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Tencent's WeChat, ByteDance's Douyin, Kuaishou, and others post similar notices asking users with 500K+ followers to reveal their real names, following Weibo (Bloomberg) 31-10-2023

Bloomberg: Tencent’s WeChat, ByteDance’s Douyin, Kuaishou, and others post similar notices asking users with 500K+ followers to reveal their real names, following Weibo  —  – Social media services announce need to display actual identity  — The move marks a sharp tightening of China internet oversight Lees verder op Tech Meme

CCData: almost a year after FTX's collapse, monthly spot trading volume at crypto exchanges has fallen from $922.9B in October 2022 to $461.3B in October 2023 (Bloomberg) 31-10-2023

Bloomberg: CCData: almost a year after FTX’s collapse, monthly spot trading volume at crypto exchanges has fallen from $922.9B in October 2022 to $461.3B in October 2023  —  – Volumes are still down 50%, despite slight recovery in October  — Some firms are reducing exposure, others are diversifying Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: new US rules may compel Nvidia to cancel $5B+ in 2024 chip orders by Chinese companies; Nvidia finished fulfilling its 2023 orders before the controls (Wall Street Journal) 31-10-2023

Wall Street Journal: Sources: new US rules may compel Nvidia to cancel $5B+ in 2024 chip orders by Chinese companies; Nvidia finished fulfilling its 2023 orders before the controls  —  Artificial-intelligence company scrapped plans to rush shipments to China this month before new restrictions were brought forward Lees verder op Tech Meme

News Media Alliance study: AI chatbot developers rely more on articles than generic web content to train AI; NMA says this shows AI companies violate copyright (Katie Robertson/New York Times) 31-10-2023

Katie Robertson / New York Times: News Media Alliance study: AI chatbot developers rely more on articles than generic web content to train AI; NMA says this shows AI companies violate copyright  —  The News Media Alliance, a trade group that represents newspapers, says that A.I. chatbots use news articles significantly more than generic content online. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at the creators who report and aggregate news on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and others, as people under 35 move away from traditional news sources (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post) 31-10-2023

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: A look at the creators who report and aggregate news on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and others, as people under 35 move away from traditional news sources  —  One recent study concluded consumers are looking for news that “feels more relevant,” giving a boost to creators on social media Lees verder op Tech Meme

Palo Alto Networks acquires Tel Aviv-based Dig Security, which helps organizations track cloud assets, sources say for $400M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) 31-10-2023

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Palo Alto Networks acquires Tel Aviv-based Dig Security, which helps organizations track cloud assets, sources say for $400M  —  We reported in September that Palo Alto was getting ready to make yet more security acquisitions out of Israel, specifically of Dig Security and Talon. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shield AI, which makes autonomous drones and other military tech for the US and its allies, raised $200M co-led by USIT and Riot Ventures at a $2.7B valuation (Katie Roof/Bloomberg) 31-10-2023

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Shield AI, which makes autonomous drones and other military tech for the US and its allies, raised $200M co-led by USIT and Riot Ventures at a $2.7B valuation  —  – Startup’s drone software can fly without remote pilot or GPS  — Thomas Tull’s USIT, Riot Ventures, Cathie Wood’s ARK invested Lees verder op Tech Meme

The US says 40 countries plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers' funding mechanism (Zeba Siddiqui/Reuters) 31-10-2023

Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: The US says 40 countries plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers’ funding mechanism  —  Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Apple's new M3 Pro has lower memory bandwidth than the M1 Pro and M2 Pro and fewer performance cores; Apple repeatedly compared the M3 to the M1, not the M2 (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors) 31-10-2023

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple’s new M3 Pro has lower memory bandwidth than the M1 Pro and M2 Pro and fewer performance cores; Apple repeatedly compared the M3 to the M1, not the M2  —  Apple’s latest M3 Pro chip in the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro has 25% less memory bandwidth than the M1 Pro and M2 Pro chips used … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Apple's stock dropped 11% since its Q3 results on August 3, erasing nearly $400B in value, the first year since 2015 that AAPL slid between WWDC and Q4 earnings (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal) 31-10-2023

Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: Apple’s stock dropped 11% since its Q3 results on August 3, erasing nearly $400B in value, the first year since 2015 that AAPL slid between WWDC and Q4 earnings  —  Worries about China and the future of a lucrative Google relationship could outlast even a strong earnings report Lees verder op Tech Meme