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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 …
Brady Dale / Axios:
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alicia Clanton / Bloomberg:
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ads antitrust lawsuits are “going to take time ... to play out” and an appeal “will likely take many years”  —  - Company faces two separate challenges from Justice Department … “It's going to take time for it to play out …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
How a security researcher used a now-fixed flaw to store false memories in ChatGPT via indirect prompt injection with the goal of exfiltrating all user input  —  Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories.  —  When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Onion, backed by some Sandy Hook families and Everytown for Gun Safety, buys Infowars in a bankruptcy auction, and plans a January 2025 relaunch as a parody

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts

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Reece Rogers / Wired:
An interview with Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor on their new book AI Snake Oil, which is based on their popular newsletter about AI's shortcomings
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
AI's first wave of successful implementation will probably look more like the first wave of computing, which was led by enterprise installations that cut jobs

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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
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
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Marques Brownlee says “I hear you” after criticism of his new freemium wallpaper app Panels over privacy concerns, paying $50 per year for full access, and more
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
Google Cloud debuts Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Pro with a 2M context window, twice as big as before, “grounding” for better Google search accuracy, and new agents
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