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October 10, 2024, 8:45 AM
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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9  —  Internet Archive's “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole …
CoinDesk:
US prosecutors charge four purported crypto market makers, a handful of crypto projects, and over a dozen individuals with manipulating various crypto markets  —  Gotbit, CLS Global, MyTrade, and ZM Quant were secretly offering market manipulation services to projects that wanted …
Bloomberg:
Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services  —  Apple will begin selling TV+ subscriptions through Prime later this month, Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Amazon Prime Video …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
WordPress.org adds a checkbox to confirm users aren't “affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise” before they log in or register an account  —  WordPress.org users are forced to confirm they are not “affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise” …
David Heinemeier Hansson / HEY:
Automattic demanding an 8% cut of WP Engine's revenue is a wanton violation of general open source ideals, and the damage could extend far beyond WordPress
Financial Times:
How Google plans to deflect and delay the US breakup threat; legal timelines may let it avoid changes for years, and a ruling on remedies may come in mid-2025  —  Search group claims regulators are overreaching just as foreign and domestic rivals are gaining ground
Bloomberg:
Alphabet stock has dropped 15%+ from its $191.18 record high on July 10, as the DOJ seeks a break up of Google, which experts say will seek operational changes
Hayden Field / CNBC:
OpenAI says it has disrupted 20+ operations and deceptive networks in 2024 so far that tried to use its models, including four that had election-related content  —  OpenAI is increasingly becoming a platform of choice for cyber actors looking to influence democratic elections across the globe.
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Some Threads and Instagram users say their accounts are being deleted or restricted due to moderation failures; Adam Mosseri says he's “looking into it”  —  On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending.  Some users complain their accounts are being deleted …
Reuters:
FTC: Marriott agrees to pay a $52M penalty to 49 states and DC to resolve data security allegations, and, in another settlement, agrees to a new infosec program  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it will require Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide …
Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Documents: OpenAI's projections suggest it won't turn a profit until 2029, when its revenue would hit $100B; losses could hit $14B in 2026, up nearly 3x on 2024  —  OpenAI's newest investors have signed up for a bumpy and expensive ride.  The company's projections suggest it won't turn a profit until 2029 …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
An investigation details a $243M crypto heist in August 2024 in which a social engineering attack targeted a single customer of Gemini's crypto exchange  —  The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a “malicious cyberattack”, about two weeks after hackers put 31M customers' alleged personal data on Telegram  —  Star Health and Allied Insurance, one of the largest health insurance firms in India, has confirmed it was the target of a …
Bloomberg:
A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose term ended in September 2024, as a bipartisan club of tech figures and VCs, including Reid Hoffman, call for her ouster  —  Biden's FTC chair has toughened merger oversight, taken on noncompetes and made the donor class crazy.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Dan Riccio, Apple's Vision Pro chief and former SVP of hardware engineering, is leaving in October; the Vision Pro team will now report to John Ternus  —  - Headset group will be overseen by hardware leader John Ternus  — The retiring executive had worked at Apple for over 26 years
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:
ByteDance launches its first earbuds, the open-ear wearables called Ola Friend, designed as an audio assistant, shipping on October 17 in China for ~$170  —  The Ola Friend earphones are linked to ByteDance's self-developed chatbot, Doubao, currently China's most popular GenAI app

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Washington Post:
How NewsGuard, which attained “sustainable profitability” six years after its launch, became a prime target of the GOP's battle against disinformation watchdogs

Wall Street Journal:
A profile of incoming FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a telecom lawyer and longtime FCC official who believes tech and media companies have been unfair to conservatives

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
Newsweek says its “fairness meter”, added in Oct. 2023 to let readers decide if an article is biased based on five potential choices, has gotten strong support

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The Information:
Sources: Sierra, an AI agent startup co-founded by Bret Taylor, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding led by Greenoaks at a $4B+ valuation

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Zoom plans to launch a feature in 2025 that lets users create an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar with a head and arms from a video they record of themselves
Jay Peters / The Verge:
X updates its Creator Revenue Sharing program to pay creators based on engagement with their content from Premium users, not how many see ads in their replies
Hayden Field / CNBC:
Writer debuts Palmyra X 004, an enterprise LLM trained for just $700K by using synthetic data; a source says Writer is raising up to $200M at a $1.9B valuation
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Meta rolls out Meta AI in six more countries, plans to add 15 more countries over the coming weeks, and adds it to its Ray-Ban glasses in Australia and the UK
Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post:
Russia's Roskomnadzor bans Discord, drawing ire from the Russian military, which has extensively used the app to coordinate units on the battlefield in Ukraine
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
MediaTek unveils its 3nm Dimensity 9400 mobile SoC, featuring a CPU with eight “Big” cores and its eighth-gen NPU, claiming “80% faster LLM prompt performance”
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