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The team behind IFTTT (short for “if this, then that”) wrote in a blog post that Amazon is cutting the service off from Alexa beginning October 31st. Once the integration is severed, users won’t be able to ask Alexa to trigger IFTTT applets. Certain automations will stick around in the IFTTT app, but



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Fighting against data used to train AI models has become more poisonous.

A new tool called Nightshade allows users to attach it to their creative work, and it will corrupt — or poison — training data using that art. Eventually, it can ruin future models of AI art platforms like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney, removing its ability to create images.



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Dutch politicians have expressed their dismay over the US’ new export rules for ASML, claiming that Washington has “unilaterally” imposed restrictions on selling yet another chip making machine to China. AMSL has already been prohibited from selling its most sophisticated machines to China since 2019. This year in June (following months of pressure by the US), the Netherlands also introduced



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Personal information of hundreds of House members and staff was stolen due to a recent data breach.
  • Treasury bond issuance could reach record highs in 2024, Bank of America said.
  • Analysts raised their estimate for the supply of longer-dated debt that's on the way.
  • "A daunting supply picture becomes even more challenging given the backdrop of higher financing costs."

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Motorola wants to get rid of the smartwatch and have you wear your phone on your wrist, instead! It's a fascinating paradigm shift we haven't seen in a while.



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Amazon is beta testing AI image generation tools for its advertisers, offering an easy way to create backgrounds or scenes around whatever product ad buyers are hoping to sell. The company says the new feature is “designed to remove creative barriers and enable brands to produce lifestyle imagery that helps improve their ads’ performance.”

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It is one thing to type the world YOLO, jokingly, on Beyoncé’s internet. It is another thing entirely to hear it explained in a court of



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Apple is raising the prices of several of its services, including Apple TV Plus, Apple Arcade, Apple News Plus, and Apple One. Apple TV Plus is going from $6.99 per month to $9.99 per month, and Apple’s other services are seeing significant hikes, too. MacRumors first spotted the changes.

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  • The prospect of interest rates staying high has weighed on corporate stock buybacks. 
  • Bank of America said US stock repurchases have dipped 3% in the third quarter, after a 26% drop the prior quarter. 
  • Strategists said that looking ahead, weaker debt issuance suggests buybacks will remain muted. 

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