Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: HSBC partners with Ripple to offer institutional clients a custody service for digital assets, set to launch in 2024, complementing its digital assets issuance  —  – Latest blockchain offering is expected to go live in 2024  —  HSBC Holdings Plc plans to offer institutional clients … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: former NYSE President Tom Farley’s crypto exchange Bullish, fintech startup Figure, and crypto VC Proof Group are competing to acquire FTX’s remnants  —  Tom Farley’s new firm joins two other suitors in auction for bankrupt crypto exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: WhatsApp now lets iOS and Android users hide their location during calls by relaying the connection through Meta’s servers to obfuscate IP address metadata  —  WhatsApp is rolling out a new privacy feature that helps Android and iOS users hide their location during calls by relaying the connection through WhatsApp servers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: OpenAI fixes an issue that caused a “major outage” across ChatGPT and the company’s API services for 90+ minutes, starting shortly before 6AM PT  —  OpenAI’s ChatGPT service is back online after being down and inaccessible for its 100 million weekly active users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Wynn / The Block: The CFTC says 47 out of its 96 enforcement cases brought in 2023 were digital asset-related, including against SBF, Binance, CZ, Celsius, and Alex Mashinsky  —  – The CFTC brought 47 digital asset-related actions out of 96 total its 2023 fiscal year  — Notable cases included … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Anthropic will use Google’s Cloud TPU v5e chips to help power its LLM Claude; sources: Anthropic agreed to spend $3B+ on Google’s cloud services over four years  —  Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic will be one of the first companies to use new chips from Alphabet Inc.’s Google … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says Copilot has “growing positive margins”  —  GitHub’s AI coding assistant, called Copilot, has gone from an experiment to a moneymaker, the company’s CEO Thomas Dohmke said in an exclusive interview with Semafor.  —  “We are happy about the growing positive margins the product has,” he said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lauren Smiley / Wired: How San Francisco’s citizen surveillance culture, with incidents often posted to X, turned the story of a bloody street attack inside out, causing viral outrage  —  When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Caitlin Huston / Hollywood Reporter: Spotify now offers US paid subscribers 15 hours of free access to 200K+ audiobooks per month, after launching the service in the UK and Australia on October 3  —  The podcast and music platform will offer U.S. paid subscribers 15 hours of free listening to audiobooks as it continues its rollout of the new offering. Lees verder op Tech Meme