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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 …
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Amazon receives FAA approval to fly its newer, smaller delivery drones, including beyond pilots' line of sight, and aims to ramp up deliveries near Phoenix — Amazon said Tuesday it received regulatory approval to begin flying a smaller, quieter version of its delivery drone …
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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.| 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 … | 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 …
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In its annual report, Apple warns of future products perhaps never exceeding the iPhone's profitability, “geopolitical tensions”, and AI features' safety risks — Apple has warned investors that future products may never be as profitable as its iPhone business …
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Polymarket confirms paying US-based influencers, including large Instagram meme accounts, to promote election betting despite being banned in the US — - Content creators contacted by Polymarket's growth director — US audience targeted with ads despite ban on trade in US
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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 … | 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
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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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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) …
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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.
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