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Source: Microsoft plans to close its $68.7B Activision Blizzard acquisition on October 13, with a final approval of the deal from the UK CMA expected next week — Microsoft is planning to finalize its $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard next week.
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| Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: MGM Resorts refused to pay a hackers' ransom in the September cyberattack; filing: MGM estimates the hack will cost the company $100M+ in its Q3 2023 — Fallout will have a $100 million negative impact on quarterly earnings, Las Vegas-based company says
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
23andMe says the genetics company is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes the leak to a credential-stuffing attack — 23andMe has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes …
More: CyberScoop, Dark Reading, The Messenger, and RestorePrivacy
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| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and has evaluated a potential acquisition target; Sam Altman made acquiring more AI chips a top priority — OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is exploring making its own artificial intelligence chips and has gone as far as evaluating …
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club and other prominent NFTs, restructures, lays off some US staff, and is still evaluating its international teams — Yuga Labs reveals a restructuring effort that has impacted U.S. employees as the $4 billion Bored Ape startup rethinks its priorities.
More: Yuga Labs News, Unchained Crypto, Bloomberg, Blockworks, The Block, CoinGape, and Web3 is Going Just Great. X: @cryptogarga
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office issues a preliminary enforcement notice to Snap over its My AI chatbot possibly being a risk to children's privacy — Snap's AI chatbot has landed the company on the radar of the UK's data protection watchdog which has raised concerns the tool may be a risk to children's privacy.
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| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
Source: Linda Yaccarino told the banks that funded Elon Musk's Twitter takeover that X is testing three premium service tiers that vary how many ads are shown — - CEO Linda Yaccarino discusses plan in briefing to lenders — X advertisers have been returning, but with smaller budgets
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| RT Watson / The Block: |
Elliptic: the total value of crypto laundered via decentralized exchanges, bridges, and coin swaps hits $7B; Lazarus Group is the top culprit, laundering $900M+ — - Elliptic's new report shows $7 billion was laundered through decentralized exchanges (DEXs), cross-chain bridges and coin swaps.
More: Elliptic, Cryptonews, and Bitcoinist.com
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Report: the US DHS finds that ICE, CBP, and the Secret Service illegally used phone location data; a CBP official tracked coworkers for no investigative purpose — In a bombshell report, an oversight body for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Computerworld, and The Messenger
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Amazon Luna cloud gaming service adds the ability for users to purchase games, starting with select Ubisoft titles — Amazon Luna has been struggling to some extent with big library shuffles, but the cloud gaming platform is now introducing a big new feature - the ability to buy games.
More: Amazon Luna and Game Developer
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Sony notifies 6,791 US individuals, including current and former employees and their family members, that a MOVEit Transfer data breach on May 28 affected them — Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) has notified current and former employees and their family members about a cybersecurity breach that exposed personal information.
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X: @postup_sog, @hazzadorgamin, and @ethangach
LinkedIn: Arnaud Vanderroost, Philip D'Ath, and Will Brooks
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Getty Images' Craig Peters on the company's generative AI tool, copyright issues, attribution for rights holders, deepfakes, disinformation, and more — Getty's entire brand is built on authenticity. CEO Craig Peters sat down with us at Code to talk about how the company is dealing with AI and disinformation.
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