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September 25, 2024, 10:35 AM

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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
A look at Caroline Ellison's motivations in the FTX fraud, including her relationship with SBF; the judge said he had “never seen” a cooperator like Ellison  —  The story of Sam Bankman-Fried was obvious enough: a Shakespearean level of arrogance that led to tragedy.
Brady Dale / Axios:
Caroline Ellison, a key witness in prosecuting FTX cofounder and ex-boyfriend Sam Bankman-Fried, is sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the scandal  —  - “I've seen a lot of cooperators in 30 years. … - She talked to the government prior to Bankman-Fried's arrest …
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme, active since 2018, operated by group UNC5267  —  It's difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder.  —  Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently …
Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing it of tracking Firefox users on websites without consent  —  Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent a C&D letter on September 23  —  The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Sony announces seven more games that the $700 PS5 Pro, arriving November 7, will enhance via AI-powered “PSSR” upscaling, taking the total to 20 Enhanced games  —  Sony has just revealed seven additional games that'll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed.
Tim Starks / CyberScoop:
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers  —  House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again.
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
X releases its first transparency report since Elon Musk took over; X took action on 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021  —  In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
How a security researcher used a now-fixed flaw to store false memories in ChatGPT via indirect prompt injection with the goal of exfiltrating all user input  —  Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories.  —  When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported …
Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg:
US federal court records show the DOJ has been investigating SAP, IT vendor Carahsoft, and others for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies  —  - DOJ investigating billions in purchases from SAP over a decade  — Other companies under scrutiny in civil False Claims Act probe
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Book excerpt: how Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the industry's unstoppable pair, had a falling out starting in 2013  —  Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime were the video game industry's unstoppable pair, until they fought each other.  An excerpt from the new book Play Nice.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, brings Street View to new locations, and sharpens satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps  —  Google is updating Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, such as Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Japan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, and more.
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
SAG-AFTRA calls a strike against League of Legends, formerly strike exempt, filing an NLRB complaint and saying Formosa Interactive also refuses “fair AI terms”  —  The union charges one of the multiplayer game's producers, Formosa Interactive, with attempting to work around …
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to integrate Samsung's SmartThings IoT platform with future car infotainment systems developed by Hyundai and Kia  —  Samsung and fellow South Korean giants Kia and Hyundai have struck up an IoT alliance that will see cars drive home appliances …
Will Knight / Wired:
The Allen Institute for AI releases the Multimodal Open Language Model, or Molmo, in 1B and 70B-parameter sizes, the most capable open source AI model yet  —  A compact and fully open source visual AI model will make it easier for AI to take control of your computer—hopefully in a good way.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Manchester-based Vsim, which is building a robotics simulation service, raised a $21.5M seed from EQT Ventures and others, taking its total funding to $24M  —  One of Nvidia's fundamental breakthroughs has involved processors that power detailed, compute-intensive graphical simulations …
Financial Times:
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber is “building three” super apps: Uber, Uber Eats, and Uber Driver, an app for couriers and drivers; Uber One has 19M members  —  In the years since its founding in 2009, Uber instigated a revolution in transport, spread its disruptive business model …
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