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September 19, 2024, 5:40 AM

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sue Palworld developer Pocketpair, accusing it of infringing on “multiple patent rights”; Palworld sold 5M+ copies in January  —  Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, which makes the game Palworld.
Reuters:
Sources: Google tried to end an EU antitrust probe by offering to sell its ad marketplace AdX, or Ad Exchange, but European publishers rejected the proposal  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google took a major step this year to end an EU antitrust investigation with an offer to sell …
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
X says a change in network providers resulted in an “inadvertent” service restoration to Brazilian users; regulators expect to restore the block soon  —  Elon Musk's social network used a technical maneuver to restore service for many Brazilians after a court blocked it.
David Pierce / The Verge:
YouTube adds an Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio app that lets creators use AI to generate video concepts, create titles and thumbnails, and write scripts  —  Artificial intelligence is running rampant across Google's entire product portfolio, and YouTube is adopting some of the company's newest tech …
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced KOSA and COPPA 2.0 on a voice vote despite discontent from some lawmakers over last-minute changes  —  The proposed laws passed on a voice vote despite discontent over last-minute changes to KOSA, in particular, that were aimed at quelling persistent criticism.
Joe Warminsky / The Record:
The FBI says it disrupted a botnet of “hundreds of thousands” of devices worldwide last week that was operated by the China-linked hacking group Flax Typhoon  —  The FBI led an operation last week to disrupt a global botnet with connections to the Chinese government …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max review: a very incremental upgrade with new tone control in camera and a useful but a little fiddly Camera Control button  —  I'm not saying you should buy a new phone for a single camera setting... but I'm not not saying that, either.
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Georgina Rannard / BBC:
Study: unintended electromagnetic radiation from second-gen Starlink satellites is stronger than first-gen, causing 32x more interference with radio telescopes  —  Radio waves from Elon Musk's growing network of satellites are blocking scientists' ability to peer into the universe, according to researchers in the Netherlands.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
SocialAI, a new iOS app that looks like a microblogging social network, is filled with bots and lets users populate their network with up to 32 types of bots  —  Are we at peak social media yet?  It's an interesting question to ponder after the launch of an iOS app offering a social media experience just for one.
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
The FBI, ODNI, and CISA say Iranian hackers emailed stolen, non-public Trump campaign info to Biden campaign associates; there's no sign the recipients replied  —  - “There is currently no information indicating those recipients” responded to these incidents in late June and early July, the agencies added.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU regulators say Microsoft's acquihire of Inflection's team will not be scrutinized under EU merger rules, after seven EU countries dropped their requests  —  Microsoft's (MSFT.O) hiring of artificial intelligence startup Inflection's staff including its co-founders will not be scrutinised …

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