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November 5, 2024, 9:40 AM

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T  —  - Connor Moucka taken into custody on provisional arrest warrant  — Stolen logins used to access Snowflake customer accounts
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024  —  In the run up to the high-stakes 2024 presidential election, Elon Musk has posted a blizzard of false and misleading claims …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is exploring a push into smart glasses by conducting an internal study, codenamed Atlas, to gather employee feedback on products on the market  —  - Company's hardware division is researching idea with employees  — Move signals that Apple aims to follow Meta into new category
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
iOS 18.2's second developer beta shows a “daily limit” for free access to “advanced” ChatGPT via Siri and an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus in Settings  —  With the second beta of iOS 18.2 that's available for developers today, Apple has further fleshed out the ChatGPT integration that's available with Siri.
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $1.8B, net profit down 69% YoY to ~$182.5M, and lowers its FY 2025 Switch sales forecast to 12.5M from 13.5M  —  Nintendo on Tuesday cut forecast for Switch sales for its fiscal year ending March 2025 as demand wanes for its ageing console.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of AR glasses from March 2022 to July 2024 and oversaw Orion, joins OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware  —  Meta's former head of augmented reality glasses announced on Monday she is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware, according to a post on LinkedIn.
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says his offer to help the NYT was “to provide technical infra support” and “not to replace journalists or engineers”  —  The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services …
Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA says it would approve the £15B Vodafone-Three merger if they commit to investing £11B to upgrade the UK's network, ahead of a December 7 decision  —  - CMA calls for short term protections to prevent price hikes  —  The £15 billion ($19.5 billion) …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US  —  On Monday, Amazon announced X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, touting the generative-AI-based feature as …

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