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Jake Piazza / CNBC:
Microsoft receives Notices of Proposed Adjustment from the IRS for an additional $28.9B tax payment; Microsoft plans to appeal, a process expected to take years  —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at federal court on October 2, 2023 in Washington, DC.  Nadella is testifying …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Automattic adds the ActivityPub feature to WordPress.com hosted sites, allowing site owners to tie into fediverse platforms including Mastodon  —  Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Letter: European regulator Thierry Breton urges Mark Zuckerberg to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation from Meta's platforms during the Israel-Hamas war  —  - European regulator Thierry Breton shared a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday urging the billionaire to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation.
CNN:
Letter: Thierry Breton warns Elon Musk that X could face penalties under the DSA for hosting “illegal content and disinformation” about the Israel-Hamas war
Tom Ivan / Video Games Chronicle:
Sony plans to launch PS5 game cloud streaming for PlayStation Plus Premium members in Japan on October 17, Europe on October 23, and North America on October 30  —  THE FEATURE WILL BE AVAILABLE TO PLAYSTATION PLUS PREMIUM MEMBERS  —  Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced plans …
Gabe Bullard / Nieman Reports:
Internal memo: NPR traffic loss has been negligible in the six months since it left Twitter, after the platform labeled NPR “US state-affiliated media”  —  The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn't worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro review: useful, if troubling, AI photo editing tools, Face Unlock now works for payments, but the Tensor G3 runs hot occasionally  —  These might just be the Pixel phones we've been waiting for, but it all depends on how much trust you're willing to put into Google.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Google Pixel Watch 2 review: battery lasts all day, better Fitbit integration, health, and stress tracking, but the screen is fragile and there's only one size
Bloomberg:
US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says SBF asked her to create false balance sheets to hide debt, he considered offering FTX shares to the Saudi crown prince, more  —  - Ellison takes witness stand for second day at SBF trial  — Prosecutors look at events from 2022 when crypto prices fell
Paul Kunert / The Register:
Bernstein estimates Google pays Apple $18B to $20B per year, or 14% to 16% of Apple's operating profit, to be the default search engine; the US DOJ says ~$10B  —  Bernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case
Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI plans to introduce major updates for developers on November 6, including memory storage to its tools and vision capabilities to analyze images  —  OpenAI plans to introduce major updates for developers next month to make it cheaper and faster to build software applications based …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft plans to deprecate VBScript and make the programming language an on-demand feature in future Windows releases before its eventual removal from the OS  —  Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed.
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Sources: at an Activision townhall hosted by James Corden, Bobby Kotick discussed Microsoft and Elon Musk's Neuralink, hinted at a Guitar Hero revival, and more  —  Kotick and Corden (not me) discuss the future of Activision.  —  What you need to know  — Sources familiar …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Adobe previews Project Res Up, an experimental AI tool that upscales low-resolution GIFs and videos, taking the 1947 film The Red House from 480x360 to 1280x960  —  Adobe has developed an experimental AI-powered upscaling tool that greatly improves the quality of low-resolution GIFs and video footage.

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Bill Donahue / Billboard:
Drake launches legal action against UMG and Spotify for allegedly using bots, payola, and more to inflate Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us, a track attacking Drake

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBC's new deal with Macy's to keep the Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC and Peacock has an average annual fee of $60M+, up from ~$20M in the current deal

More News

Anna Irrera / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan says BlackRock used the bank's TCN blockchain to move collateral almost instantaneously, vs. over the course of a day, and plans to add more clients
BBC:
Study: if its current growth rate continues, the AI industry could consume as much energy as a small country like the Netherlands by 2027, or 85 to 134 TWh/year
Caitlin Huston / Hollywood Reporter:
The US FTC proposes a rule to require ticket sellers and others to show the total price to users upfront; Ticketmaster and SeatGeek have pledged all-in pricing

Earlier Picks

Steven Scheer / Reuters:
Investors and analysts expect the Israel-Hamas war to derail the fragile recovery of Israel's tech sector, which accounts for 14% of the country's workforce
Kyle Chayka / New Yorker:
As social networks become cluttered with ads, disinformation, and irrelevant posts, the fun era of consuming posts from fellow humans and posting back is over
Bloomberg:
Apple spent $200M to $250M on Killers of the Flower Moon, debuting on October 20, the first test of the company's plans to spend $1B/year on movies for theaters
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Samsung shares preliminary Q3 operating income and revenue ranges in line with analyst estimates, suggesting the global chip market may have started to recover
Spiegel Online:
An investigation details the Intellexa Alliance, a group of European surveillance companies marketing and selling spyware like Predator to dictators and despots
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Google announces enhanced search results for EVs, heat pumps, and air conditioners, and expands AI tools to better predict floods, wildfires, and extreme heat
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Amazon, Google, and Cloudflare say a DDoS attack hit 398M RPS in August 2023, ~8x larger than the prior record, due to a new flaw; Google mitigated the attack
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