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After major Azure attacks, Microsoft launches the Secure Future Initiative, with plans to use AI and automation to identify vulnerabilities and respond faster — Microsoft has had a rough few years of cybersecurity incidents. It found itself at the center of the SolarWinds attack nearly three years ago …
More: Microsoft On the Issues, Microsoft Security Blog, ZDNet, Bloomberg, CSO, Windows Central, CyberScoop, Wired, BleepingComputer, CRN, Thurrott, Neowin, The Messenger, and Petri IT Knowledgebase
| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
US v. Google: Apple said “Android is a massive tracking device” and detailed its privacy stance in a 2013 internal presentation sent from Eddy Cue to Tim Cook — - Apple's internal presentation from 2013 is part of new exhibits posted by the Department of Justice in the ongoing Google antitrust trial.
More: justice.gov, PCMag, 9to5Google, The Verge, AppleInsider, Benzinga, Trusted Reviews, and Wccftech
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
More: Search Engine Land, Beyond Search, and The Verge
| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
The Office of Management and Budget releases draft rules for US federal agencies to assess AI in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential harms — Draft rules from the White House would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement …
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| Bloomberg: |
The FTC says Jeff Bezos personally ordered Amazon execs to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to 2022 — - FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’
More: TechCrunch, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, and CNBC
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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
US v. SBF: in closing statements, the US relied heavily on evidence to argue SBF is guilty and he was “greedy” while SBF's defense managed to make things worse — Mistakes aren't illegal, but fraud is — and Bankman-Fried's lawyers never made his defense land.
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| Reuters: |
Boeing investigates a cyber incident that impacted its parts and distribution business, days after LockBit announced stealing “a tremendous amount” of its data — Boeing (BA.N), one of the world's largest defense and space contractors, said on Wednesday it was investigating … | Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
YouTube begins restricting how often US teens receive repeated video recommendations about sensitive topics like body image and plans to expand globally in 2024 — Starting November 2nd, YouTube will impose restrictions on how often teens receive repeated video recommendations related …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr release Now and Then, the first “new” Beatles song since 1995, created using AI and an old lo-fi John Lennon recording — Today marks the release of the first “new” song by the Beatles since 1995. “Now and Then” is available on streaming services …
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| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
PayPal discloses that the company received an SEC subpoena tied to its US dollar stablecoin, launched in August 2023 — Payments firm PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O) said on Thursday it had received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) tied to its U.S. dollar stablecoin.| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Arm acquires a minority stake in Raspberry Pi, extending the long-term partnership between the two companies that has seen Arm CPUs feature in all Pi SoCs — Arm wants a slice of Pi — Arm Holdings plc today announced that it has made a strategic investment, a minority stake in Raspberry Pi Ltd …
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| Amanda Chicago Lewis / The Verge: |
A critical look at the SEO industry: users complain that Google isn't as useful anymore, some experts complain it's harder to game Google's algorithm, and more — As the public begins to believe Google isn't as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts …
More: Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Roundtable, I Love SEO, and The Verge
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| Jay Goldberg / Digits to Dollars: |
Apple's M3 series shows a return to core messaging themes around user human usability; producing three M3 chips likely has to be close to $1B in tape-out costs — Earlier this week Apple unveiled the latest in its line of CPUs - the M3 family. There has been a lot of CPU news in the past weeks …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The UK plans to invest £225M into Isambard-AI, an AI supercomputer 10x faster “than the UK's current quickest machine”, to be built by the University of Bristol — - The U.K. government said Wednesday that it will invest £225 million, or $273 million, into an AI supercomputer … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
New York AG Letitia James says Uber and Lyft agreed to pay a combined $328M to settle allegations they withheld wages from drivers and did not provide sick pay — - Uber and Lyft agreed to pay a total of $328 million to settle allegations that they unlawfully withheld wages from drivers … | Joe Duball / IAPP: |
The EDPB instructs the Irish DPC to ban Meta's use of Facebook and Instagram users' personal data for behavioral ads in EU and EEA countries within two weeks — An unprecedented shakeup in the advertising technology space has arrived in Europe. Changes are coming to adtech's approach …
More: European Data Protection Board, Reuters, The Register, TechRadar, Independent.ie, Bloomberg, France 24, Silicon Republic, JURIST, Telewizja Polska S.A, NewsBytes, Livemint, Times of Malta, Mikołaj Barczentewicz, and Mobile Dev Memo
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LinkedIn: Gilbert Hill, Nick Botton, Tom Raftery, Joe Duball, Kartikeya Raman, and Joe Jones
Forums: r/technology and r/technology
| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
A New Jersey high school and police investigate after male students shared AI-generated nudes of female students in group chats; parents are unsure what to do — After boys shared faked pornographic images made of female classmates, both the school and the local police began investigating| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
After a security incident at Okta's healthcare coverage provider Rightway, Okta warns around 5,000 employees that hackers may have accessed their personal info — Okta is warning nearly 5,000 employees that the company was impacted by a data breach that exposed personal information.
More: BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, The Register, and Xage Security
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Brave releases its AI-powered assistant Leo to all desktop users, unveils $15/month Leo Premium, with access to faster and better LLMs and higher rate limits — Brave, a company building an alternative web browser, is releasing its AI-powered assistant, Leo, to all desktop users.Sponsor Posts
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