei's popular Qingyun L540 laptop, which relies on some foreign tech, reveals the challenges ahead for China's tech self-sufficiency efforts  —  A look inside the bestselling Qingyun L540 shows how the campaign to use locally made components is progressing

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Celestia Foundation, which is behind the Celestia modular blockchain network, raised a $100M round led by Bain Capital Crypto, taking its total raised to $155M  —  - The organization behind the modular blockchain network has raised $100 million in a round led by Bain Capital Crypto, bringing its total financing to $155 million.

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Revolut plans to spin out its €8.5B wealth management offering into a standalone Invest app and launch it in European Economic Area countries by the end of 2024  —  - Firm spinning out $9.5 billion wealth assets with new platform  — Fintech seeking to tap customers beyond its main banking app