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September 15, 2023, 11:10 AM
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding it in breach of GDPR in relation to how it handles children's data and gives the company three months to comply  —  It's been a long time coming but TikTok has finally been found in breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation …
Financial Times:
Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature  —  Talks are at an early stage, sources say, as Facebook parent looks for new ways to increase revenue
Elizabeth Pineau / Reuters:
Apple plans a software update for iPhone 12 in France to address radiation concerns, says “this is related to a specific testing protocol” used by the regulator  —  Apple said on Friday it would issue a software update for iPhone 12 users in France, in what seemed to offer …
Victor Tangermann / Futurism:
Microsoft's Start news website published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated obit for former NBA player Brandon Hunter, headlined, “Brandon Hunter useless at 42”  —  “AI should not be writing obituaries.”  —  Former NBA player Brandon Hunter passed away unexpectedly at the young age …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Google agrees to pay California $93M to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users' location for commercial gain even after they opted out  —  Google will pay California $93 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Salesforce plans to hire 3,300 people for sales, engineering, and its data cloud product, after cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~8,000 jobs, in January 2023  —  - New hires will be split among sales, engineering, data cloud  — Many hires will be boomerang employees, CEO Benioff says
Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times:
MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines  —  Person claiming to represent cybercriminals explains techniques used to evade detection by casino resort company
Wall Street Journal:
Filing: Caesars confirms the casino operator was hacked via a social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor; sources: Caesars paid a ~$15M ransom
Bloomberg:
At trial, the US DOJ asserted Googlers are trained to have sensitive conversations over chat with history off and avoid phrases like “market share” and “bundle”  —  Hi all, it's Tom Giles in San Francisco and Davey Alba in Washington.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Google confirms it currently offers no repair options for cracked Pixel Watch screens; the company's hardware warranty does not cover accidental damage  —  If you crack the screen on the Pixel Watch, getting it officially repaired by Google isn't in the cards.
Jon Victor / The Information:
Sources: Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its Gemini AI model, as the company nears a launch of the GPT-4 rival  —  Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its highly anticipated conversational artificial intelligence software …
Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft and Oracle expand their cloud partnership with Oracle Database@Azure, letting customers run Oracle workloads natively in Azure data centers  —  The new level of collaboration reflects how technology and customer demand have fostered more cooperation among software companies
Neil Long / Mobilegamer.biz:
Sources: Unity offered a 100% Runtime Fee waiver to studios using its LevelPlay mediation platform and 80% to 100% waivers to developers switching from AppLovin  —  Unity is quietly offering developers a Runtime Fee waiver if they switch to its LevelPlay mediation platform, we're told.
Kat Bailey / IGN:
Unity acknowledges “the confusion and frustration” around its planned install fees but argues that “more than 90% of our customers will not be affected”
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Unity cancels a town hall and closes two offices after receiving what the company says was a credible death threat, following its controversial install fee news
Christopher Beam / Wired:
A look at the race to build tools to identify AI-generated text and evade detection, such as GPTZero and WorkNinja, which were built by college students  —  And college students are developing the weapons, quickly building tools that identify AI-generated text—and tools to evade detection.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft unveils EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI framework that the company says can help create enzymes for new therapeutics and drug delivery methods  —  Proteins, the natural molecules that carry out key cellular functions within the body, are the building blocks of all diseases.

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
60 Minutes' CECOT segment, pulled by Bari Weiss, was mistakenly aired in Canada via an app owned by Global Television, which airs 60 Minutes in the country

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD's board says it will “carefully review and consider” Paramount's revised offer, which includes a full backstop personally guaranteed by Larry Ellison

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Email to staff: NPR's standards chief proposes limiting quotes from University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias, “an expert at getting himself quoted”

More News

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Adobe reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.89B, vs. $4.87B est., Digital Media revenue up 11% YoY to $3.59B, and Digital Experience revenue up 10% YoY to $1.23B
Bloomberg:
SCOTUS pauses a lower court's order limiting the White House, FBI, and public health agencies from making social media requests, hours after the DOJ's request

Earlier Picks

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta expands Horizon Worlds, previously exclusive to its VR headsets, to the web and Android in early access, and rolling out to iOS “in the coming weeks”
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Automattic releases ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress, letting fediverse users follow WordPress blogs on apps like Mastodon and receive replies as blog comments
CNBC:
Arm closes up 24.69% to $63.59 in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the company at $65.24B, after Arm priced shares at the upper end of its expected $47 to $51 range
Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal:
Google plans to offer Chromebook software updates for up to 10 years, starting in 2024, so no current device expires within the next two years, to help schools
Bloomberg:
How Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, both renowned Stanford scholars, opened doors for their son, Sam, and provided a halo effect for FTX before its implosion
Monica Chin / The Verge:
HP unveils the $5,000+ Spectre Fold, an OLED foldable PC that can be used as a 17-inch tablet, a 17-inch laptop, or a 12.3-inch laptop and weighs less than 3lbs
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