Pei Li / Bloomberg:
Filing: a Chinese court agrees to hear a Fortnite-like case against Apple by Bodyreader, a posture correcting app Apple removed in 2020; Bodyreader seeks ~$420K — – Beijing court agreed to hear complaint about Apple’s practices — Apple is coming under pressure in its biggest overseas market
A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced the locations of 5,600+ automated license plate reader cameras globally from Flock and others (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced the locations of 5,600+ automated license plate reader cameras globally from Flock and others — DeFlock has mapped the locations of more than a thousand ALPRs around the United States and thousands more around the world.
Signal announces a suite of call features, including the ability to share a link to a call, emoji reactions, a “raise hand” button, and a dedicated calls tab (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Signal announces a suite of call features, including the ability to share a link to a call, emoji reactions, a “raise hand” button, and a dedicated calls tab — Signal is making a bunch of improvements to calls so they are more competitive with Zoom and Google Meet, including the ability to share a link to a call.
Bitcoin passes $89K for the first time, Tesla closes up 8.96%, Coinbase closes up 19.76%, and Robinhood closes up 7.4%, as investors pile into “Trump trades” (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Bitcoin passes $89K for the first time, Tesla closes up 8.96%, Coinbase closes up 19.76%, and Robinhood closes up 7.4%, as investors pile into “Trump trades” — Markets expect US president-elect to take light-touch approach to regulation — Investors betting that Donald Trump’s …
Alameda Research co-CEO Sam Trabucco has agreed to hand over a slew of properties, including his yacht, to FTX creditors as part of a November 3 settlement deal (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Alameda Research co-CEO Sam Trabucco has agreed to hand over a slew of properties, including his yacht, to FTX creditors as part of a November 3 settlement deal — – Former Alameda Research co-CEO reached a settlement deal — Sam Trabucco, one of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle …
An indictment against two men suspected of hacking Snowflake clients, including AT&T, says the pair and their co-conspirators extorted at least 36 bitcoins (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
An indictment against two men suspected of hacking Snowflake clients, including AT&T, says the pair and their co-conspirators extorted at least 36 bitcoins — The indictment also charges a second hacker that 404 Media previously reported as being linked to the AT&T breach.
Canadian digital bank Neo Financial raised a CA$360M Series D from Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, and others (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
Josh Scott / BetaKit:
Canadian digital bank Neo Financial raised a CA$360M Series D from Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, and others — Shopify, Slack, PointClickCare, Roblox founders back FinTech scaleup’s fast growth. — Calgary and Winnipeg-based challenger bank Neo Financial …
Grab reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $716M, vs $700.8M est., a $15M profit, and raises its forecast for fiscal 2024 revenue; GRAB jumps 10%+ after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Grab reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $716M, vs $700.8M est., a $15M profit, and raises its forecast for fiscal 2024 revenue; GRAB jumps 10%+ after hours — Singapore’s Grab Holdings (GRAB.O) raised its forecast for fiscal 2024 revenue on Monday, as it anticipates robust growth in its food delivery and ride-hailing businesses.
Ilya Sutskever says “we’re back in the age of wonder and discovery” as AI companies focus on pre-training, inference improvements, and finding the “next thing” (Reuters)
Reuters:
Ilya Sutskever says “we’re back in the age of wonder and discovery” as AI companies focus on pre-training, inference improvements, and finding the “next thing” — Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges …
The NYT says the Tech Guild is ending its strike after a weeklong stoppage; during the strike, dozens of tech workers crossed the picket line (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
The NYT says the Tech Guild is ending its strike after a weeklong stoppage; during the strike, dozens of tech workers crossed the picket line — New York Times tech workers are ending their strike after a weeklong stoppage. — The strike aimed to disrupt election coverage but had limited impact on the Times’ operations.
