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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US DOJ lays out “behavioral and structural remedies”, including a breakup, for the federal judge to consider in the Google Search antitrust case  —  - Antitrust officials also mull making Google share search data  — Justice Department proposes multiple options in historic case
Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google says the US DOJ's “radical and sweeping proposals” in the Search antitrust case risk “hurting” consumers, businesses, developers, and US competitiveness  —  The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today shared a broad outline of radical changes it may demand as part …
Financial Times:
The US DOJ's quest to end Google's long-standing dominance remains the stuff of fantasy, as whatever the courts may order, any real reckoning will take years  —  A world where the tech giant gets dismantled is more plausible than it was, but investors have reason to be unfazed
Bloomberg:
The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”  —  - Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award  — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins
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
Joel Khalili / Wired:
HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery says Peter Todd, known for his Bitcoin codebase contributions, is Satoshi Nakamoto, a claim Todd denies  —  A new HBO documentary takes a swing at uncovering the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin.
Reuters:
Turkey blocks access to Discord following a court decision over sufficient suspicion that some users had committed crimes of “child sexual abuse and obscenity”  —  Turkey has blocked access to instant messaging platform Discord following a court decision, the country's infotech regulator said on Wednesday.
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
MediaTek unveils its 3nm Dimensity 9400 mobile SoC, featuring a CPU with eight “Big” cores and its eighth-gen NPU, claiming “80% faster LLM prompt performance”  —  MediaTek has formally announced its new flagship mobile chipset, the Dimensity 9400.
Associated Press:
The All England Club says AI will make “out” and “fault” calls at the Wimbledon tennis championships starting in 2025, replacing line judges, after a 2024 test  —  That long-held Wimbledon tradition of line judges dressed in elegant uniforms is no more.
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft issues Surface Duo 2's final security update ahead of its October 21 end of support; the Duo 2, released in October 2021, got one major Android update  —  Microsoft has issued the final security update for Surface Duo 2 ahead of its end of support date on October 21.
Laura Dobberstein / The Register:
OpenAI says Singapore will serve as its APAC hub and appoints Oliver Jay, who served as Asana's Chief Revenue Officer, to lead its international expansion  —  Picks Singapore as APAC hub and outlines desire to get governments onside  —  Chat GPT-maker Open AI announced today that it's appointed …
Washington Post:
ISD: top officials in NC and at FEMA responding to Hurricane Helene face antisemitic attacks largely on X, where 10 of the posts collectively drew 17.1M views  —  Report finds Elon Musk's X is fueling conspiracy theories that risk undermining rescue efforts and preparations for Hurricane Milton.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
The Biden-Harris administration launches a White House account on Reddit for news and info about federal government work; the first posts cover Hurricane Helene

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