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The scourge of “malvertising” is nothing new, but the tactic is still so effective that it’s contributing to the rise of investment scams and the spread of new strains of malware.

Financial Times: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the startup is weighing up an ads model, but plans to be “thoughtful”; sources say OpenAI has hired ad talent from Meta and Google  —  ChatGPT maker hires advertising talent from big tech rivals  —  OpenAI is discussing plans to introduce advertising …

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Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: CoinGecko: Ripple-linked XRP’s market cap reaches $137B to become the third-largest cryptocurrency, up from less than $30B on November 5 when Trump won  —  – The cryptocurrency gained as much as 15% Monday to hit $2.50  — Since the US election it has added over $100 billion in value

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Social media videos documenting layoffs are now commonplace, especially by younger workers, creating headaches for companies; TikTok’s #layoff has 32K+ posts  —  Gen Z workers posting redundancy videos are trending — but can harm their future prospects  —  An unexpected online meeting appeared …

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Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Meta says it will require advertisers globally to get verified before running financial service ads targeting Australian users, starting in early February 2025  —  Exclusive: Businesses to require financial services license number to post Facebook ads, while individuals will need government-issued ID

Iris Kim / NBC News: How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve Native American languages, building speech recognition models for 200+ endangered languages in North America  —  Indigenous languages are rapidly disappearing, and AI could help preserve them, according to Indigenous technologists.

Bloomberg: Q&A with Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark on Nokia’s mobile phone failure, moving from mobile and fixed networks into data centers and defense, fine-tuning 5G, and more  —  Pekka Lundmark sees opportunities for the Finnish communications company to grow in defense and data centers.

Forecasting is both art and science, reliant on both rigor and luck—but you can develop a mindset that anticipates and plans ahead.

Scientists have discovered a new way of making chocolate that uses the entire cocoa pod to reduce waste and improve farmer revenue streams. But can chocolate made any other way taste as sweet?

Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg: A look at Death Clock, an app that claims to predict a user’s likely date of death by using an AI model trained on a dataset of 1,200+ life expectancy studies  —  – Model trained on longevity studies is popular on fitness app  — Technology may have wider applications in economics, […]

Financial Times: How the UK, Australia, the US, South Korea, and the EU are dealing with explicit AI deepfakes, as legislation around the world remains largely untested  —  Omny Miranda Martone was not surprised when computer-generated images and videos purporting to show their naked body started to appear on social media in January.

Jack Coleman / TheGamer: Star Citizen, a video game in development since 2012, has now raised $750M+ in crowdfunding, and its single-player spin-off Squadron 42 won’t be out until 2026  —  – Star Citizen has eclipsed $750 million in crowdfunding.  — There is no release date in sight for Star Citizen.

It is fairly common in public discourse for someone to announce, “I brought data to this discussion,” thus casting their own conclusions as empirical and rational. It is less common to ask: Where did the data come from? How was it collected? Why is there data about some things but not others? MIT Associate Professor […]

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The brand-new Kindle lineup is on sale for Black Friday, as are many other Amazon products, from Eero routers to Echo speakers.

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Reuters: Baidu receives a license to test its Apollo Go robotaxi service in Hong Kong, Baidu’s first known permit for autonomous vehicle testing outside mainland China  —  China’s Baidu (9888.HK) has received a licence to test autonomous vehicles with its Apollo Go robotaxi service in Hong Kong …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Elon Musk files for an injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit, alleges that OpenAI is discouraging investors from backing rivals like xAI, more  —  Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders …

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Bluesky now requires parody or fan accounts to label themselves as such after a researcher found 44% of its 100 most-followed accounts have a doppelganger  —  Parody and fan accounts will have to clearly label their profiles.  —  Bluesky has updated its impersonation policy to be …

Music therapy will move from the fringes of modern medicine to become a sophisticated tool for improving health outcomes.

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Wall Street Journal: How Tony Sayegh, head of public affairs at a major TikTok investor and an official in the first Trump admin, led the effort to win Trump’s support for TikTok  —  Tony Sayegh led the effort to win Trump’s support for the popular app with ties to China  —  When the Biden administration […]

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Lauren Feiner / The Verge: A look at the DOJ’s proposed remedies in the Google Search antitrust case, and why forcing a sale of Chrome might not be biggest threat to Google’s power  —  Selling Chrome might not be the most painful part of the DOJ’s antitrust demands for Google.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Salesforce says global online Thanksgiving day sales hit $33.6B, up 6% YoY, and $8.1B in the US, up 8% YoY; Adobe says US online sales hit $6.1B, up ~9% YoY  —  Thanksgiving weekend has long been seen as the traditional start of the most important sales period for retailers, and so […]

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Craig Coben / Financial Times: MicroStrategy is now the largest corporate holder of bitcoins, owning ~2% of them, and its stock is up 450%+ this year, as its risky bitcoin strategy continues  —  Despite massive fundraising plans, the stock is up 450% this year, valuing the company at about $90bn

Vanessa Friedman / New York Times: How Amazon Haul, a storefront for fashion, home, and other items at “ultralow prices”, reflects the “haul” shopping phenomenon popularized by YouTube and TikTok  —  It is the shopping phenomenon of our times, and now it’s an Amazon store.

Josh Rubin / Toronto.com: Major Canadian news organizations, including Torstar, Postmedia, and CBC, sue OpenAI, alleging breach of copyright and terms of use  —  A broad coalition of Canada’s major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC …

Robotic equipment can implant electrodes into cockroaches and connect them to an electronic backpack, making it feasible to mass-produce biorobots for search missions

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Claire Che / Bloomberg: Didi reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $7.44B and a net income of $128M, its second straight quarterly profit, as the company prepares for a Hong Kong IPO  —  – China’s ride-hailing leader is recovering from a crackdown  — The company is now angling to return to capital markets

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Casey Hall / Reuters: Chinese food delivery giant Meituan reports Q3 revenue up 22.4% YoY to $12.9B, net profit up 3x YoY to $1.78B, and core delivery business up 20.2% YoY to $9.57B  —  China’s largest food delivery firm Meituan (3690.HK) posted a bigger-than-expected 22.4% rise in third-quarter revenue on Friday, defying sluggish Chinese consumption.

Financial Times: Sequoia’s former China unit HongShan is pushing for deals in Europe and North Asia, as it struggles to deploy $9B due to a weak domestic market and US controls  —  Neil Shen’s HongShan has struggled to invest its $9bn cash pile in a weak domestic market and tough US controls

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Dune: Prophecy, Like Water for Chocolate, and The Sex Lives of College Girls are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on Max this month.

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Victoria Kim / New York Times: Details of Australia’s social media ban for kids remain unclear, such as how to enforce it and what platforms it covers; kids and parents won’t face punishment  —  The law sets a minimum age for users of platforms like TikTok, Instagram and X. How the restriction will be enforced […]

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The EU ends its long-running probe into whether Amazon received illegal tax benefits worth €250M from Luxembourg, where Amazon’s EU HQ is, after court losses  —  Amazon can finally close the book on a long-running state aid saga in the European Union.  The Commission confirmed Thursday …

Bloomberg: Experts worry about the unintended consequences of Australia’s controversial but popular social media ban on under-16s; Meta, TikTok, and X expressed concerns  —  – Children under 16 barred from popular social media sites  — Politicians under pressure to stem online bullying, grooming

The content you see on social media is often determined by an algorithm – and it turns out that these algorithms can rapidly change your views