Sam Rutherford / Engadget: Hands-on with the HP Spectre Fold: a very striking design, slim bezels, a 17-inch 2560 x 1920 OLED display, 8.5mm thin, Intel i7-1250U, 16GB of RAM, and more ... Read more »

Bloomberg: Lenders allege that Indian edtech giant Byju’s hid $533M in an obscure three-year-old hedge fund that once said it was based out of an IHOP restaurant in Miami  —  – New... Read more »

Washington Post: On day two of the Google trial, an Apple lawyer protested two numbers the DOJ used in its opening statement, including Google paying Apple $4B-$7B for search  —  Protection of... Read more »

Taylor Lorenz / Rolling Stone: Extremely Online book excerpt: how Julia Allison invented the concept of a content creator in the mid-2000s, for which journalists and others villainized her  —  In her... Read more »

Tyler Cowen / Bloomberg: Child content creators, or “kidfluencers”, some of whom make $20M+/year, show that protecting kids from labor exploitation is difficult in the social media age  —  Protecting children from... Read more »

Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: Top10VPN: the government’s internet shutdowns in India between 2019 and 2022 cost $4.8B+ in economic activity and affected more than 120M people in 2022  —  Online... Read more »

Financial Times: Wayve unveils Lingo-1 self-driving car system that the company claims can explain its actions with ~60% accuracy compared to human answers; availability TBD  —  Company says use of AI gives... Read more »

Bloomberg: A memo by a lawyer for the ~2,000 former Twitter employees laid off after Musk took over says X has agreed to enter settlement talks set for Dec. 1 and Dec.... Read more »

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Tallinn-based digital forensics and incident response tools provider Binalyze raised a $19M Series A led by Molten Ventures, taking its total funding to ~$30M  —  Binalyze, a London-based... Read more »