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Kylie Robison / The Verge:
A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the company's first AR glasses, a cheaper Quest 3S headset, new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, and more are expected  —  Over the past year, Meta has made a big push to integrate AI features into the platforms it owns: whether it be through its ChatGPT rival …
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Livestream of Meta Connect 2024  —  Join Mark Zuckerberg as he shares Meta's vision for AI and the metaverse, including Meta's newest product announcements.  Then stay with us for the Developer Keynote, where you'll hear from executives across Meta on how our latest technologies …
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Google files an EU antitrust complaint alleging Microsoft engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers' reliance on products like Windows  —  Search giant seeks antitrust probe of Big Tech rival over dominance of Azure platform
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+  —  Meta finally announced the very heavily leaked Quest 3S VR headset, and the leaks were right: it's a $299.99 headset that looks like a mix of the Quest 2 and Quest 3.
Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing it of tracking Firefox users on websites without consent  —  Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority …
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
A look at Caroline Ellison's motivations in the FTX fraud, including her relationship with SBF; the judge said he had “never seen” a cooperator like Ellison  —  The story of Sam Bankman-Fried was obvious enough: a Shakespearean level of arrogance that led to tragedy.
Brady Dale / Axios:
Caroline Ellison, a key witness in prosecuting FTX cofounder and ex-boyfriend Sam Bankman-Fried, is sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the scandal
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Sony announces seven more 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.
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme, active since 2018, operated by group UNC5267  —  It's difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder.  —  Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent a C&D letter on September 23  —  The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks.
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps  —  Anyone who works at a computer for eight-plus hours a day will likely know that the amount of tools and “context switching” required to stay productive can be overwhelming.
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
X releases its first transparency report since Elon Musk took over; X took action on 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.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
How a security researcher used a now-fixed flaw to store false memories in ChatGPT via indirect prompt injection to exfiltrate all user input in perpetuity  —  Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories.  —  When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported …
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Book excerpt: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the video game industry's unstoppable pair, had a falling out from 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.
Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg:
US federal court records: the DOJ has been investigating SAP, Carahsoft, and others for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies over a decade  —  - DOJ investigating billions in purchases from SAP over a decade  — Other companies under scrutiny in civil False Claims Act probe
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.
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 …
Will Knight / Wired:
The Allen Institute for AI debuts Multimodal Open Language Model in 1B- to 72B-parameter sizes, the most capable open-source AI model with visual abilities yet  —  A compact and fully open source visual AI model will make it easier for AI to take control of your computer—hopefully in a good way.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records; Threads.com was owned by a Slack alternative startup acquired by Shopify in June  —  Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records of the URL that were updated on September 24.
Politico:
Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental rules on federally funded chip projects, breaking with environmental groups and House Democrats  —  The White House's environmental and manufacturing goals are now on a collision course, after Congress voted and Biden approved …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation  —  Digital transformation — upgrading a company's legacy apps and processes with new tech — has long been a buzzy and lucrative business.

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Kamala Harris, who mostly avoided interviews over the past few months, sets out on a media blitz, including the Call Her Daddy podcast, The View, and 60 Minutes

Financial Times:
Sources: New York Sun owner Dovid Efune is close to striking a deal to buy The Telegraph for £550M+, more than what others like National World offered

Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers:
[Thread] CBS News leaders told staff that Tony Dokoupil's interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates about the Israel-Hamas war did not meet impartiality standards

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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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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, brings Street View to four new locations, and sharpens Google Earth and Maps satellite imagery
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”
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