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Sources: Ubisoft's founding Guillemot family and Tencent consider options, including a buyout of Ubisoft after it lost 50%+ of its value in 2024; UBI jumps 25%+ — - Deliberations come after fall in game developer's share price — Tencent, Guillemot family hold minority stakes in French firm
More: GamesIndustry.biz, Reuters, Windows Central, Game World Observer, TheGamer, IGN, KitGuru, XboxEra, Gameranx, Video Games Chronicle, CNBC, and Gematsu
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Meta announces Movie Gen, a suite of AI models for generating realistic video and audio clips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Movie Gen Audio has 13B — The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.
More: Meta, The Verge, VentureBeat, New York Times, Financial Times, TechCrunch, and BGR
Threads: @aiatmeta, @tomgara, @crumbler, @chriscox, @aiatmeta, @chriscox, @jakebailey, @evolving.ai, @aaldahle, and @chriscox. Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta Movie Gen can create up to 16-second videos based on a text prompt, available to some staff and external partners; Meta plans to add it to its apps in 2025 — Movie Gen tool can create short videos from a text prompt — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new artificial intelligence tool …
More: Axios, Reuters, PCMag, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, PhoneArena, Maginative, and Variety
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems — The European Union's top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta's data retention policies.
More: noyb, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Business Times, UPI, Politico, Associated Press, Fortune, RTÉ, Court of Justice of the European Union, and BNN Bloomberg
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google confirms it is “running a small experiment” showing blue verified checkmarks beside official site links for companies like Microsoft, Meta, and Apple — Google is experimenting with a new verification feature in search that should make it easier for users to avoid clicking on fake or fraudulent website links.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, or ~8.4% of staff, took “generous” severance after disagreeing with WordPress' direction and handling of WP Engine — Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package …
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LinkedIn: James Giroux and Jamie Marsland
Forums: Hacker News, r/Wordpress, and Slashdot
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers say a Linux malware named “perfctl” has been targeting Linux servers to mine the hard-to-trace Monero cryptocurrency for at least three years — A Linux malware named “perfctl” has been targeting Linux servers and workstations for at least three years …
More: Ars Technica, Aqua, Security Affairs, TechRadar, The Hacker News, Dark Reading, and Hackread. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring 2025, will have Apple's first 5G modem, the iPhone 15's rear camera, and an A18 and 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence — Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking — Apple today released iPadOS 18..1 for the iPad, and it brings iPadOS 18 to the for M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since …
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X: @markgurman, @aaronp613, @stephenrobles, @tgod34748, @brandonbutch, and @iryantldr
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Lucy Craymer / Reuters: |
Google says it'll stop linking to news and drop its deals with outlets in New Zealand if the country passes a law forcing digital platforms to pay for content — Google said on Friday it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles and ditch the agreements it has with local news organisations …
More: Business Standard, Silicon Republic, UPI, Google New Zealand Blog, WinBuzzer, JURIST, Associated Press, NZ Herald, and RNZ
| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016 — - Russian group Star Blizzard targeted civil society, US says — Group has conducted election influence operations in UK
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LinkedIn: Jeremy Dallman, Ben Johnson, and Amy Hogan-Burney
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model blames “a bug in the initial code for benchmarking”, after evaluators couldn't reproduce some claimed results — On September 5th, 2024, Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of the startup Hyperwrite AI (also known as OthersideAI) … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews for when a user's question has a “commercial angle”, and identifies the ads with a “sponsored” header, on mobile in the US — Google is rolling out ads in AI Overviews, which means you'll now start seeing products in some of the search engine's AI-generated summaries.
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LinkedIn: Shashidhar, Dan Taylor, and Vidhya Srinivasan
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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LinkedIn: Rachel Gruner and Robby Stein
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
How Sam Altman concentrated his power as OpenAI's CEO since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; source: Altman is not looking to hire a CTO for now — Five years ago, OpenAI was a scrappy startup run by a handful of executives, with a heavy emphasis on research.
More: PYMNTS.com, TechSpot, Observer, Neowin, and Legit.ng
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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