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November 5, 2024, 1:05 PM
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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 …
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon receives FAA approval to fly its newer, smaller delivery drones, including beyond pilots' line of sight, and aims to ramp up deliveries near Phoenix  —  Amazon said Tuesday it received regulatory approval to begin flying a smaller, quieter version of its delivery drone …
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.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”  —  Wikipedia is facing mounting regulatory pressure in India as local authorities question whether the platform …
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 …
Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering  —  Investigators searched the offices of U.S. streaming giant Netflix (NFLX.O) in France and the Netherlands as part …
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
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
SemiAnalysis: in a first, AMD overtook Intel in data center revenue in Q3 2024; AMD hit $3.55B, above Intel's $3.3B revenue, which is down from $6B+ in Q1 2022  —  But both fall far behind sales of Nvidia's AI GPUs.  —  For well more than two decades, Intel has been the undisputed leader in the market for datacenter CPUs.
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) …
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.

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Evan Drellich / New York Times:
The MLB is planning national packages for streaming companies to bid on in 2028, when its national TV deals with ESPN, Fox, and Turner expire

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Tubi launches Scenes, a mobile feature that lets viewers watch 60-to-90-second trailer-style clips from its library to help with content discovery

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
James Harding says the Tortoise-Observer deal could create a profitable media group and there isn't a guaranteed future for the Observer with the Guardian

More News

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta informs ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after the polls close
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Robinhood, Kraken, and others unveil the Global Dollar Network to accelerate stablecoin usage and launch USDG, a Paxos-issued stablecoin pegged to the US dollar
NBC News:
A judge denies Philadelphia DA's emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk's America PAC ahead of the US election

Earlier Picks

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
Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 30% YoY to $725.5M, vs. $701.1M est., and raises 2024 revenue forecast again on robust AI adoption; PLTR jumps 20%+
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it's unreliable for short queries containing just a few words, meaning it's far from being a “Google killer”
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
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta confirms it has made Llama models available for US national security applications, with partners like Anduril, Booz Allen, and Lockheed Martin using Llama
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