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October 6, 2023, 3:25 AM

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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.
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
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Sony notifies 6,791 US individuals, including current and former employees and their family members, that a MOVEit Transfer data breach on May 28 affected them  —  Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) has notified current and former employees and their family members about a cybersecurity breach that exposed personal information.
Aisha Counts / Bloomberg:
Source: Linda Yaccarino told the banks that funded Elon Musk's Twitter takeover that X is testing three premium service tiers that vary how many ads are shown  —  - CEO Linda Yaccarino discusses plan in briefing to lenders  — X advertisers have been returning, but with smaller budgets
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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 …
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 …
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’
Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch:
FTX co-founder Gary Wang testifies that Alameda Research had “special privileges” that afforded a $65B line of credit, of which the firm ultimately withdrew $8B  —  FTX co-founder and CTO Gary Wang takes the stand  —  The Sam Bankman-Fried trial gained steam after a somewhat sleepier first half of the day.
Michael Lewis / Wall Street Journal:
Going Infinite excerpt: how effective altruism pushed Caroline Ellison to Alameda, which would lose its management team and half its employees in 2018, and more  —  In an exclusive excerpt from his new book ‘Going Infinite,’ Michael Lewis offers an intimate look at the tumultuous early days …
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:

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