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Casey Newton / Platformer:
As X fails to moderate Israel-Hamas misinformation, Meta has an opportunity to make real-time news a pillar of Threads and give the app an existential purpose  —  Three months into its existence, the app's purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace it
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Threads: @mcuban, @parkert, @cwarzel, @oliverdarcy, @taylorlorenz, @alex.stamos, @vocino, @carnage4life, @renee.diresta, @renee.diresta, @parkert, @technicallymims, @jaketapper, @drewharwell, @exhaustedfemalefounder, @reporterzoe, @azdataguru, @jason_whitman, @mollyjongfast, @alex.stamos, @mattbinder, @carnage4life, @mattbinder, @therealhoarse, @davidfrenchjag, @andykaczynski, @oliverdarcy, @freedom_official_p, @buccocapital, @timothyjchambers, @crumbler, @reporterzoe, @robertgarcialb, @malcontentmenttango, @ianbremmer, and @matthewfacciani
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @Newmy@writing.exchange, and @mimsical@mastodon.social
X: @shayan86, @shayan86, @dnvolz, @oneunderscore__, @daithaigilbert, @kevinmkruse, @kevinmkruse, @stevanzetti, @rothschildmd, @shayan86, @oneunderscore__, @anneapplebaum, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @edzitron, @onthemedia, @mattbinder, @shayan86, @jakemgrumbach, @daveyalba, @shayan86, @daveyalba, @oneunderscore__, @shayan86, @nxthompson, @benedictevans, @rakeshlobster, @clarajeffery, @shayan86, @ianbremmer, @shayan86, @penamerica, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, and @shayan86
LinkedIn: Mark Little and Tomer Poran
Forums: r/technology, r/technology, and r/TheMajorityReport
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Erin Woo / The Information:
Sources: X shut down a tool for identifying coordinated disinformation campaigns in recent months, as the company moved services off Google Cloud to cut costs  —  Elon Musk's X, in the months before conflict erupted in Gaza, ceased utilizing a software tool used to identify organized misinformation …
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Amazon, Google, and Cloudflare say a DDoS attack hit 398M RPS in August, ~8x larger than the previous record, due to a new bug; Google was able to mitigate it  —  Amazon, Google and Cloudflare said they detected the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on record in August due to a newly discovered vulnerability.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Adobe debuts the Firefly Image 2 Model, which is larger than its predecessor, better at rendering humans, and coming to Firefly's web app, Photoshop, and more  —  At MAX, its annual conference for creatives, Adobe today announced that it has updated the models that power Firefly, its generative AI image creation service.
Wired:
As the Israel-Hamas war escalates, a look at the role of hacktivism for both sides, supported by outside groups, including DDoSing Israeli government sites  —  Since the conflict escalated, hackers have targeted dozens of government websites and media outlets with defacements and DDoS attacks …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google starts prompting users to create a passkey for their account by default, but says passwords will “still remain part of our lives as we make the pivot”  —  Google is making it easier for users to ditch passwords on their Google accounts in favor of passkeys — a fast …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sony announces a new $500 PS5 model with a detachable disc drive, 1TB of internal storage, and a slightly slimmer and shorter design, shipping in November  —  Sony officially announced a new PS5 model with a detachable disc drive and 1TB of internal storage.
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
X now lets users “limit replies to verified users”  —  The latest turn in the Elon Musk-directed platform X, previously known as Twitter, is that users can now block unverified accounts from replying to their posts.  —  This change arrives about 11 months after Musk launched paid verification …
IDC:
Global PC shipments fell 7.6% YoY to 68.2M in Q3 2023; among the top five vendors, Apple experienced the largest decline, down 23.1%, and only HP grew, up 6.4%  —  The downward spiral for PC shipments continued during the third quarter of 2023 (3Q23) as global volumes declined 7.6% year …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU regulators send out questionnaires asking customers and competitors whether Apple's iMessage and Microsoft's Bing should be regulated under the DMA  —  EU antitrust regulators are asking Microsoft's (MSFT.O) users and rivals whether Bing should comply with new tough tech rules …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Unity CEO John Riccitiello resigns in the wake of the company's fee controversy; Unity names former Red Hat President and CEO James Whitehurst as interim CEO  —  John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of a pricing controversy that left developers in open revolt.
Max A. Cherney / Reuters:
AMD plans to acquire Santa Clara-based Nod.ai, which specializes in deploying open-source AI software and has raised ~$36.5M, per PitchBook  —  AMD said on Tuesday it plans to buy an artificial intelligence startup called Nod.ai as part of an effort to bolster its software capabilities.

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Committee to Protect Journalists:
After the building fire, Hong Kong summoned AFP, FT, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, and WSJ journalists, telling them to avoid “trouble making”, and arrested a commentator

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Academy reports fiscal 2025 revenues of $269.2M, up from $263.1M in 2024, after cutting expenses from $220.1M to $208.1M; Oscars revenue grew to $150.5M

Matt Donnelly / Variety:
A look at the auction for the Oscars' TV rights, as sources say Netflix is out, NBCUniversal gains ground, and YouTube and ABC remain active bidders

More News

New York Times:
In the first week of Sam Bankman-Fried's trial, Judge Kaplan repeatedly admonished SBF's lawyers, disrupting the questioning, in an ominous sign for the defense
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Meta's Oversight Board plans to review Meta's manipulated content and deepfake policies after Facebook refused to remove a video describing Biden as a pedophile
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Analysis: Binance founder Changpeng Zhao's Industry Recovery Initiative, aiming to raise $1B after FTX collapsed, deployed less than $30M since November 2022

Earlier Picks

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US judge throws out a $32.5M jury verdict for Sonos in its smart speaker patent case against Google after finding that the Sonos patents were unenforceable
Queenie Wong / Los Angeles Times:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 1394, holding social media platforms liable for “knowingly facilitating” commercial CSAM, starting from January 2025
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Google Cloud expands Vertex AI Search with features to help health care workers pull info from clinical notes, scanned documents, and electronic health records
Brian McGleenon / The Block:
As the UK FCA widens its financial promotions rules for crypto, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, and others partner with UK companies to try to keep serving UK customers
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