Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model that can generate a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU, using a single image (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
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As Mark Zuckerberg aims to be politically "neutral", some argue he's placating critics like Trump; source: Nick Clegg now makes most election policy decisions (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
Cloudflare says it stopped a month long DDoS campaign targeting orgs in financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, that peaked at 3.8Tbps (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)
Coinbase says it will delist all unauthorized stablecoins, like Tether's USDT, from its exchange in the EEA by 2024's end, to comply with the EU's MiCA rules (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
Meta launches a Gen Z-focused redesign of Facebook, including a Local tab in 10 US cities, an Explore tab, and a full-screen video player in the Video tab (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Researchers say Linux malware "perfctl" has been targeting millions of Linux servers to mine the hard-to-trace Monero cryptocurrency for at least three years (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
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Meta Movie Gen can create up to 16-second videos based on a text prompt, available to some staff and external partners; Meta plans to add it to its apps in 2025 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
Meta announces Movie Gen, a suite of AI models for generating realistic video and audio clips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Movie Gen Audio has 13B (Reece Rogers/Wired)
The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
Robinhood plans to debut margin trading in the UK in the coming weeks; it's exploring offering retirement products and letting British users invest in UK stocks (Bloomberg)
Google confirms it is "running a small experiment" showing blue verified checkmarks beside official site links for companies like Microsoft, Meta, and Apple (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, or ~8.4% of staff, took "generous" severance after disagreeing with WordPress' direction and handling of WP Engine (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
EU top court sides with activist Schrems in privacy dispute with Meta (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model blames "a bug in the initial code for benchmarking", after evaluators couldn't reproduce some claimed results (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Google says it'll stop linking to news and drop its deals with outlets in New Zealand if the country passes a law forcing digital platforms to pay for content (Lucy Craymer/Reuters)
CCData: Binance's trading volume in the $2T digital asset market fell from 42.7% at the start of 2024 to 36.6% in September, the lowest share since January 2021 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
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