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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Epic v. Google: a US judge orders Google to open the Play Store to rivals from November 1 for three years, distribute third-party stores within Play, and more — Google's Android app store is an illegal monopoly — and now it will have to change. … Google will have to distribute rival …
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| Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword: |
Google says it will appeal the Epic Games verdict, as “Apple and Android clearly compete” and the ruling will cause “unintended consequences” for US consumers — The Epic verdict missed the obvious: Apple and Android clearly compete.
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| Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg: |
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for “foundational discoveries” in machine learning — - John J. Hopfield, Geoffrey E. Hinton worked on neural networks — Their work laid foundations for machine leaning and AI
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| Reuters: |
Samsung estimates Q3 operating profit up 274% YoY to ~$6.78B, falling short of analysts' estimates of ~$7.66B, as it lags rivals in the booming AI chip market — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) estimated on Tuesday its third-quarter operating profit jumped 274%, but that was short … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Two Russian YouTube channels posted videos of an alleged new 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro base model, in what could be the worst Apple product leak since the iPhone 4 — Alleged photos and videos of an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip continue to surface on social media …
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| Bloomberg: |
A US bankruptcy judge approves repaying FTX customers, and FTX is in talks over $1B in seized US assets; in June 2024, FTX had $12.6B, which may rise to $16.5B — - FTX judge approves plan to distribute at least $12.6 billion — Company in talks over $1 billion seized by prosecutors
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Experts have long warned “secure backdoor” systems are impossible; Salt Typhoon's reported hack of US ISPs' wiretap systems exemplifies the risks of backdoors — News broke this weekend that China-backed hackers have compromised the wiretap systems of several U.S. telecom and internet providers …
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| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Saudi Arabia's PIF sold ~17.3M Nintendo shares from August 21 to October 1, lowering its stake to 7.54%; on September 26, an exec said PIF may buy more — - PIF had cut stake in games company over six weeks on market — Wealth fund presented itself as long-term investor in content
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
MoneyGram says hackers “accessed and acquired” some customers' personal and transaction data, including SSNs, during a cyberattack between September 20 and 22 — U.S. money transfer giant MoneyGram has confirmed that hackers stole its customers' personal information and transaction data during a cyberattack last month.| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company plans to build a plant in Mexico's Guadalajara to make Nvidia GB200 Blackwell AI servers, as tech decouples from China — Decision to base plant in Guadalajara shows ‘nearshoring’ of supply chains away from China — Electronics manufacturing group Foxconn … | Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
Dublin-based Appeals Centre, backed by Meta's Oversight Board, launches to moderate disputes between EU users and Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube under the DSA — Social media users in the European Union will be able to make complaints against Facebook, ByteDance's TikTok and Alphabet's …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers cloud-based AMD MI300X chips for AI workloads, raised $43M led by Nexus VP at a $100M post-money valuation — Chipmaker Nvidia notched $30 billion in revenue last fiscal quarter, driven in large part by the AI industry's insatiable demand for GPUs.
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