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A new simulation from the European Central Bank shows that the digital euro could trigger a deposit outflow of up to €700B during a run on commercial banks (Reuters)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1h

FBI seizes all domains for a BreachForums variant operated by ShinyHunters; the hacker group says their Salesforce extortion campaign is unaffected (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1h

Google is the first company to be designated with special status in the UK under new digital laws; the designation does not introduce any immediate requirements (Reuters)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1h

UK CMA designates Google with "strategic market status" in online search, but excludes Gemini; Google says potential interventions could slow product launches (Financial Times)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1h

China opens an investigation into Qualcomm's acquisition of Autotalks, a chipmaker specializing in vehicle communications, over potential antitrust violations (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 3h

A profile of Singapore-based Megaspeed, which bought $2B of Nvidia chips and is under US probe for possibly helping Chinese companies evade export controls (New York Times)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5h

OpenAI says GPT‑5 instant and GPT‑5 thinking cut political bias by 30% from earlier models, and show greater robustness to charged prompts (Ashley Gold/Axios)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 6h

Sources: China tightens customs checks on chip imports, starting with Nvidia's H20 and RTX Pro 6000D, after urging local tech companies to avoid Nvidia products (Financial Times)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 7h

Block debuts Square Bitcoin, a BTC wallet allowing US-based SMBs to convert up to 50% of daily sales into BTC now and accept BTC payments starting November 10 (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 8h

a16z hires ex-VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram as general partner overseeing AI infrastructure and growth investments and as a managing partner, replacing Scott Kupor (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10h

Sources: Apple plans health and fitness teams reorg under Eddy Cue, watchOS under Craig Federighi, and Watch hardware under John Ternus, as Jeff Williams exits (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10h

Google says Cl0p hackers who exploited vulnerabilities in Oracle's E-Business Suite have stolen data from "dozens" of organizations since at least July 10 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12h

EA's Battlefield 6, coming October 10, is a pivotal moment for the series and for EA, set to go private in a $55B deal, as EA competes with Activision and COD (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 13h

Sources: Coinbase and Mastercard have each held talks to acquire stablecoin startup BVNK for $1.5B-$2.5B; a deal would be the largest stablecoin acquisition yet (Fortune)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 13h

Microsoft and Anthropic appoint former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak as a senior adviser and pledge his role will not include lobbying with the UK government (Financial Times)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 14h

Sources: crypto investor Roger Ver, aka "Bitcoin Jesus", has reached a tentative agreement with the US DOJ to pay ~$48M to end a 2024 criminal tax fraud case (New York Times)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 15h

YouTube launches a pilot program to give terminated creators a "second chance" by letting them apply to create a new channel (Zach Vallese/CNBC)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 15h

Adam Mosseri says Instagram is exploring building a TV app as part of a deeper push into video but isn't interested in licensing live sports or other content (Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 16h

Adobe launches AI agents tailored for B2B marketers within its Adobe Experience Platform, after launching AI agents aimed at consumer marketing in September (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 17h

Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more efficiently via Chrome, raised $22M in seed and Series A led by Accel (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 17h

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 17h

A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "backdoor" vulnerability in an LLM, regardless of model size or training data volume (Anthropic)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 19h

AWS launches Quick Suite, a chatbot and set of AI agents that can analyze sales data, produce reports, and summarize web content, set to replace Q Business (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 19h

The German government scales back financial aid for its semiconductor industry, cutting €3B from its previously planned €15B chip subsidies to fund road repairs (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 20h

Tigris, which is building a network of localized data storage centers that it claims can meet the compute needs of AI workloads, raised a $25M Series A (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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