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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says Chinese hackers who in June breached US government email accounts stole an MSA key from a crash dump after hacking a Microsoft engineer's account  —  Microsoft says Storm-0558 Chinese hackers stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump …
Financial Times:
The UK concedes that Ofcom would only use the Online Safety Bill to force companies to scan encrypted messaging apps when it's “technically feasible” to do so  —  Ministers will not immediately enforce online safety bill powers to scan apps after WhatsApp threatened shutdown
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Clubhouse updates its iOS and Android apps to include asynchronous voice-only group chats, in an attempt to be “more like a messaging app”  —  Clubhouse is back, kinda.  The app that popularized social audio rooms is reinventing itself “to be more like a messaging app” …
Wayne Ma / The Information:
Source: Apple's budget for training AI is now millions of dollars per day; its conversational AI team Foundational Models has ~16 people led by Ruoming Pang  —  Apple has been expanding its computing budget for building artificial intelligence to millions of dollars a day.
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The EU designates Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft as DMA gatekeepers, and will assess if some Microsoft services and iMessage qualify  —  - Tech firms set to challenge EU in digital antitrust clampdown  — Apple's App Store, Google Search, Amazon marketplace on list
Wall Street Journal:
Flexport CEO Dave Clark resigns after one year at the company, which he joined from Amazon; sources: Clark is considering a potential run for governor of Texas  —  The former Amazon senior executive is considering a potential run for governor of Texas, according to people familiar with the matter
Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Google plans a November policy update requiring election advertisers to prominently disclose when their ads contain generative AI-based images, video, or audio  —  Audio, images and video on political advertising will need to be labeled … The policy update, which applies starting mid-November …
Brad Stone / Bloomberg:
California Gov. Newsom signs an EO on AI risks, instructing state agencies to examine AI threats and authorizing state employees to experiment with AI tools  —  Gavin Newsom touted Silicon Valley's AI dominance, but warns of a “Pandora's box.”  —  The state of California has entered …
New York Times:
A look at US et al v. Google, the federal government's first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, set to last 10 weeks; top executives will likely testify  —  The 10-week trial, set to begin Tuesday, amps up efforts to rein in Big Tech by targeting the core search business that turned Google into a $1.7 trillion behemoth.
Nico Grant / New York Times:
A profile of Kent Walker, Google's top lawyer who negotiated the company's 2013 FTC settlement, as Google prepares to defend against the DOJ's antitrust claims
Reuters:
Filing: Google tentatively settles a US Play Store class action antitrust lawsuit brought by 30+ states and representing 21M+ customers; the court must approve  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday tentatively settled a class action suit alleging that its U.S. Play Store …
Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China widens its ban on using iPhones and other foreign-branded devices for work, or bringing them to the office, to all central government agencies  —  The directive is the latest step in Beijing's campaign to cut reliance on foreign technology and could hurt Apple's business in the country.
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Slack announces Slack AI, which can generate channel highlights, thread summaries, and search answers based on messages, with a pilot starting “this winter”  —  Salesforce will pilot the generative AI capabilities it developed for Slack later this year.
Alex York / Forbes:
London-based Shop Circle, which provides e-commerce software to merchants, raised a $120M Series A in equity and debt led by 645 Ventures and 3VC  —  London-based e-commerce software startup Shop Circle has raised $120 million in Series A funding, the company announced Wednesday.
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Google started rolling out Chrome's Enhanced Ad Privacy, part of its Topics API, via a popup; some say the Got It button is misleading for leaving tracking on  —  YMMV, based on where you are  —  Google has been gradually rolling out Chrome's “Enhanced Ad Privacy.”
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT review: great for 1440p gaming and less power hungry but the 7800 XT barely outperforms the 6800 XT and older GPUs may suffice  —  It's hard to get excited about yesterday's performance at yesterday's prices.  —  Nearly a year ago, Nvidia kicked off this GPU generation with its GeForce RTX 4090.

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From Mediagazer

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

More News

Horace Dediu / Asymco:
An analysis of the EU's and other data on iOS and Android usage finds that Apple's App Store generates $10.40 monthly revenue per user vs. $1.40 for Google Play
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
The Atlantic Council details how a Chinese law from 2021 requiring companies to disclose flaws within two days of discovery helps China's hacking operations
Max A. Cherney / Reuters:
d-Matrix, which designs chips optimized for the “inference” part of AI processing, raised a $110M Series B led by Temasek, taking its total funding to $154M

Earlier Picks

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku plans to lay off 300+, or 10% of its staff, close offices, and take an up to $65M impairment charge in Q3 2023 for cutting some content; ROKU jumps 5%+
Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Mozilla finds that all 25 major car brands the company examined fail to adhere to the most basic privacy and security standards in new internet-connected models
André Beganski / Decrypt:
Washington-based Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that aims to address creatives' concerns about generative AI, raised $54M+ led by a16z
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
The Pixel Pro 8 appeared online on Google's 360-degree device simulator, showing the phone in three colors and a new temperature sensor beside the rear cameras
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google refreshes Android's logo and releases updates to its mobile app and services, including its “At a Glance” widget and its visual accessibility app Lookout
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