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Source: Microsoft plans to close its $68.7B Activision acquisition on October 13, with a final decision from UK's CMA allowing the deal expected next week — Microsoft is planning to finalize its $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard next week.
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| Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: MGM Resorts refused to pay hackers' ransom in the September cyberattack; filing: MGM says the hack will have a $100M negative impact on its Q3 earnings — Fallout will have a $100 million negative impact on quarterly earnings, Las Vegas-based company says| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and has evaluated a potential acquisition target; Sam Altman made acquiring more AI chips a top priority — OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is exploring making its own artificial intelligence chips and has gone as far as evaluating …
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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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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK's Information Commissioner's Office issues a preliminary enforcement notice to Snap about concerns that My AI chatbot may be a risk to children's privacy — Snap's AI chatbot has landed the company on the radar of the UK's data protection watchdog which has raised concerns the tool may be a risk to children's privacy.| 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.
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, announces that it has restructured and laid off some staffers in the US — Yuga Labs reveals a restructuring effort that has impacted U.S. employees as the $4 billion Bored Ape startup rethinks its priorities.
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| RT Watson / The Block: |
Elliptic: total value of crypto laundered via decentralized exchanges, bridges, and coin swaps hits $7B; Lazarus Group was the top culprit, laundering $900M+ — - Elliptic's new report shows $7 billion was laundered through decentralized exchanges (DEXs), cross-chain bridges and coin swaps.
More: Elliptic, Cryptonews, crypto.news, and Bitcoinist.com
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Report: the US DHS finds that ICE, CBP, and the Secret Service illegally used phone location data; a CBP official tracked coworkers for no investigative purpose — In a bombshell report, an oversight body for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
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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.
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Former Facebook policy staff detail their experience with “jawboning”, or informal government efforts to persuade platforms to change their moderation policies — Dispatches from two former tech platform employees. — A research initiative studying governmental efforts …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Getty Images' Craig Peters on the company's generative AI tool, copyright issues, attribution for rights holders, deepfakes, disinformation, and more — Getty's entire brand is built on authenticity. CEO Craig Peters sat down with us at Code to talk about how the company is dealing with AI and disinformation.
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