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October 6, 2023, 9:55 PM
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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 …
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 …
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.
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
Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
Source: Microsoft plans to unveil its first chip designed for data centers that train and run LLMs at its annual Ignite developer and IT conference in November  —  Microsoft next month plans to unveil the company's first chip designed for artificial intelligence at its annual developers' conference …
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.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Cloud software company Blackbaud agrees to pay $49.5M to settle an investigation by AGs from 49 US states into a May 2020 ransomware attack and data breach  —  Cloud computing provider Blackbaud reached a $49.5 million agreement with attorneys general from 49 U.S. states to settle …
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.
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Amazon updates its Luna cloud gaming service to let users buy individual games, starting with select Ubisoft titles; users must first link their Ubisoft account  —  Amazon Luna has been struggling to some extent with big library shuffles, but the cloud gaming platform is now introducing a big new feature - the ability to buy games.
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
Paresh Dave / Wired:
Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and other companies say productivity spiked after they started using ChatGPT-like tools to answer prospective customers' RFPs  —  ChatGPT-style AI can tackle the drudge work of responding to RFPs faster than humans.  Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and others say productivity is spiking.

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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
The NYT, the New York Daily News, and others sue browser maker Brave for allegedly scraping their articles for AI training and letting users bypass paywalls

New York Times:
A profile of Laura Belin, an openly liberal Iowa journalist long shut out by state Republicans who says Democrats also favor friendly influencers over reporters

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Netflix begins rolling out an “AI Discover” tab on TVs in the US, starting with a feature that offers recommendations based on a user's mood

More News

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
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Getty Images' Craig Peters on the company's generative AI tool, copyright issues, attribution for rights holders, deepfakes, disinformation, and more
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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