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October 5, 2023, 9:20 PM

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Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US SEC sues Elon Musk to force him to testify in its probe into his Twitter takeover in 2022, after Musk failed to appear for testimony in September  —  - Agency says that billionaire failed to appear last month  — Musk attorney says that his client testified multiple times
Shawn Tully / Fortune:
Aisha Counts / Bloomberg:
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Some 4chan users are running a coordinated campaign to flood the internet with racist images created using Bing's text-to-image generator powered by DALL-E 3  —  4chan users are coordinating a posting campaign where they use Bing's AI text-to-image generator to create racist images that they can then post across the internet.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Tom Warren / The Verge:
The CMA opens an investigation into the supply of public cloud infrastructure services in the UK with the deadline of April 4, 2025, following Ofcom's referral  —  The clouds are gathering over Microsoft's Azure operations in the EU and now the UK, with the launch of a new investigation …
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
US v. Google: in 2018 and 2019, Apple and DuckDuckGo talked changing Safari private mode's default search engine; an Apple exec said it's “probably a bad idea”  —  - DuckDuckGo spoke with Apple about 20 times on possible change  — Apple exec testified he viewed it as ‘probably a bad idea’
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Sony has notified ~6,800 US individuals, including current and former employees and their family members, about a MOVEit Transfer data breach that affected them  —  Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) has notified current and former employees and their family members about a cybersecurity breach that exposed personal information.
Bryant Francis / Game Developer:
Epic Games plans an Unreal Engine per-seat licensing fee for non-gaming sectors like film and TV; Tim Sweeney says “financial problems” hit Epic ~10 weeks ago  —  A week after laying off almost 900 employees, Epic Games announced that it's increasing the price to use Unreal Engine …
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Samsung unveils the Galaxy SmartTag 2, with a revamped design, Bluetooth, UWB, and still compatible only with Samsung devices, available on October 10 for $30  —  As the smart tracker market waits for Google to shake things up on the Android side of things, Samsung has today unveiled the Galaxy SmartTag 2 …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: some US FTX staff found and internally reported Alameda's backdoor used to allegedly withdraw billions in client funds, months before FTX's collapse  —  The crypto exchange allowed Alameda to have a negative balance of up to $65 billion, prosecutors say
Sebastiaan de With / Lux:
In-depth iPhone 15 Pro Max camera review: native 24MP capture and 5x lens represent one of the biggest camera upgrades in iPhone's history for everyday users  —  Sebastiaan de With reviews the latest telephoto-equipped camera out of Cupertino in our annual iPhone 15 Pro Max camera review.
Fortune:
Q&A with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati about joining OpenAI, copyright challenges, AI regulation, competition, safety challenges, DALL-E 3, the future of AI, and more  —  Murati talks with Fortune about the ultra-high stakes in the generative AI revolution.  —  Mere moments before Mira Murati …
George Dvorsky / Gizmodo:
Amazon's Project Kuiper plans to launch its first demo internet satellites, KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2, on October 6 for its 3,236-satellite megaconstellation  —  Jeff Bezos's space venture, Project Kuiper, is set for a Friday launch, aiming to challenge Elon Musk's Starlink in the satellite internet arena.

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