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Good morning, it’s Tuesday November 1st. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings

Today’s pick

Instagram outage tells millions their accounts are suspended. An Instagram outage that started Monday morning is locking users out and telling many of them that “we suspended your account on October 21, 2022.” The platform confirmed the issue on Twitter… (Emma Roth / The Verge)

Elon Musk Is Busy With Twitter. I don't know if you noticed, but I have spent much of the last six months writing about how Elon Musk, the world's richest person, doesn't really care about his contractual obligations. Musk signed a binding merger agreement to buy Twitter Inc. for… (Matt Levine / Bloomberg)

'Planet Killer' Asteroid Spotted That Poses Distant Risk to Earth. Astronomers on the hunt for modestly sized asteroids that could vaporize a city or bulkier beasts that could sterilize Earth's surface have spotted a new potential threat. But there's no immediate need to worry — it'll be many generations… (Robin George Andrews via The New York Times)

How will we remember the age of cheap money? The end of low interest rates is stripping off a veneer of affluence Receive free UK interest rates updates We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK interest rates news every morning. After the end of every era, a handful… (Sarah O'Connor via Financial Times)

Women in venture capital are writing the rules of maternity leave and bending the male-dominated culture to their will. Sitting in her Bay Area home office, Anarghya Vardhana, a venture capitalist, cradled her one-week-old baby at her breast and logged on to a Zoom video call. In the days since she had given birth, the founder of a cash-strapped portfolio company… (Melia Russell / Business Insider)

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Good morning, it’s Monday October 10th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings

In today's edition:

Skepticism, Confusion, Frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Struggles. The team at New York Times took a look at the past year of metaverse developments at Meta and the ups and downs Mark Zuckerberg has gone through to convince consumers (and his own employees) that he made the right call in changing his company's focus to virtual reality. (Ryan Mac / The New York Times)

'The Owner of This iPhone Was in a Severe Car Crash'-or Just on a Roller Coaster. Apple’s crash detection for the iPhone 14 and new Apple Watch models can alert 911 and emergency contacts in the event of a collision. But it sometimes triggers when people aren’t in danger. (Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal)

Twitter locks Kanye West's account for anti-semitic tweet following warm Elon Musk welcome. Kanye West posted anti-semitism on Instagram and got his account frozen. Elon Musk immediately gave him a green light to say the same stuff on Twitter, so he did and worse — but Musk doesn't own Twitter yet. (Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch)

Supply Chain 'Normal' Appears on Horizon, With Sights Set on March. Several gauges show ship congestion continues to clear up even as shortages persist. (Brendan Murray / Bloomberg)

Europe's Plan to Beat Silicon Valley at Its Own Game. WIRED spoke with Skype cofounder about why the burgeoning European startup scene is poised to lead the technological revolution. (Stephen Armstrong / WIRED)

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Good morning, it’s Monday September 26th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings

In today's edition:

Sterling falls to record low of $1.035 against the dollar. The pound tumbled to a record low on Monday while government bonds extended heavy losses, stirring expectations of an emergency rise in UK interest rates in the wake of chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s package of tax cuts last week. (Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times)

TikTok Seen Moving Toward U.S. Security Deal, but Hurdles Remain. The Biden administration and TikTok have drafted a preliminary agreement to resolve national security concerns posed by the Chinese-owned video app but face hurdles over the terms, as the platform negotiates to keep operating in the United States without major changes to its ownership structure. (Lauren Hirsch / The New York Times)

Girls Who Code founder speaks out after school district bans her books. Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani is speaking out after her company's book series was banned from a Pennsylvania school district. The books were just added to PEN America's Index of School Book Bans, a list of restricted literature around the country. (Bethany Biron / Business Insider)

NASA's Asteroid-Deflection Mission Spotlights Planetary Defense Effort. An uncrewed spacecraft will try to slam into a distant space rock to shift its orbit in a test of technology that one day might protect Earth from a catastrophic impact. (Aylin Woodward / Wall Street Journal)

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Good morning, it’s Monday September 19th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings

In today's edition:

Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders' Hands. After a Florida man was accused of vehicular homicide, his lawyer used Clearview AI’s facial recognition software to prove his innocence. But other defense lawyers say Clearview’s offer rings hollow. (Kashmir Hill / The New York Times)

The $300bn Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack. For the past decade there were two more or less universally acknowledged truths about digital advertising. First, the rapidly growing industry was largely impervious to the business cycle. Second, it was dominated by the duopoly of Google (in search ads) and Meta (in social media). Now The pair face a weak economy and powerful new rivals. (The Economist)

GTA 6 gameplay leaks online in 90 videos. Footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, Rockstar’s next entry in its open-world franchise, has leaked online. PC Gamer reports that a user on the GTA Forums has posted a 3GB file full of 90 videos of GTA VI footage. (Tom Warren / The Verge)

Apple Flexes Muscle as Quiet Power Behind App Developer Group. The App Association brands itself as the leading voice for thousands of app developers around the world. In reality, the vast majority of its funding comes from Apple. (Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg)

How to Use DuckDuckGo's Privacy-First Email. Having offered a privacy-focused search engine since 2008, DuckDuckGo is now turning its attention to email: Its new Email Protection service gives you an @duck.com email address, which you can use as a buffer between your actual email inbox and… (David Nield / WIRED)

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Good morning, it’s Thursday September 8th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings

In today's edition:

Leaked memo reveals how Snap plans to turn itself around. After a stock price collapse and brutal layoffs, CEO Evan Spiegel yesterday told employees how he plans to still grow Snapchat’s users to 450 million. Goal is to hit $6 billion in revenue next year. (Alex Heath / The Verge)

The 1,000 Chinese SpaceX engineers who never existed. LinkedIn users are being scammed by fake connections posing as graduates of prestigious universities and employees at top tech companies. These are the latest iteration of “pig-butchering scams” that drained millions of dollars from victims, with the help of crypto. (Zeyi Yang via MIT Technology Review)

Disney knew Twitter had bots but wanted to buy it anyway. Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter. Then he decided he didn't. In 2016, Bob Iger, then the CEO of Disney, had convinced himself that his company should own Twitter, Then, shortly before the 2016 US presidential election, he bailed out. (Peter Kafka / Vox)

Startup Behind AI Image Generator Stable Diffusion Is In Talks To Raise At A Valuation Up To $1 Billion. Stability AI, the startup behind AI text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion, is looking to raise $100M at a valuation up to $1B. The talks follow Stable Diffusion's buzzy release just two weeks ago. (Kenrick Cai / Forbes)

Apple's Killing the Password. Here's Everything You Need to Know. The reality of a passwordless future is taking a big leap forward, With iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, Apple is introducing passkeys—a more convenient and secure alternative to passwords. (Matt Burgess via WIRED)

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Good morning, it’s Tuesday September 6th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings

In today's edition:

CVS to Acquire Signify, a Home Health Care Provider, for $8 Billion. The drugstore giant CVS Health said yesterday that it would acquire Signify Health, which runs a network of doctors making house calls, for roughly $8 billion in a deal that cements the pharmacy chain’s move away from its retail roots. (Lauren Hirsch / The New York Times)

Before YouTube's Algorithm, There Were 'Coolhunters'. A look at YouTube's "coolhunters" who were tasked with finding and promoting talented YouTubers in the company's early years, before the algorithms took over. (Mark Bergen / The Atlantic)

Goldman Sees $2 Trillion Surge in Europe Energy Bills by 2023. Energy bills for European households will surge by 2 trillion euros at their peak early next year, underscoring the need for government intervention, according to Goldman Sachs Group, who believe these will be even deeper than the 1970s oil crisis. (Allegra Catelli / Bloomberg)

Meta Fined $400 Million for Its Treatment of Children's Data. Irish regulators said Instagram violated European data protection rules. It the latest move by authorities in Europe and the U.S. related to child protection online. (Adam Satariano / The New York Times)

TikTok is upending the music industry and Spotify may be next. Viral videos on TikTok are turning into big hits on streaming services. The industry is getting ready to see how TikTok capitalizes on its influence. (Ashley Capoot / CNBC)

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Good morning, it’s Thursday September 1st. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings

Today’s pick

Disney Explores Amazon Prime-Like Membership Program to Offer Discounts and Perks. Walt Disney is exploring a membership program that could offer discounts or special perks to encourage customers to spend more on its streaming services, theme parks, resorts and merchandise. It also aims to add a commerce feature to its Disney+ streaming service. (Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal)

What does GPT-3 'know' about me?. Large language models are trained on vast datasets scraped from the internet. This most likely includes personal data such as addresses, phone numbers and emails. If you’ve posted anything even remotely personal in English on the internet, chances are your data might be part of some of the world’s most popular Models. (Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review)

Meta is planning more paid features for Facebook and Instagram. Meta is setting up a New Monetization Experiences division to identify and build "possible paid features" for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, according to an internal memo sent to employees last week that was obtained by The Verge. (Alex Heath / The Verge)

FDA authorizes Covid booster shots that target omicron BA.5 variant. The FDA authorized booster shots that target the omicron BA.5 variant. It is the first time the FDA has authorized an updated vaccine formula since the shots started in Dec of 2020. The new boosters are expected to roll out to the public after Labor Day weekend. (Spencer Kimball / CNBC)

Ticketmaster taps the Flow blockchain to let event organizers issue NFTs tied to tickets. Live Nation's Ticketmaster partners with Dapper Labs to release ticket NFTs on the Flow blockchain and expands its NFL partnership for NFTs to 100 games. (Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch)

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Good morning, it’s Tuesday August 30th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings

In today's edition:

Y Combinator Names Venture Capitalist Garry Tan As Its Next President. Y Combinator names Garry Tan as its next president, replacing Geoff Ralston in January of next year; Tan will step away from his role at Initialized Capital. (Alex Konrad / Forbes)

Secret Data, Tiny Islands and a Quest for Treasure on the Ocean Floor. Mining in parts of the Pacific Ocean was meant to benefit poor countries, but an international agency gave a Canadian company access to prized seabed sites with metals crucial to the green energy revolution.. (Eric Lipton / The New York Times)

Honda, LG Energy Plan $4.4 Billion EV Battery Factory in U.S. Tokyo-based Honda and South Korea’s LG Energy join a growing roster of joint ventures between car makers and battery suppliers planning new factories in the U.S. which brings greater shape to a new supply chain forming for electric cars. (River Davis / Wall Street Journal)

Cryptocurrency influencers are peddling bad investment advice to millions of viewers. There's very little anyone can do to stop them. Influencers like BitBoy Crypto, Moon Carl, and MMCrypto are building huge audiences on YouTube and earning big money off their followers — while making wildly inaccurate predictions. Despite this, they’re now being increasingly cited as experts by mainstream media. (Rob Price / Business Insider)

Elon Musk files another notice to terminate Twitter acquisition, citing additional 'undisclosed' reasons. Elon Musk filed another notice on Tuesday to terminate his acquisition of Twitter, citing additional "undisclosed" reasons. (Arjun Kharpal / CNBC)

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Good morning, it’s Monday August 29th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings

In today's edition:

Trademark Filings Suggest Apple May Be Securing 'Reality' Names for AR/VR Headset. ‘Reality Pro’, ‘Reality One’ and ‘Reality Processor’ - A set of shell companies that are linked to Apple has secretly trademarked potential names for Apple’s upcoming AR/VR headset.

One Man's Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense. Artificial intelligence systems can process vast amounts of data in seconds, but they can’t make sense of the world or explain their decisions. David Ferrucci wants to change that with a start-up that seeks to address AI's shortcomings.

Everyone’s a Landlord—Small-Time Investors Snap Up Out-of-State Properties. With the help of recent technologies, laptop landlords are buying homes across the U.S., and lower-cost Southern cities have been especially popular. Adding more competition to the housing market.

Meta and Jio launch grocery shopping on WhatsApp in India. Meta and an e-commerce venture between Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms are bringing JioMart grocery shopping to WhatsApp in what they said was the first end-to-end shopping experience of this kind.

Why NASA Is Going Back to the Moon. The agency is set to launch a massive rocket today, kicking off a return to Earth’s closest neighbor after many scientists and policymakers had once moved on. But officials argue that today's missions are not simply a do-over of the Apollo moon landings.

That’s it for today, see you tomorrow!

Today’s pick

Axios to Sell Itself to Cox Enterprises for $525 Million. Axios, the digital media company that quickly gained traction since its founding five years ago with its distinctive bulletin-style scoops on the realms of politics, business and technology, has agreed to sell itself to Cox Enterprises, according… (Benjamin Mullin / The New York Times)

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Data Show Gender Pay Gap Opens Early. Broad new data on wages earned by college graduates who received federal student aid showed a pay gap emerging between men and women soon after they joined the workforce, even among those receiving the same degree from the same school. The data… (Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal)

Consumers' expectations of future inflation decreased significantly in win for the Federal Reserve. A New York Fed survey showed that respondents in July expected inflation to run at a 6.2% pace over the next year and a 3.2% rate for the next three years. That marks a big drop-off from the respective 6.8% and 3.6% results from the June survey. (Jeff Cox / CNBC)

Twilio hacked by phishing campaign targeting internet companies. Communications giant Twilio has confirmed hackers accessed customer data after successfully tricking employees into handing over their corporate login credentials. The San Francisco-based company, which allows users to build voice and SMS… (Carly Page / TechCrunch)

A Phone Carrier That Doesn't Track Your Browsing or Location. As marketers, data brokers, and tech giants endlessly expand their access to individuals' data and movements across the web, tools like VPNs or cookie blockers can feel increasingly feeble and futile. Short of going… (Lily Hay Newman / WIRED)

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