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Sources: Elon Musk and Twitter have not yet reached an agreement to end litigation; Musk is scheduled to be deposed on October 6 in Austin — Elon Musk and Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) have not yet reached an agreement to end the litigation and clear the way for the world's richest person to close … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at possible outcomes for Twitter under Elon Musk: firing Parag Agrawal, a revolt by employees, bringing back Donald Trump, adding new features, and more — His deal to buy the company is back on. Here are six predictions about Twitter under Musk's control, if it happens. — Buckle up.| Bloomberg: |
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
What to expect from the “Made by Google” event on October 6: Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel Watch, and potentially Nest hardware and previews of Pixel devices — - Wildcards: More Pixel device previews and Nest hardware — Google's fall hardware event promises to be special this year.
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Google unveils Imagen Video, a text-to-video AI generator trained on 14M video-text pairs, 60M image-text pairs, and the public LAION-400M image-text dataset — Not to be outdone by Meta's Make-A-Video, Google today detailed its work on Imagen Video, an AI system that can generate video clips given … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Blizzard President Mike Ybarra says Overwatch 2 servers are “experiencing a mass DDoS attack”, preventing users from joining the game's early access launch — Overwatch 2's early access launch has been marred by a few bugs and a massive DDoS attack preventing players from getting into the game.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Source: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong commissioned a documentary about his company and himself as he thinks the media has a malicious agenda to smear tech execs — Pass the popcorn. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong just announced a new film titled Coin: A Founder's Story will be available …
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Meta details updates to the Facebook Feed that let users show more or fewer posts from friends, Groups, and Pages, helping improve Meta's AI-based ranking — With profits shrinking of late, Facebook has been shutting down unpopular apps and focusing on its core services.
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| Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters: |
Spotify acquires Kinzen, which identifies misinformation and hate speech; the Dublin-based company partnered with Spotify in 2020, initially on election content — Audio-streaming service Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) on Wednesday said it has acquired Kinzen, a firm that has helped it identify harmful content on the platform.
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A Chess.com report alleges a pattern of likely widespread cheating in 100+ online games by Hans Moke Niemann, whom champion Magnus Carlsen accused of cheating — An internal report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal alleges a previously unknown pattern of likely widespread cheating by Hans Moke Niemann …
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
DeepMind uses its AlphaTensor AI to solve a matrix multiplication problem by building a 3D TensorGame board game, beating a record that has stood for 50+ years — The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication, a core problem in computing that affects thousands of everyday computer tasks.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Tesla plans to remove ultrasonic sensors from some new Model 3 and Y cars in October 2022 and Model S and X cars in 2023, in favor of camera and software — Tesla is removing ultrasonic sensors from Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, the next step in CEO Elon Musk's plan to only use cameras …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
A US federal court jury finds ex-Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan guilty for not disclosing a 2016 breach of customer and driver records to regulators — A jury found Joe Sullivan, who led security at the ride-hailing company, guilty on two different counts.| Yousef Saba / Reuters: |
Chainalysis: MENA's crypto market grew the fastest from July 2021 to June 2022, with transaction volume up 48% YoY to $566B; Latin America was second at 40% YoY — The Middle East and North Africa are the world's fastest-growing cryptocurrency markets, with the volume of crypto received …
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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: in a first, Apple asks suppliers to move some AirPods and Beats devices production to India as early as 2023; some AirPods are already made in Vietnam — iPhone maker taps South Asian nation again in push to diversify from China — TAIPEI — Apple is asking suppliers to move …
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A US judge sentences Paige Thompson, who accessed the data of 100M+ Capital One customers in 2019, to five years of probation; the DOJ is “very disappointed” — A former Seattle tech worker convicted of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies … | Bloomberg: |
Roblox and Discord are accused of enabling adult men to sexually and financially exploit a California girl in a lawsuit filed by a social media watchdog group — Roblox Corp. and Discord Inc. were accused of enabling adult men to sexually and financially exploit a California girl in a lawsuit filed by a social-media watchdog group.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A review of Intel's $329 Arc A770 and $289 Arc A750: solid 1080p performance, slick design and materials, but weird driver bugs and not enough software controls — Intel's GPU effort is impressive but early … Intel's Arc graphics cards are finally here, and they're priced to take on Nvidia's popular RTX 3060 for budget PC gamers.| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
LA County arrests election software maker Konnech's CEO Eugene Yu for allegedly stealing data on poll workers and says some data was found to be stored in China — The executive, Eugene Yu, and his firm, Konnech, have been a focus of attention among election deniers.| Ken Sweet / Associated Press: |
A report by Senator Warren's office says fraud and scams are occurring more often on P2P payments app Zelle, and banks fail to refund 53% of defrauded funds — Incidents of fraud and scams are occurring more often on the popular peer-to-peer payment service Zelle, according to a report issued Monday … | Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg: |
Experts say political ads on Facebook no longer result in a good ROI, due to a stagnating user base and policy changes that make it harder to target voters — Beth Becker had just finished teaching Democrats how to use Facebook's digital tools at the Netroots conference in Pittsburgh …
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A look at the CBP prioritizing facial recognition to verify ~85% of the 221K daily visitors to the US, replacing mobile passport lines and self-service kiosks — More than 80 percent of all travelers entering the U.S. are now verified by facial recognition. The loss of older, seemingly more convenient methods has many perplexed.
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