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TikTok abandons ecommerce expansion in Europe and US. Chinese-owned social media platform's foray into livestream shopping in the UK has struggled to gain traction… (Cristina Criddle / Financial Times)

If the U.S. Is in a Recession, It's a Very Strange One. The U.S. economy has experienced 12 recessions since World War II, and each one included two features: Economic output contracted and unemployment rose. Today, something highly unusual is happening. Economic output fell in the first quarter and… (Jon Hilsenrath via Wall Street Journal)

No bids on Chevy's first NFT, even though it came with a free Corvette Z06. Chevy's first foray into non-fungible tokens was a non-fungible dud. The automaker netted zero bids for its first NFT during an auction last month, even though the digital drawing came with a free 2023 Corvette Z06, according to Corvette Blogger. (Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge)

Bill Nye says the main thing you can do about climate change isn't recycling-it's voting. The best way to save the planet isn't necessarily recycling – it's stepping into a voting booth. That's according to celebrity science educator Bill Nye, television's 'The Science Guy,' who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen… (Tom Huddleston via CNBC)

Bidenomics 101. Business leaders have chalked up President Biden's attacks on oil companies to political cynicism, but maybe they're too generous. His tweet over the weekend ordering gas stations to lower prices betrayed a willful ignorance about the private… (The Editorial Board / Wall Street Journal)

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Tech Giants Pour Billions Into AI, but Hype Doesn't Always Match Reality. After years of companies emphasizing the potential of artificial intelligence, researchers say it is now time to reset expectations. With recent leaps in the technology, companies have developed more systems that can produce seemingly humanlike… (Karen Hao, Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal)

NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach. Opensea, the popular NFT marketplace that hit a colossal $13 billion valuation in January, is warning users of email phishing after a data breach. A staff at Customer.io, an email vendor… (Rita Liao / TechCrunch)

NASA teases extraordinary images captured by its Webb telescope. Six months have passed since a European rocket lofted the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit. Since that time, the ultra-complex telescope has successfully unfolded its expansive sunshield, commissioned its science instruments, and reached an… (Eric Berger / Ars Technica)

U.S. FCC commissioner wants Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores. Brendan Carr, one of the FCC's commissioners, shared Tuesday via Twitter a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai that pointed to reports and other developments that made TikTok non-compliant with the two companies' app store… (Evelyn Cheng / CNBC)

No, RadioShack's Twitter wasn't hacked. It sells cryptocurrency now.. 'If you find a squirter marry her.' That's the tweet currently taking over Twitter, with shocked reactions in the replies and quotes tweets asking, 'What in the world is going on?' The tweet wasn't accidentally sent by a politician or a hacked… (Matt Binder / Mashable)

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Leaked documents say Cerebral harmed patients seeking mental-health care. From the outside, Cerebral appeared to be a Silicon Valley success story. The San Francisco-based startup launched in 2020 with a bold mission — to democratize access to high-quality mental-health treatment. Patients would pay for access to… (Shelby Livingston, Blake Dodge / Business Insider)

The iPhone at 15: An Inside Look at How Apple Transformed a Generation. On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone went on sale. On that same day, a boy named Noah Schmick was born. Over the next 15 years, the iPhone grew…and so did Noah. Through interviews with current and former Apple executives, WSJ's… (Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal)

The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet. Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can't imagine having read in any other place, or at any other time in history. Near the top of any list of the most… (Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic)

This Warehouse Robot Reads Human Body Language. Rodney Brooks knows a fair bit about robots. Besides being a pioneer of academic robotics research, he has founded companies that have given the world the robot vacuum cleaner, the bomb disposal bot, and a factory robot anyone can program. Now… (Will Knight / WIRED)

Big Tech remains silent on questions about data privacy in a post-Roe world. Alphabet and Reddit did not respond at all to multiple emails requesting comment as of Monday evening. Meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, referred MIT Technology Review to its existing policies on government requests, and declined to… (Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review)

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The 'Hollow Abstraction' of Web3. I cannot stop watching videos of Web3 boosters failing to explain the usefulness of the technology. I realize this is petty, but the videos are deeply cathartic. I'm talking about two clips in particular, both of which were posted by Liron Shapira… (Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic)

Tech Doesn't Have a Free Speech Problem. It Has a Know-It-All Problem. Jesse Powell, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, this month released to its 3,200 employees a 31-page document that purported to describe the company's values. But based on the edited version later published online it… (Elizabeth Spiers / The New York Times)

Period tracker Stardust surges following Roe reversal, but its privacy claims aren't airtight. Period tracking app Stardust surged to the top of the U.S. Apple App Store in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade after the app promised it will encrypt its users' private data to keep it out of the hands of the… (Sarah Perez, Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch)

Google Hangouts is shutting down in November. After sunsetting Google Hangouts for Workspace users in February, Google's now beginning the process of migrating free, personal Hangouts users to Chat. In an announcement posted to its blog, Google says people who still use the Hangouts mobile app… (Emma Roth / The Verge)

One of the most prominent crypto hedge funds just defaulted on a $670 million loan. Prominent crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670 million. Digital asset brokerage Voyager Digital issued a notice on Monday morning, stating that the fund failed to repay a loan of $350 million in the… (MacKenzie Sigalos via CNBC)

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'An Invisible Cage': How China Is Policing the Future. Vast surveillance data allows the state to target people whose behavior or characteristics are deemed suspicious by an algorithm, even if they’ve done nothing wrong. (Paul Mozur / The New York Times)

Facebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments. Clinics offering debunked cancer treatments are still allowed to advertise, despite the company’s stated efforts to control medical misinformation. (Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review)

More Hedge Funds Are Betting Against Tether as Crypto Melts Down. Short sellers have been ramping up their bets against tether, the world's largest stablecoin, amid a broad market selloff that has called into doubt the financial health of some crypto companies. In the past month, more traditional hedge funds have… (Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal)

Apple's mixed reality headset will reportedly come with an M2 chip. Apple's mixed reality headset has been shrouded in rumors for months now, and a new report from Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman indicates that it could come with Apple's flagship M2 processor. According to Gurman, Apple's most recent version of the… (Emma Roth / The Verge)

One Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone. What Then?. Shortly after I learned about Eliza, the program that asks people questions like a Rogerian psychoanalyst, I learned that I could run it in my favorite text editor, Emacs. Eliza truly is a simple program, with hard-coded text and flow control… (Joanna J. Bryson / WIRED)

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Brave Now Lets You Customize Search Results-for Better or Worse. Google's search results have become cluttered. If you open the world's most - used search engine and look up “sofa for small flat,” you'll be met with a handful of ads showing elaborate corner suites, followed by some common questions… (Matt Burgess via WIRED)

Spotify is developing 'Community,' a new place to see your friends' activity in the mobile app. Spotify is developing a new feature called Community that would allow mobile users to see what sort of music their friends are streaming in real-time as well as what playlists they've recently updated in a dedicated place in the app. The company… (Sarah Perez / TechCrunch)

Amazon shows off Alexa feature that mimics the voices of your dead relatives. Amazon has revealed an experimental Alexa feature that allows the AI assistant to mimic the voices of users' dead relatives. The company demoed the feature at its annual MARS conference, showing a video in which a child asks Alexa to read a bedtime… (James Vincent / The Verge)

Mark Zuckerberg envisions a billion people in the metaverse spending hundreds of dollars. Mark Zuckerberg told CNBC's Jim Cramer that Meta Platforms is in a position to spend extensively on long-term research. The metaverse should usher in a massive economy, he said. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg told CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday… (Kevin Stankiewicz / CNBC)

Sriracha Shortage Is Taking Some Spice Out of Life. A fixture at Vietnamese restaurants, sriracha sauce can lace aromatic pho with a jolt of heat. It's the star ingredient in spicy mayonnaise zigzagging countless sushi rolls, and it has even inspired a legion of fans to dress up for Halloween each… (Christine Chung / The New York Times)

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The Power and Pitfalls of AI for US Intelligence. From cyber operations to disinformation, artificial intelligence extends the reach of national security threats that can target individuals and whole societies with precision, speed, and scale. As the US competes to stay ahead, the intelligence… (Alexa O'Brien / WIRED)

Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for 'Responsible A.I.'. For years, activists and academics have been raising concerns that facial analysis software that claims to be able to identify a person's age, gender and emotional state can be biased, unreliable or invasive — and shouldn't be sold. (Kashmir Hill / The New York Times)

Twitter to expand into long-form content with upcoming Twitter Notes feature. In what could be one of Twitter's more significant changes since doubling the character count from 140 to 280 characters, the company is preparing to launch a new feature that would support the direct… (Sarah Perez / TechCrunch)

GitHub's AI-powered Copilot will help you write code for $10 a month. Microsoft-owned GitHub is launching its Copilot AI tool today, which helps suggest lines of code to developers inside their code editor. GitHub originally teamed up with OpenAI last year to launch a preview of Copilot, and it's generally available… (Tom Warren / The Verge)

Mega says it can't decrypt your files. New POC exploit shows otherwise. In the decadegat since larger-than-life character Kim Dotcom founded Mega, the cloud storage service has amassed 250 million registered users and stores a whopping 120 billion files that take up more than 1,000 petabytes of storage. A key selling… (Dan Goodin / Ars Technica)

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The Open Secret of Google Search. A few weeks ago my house had a septic-tank emergency, which is as awful as it sounds. As unspeakable things began to burble up from my shower drain, I did what any smartphone-dependent person would: I frantically Googled something along the lines… (Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic)

Terraform Labs staff put on no-fly list by South Korea. Prosecutors are investigating $40bn collapse of terraUSD and luna token. (Song Jung-a / Financial Times)

The Rich World's Climate Hypocrisy. The developed world's response to the global energy crisis has put its hypocritical attitude toward fossil fuels on display. Wealthy countries admonish developing ones to use renewable energy. Last month the Group of Seven went so far as to… (Bjorn Lomborg / Wall Street Journal)

How Paintings Lost in a Small-Town Art Heist Were Recovered 50 Years Later. On a Wednesday evening in February 1972, as police officers and emergency responders in New Paltz, N.Y., flocked to a fire, somebody snatched a pair of 19th-century portraits of a wealthy local couple from a historical society elsewhere in town. (Vimal Patel / The New York Times)

'God hates NFTs'-behind The Hundreds' staged anti-crypto protest. Amid the steady bustle of shoppers roaming a SoHo street in Manhattan on Monday morning, a strange sight unfurled: a crowd of protesters carrying signs reading “God Hates NFTs,” “Crypto Is A Sin” and other anti-crypto… (Asa Hiken / Ad Age)

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Apple Workers at Maryland Store Vote to Unionize, a First in the U.S. Apple employees at a Baltimore-area store have voted to unionize, making it the first of the company's 270-plus stores in the United States to join a trend in labor organizing sweeping through retailers, restaurants and tech companies. The result… (Tripp Mickle / The New York Times)

Telegram tops 700 million users, launches premium tier. Telegram has amassed 700 million monthly active users and is rolling out a premium tier with additional features as the instant messaging platform makes a push to monetize a portion of its… (Manish Singh / TechCrunch)

Recession Probability Soars as Inflation Worsens. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal have dramatically raised the probability of recession, now putting it at 44% in the next 12 months, a level usually seen only on the brink of or during actual recessions. The likelihood of a recession… (Harriet Torry / Wall Street Journal)

A crypto lending app tried to take over a 'whale' account to stop it from collapsing the system. Solend, a lending platform built on the Solana blockchain, tried to gain control of a so-called 'whale' account which it said was putting the protocol at risk. It's an unprecedented move in world of DeFi, which aims to recreate lending and other… (Ryan Browne / CNBC)

We got a leaked look at NASA's future Moon missions-and likely delays. For several years now, NASA has publicly discussed the initial phase of its Artemis Moon program. These first three missions, to be conducted over the next four or five years, are steps toward establishing a human presence on the Moon. The Artemis… (Eric Berger / Ars Technica)

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LaMDA and the Sentient AI Trap. Google AI researcher Blake Lemoine was recently placed on administrative leave after going public with claims that LaMDA, a large language model designed to converse with people, was sentient. At one point, according to reporting by The Washington… (Khari Johnson / WIRED)

Coinbase lays off 18% of workforce as executives prepare for recession and 'crypto winter. Coinbase will cut 18% of full-time jobs, according to an email sent to employees Tuesday. CEO Brian Armstrong pointed to a possible recession, a need to manage costs and growing 'too quickly' during a bull market. 'We appear to be entering a… (Kate Rooney / CNBC)

Sure, Internet Explorer Had Its Faults. But Fans Are Mourning its Death Anyway.. On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. will pull the plug on its venerable browser after more than 27 years, scrapping a tool that introduced many computer users to web surfing. For some, it was high time: The browser had a reputation for being slow and… (Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal)

Silicon Valley's Horrible Bosses. On Friday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tweeted through a crisis in his workplace. He was reacting to an anonymous petition, supposedly from Coinbase employees, asking for a vote of no confidence and removal of the cryptocurrency exchange's chief… (Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic)

Apple's Pro-Privacy Stance is Anti-Competition, German Regulator Says. Another day, another antitrust investigation into a tech giant. This time, it's Apple: Germany's competition watchdog on Tuesday announced a new probe into Apple's slate of anti-tracking tech that the company rolled out last year. The… (Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo)

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