David Shepardson / Reuters:
US NHTSA: Cruise must pay a $1.5M fine, submit a corrective action plan, and face enhanced oversight after a 2023 crash with a pedestrian was not fully reported — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday that General Motors’ (GM.N) self-driving car unit Cruise …
Reddit moderators must now submit a request to Reddit staff before changing a subreddit’s public/private status, making sitewide mod-led protests much harder (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Reddit moderators must now submit a request to Reddit staff before changing a subreddit’s public/private status, making sitewide mod-led protests much harder — Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able …
A massive outage has affected Verizon customers since around 10AM ET, according to reports on Downdetector from subscribers across the US (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A massive outage has affected Verizon customers since around 10AM ET, according to reports on Downdetector from subscribers across the US — Verizon is experiencing a nationwide outage, according to subscribers across the United States. Staffers here at 9to5Mac are also affected by the outage …
Qodo, which offers code generation and testing tools to the enterprise, raised a $40M Series A led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Qodo, which offers code generation and testing tools to the enterprise, raised a $40M Series A led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg — At first glance, Qodo, the startup previously known as CodiumAI, may appear to be yet another AI code generation tool. But the team, which is announcing …
Source: SoftBank’s Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500M in OpenAI’s latest funding round, SoftBank’s first investment in OpenAI, which is raising $6.5B (The Information)
The Information:
Source: SoftBank’s Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500M in OpenAI’s latest funding round, SoftBank’s first investment in OpenAI, which is raising $6.5B — SoftBank’s Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI’s latest funding round, which values the developer of ChatGPT …
The UK FCA says a man pleaded guilty to illegally operating a crypto ATM network, which processed £2.6M across various locations, as it cracks down on such ATMs (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)
Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk:
The UK FCA says a man pleaded guilty to illegally operating a crypto ATM network, which processed £2.6M across various locations, as it cracks down on such ATMs — This marks the first U.K. conviction for running a crypto ATM operation. — Olumide Osunkoya pleaded guilty to illegally operating a crypto ATM network.
AMD releases BIOS updates to boost the performance of its Ryzen 9600X and 9700X processors, around a month after disappointing Zen 5 desktop CPU reviews (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
AMD releases BIOS updates to boost the performance of its Ryzen 9600X and 9700X processors, around a month after disappointing Zen 5 desktop CPU reviews — AMD is releasing new BIOS updates that will boost performance for its Ryzen 9600X / 9700X processors and address some latency issues.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao pledges to keep investing in blockchain, AI, and biotech, in his first comments since his release from US custody on September 27 (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao pledges to keep investing in blockchain, AI, and biotech, in his first comments since his release from US custody on September 27 — – Zhao was released Friday after serving a four-month sentence — Binance founder in X post lays out plans including investment
An FBI affidavit and European media leaks show how Russia’s Doppelganger disinformation project operated and give insights into the Kremlin’s online tactics (Thomas Rid/Foreign Affairs)
Thomas Rid / Foreign Affairs:
An FBI affidavit and European media leaks show how Russia’s Doppelganger disinformation project operated and give insights into the Kremlin’s online tactics — The Country’s Propagandists Target the West—but Mislead the Kremlin, Too — In early September, the infamous Russian disinformation project known …
Epic files a CA lawsuit accusing Samsung and Google of colluding to deter users from rival app stores via Samsung’s Auto Blocker, and plans to speak to the EU (Reuters)
Reuters:
Epic files a CA lawsuit accusing Samsung and Google of colluding to deter users from rival app stores via Samsung’s Auto Blocker, and plans to speak to the EU — “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games on Monday accused Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) and Samsung (005930.KS) …
