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Hackers steal an estimated $130M from DeFi platform Cream Finance in a flash loan attack; the company lost $37M in Feb. and $29M in Aug. in similar attacks (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

Techmeme

Gizmodo’s photos from the massive iPhone 4 leak have disappeared

The Verge - All Posts

Indian insurtech startup Acko raises $255M co-led by General Atlantic and Multiples Private Equity at a $1.1B valuation, bringing its total raised to $450M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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Samsung reports Q3 net profit of ~$10.5B, up 31% YoY, on record revenue of ~$63B, up 10% YoY, beating estimates; operating profit rose 26% YoY to ~$13B (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

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Internal docs show how Facebook calculates the number of engineers needed and how it has struggled to recruit talent, missing recruitment goals in 2019 and 2021 (Anna Kramer/Protocol)

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Samsung’s Q3 revenue hits a new record high

The Verge - All Posts

The Monster Girl gives classic horror movie villains a liberating twist

Polygon - All

Rene Ritchie and Yours Truly Talking About MacOS 12 Monterey

Daring Fireball

Safari 15.1 reverses controversial design changes for macOS Big Sur and Catalina

Cult of Mac

GitHub says as much as 30% of new code on its network is written with its AI tool Copilot, and 50% of developers who tried it since July have kept using it (Bryan Walsh/Axios)

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The best films you can stream on Prime Video this month

Polygon - All

Governors Island Climate Research Hub Hopefuls Include Ex-Bloomberg Deputy Mayor

THE CITY - All

The Shapeshifter is an upcoming (and terrifying) addition to Among Us

Polygon - All

A look at Stripe's carbon-removal investments, including $9M in 10 projects; nearly 9K businesses use Stripe Climate to divert some revenue to carbon-removal (Ed Ballard/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

Productivity apps can’t stop making money

Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech

NeNe Leakes Says Cynthia Bailey Didn't Attend Her Husband's Funeral; Bailey Explains Why

The Root

Star Ocean: The Divine Force is coming to PlayStation next year

Polygon - All

Star Ocean: The Divine Forge is coming to PlayStation next year

Polygon - All

QuickNode, which helps developers build blockchain apps, raises a $35M Series A led by Tiger Global, following a $5.3M seed round in May (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)

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How My Mom Used the New Peloton x Beyoncé Classes to Say She Missed Me

The Root