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September 19, 2024, 12:25 AM

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sue Pocketpair, accusing the Palworld developer of infringing on “multiple patent rights”  —  Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, which makes the game Palworld.
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
X says a change in network providers resulted in an “inadvertent” service restoration to Brazilian users; regulators expect to restore the block soon  —  Elon Musk's social network used a technical maneuver to restore service for many Brazilians after a court blocked it.
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
YouTube integrates Google DeepMind's AI video generation model Veo into Shorts, letting creators generate high-quality backgrounds and 1080p six-second clips  —  The main attraction of YouTube's Made On event on Wednesday morning was, you guessed it, artificial intelligence.
David Pierce / The Verge:
YouTube adds an Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio app that lets creators use AI to generate video concepts, create titles and thumbnails, and write scripts  —  Artificial intelligence is running rampant across Google's entire product portfolio, and YouTube is adopting some of the company's newest tech …
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max review: a very incremental upgrade with new tone control in camera and a useful but a little fiddly Camera Control button  —  I'm not saying you should buy a new phone for a single camera setting... but I'm not not saying that, either.
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU's General Court annuls a €1.49B antitrust fine imposed on Google in 2019 for abusing its dominance to prevent websites from using non-AdSense ad brokers  —  Europe's second-top court on Wednesday backed Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google's challenge against a 1.49 billion euros …
Reuters:
Sources: Google tried to end an EU antitrust probe by offering to sell its ad marketplace AdX, or Ad Exchange, but European publishers rejected the proposal  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google took a major step this year to end an EU antitrust investigation with an offer to sell …
Joe Warminsky / The Record:
The FBI says it disrupted a botnet of “hundreds of thousands” of devices worldwide last week that was operated by the China-linked hacking group Flax Typhoon  —  The FBI led an operation last week to disrupt a global botnet with connections to the Chinese government …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
SocialAI, a new iOS app that looks like a microblogging social network, is filled with bots and lets users populate their network with up to 32 types of bots  —  Are we at peak social media yet?  It's an interesting question to ponder after the launch of an iOS app offering a social media experience just for one.
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
LinkedIn confirms it's training its AI models on user data by default, and says it is “making sure that those who have specific privacy preferences” can opt out  —  LinkedIn is using its users' data for improving the social network's generative AI products, but has not yet updated …
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
HTC unveils the $999 Vive Focus Vision, a VR headset with built-in eye tracking, two 16MP stereo color front-facing cameras, and more, available for preorder  —  It's no Quest 3 competitor, but it could appeal to businesses and VR fanatics.  —  HTC Vive is following up its intriguing …
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Twilight, signs a deal with Runway to use generative AI in the creation of its movies and TV shows  —  Hollywood studio will give the tech company access to its library of movies and shows in exchange for a custom-built AI model
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple pulls the iPadOS 18 update for M4 iPad Pro models after bricking complaints, working “to resolve an issue that is impacting a small number of devices”  —  Apple stopped signing the iPadOS 18 update for the M4 iPad Pro models, which means the new software is no longer available …

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