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September 20, 2024, 1:20 AM

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
macOS 15 Sequoia appears to have broken security tools made by CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft, and others; CrowdStrike had to delay support for Sequoia  —  On Monday, Apple released its latest computer operating system update called macOS 15, or Sequoia.
Bloomberg:
Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to reimpose a block or face a ~$920K daily fine after an update made X accessible; X says service restoration was “inadvertent”  —  - Judge orders $920,000 daily fine if site isn't blocked  — Regulator says it got help from Cloudflare to restrict access
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google unveils Password Manager PIN to let Chrome users sync passkeys across Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, and Android devices, with iOS support coming soon  —  The search giant is introducing a Google Password Manager PIN that allows users to securely save and synchronize passkeys for use across Windows …
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
A US FTC report on the data practices of Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six other companies finds “vast surveillance” of consumers to monetize their information  —  Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: Disney plans to stop using Slack in most units by the end of 2024, after a hacking group leaked 1TB+ of its data, including 44M Slack messages, in July  —  The company said in a memo that most of its businesses would stop using the tool by the end of this year
Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Firewalk, the studio behind the PlayStation flop, is left in limbo, with some staffers expecting mass layoffs  —  Ryan Ellis was the hero shooter's game director at Firewalk Studios  —  It's been two weeks since Sony announced it was taking …
Julia King / Fierce Network:
Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into the radio access network and could allow telcos to run third-party AI apps at the network's edge  —  - Nvidia thinks that AI could be the answer to the very problems it is causing  — AI-RAN will leverage billions of data points …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
A look at the two “specification proceedings” that the EU has opened on Apple under the DMA, instructing Apple on how to comply with interoperability provisions  —  The European Union has opened two “specification proceedings” on Apple under the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA) …
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Amazon launches an AI-powered video generator, available for some US advertisers in beta, which turns a single product image into a few-second video showcase  —  Like its rival, Google, Amazon has launched an AI-powered video generator — but it's only for advertisers at the moment, and somewhat limited in what it can do.
CNBC:
Abeer Abu Omar / Bloomberg:
Nvidia partners with Abu Dhabi-based G42 to create a climate tech lab and develop AI to improve weather forecasting accuracy using Nvidia's Earth-2 platform  —  - Companies will use Nvidia's Earth-2 system to predict weather  — It's the chipmaker's first partnership with UAE's top AI firm
More: Gulf News
David Kirton / Reuters:
Huawei's $2,800 Mate XT trifold phone goes on sale in China, amid analysts' supply concerns; IDC: preorders surpassed 6.5M, versus ~3.9M foldables shipped in Q2  —  Huawei and Apple's latest smartphones go on sale in China on Friday, with the Chinese tech company's much-anticipated $2,800 …

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