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October 6, 2023, 4:50 PM
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Source: Microsoft plans to close its $68.7B Activision Blizzard acquisition on October 13, with a final approval of the deal from the UK CMA expected next week  —  Microsoft is planning to finalize its $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard next week.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
23andMe says the genetics company is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes the leak to a credential-stuffing attack  —  23andMe has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes …
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
Source: MGM Resorts refused to pay a hackers' ransom in the September cyberattack; filing: MGM estimates the hack will cost the company $100M+ in its Q3 2023  —  Fallout will have a $100 million negative impact on quarterly earnings, Las Vegas-based company says
Matt Binder / Mashable:
X appears to be rolling out a new mobile ad format that can't be reported or blocked, lacks an ad label and user profile, and doesn't disclose the advertiser  —  The new ads also don't disclose who the advertiser is or that they are even ads.  —  X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter …
Aisha Counts / Bloomberg:
Source: Linda Yaccarino told the banks that funded Elon Musk's Twitter takeover that X is testing three premium service tiers that vary how many ads are shown
Andrew Hayward / Decrypt:
Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club and other prominent NFTs, restructures, lays off some US staff, and is still evaluating its international teams  —  Yuga Labs reveals a restructuring effort that has impacted U.S. employees as the $4 billion Bored Ape startup rethinks its priorities.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office issues a preliminary enforcement notice to Snap over its My AI chatbot possibly being a risk to children's privacy  —  Snap's AI chatbot has landed the company on the radar of the UK's data protection watchdog which has raised concerns the tool may be a risk to children's privacy.
Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and has evaluated a potential acquisition target; Sam Altman made acquiring more AI chips a top priority  —  OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is exploring making its own artificial intelligence chips and has gone as far as evaluating …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Report: the US DHS finds that ICE, CBP, and the Secret Service illegally used phone location data; a CBP official tracked coworkers for no investigative purpose  —  In a bombshell report, an oversight body for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement …

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John Rogers / Associated Press:
Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91

Brian Stelter / CNN:
Senators Warren and Blumenthal call on AG Bondi to recuse herself from reviewing the WBD deal due to her prior employment with lobbying firm Ballard Partners

Financial Times:
Sources: Standard General hedge fund founder Soo Kim has been in talks with a major WBD shareholder over potentially buying or investing in the WBD TV networks

More News

James Hunt / The Block:
THORSwap moves to “maintenance mode” after criminals linked to the FTX hack in 2022 used the decentralized exchange to convert $38M worth of ether to bitcoin
Knight First Amendment Institute:
Former Facebook policy staff detail their experience with “jawboning”, or informal government efforts to persuade platforms to change their moderation policies
Michael Lewis / Wall Street Journal:
Going Infinite excerpt: how effective altruism pushed Caroline Ellison to Alameda, which would lose its management team and half its employees in 2018, and more
Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch:
FTX co-founder Gary Wang testifies that Alameda Research had “special privileges” that afforded a $65B line of credit, of which the firm ultimately withdrew $8B
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Sony notifies 6,791 US individuals, including current and former employees and their family members, that a MOVEit Transfer data breach on May 28 affected them

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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Some 4chan users are running a coordinated campaign to flood the internet with racist images created using Bing's text-to-image generator powered by DALL-E 3
Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US SEC sues Elon Musk to force him to testify in its probe into his Twitter takeover in 2022, after Musk failed to appear for testimony in September
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft rolls out a new version of Microsoft Teams, in preview since March 2023, rebuilt from the ground up to be less resource-hungry on Windows and macOS
Tom Warren / The Verge:
The CMA opens an investigation into the supply of public cloud infrastructure services in the UK with the deadline of April 4, 2025, following Ofcom's referral
Natalie Korach / The Wrap:
X starts removing preview headlines from posts with article links, showing only the lead image and domain name; Elon Musk mentioned the change in August 2023
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