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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 …
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
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
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.
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
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.
Bloomberg:
Brazil's Supreme Court authorizes the return of X after the company complied with its demands, including taking down some accounts and appointing a legal rep  —  - Court banned platform in August as billionaire defied orders  — Social network had 22 million users in South American country
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.
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
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 …
New York Times:
How Withheld for Privacy and other proxy services that help domain operators shield their identities have turned Iceland into a global hub for illicit activity  —  A Reykjavik building that houses a penis museum and an H&M is also the virtual home to an array of perpetrators of identity theft, ransomware and disinformation.
Liana Baker / Bloomberg:
KKR-owned BMC Software plans to split: BMC for enterprise mainframes and BMC Helix for enterprise software; BMC will get ~66% of BMC Software's $2.3B in revenue  —  - Tech provider to become standalone firms BMC and BMC Helix  — BMC had pursued IPO at a valuation of up to $15 billion
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
MiniMax, ByteDance, and 01.ai are among a group of Chinese AI companies that have launched AI products overseas, particularly in the US, to boost revenue growth  —  MiniMax, ByteDance and 01.ai launch apps overseas to boost revenue growth  —  Chinese artificial intelligence start-ups …
Sarah Vowell / Washington Post:
A profile of the National Archives and Records Administration's Chief Innovation Officer Pamela Wright, who leads the agency's project to digitize 13B+ records  —  Sarah Vowell on the National Archives  —  “You had better remove the records,” Secretary of State James Monroe warned President …

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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
A look at the auction for the Oscars' TV rights, as sources say Netflix is out, NBCUniversal gains ground, and YouTube and ABC remain active bidders

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Earlier Picks

Kris Holt / Engadget:
Rockstar plans to bring Red Dead Redemption to PC, 14 years after its PS3 and Xbox 360 debut, via the Rockstar Store, Epic Games Store, and Steam on October 29
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
An era of politically motivated AI slop is here, exacerbating viral conspiracy theories and making a big impact after disasters, as in the US, Brazil, and Gaza
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
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