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October 10, 2023, 8:45 AM

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Casey Newton / Platformer:
As X fails to moderate Israel-Hamas misinformation, Meta has an opportunity to make real-time news a pillar of Threads and give the app an existential purpose  —  Three months into its existence, the app's purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace it
Erin Woo / The Information:
Sources: X shut down a tool for identifying coordinated disinformation campaigns in recent months, as the company moved services off Google Cloud to cut costs  —  Elon Musk's X, in the months before conflict erupted in Gaza, ceased utilizing a software tool used to identify organized misinformation …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Unity CEO John Riccitiello resigns in the wake of the company's fee controversy; Unity names former Red Hat President and CEO James Whitehurst as interim CEO  —  John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of a pricing controversy that left developers in open revolt.
Wired:
As the Israel-Hamas war escalates, a look at the role of hacktivism for both sides, supported by outside groups, including DDoSing Israeli government sites  —  Hacktivism is increasingly a feature of modern kinetic warfare.  It's playing out with particular ferocity in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU regulators send out questionnaires asking customers and competitors whether Apple's iMessage and Microsoft's Bing should be regulated under the DMA  —  EU antitrust regulators are asking Microsoft's (MSFT.O) users and rivals whether Bing should comply with new tough tech rules …
IDC:
Global PC shipments fell 7.6% YoY to 68.2M in Q3 2023; among the top five vendors, Apple experienced the largest decline, down 23.1%, and only HP grew, up 6.4%  —  The downward spiral for PC shipments continued during the third quarter of 2023 (3Q23) as global volumes declined 7.6% year …
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
X now lets users block unverified accounts from replying to their posts, potentially limiting how the community can push back on misinformation  —  The latest turn in the Elon Musk-directed platform X, previously known as Twitter, is that users can now block unverified accounts from replying to their posts.
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Analysis: Binance founder Changpeng Zhao's Industry Recovery Initiative, aiming to raise $1B after FTX's collapsed, deployed less than $30M since November 2022  —  - IRI has invested less than $30 million, wallet analysis shows  — Project had big-name backers like Jump Crypto, Animoca
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US judge throws out a $32.5M jury verdict for Sonos in its smart speaker patent case against Google after finding that the Sonos patents were unenforceable  —  A California federal judge has thrown out a $32.5 million verdict for wireless-audio company Sonos (SONO.O) against rival Google …

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