Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
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Developers Can Now Make Android Apps With Apple
The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official to...
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Swift releases a Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android
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Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who joined in January, has left; X's CFO Mahmoud Reza Banki left in early October after less than a year in the role (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
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Sources: Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale resigned after the firm refused to discipline partner Shaun Maguire over his comments calling Zohran Mamdani "an Islamist" (Financial Times)
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Sources: Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale resigned after the firm refused to discipline partner Shaun Maguire over his comments calling Zohran Mamdani “an Islamist”
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Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials in a mass doxxing event (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
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Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone ...
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Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts the alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of US DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials on Telegram
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The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and other corporate donors to the $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-invites-ballroom-donors-to-glitzy-white-house-dinner-ccba9448?st=6LVKyp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, and other corporate donors to a $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump
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Paxos says it "mistakenly minted" $300T worth of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday and "burned" the tokens a little over 20 minutes later (Ryan S. Gladwin/Decrypt)
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Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins - Decrypt
A fat-finger mistake, or a hack? Crypto traders are confounded after $300 trillion worth of PayPal's PYUSD was minted and then burned.
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Paxos says it “mistakenly minted” $300T of PayPal
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OpenAI's massive deals show Sam Altman is selling a vision of a world-changing product and achieving it via world-changing financial engineering to raise $1T+ (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-10-13/openai-keeps-doing-deals
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Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's AI Mode and Google Lens, on Android in the US for those with an account opted into Search Lab (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Nano Banana image editing comes to AI Mode and Google Lens
Nano Banana has been a hit in the Gemini app, and Google is now bringing image editing and generation to AI Mode, as well as Google Lens.
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Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search
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Nathan Calvin, general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode, says OpenAI used intimidation tactics to undermine California's SB 53 while it was being debated (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
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A 3-person policy nonprofit that worked on California’s AI safety law is publicly accusing OpenAI of intimidation tactics | Fortune
In a widely read post on social media, the general counsel of Encode said OpenAI used subpoenas and political muscle to intimidate the firm and to ...
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Nathan Calvin, general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode, says OpenAI used intimidation tactics to undermine California
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Jack Dorsey replies "no" to an X user who asked if he was still on the Bluesky board; it's not clear when he left, as Bluesky's FAQ still lists him as a member (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
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Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch
Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic S...
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Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey left its board and says the public benefit company is searching for a new board member; Dorsey announced Bluesky in December 2019
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