Ben Otto / Wall Street Journal: JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 1.7% YoY to ~$33.98B, beating ~$33.81B est., and net profit up 33% YoY to ~$1.09B, beating ~$952M est., aided by cost controls  —  The bottom line was also boosted by nonoperating income  —  Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com beat analyst estimates for quarterly profit … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Cruise plans to pause all supervised and manual car trips in the US while undergoing a full safety review and will hire an outside safety expert  —  General Motors’ (GM.N) Cruise driverless car unit said on Tuesday it will pause all supervised and manual car trips in the U.S. and expand … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Intel patches a bug affecting virtually all modern Intel CPUs that lets code running inside a VM crash hypervisors, a risk to cloud providers in particular  —  Among other things, bug allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors.  —  Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates to fix … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Wiener / New Yorker: A profile of Holly Herndon, an artist and musician who uses AI in her work and has co-founded Spawning, a company to build a “consent layer for AI” for artists  —  The artist and musician uses machine learning to make strange, playful work.  She also advocates for artists’ autonomy in a world shaped by A.I. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eyal Press / New Yorker: A look at some wrongful arrests in the US due to bad facial recognition matches, and how “automation bias” could lead police to ignore contradictory evidence  —  Too often, a facial-recognition search represents virtually the entirety of a police investigation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Three young hackers behind Mirai talk about building the DDoS botnet, losing control of their monster, their work for the FBI as part of a plea deal, and more  —  Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack.  All down for millions of people.  How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld … Lees verder op Tech Meme