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Christopher Yasiejko / Bloomberg Law:
A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that Masimo's smartwatches infringed Apple Watch design patents; Apple sought statutory minimum damages  —  Apple Inc. v. Masimo Corp. (D. Del., 22-cv-1377)  —  Apple Inc. v. Masimo Corp. (D. Del., 22-cv-1378)  —  Search by Law Firm Search by Topic Search by Company
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: federal prosecutors are investigating Tether for possible violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering rules; US Treasury is considering sanctions  —  Authorities looking at possible violations of anti-money-laundering and sanctions rules  —  The federal government …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3M customers, and cost the carrier over $500M  —  Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) on Friday sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) in a Georgia state court after a global outage …
Associated Press:
Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary  —  Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Estimated Vision Pro 2024 sales are only slightly less than the reported peak production capacity, implying sales are almost in line with Apple's expectations  —  Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas — here's Techmeme's roundup of summaries and regurgitations) …
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Sources: Google is aiming to release its Gemini 2.0 model in December; the model isn't showing the performance gains the Demis Hassabis-led team had hoped for  —  The AI race is heating up just in time for winter.  —  As my colleagues Kylie Robison and Tom Warren reported …
New York Times:
Sources: Chinese hackers targeted data from phones of Trump and JD Vance, via a hack of Verizon systems; staff members of Harris' campaign were also targeted  —  The targeting of the Republican presidential ticket's phones is part of what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to gather information about American leaders.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
The US Copyright Office denies a request from video game preservationists to let libraries, archives, and museums lend games via remote access for study  —  When video game scholars want to study games that are no longer on sale, they sometimes have to drive hours to do it legally — and that won't be changing anytime soon.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple tested an app to help people with prediabetes manage their food intake and make lifestyle changes, as part of its push into blood-sugar features  —  - Company explores products that can counter diabetes epidemic  — Work comes as Apple makes progress on no-prick technology

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A new filing from Nexstar in the DirecTV lawsuit says the existing restraining order freezing the Nexstar-Tegna merger could jeopardize assets of both companies

Minho Kim / New York Times:
A US appeals court pauses a lower-court order that would have reinstated around 1,000 Voice of America journalists and staff who had been put on paid leave

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
TikTok partners with personalized video platform Cameo to allow creators in the US offer personalized video messages directly within the TikTok app

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David Morris / Bloomberg:
Chinese self-driving company WeRide's shares closed up 6.8% at $16.55, giving it a market cap of ~$4.5B, after raising $440.5M in a US IPO and private placement

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Christopher Beam / The Atlantic:
A profile of Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé whose Pirate Wires newsletter and podcast became popular among “anti-woke” tech figures since the “techlash”
IDC:
China smartphone shipments rose 3.2% YoY to 68.8M in Q3, with Vivo up 21.5% to an 18.6% market share, Apple down 0.3% to 15.6%, and Huawei up 42% to 15.3%
André Beganski / Decrypt:
Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Filing: Satya Nadella was paid $79.1M during the FY ending June 30, up from $48.5M YoY; compensation was reduced by $5M+ due to Microsoft's security issues
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
LinkedIn says it has verified 55M+ users for free, the most verified individual human identities of any social network, to combat AI-fueled misinformation
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