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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Google files an EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, alleging it engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers' reliance on Windows — Search giant seeks antitrust probe of Big Tech rival over dominance of Azure platform
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme orchestrated by group UNC5267 starting in 2018 — It's difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder. — Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently … | Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing the Firefox maker of tracking users without consent — Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against Mozilla accusing …
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Forums: r/technology and r/browsers
| Brady Dale / Axios: |
Caroline Ellison, a star witness in prosecuting FTX founder and ex-boyfriend Sam Bankman-Fried, is sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the scandal — - “I've seen a lot of cooperators in 30 years. … - She talked to the government prior to Bankman-Fried's arrest …
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Forums: r/neoliberal and r/news
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Sony announces seven new games that the $700 PS5 Pro, arriving November 7, will enhance via AI-powered “PSSR” upscaling, taking the total to 20 Enhanced games — Sony has just revealed seven additional games that'll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed.
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
X releases its first transparency report since Musk took over; X took action against 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021 — In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.
More: Engadget, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Mashable, CampaignUK, and Digiday
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent its own letter on Monday — The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks.
More: Automattic, The Register, and mjtsai.com
| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers — House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again.
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| Peter Saalfield / Decrypt: |
Researchers detail an AI model that they claim can solve Google's reCAPTCHAv2 challenges with 100% accuracy using a similar number of attempts as human users — Researchers from ETH Zurich used advanced machine learning to solve 100% of Google's reCAPTCHAv2, designed to distinguish humans from bots.
More: arXiv, Forbes, WinBuzzer, New Scientist, Coinotag News, TechRadar, Tech Xplore, and ZDNET
| Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
US federal court records show the DOJ has been investigating SAP, IT vendor Carahsoft, and others for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies — - DOJ investigating billions in purchases from SAP over a decade — Other companies under scrutiny in civil False Claims Act probe| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Stability AI says filmmaker James Cameron has joined its board of directors; Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju was previously CEO of VFX company WETA Digital — The director says that “the intersection of generative AI and CGI image creation is the next wave” of film technology …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, brings Street View to new locations, and sharpens satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps — Google is updating Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, such as Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Japan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, and more.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How a security researcher used a now-fixed flaw to store false memories in ChatGPT via indirect prompt injection with the goal of exfiltrating all user input — Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories. — When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation — Digital transformation — upgrading a company's legacy apps and processes with new tech — has long been a buzzy and lucrative business.
More: Entrackr, The Economic Times, Livemint, Moneycontrol, Inc42 Media, SiliconANGLE, and YourStory.com
| Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: |
SAG-AFTRA calls a strike against League of Legends, formerly strike exempt, filing an NLRB complaint and saying Formosa Interactive also refuses “fair AI terms” — The union charges one of the multiplayer game's producers, Formosa Interactive, with attempting to work around … | Bloomberg: |
A profile of Canva, which has an estimated 4% share of the $15.4B creative software market and has doubled its MAUs to 190M since 2022, ahead of a US IPO — The world's most valuable female-led startup prepares for an IPO. … Melanie Perkins remembers when her boyfriend and startup co-founder used …
X: @yoolimleenews and @technology
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
MoneyGram, the world's second largest money transfer company, blames an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting its users — U.S.-based money transfer giant MoneyGram has blamed an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting the company and its users.| Politico: |
Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental rules on federally funded chip projects, breaking with environmental groups and House Democrats — The White House's environmental and manufacturing goals are now on a collision course, after Congress voted and Biden approved … | Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
The US DOJ sues Visa, alleging it has an illegal monopoly over debit network markets and has tried to unlawfully crush competitors, including PayPal and Square — The financial service company reportedly tried to ‘smother’ competitors and feared Apple as an ‘existential threat.’
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to integrate Samsung's SmartThings IoT platform with future car infotainment systems developed by Hyundai and Kia — Samsung and fellow South Korean giants Kia and Hyundai have struck up an IoT alliance that will see cars drive home appliances … | Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors' copyrighted works — At a secure room in its San Francisco office, representatives for authors suing OpenAI will examine materials that were used to train its AI system.| Alicia Clanton / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ads antitrust lawsuits are “going to take time ... to play out” and an appeal “will likely take many years” — - Company faces two separate challenges from Justice Department … “It's going to take time for it to play out … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Wiz is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation between $15B and $20B, after abandoning Google's $23B acquisition offer in July 2024 — Cybersecurity startup Wiz Inc. is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation as high as $20 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
More: Tech Monitor, Globes Online, The Information, and CTech
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Manchester-based Vsim, which is building a robotics simulation service, raised a $21.5M seed from EQT Ventures and others, taking its total funding to $24M — One of Nvidia's fundamental breakthroughs has involved processors that power detailed, compute-intensive graphical simulations …
More: Tech Funding News
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI adds five voices to Advanced Voice Mode, which is now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users and, next week, to enterprise and education users — OpenAI announced it is rolling out Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) to an expanded set of ChatGPT's paying customers on Tuesday.
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