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Nord Stream leak may have been largest methane emission ever recorded

Nord Stream leak may have been largest methane emission...

The Nord Stream breach released between 56,000 and 155,000 tonnes of methane into...

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Cat-like sabre-toothed carnivore evolved faster than we thought

Cat-like sabre-toothed carnivore evolved faster than we...

A fossil previously categorised as a hyena-like mammal is actually an early member...

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YouTube announces "handles", letting creators identify their channel using the @username format across channel pages, video descriptions, comments, and Shorts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

YouTube announces "handles", letting creators identify...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:YouTube announces “handles”, letting creators identify...

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Days after Celsius shared all its users' names and crypto transaction histories in a bankruptcy filing, a new website shows who allegedly lost the most money (Zi Wang/Decrypt)

Days after Celsius shared all its users' names and crypto...

Zi Wang / Decrypt:Days after Celsius shared all its users' names and crypto transaction...

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Sensor Tower: BeReal has passed 53M installs, its MAUs are up 2,254% since January 2022, and ~9% of its active Android installs opened the app every day in Q3 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sensor Tower: BeReal has passed 53M installs, its MAUs...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:Sensor Tower: BeReal has passed 53M installs, its MAUs...

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Lansweeper study of 27M Windows PCs: Windows 11 was installed on over 3% of consumer PCs and 2.5% of business computers at the end of September, below Windows 7 (Barry Collins/Forbes)

Lansweeper study of 27M Windows PCs: Windows 11 was installed...

Barry Collins / Forbes:Lansweeper study of 27M Windows PCs: Windows 11 was installed...

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WhatsApp users in India say the service, which has ~550M users in the country, has become overrun by spam from brands, some using WhatsApp's business tools (Nilesh Christopher/Rest of World)

WhatsApp users in India say the service, which has ~550M...

Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World:WhatsApp users in India say the service, which...

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Trendsi, which helps sellers and manufacturers predict demand, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $30M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Trendsi, which helps sellers and manufacturers predict...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Trendsi, which helps sellers and manufacturers predict...

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Endor Labs, which helps businesses select, secure, monitor, and maintain their open-source software dependencies at scale, emerges from stealth with a $25M seed (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Endor Labs, which helps businesses select, secure, monitor,...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Endor Labs, which helps businesses select, secure, monitor,...

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The European Parliament's economics committee approves the Markets in Crypto Assets bill, which limits stablecoin token issuance, regulates mining, and more (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)

The European Parliament's economics committee approves...

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt:The European Parliament's economics committee approves the...

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Fortinet confirms a critical remote authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager is being exploited; a patch is available (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Fortinet confirms a critical remote authentication bypass...

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:Fortinet confirms a critical remote authentication...

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Melbourne-based Airwallex, which offers cross-border banking and other financial services, raised a $100M Series E2, bringing its total funding to $900M+ (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Melbourne-based Airwallex, which offers cross-border banking...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:Melbourne-based Airwallex, which offers cross-border...

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Meta spokesperson: documentation in an article alleging Instagram removed posts flagged by a BJP member in India without oversight "appears to be fabricated" (Andy Stone/@andymstone)

Meta spokesperson: documentation in an article alleging...

Andy Stone / @andymstone:Meta spokesperson: documentation in an article alleging...

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Unsealed court docs: Peiter Zatko said he burned 10 handwritten notebooks and deleted 100 files at the behest of Twitter managers to get his severance package (Jef Feeley/Bloomberg)

Unsealed court docs: Peiter Zatko said he burned 10 handwritten...

Jef Feeley / Bloomberg:Unsealed court docs: Peiter Zatko said he burned 10 handwritten...

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Data analysis: users of Twitter's Birdwatch fact-checking tool have focused on posts about COVID-19, false earthquake predictions, and election misinformation (Corin Faife/The Verge)

Data analysis: users of Twitter's Birdwatch fact-checking...

Corin Faife / The Verge:Data analysis: users of Twitter's Birdwatch fact-checking...

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Chip-related stocks in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan slump after US curbs on China; on October 10, the PHLX index closed at a low not seen since November 2020 (Naoto Hosoda/Bloomberg)

Chip-related stocks in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan slump...

Naoto Hosoda / Bloomberg:Chip-related stocks in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan slump...