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Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T  —  - Connor Moucka taken into custody on provisional arrest warrant  — Stolen logins used to access Snowflake customer accounts
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024  —  In the run up to the high-stakes 2024 presidential election, Elon Musk has posted a blizzard of false and misleading claims …
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $1.8B, net profit down 69% YoY to ~$182.5M, and lowers its FY 2025 Switch sales forecast to 12.5M from 13.5M  —  Nintendo on Tuesday cut forecast for Switch sales for its fiscal year ending March 2025 as demand wanes for its ageing console.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is exploring a push into smart glasses by conducting an internal study, codenamed Atlas, to gather employee feedback on products on the market  —  - Company's hardware division is researching idea with employees  — Move signals that Apple aims to follow Meta into new category
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says his offer to help the NYT was “to provide technical infra support” and “not to replace journalists or engineers”  —  The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”  —  Wikipedia is facing mounting regulatory pressure in India as local authorities question whether the platform …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
iOS 18.2's second developer beta shows a “daily limit” for free access to “advanced” ChatGPT via Siri and an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus in Settings  —  With the second beta of iOS 18.2 that's available for developers today, Apple has further fleshed out the ChatGPT integration that's available with Siri.
Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering  —  Investigators searched the offices of U.S. streaming giant Netflix (NFLX.O) in France and the Netherlands as part …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of AR glasses from March 2022 to July 2024 and oversaw Orion, joins OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware  —  Meta's former head of augmented reality glasses announced on Monday she is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware, according to a post on LinkedIn.
Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA says it would approve the £15B Vodafone-Three merger if they commit to investing £11B to upgrade the UK's network, ahead of a December 7 decision  —  - CMA calls for short term protections to prevent price hikes  —  The £15 billion ($19.5 billion) …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
SemiAnalysis: in a first, AMD overtook Intel in data center revenue in Q3 2024; AMD hit $3.55B, above Intel's $3.3B revenue, which is down from $6B+ in Q1 2022  —  But both fall far behind sales of Nvidia's AI GPUs.  —  For well more than two decades, Intel has been the undisputed leader in the market for datacenter CPUs.

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Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
Sources: Nexstar has begun directing stations to fill local newscasts with segments from Nexstar's NewsNation instead of national networks' content like NBC's

Oli Coleman / Page Six:
Source: The Athletic is investigating reporter Dianna Russini's explanation about photos of her with NFL coach Mike Vrabel and “reviewing her coverage”

Wall Street Journal:
Mubi, which raised $100M led by Sequoia in 2025, faced backlash over Sequoia's ties to Israeli defense tech startups, but has since rebuilt subscriber numbers

More News

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta informs ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after the polls close
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Robinhood, Kraken, and others unveil the Global Dollar Network to accelerate stablecoin usage and launch USDG, a Paxos-issued stablecoin pegged to the US dollar
NBC News:
A judge denies Philadelphia DA's emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk's America PAC ahead of the US election

Earlier Picks

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US
Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 30% YoY to $725.5M, vs. $701.1M est., and raises 2024 revenue forecast again on robust AI adoption; PLTR jumps 20%+
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it's unreliable for short queries containing just a few words, meaning it's far from being a “Google killer”
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku at $1 per million input tokens, up 4x from Claude 3.0 Haiku's ¢25 per million tokens, and without image analysis features
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix plans to delist nearly all of its interactive shows and films as of December 1 saying the tech “served its purpose”, after launching the format in 2017
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta confirms it has made Llama models available for US national security applications, with partners like Anduril, Booz Allen, and Lockheed Martin using Llama
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware:
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 review: the new $60 screen is easy to build, works with the latest OS, and holds the Pi on its back, but scrolling can be awkward
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