EV maker Next.e.GO goes public on the Nasdaq, testing investor demand for electric vehicle stocks

Electric vehicles are now a fixture on many streets in the United States, and EV stocks are also becoming increasingly common on the stock market.

Next.e.GO Mobile, a German-based EV manufacturer, is going public on Friday via a de-SPAC transaction with Athena Technology Acquisition Corp—a type of merger that involves a SPAC acquiring a private company and thereby taking the company public. The company’s shares are listed on the Nasdaq and are trading under the &#x201C

Music publishers are suing  Anthropic for training its AI model on their song lyrics

Three of the biggest music publishers are suing AI company Anthropic, alleging that its AI models violate copyrights for their song lyrics. Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO Music filed the lawsuit in Nashville division of the U.S. District Court for the middle District of Tennessee, signaling a new approach to the music industry’s efforts to prevent AI companies from training their models on copyrighted materials.

At the center of the suit is Claude, Anth

CRISPR chickens hint at what’s next for the gene-modified food chain

A historic pandemic continues to rage, and it isn’t getting the attention it deserves given the virus’s toll. The outbreak in this case isn’t COVID-19, but a vicious iteration of the avian flu. But there’s early evidence that the groundbreaking science of CRISPR gene-editing could offer a solution—through genetically-modified chickens.

The current avian flu outbreak is especially nasty. It’s killed more than 59 million chickens across 47 U.S

Cyberattacks linked to Israel-Hamas war are soaring

A new study published by academics at the U.K.’s University of Cambridge details just how online vigilantism has played out since Hamas militants from Gaza attacked southern Israel on October 7, killing at least 1,400 people and taking some 200 hostages, most of them civilians.

Ross Anderson and his coauthors, Anh V. Vu and Alice Hutchings, analyzed a database of cyberattacks worldwide that they already monitor regularly in the two weeks before, and one week after, October 7.

X’s ‘verified’ users are the biggest source of misinformation on the Israel-Hamas war

Nearly three-fourths (74%) of the most viral posts on X advancing misinformation about the Israel-Hamas War are being pushed by “verified” X accounts, a NewsGuard analysis finds.

During the first week of the conflict (October 7-October 14), NewsGuard’s researchers analyzed the 250 most-engaged posts (likes, reposts, replies, and bookmarks) that promoted one of 10 prominent false or unsubstantiated narratives relating to the war. These claims, determine

Space travel needs more time to take off, companies argue

SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic may get to space differently, but they agree on one thing: The industry needs more time in the so-called learning period on commercial spaceflight that is set to expire January 1.

State of play

The House held a hearing in July on extending the FAA’s “learning period” for commercial spaceflight and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) introduced a bill in September that would extend the rulemak

FCC begins unwinding its Trump-era abdication of broadband oversight

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has begun the process of reestablishing its ability to regulate fair broadband distribution, a role Trump-era FCC chair Ajit Pai controversially abdicated in 2017.

The commission, now lead by Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel, voted 3-2 Thursday to open a period of public comment on the proposed rule-making that would allow the FCC to once again regulate broadband as a Title II communication service.

If the proposals are adopted after

Former FTX lawyer: Sam Bankman-Fried promised customer assets were ‘safeguarded’

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense seems to have landed on two tactics after three weeks of government testimony: Confuse the jury on technical terms, or line up items for an eventual appeal.

Thursday saw the final testimony from an FTX employee, onetime general counsel Can Sun, who testified that he was not told about and did not okay the use of FTX customer funds for expenses at Alameda, Bankman-Fried’s hedge fund, nor for other uses like loans to Bankman-F

Discord is implementing a more flexible approach to content moderation

Discord doesn’t want to count strikes when users run afoul of its rules.

As part of a slew of fall product updates, the online chat platform announced a more flexible approach to moderation. Instead of handing out strikes for every policy violation, Discord will tailor its warnings or punishments to fit the crime, while providing steps users can take to improve their standing.

“We think we’ve built the most nuanced, comprehensive, and proportionate war

Tech layoffs continue as Nokia announces plan to cut up to 14,000 jobs

Any hope that fall 2023 wouldn’t be a repeat of the layoffs that struck the tech industry over last winter and spring seems to be diminishing by the day. The 150-year-old Finnish giant Nokia Corporation, which is one of the biggest telecommunications companies today, is now this month’s latest tech giant to announce it will ax jobs.

Nokia said on Thursday that it will cut up to 14,000 of its workforce after it revealed disappointing Q3 2023 numbers. The company’


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