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June 29, 2023, 1:05 PM

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Kellen Browning / New York Times:
The Verge:
Sony accidentally revealed confidential PlayStation information and its Call of Duty revenue by redacting a court document with a Sharpie, revealed after a scan  —  Sony highly confidential information about its PlayStation business has just been revealed by mistake.
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Sources: Linda Yaccarino plans to launch full-screen, sound-on video ads on Twitter's short-video feed and is wooing celebrities in the hope of selling more ads  —  New CEO hits the ground running with plans for new ads offering and tells staff to get ready for ‘hand-to-hand combat’
Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Inflection AI, a startup led by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman that released its Pi chatbot in May 2023, raised $1.3B, a source says at a $4B valuation  —  Backed by Microsoft, Nvidia and billionaires Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt, the startup led by ex-DeepMind leader Mustafa Suleyman …
Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
Advertisers demand significant refunds from YouTube after an Adalytics report found millions of ads served via YouTube's TrueView system are hidden from users  —  Study shows millions of ads are hidden away in violation of Google-owned group's policies  —  Advertising industry figures …
Joshua Wolens / PC Gamer:
Reddit user sliced_lime, most likely Mojang's Mikael Hedberg, says Mojang no longer plans to post changelogs to r/Minecraft due to Reddit's API pricing changes  —  The Minecraft subreddit won't be a source for official Mojang communications going forward.  —  If you want official updates …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Bloomberg:
Documents and sources: in the coming weeks, the FTC plans to file a far-reaching antitrust lawsuit against Amazon's marketplace, after months of honing its case  —  Lina Khan's Federal Trade Commission has already filed three cases against Amazon.com Inc. Now she's gearing up for the Big One.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Microsoft adds AI-powered shopping tools, including GPT-generated buying guides in the US, to its Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in Edge's sidebar  —  Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar.
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Binance says its euro banking partner Paysafe plans to stop supporting the exchange on September 26, after a retreat from the UK, the Netherlands, and Cyprus  —  The exchange recently announced retreats from the U.K., Netherlands and Cyprus.  —  Binance's euros banking partner …
Matt Burgess / Wired:
Activists and researchers file a GDPR complaint against Pornhub in Italy, claiming the company is “illegally” handling users' data; the process could take years  —  Complaints filed in the European Union claim the porn site fails to follow basic data-collection policies under GDPR.
Ina Fried / Axios:
ADL survey of 2,139 US people: 33% of adults and 51% of teens aged 13 to 17 reported being harassed online in 2023, up from 23% and 36%, respectively, in 2022  —  More than half of Americans say they have experienced hate or harassment online, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League …
Brandy Betz / CoinDesk:
Vienna-based One Trading, formerly called Bitpanda Pro, raised a €30M Series A led by Valar Ventures, as the digital asset exchange separates from Bitpanda  —  The crypto exchange has split from Bitpanda and now operates as One Trading.  —  Austria-based One Trading …
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
NYC-based Runway AI, which lets customers generate videos from text prompts, raised $141M from Google, Nvidia, and others, taking its total funding to ~$237M  —  Runway AI Inc., whose artificial intelligence software can create a short video from just a few typed words …
Washington Post:
Meta's Oversight Board calls for Meta to suspend Cambodian PM Hun Sen on Facebook and Instagram, the first time the Board has asked Meta to ban a head of state  —  MANILA — The social media giant Meta's Oversight Board called Thursday for the immediate suspension of Cambodian Prime Minister …
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: TSMC and its suppliers plan to send several hundred more workers from Taiwan to Arizona to speed up building its US plant, which is behind schedule  —  World's largest contract chipmaker faces delays in Arizona project as market slows  —  Construction of TSMC's chip plant in Arizona …
Ernie Smith / VICE:
A look at The NABU Network, a retro computer community started in December 2022 to preserve historical examples of NABU PC hardware, software, and documentation  —  The NABU Network was an obscure, forgotten part of Canadian tech history—until the day the internet noticed that thousands …
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
A California law firm launches a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company violated millions of internet users' rights by scraping their data  —  A California law firm says the company's use of scraped data from the web violates the rights of millions of internet users

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