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The UK concedes that Ofcom would only use the Online Safety Bill to force companies to scan encrypted messaging apps when it's “technically feasible” to do so — Ministers will not immediately enforce online safety bill powers to scan apps after WhatsApp threatened shutdown
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says Chinese hackers who in June breached US government email accounts stole an MSA key from a crash dump after hacking a Microsoft engineer's account — Microsoft says Storm-0558 Chinese hackers stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU designates Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft as DMA gatekeepers, and will assess if some Microsoft services and iMessage qualify — - Tech firms set to challenge EU in digital antitrust clampdown — Apple's App Store, Google Search, Amazon marketplace on list
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Apple's budget for training AI is now millions of dollars per day; its conversational AI team Foundational Models has ~16 people led by Ruoming Pang — Apple has been expanding its computing budget for building artificial intelligence to millions of dollars a day.
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| New York Times: |
A look at US et al v. Google, the federal government's first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, set to last 10 weeks; top executives will likely testify — The 10-week trial, set to begin Tuesday, amps up efforts to rein in Big Tech by targeting the core search business that turned Google into a $1.7 trillion behemoth.| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Clubhouse updates its iOS and Android apps to include asynchronous voice-only group chats, in an attempt to be “more like a messaging app” — Clubhouse is back, kinda. The app that popularized social audio rooms is reinventing itself “to be more like a messaging app” …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Flexport CEO Dave Clark resigns after one year at the company, which he joined from Amazon; sources: Clark is considering a potential run for governor of Texas — The former Amazon senior executive is considering a potential run for governor of Texas, according to people familiar with the matter
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Mozilla finds that all 25 major car brands the company examined fail to adhere to the most basic privacy and security standards in new internet-connected models — Bad news: your car is a spy. Every major car brand's new internet-connected models flunked privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla.
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| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China widens its ban on using iPhones and other foreign-branded devices for work, or bringing them to the office, to all central government agencies — The directive is the latest step in Beijing's campaign to cut reliance on foreign technology and could hurt Apple's business in the country.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI announces its first developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, on November 6 in San Francisco, and plans to livestream a keynote presentation — OpenAI will host its first developer conference this fall, as the ChatGPT-maker looks to bolster interest in its products while facing growing competition … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Spotify is testing making song lyrics a Premium-only feature, currently “with a limited number of users in a pair of markets” — A number of Spotify users began to notice something strange over the last day or so: the in-app lyrics, which typically pop up under the currently playing song …
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| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Google plans a November policy update requiring election advertisers to prominently disclose when their ads contain generative AI-based images, video, or audio — Audio, images and video on political advertising will need to be labeled … The policy update, which applies starting mid-November …
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
California Gov. Newsom signs an EO on AI risks, instructing state agencies to examine AI threats and authorizing state employees to experiment with AI tools — Gavin Newsom touted Silicon Valley's AI dominance, but warns of a “Pandora's box.” — The state of California has entered … | Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Google started rolling out Chrome's Enhanced Ad Privacy, part of its Topics API, via a popup; some say the Got It button is misleading for leaving tracking on — YMMV, based on where you are — Google has been gradually rolling out Chrome's “Enhanced Ad Privacy.”
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| Reuters: |
Filing: Google tentatively settles a US Play Store class action antitrust lawsuit brought by 30+ states and representing 21M+ customers; the court must approve — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday tentatively settled a class action suit alleging that its U.S. Play Store … | Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Sources: data analytics software company Alteryx has been working with an investment bank to explore a sale after attracting takeover interest; AYX jumps 13%+ — Alteryx Inc (AYX.N), a data analytics software company with a market value of $2.2 billion, has been working with an investment bank …
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT review: great for 1440p gaming and less power hungry but the 7800 XT barely outperforms the 6800 XT and older GPUs may suffice — It's hard to get excited about yesterday's performance at yesterday's prices. — Nearly a year ago, Nvidia kicked off this GPU generation with its GeForce RTX 4090.
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Forums: r/Amd and Ars OpenForum
| Wall Street Journal: |
The Pentagon is considering building a vast network of AI tech, drones, and autonomous systems over the next two years to counter threats from China and others — Defense Department seeks an array of air-, land- and sea-based autonomous systems to keep pace with adversaries| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
An analysis of the EU's and other data on iOS and Android usage finds that Apple's App Store generates $10.40 monthly revenue per user vs. $1.40 for Google Play — As I remember it, at least 10 years ago, I began to hear anecdotes from developers who built apps for both iOS and Android about their economics.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku plans to lay off 300+, or 10% of its staff, close offices, and take an up to $65M impairment charge in Q3 2023 for cutting some content; ROKU jumps 5%+ — Roku will cut more than 300 staffers — laying off 10% of its workforce — as the streaming-platform company continues its battle to control costs.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Slack announces Slack AI, which can generate channel highlights, thread summaries, and search answers based on messages, with a pilot starting “this winter” — Salesforce will pilot the generative AI capabilities it developed for Slack later this year.
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