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Caroline Ellison, a star witness in prosecuting FTX founder and ex-boyfriend Sam Bankman-Fried, is sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the scandal — - “I've seen a lot of cooperators in 30 years. … - She talked to the government prior to Bankman-Fried's arrest …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme orchestrated by group UNC5267 starting in 2018 — It's difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder. — Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently … | Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing the Firefox maker of tracking users without consent — Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against Mozilla accusing … | Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers — House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again.
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Stability AI says filmmaker James Cameron has joined its board of directors; Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju was previously CEO of VFX company WETA Digital — The director says that “the intersection of generative AI and CGI image creation is the next wave” of film technology …
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| Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
US federal court records show the DOJ has been investigating SAP, IT vendor Carahsoft, and others for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies — - DOJ investigating billions in purchases from SAP over a decade — Other companies under scrutiny in civil False Claims Act probe| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
X releases its first transparency report since Musk took over; X took action against 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021 — In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.
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| Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: |
SAG-AFTRA calls a strike against League of Legends, formerly strike exempt, filing an NLRB complaint and saying Formosa Interactive also refuses “fair AI terms” — The union charges one of the multiplayer game's producers, Formosa Interactive, with attempting to work around … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, brings Street View to new locations, and sharpens satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps — Google is updating Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, such as Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Japan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, and more.
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| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors' copyrighted works — At a secure room in its San Francisco office, representatives for authors suing OpenAI will examine materials that were used to train its AI system.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Wiz is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation between $15B and $20B, after abandoning Google's $23B acquisition offer in July 2024 — Cybersecurity startup Wiz Inc. is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation as high as $20 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
The US DOJ sues Visa, alleging it has an illegal monopoly over debit network markets and has tried to unlawfully crush competitors, including PayPal and Square — The financial service company reportedly tried to ‘smother’ competitors and feared Apple as an ‘existential threat.’
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI adds five voices to Advanced Voice Mode, which is now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users and, next week, to enterprise and education users — OpenAI announced it is rolling out Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) to an expanded set of ChatGPT's paying customers on Tuesday.
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| Peter Saalfield / Decrypt: |
Researchers detail an AI model that they claim can solve Google's reCAPTCHAv2 challenges with 100% accuracy using a similar number of attempts as human users — Researchers from ETH Zurich used advanced machine learning to solve 100% of Google's reCAPTCHAv2, designed to distinguish humans from bots.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent its own letter on Monday — The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks.
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
MoneyGram, the world's second largest money transfer company, blames an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting its users — U.S.-based money transfer giant MoneyGram has blamed an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting the company and its users.| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Canva, which has an estimated 4% share of the $15.4B creative software market and has doubled its MAUs to 190M since 2022, ahead of a US IPO — The world's most valuable female-led startup prepares for an IPO. … Melanie Perkins remembers when her boyfriend and startup co-founder used …
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to integrate Samsung's SmartThings IoT platform with future car infotainment systems developed by Hyundai and Kia — Samsung and fellow South Korean giants Kia and Hyundai have struck up an IoT alliance that will see cars drive home appliances … | Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis: inflows to China's over-the-counter crypto brokers topped $20B in Q4 2023, Q1 2024, and Q2 2024 for $75.4B in total, despite Beijing's crypto ban — - Study signals a record streak of demand for China OTC traders — Figures add to evidence of Beijing's crypto ban being flouted
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Sony announces seven new games that the $700 PS5 Pro, arriving November 7, will enhance via AI-powered “PSSR” upscaling, taking the total to 20 Enhanced games — Sony has just revealed seven additional games that'll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Manchester-based Vsim, which is building a robotics simulation service, raised a $21.5M seed from EQT Ventures and others, taking its total funding to $24M — One of Nvidia's fundamental breakthroughs has involved processors that power detailed, compute-intensive graphical simulations …
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| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Retro Remake says its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits, which don't require soldering or modifications, will go on sale on September 26 for $50 to $110 — Retro Remake has announced that its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits will be available for sale on September 26th at 10PM ET and will start at $49.99.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Book excerpt: how Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the industry's unstoppable pair, had a falling out starting in 2013 — Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime were the video game industry's unstoppable pair, until they fought each other. An excerpt from the new book Play Nice.
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