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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Meta announces Movie Gen, a suite of AI models for generating realistic video and audio clips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Movie Gen Audio has 13B — The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta Movie Gen can create up to 16-second videos based on a text prompt, available to some staff and external partners; Meta plans to add it to its apps in 2025 — Movie Gen tool can create short videos from a text prompt — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new artificial intelligence tool …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems — The European Union's top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta's data retention policies.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ubisoft's founding Guillemot family and Tencent consider options, including a buyout of Ubisoft after it lost 50%+ of its value in 2024; UBI jumps 25%+ — - Deliberations come after fall in game developer's share price — Tencent, Guillemot family hold minority stakes in French firm
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google confirms it is “running a small experiment” showing blue verified checkmarks beside official site links for companies like Microsoft, Meta, and Apple — Google is experimenting with a new verification feature in search that should make it easier for users to avoid clicking on fake or fraudulent website links.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, or ~8.4% of staff, took “generous” severance after disagreeing with WordPress' direction and handling of WP Engine — Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package …
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LinkedIn: James Giroux and Jamie Marsland
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers say Linux malware “perfctl” has been targeting millions of Linux servers to mine the hard-to-trace Monero cryptocurrency for at least three years — A Linux malware named “perfctl” has been targeting Linux servers and workstations for at least three years …
More: Ars Technica, Aqua, Security Affairs, TechRadar, The Hacker News, and Dark Reading
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches a Gen Z-focused redesign of Facebook, including a Local tab in 10 US cities, an Explore tab, and a full-screen video player in the Video tab — Facebook wants to woo more younger users to join its social network, instead of spending all their time on TikTok, Instagram, and other social apps.
More: The Verge, Meta, Engadget, Reuters, Bloomberg, and PhoneArena. Bluesky: @waxmonkey.bsky.social
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring 2025, will have Apple's first 5G modem, the iPhone 15's rear camera, and an A18 and 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence — Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced …
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| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016 — - Russian group Star Blizzard targeted civil society, US says — Group has conducted election influence operations in UK
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LinkedIn: Jeremy Dallman, Ben Johnson, and Amy Hogan-Burney
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model blames “a bug in the initial code for benchmarking”, after evaluators couldn't reproduce some claimed results — On September 5th, 2024, Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of the startup Hyperwrite AI (also known as OthersideAI) … | Lucy Craymer / Reuters: |
Google says it'll stop linking to news and drop its deals with outlets in New Zealand if the country passes a law forcing digital platforms to pay for content — Google said on Friday it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles and ditch the agreements it has with local news organisations …
More: Silicon Republic, Google New Zealand Blog, UPI, Business Standard, WinBuzzer, JURIST, NZ Herald, Associated Press, and RNZ
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