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Australia sues Microsoft for allegedly misleading ~2.7M Microsoft 365 users into accepting a price hike for Copilot plans while hiding cheaper non-AI options — - Microsoft 365 personal plan price increased by 45% — Cheaper ‘classic’ plan only revealed during cancellation process
More: Australian Competition …, ABC, Computerworld, eWeek, BonTech Labs, The Register, ITPro, TechRadar, Neowin, Capacity, Decrypt, The Economic Times, Windows Report, Livemint, The Guardian, Information Age, WinBuzzer, XDA Developers, Sydney Morning Herald, iTnews, Tech Times, Dow Jones Newswires, Benzinga, Cyber Daily, 9News, Capital Brief, and Mediaweek
X: @accan_au, @wavesblog, @acccgovau, @consumer_action, and @mumbletwits
Bluesky: @richardtroupe, @joshtaylor, @eliseswritings, @yungenchee, @magnificom, @picketer, @jilldlawrence, @rewhan, @kels316, @raymondwilton, and @leanneveronica
Mastodon: @brucelawson@social …, @NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net, and @b9AcE@todon.eu
Forums: r/BuyFromEU, r/assholedesign, r/BetterOffline, r/australia, and r/technology
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Employees are increasingly using AI to create ultra-realistic fake expense receipts; AppZen and others attribute the rise to advances in image generation models — Business software groups warn that top AI models are increasingly being used to create ultra-realistic fake receipts
More: TechRadar, COINOTAG NEWS, and PYMNTS.com
| Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: |
The US DOJ's rigged-poker-game indictment involved hacking DeckMate, a casino-standard, suitcase-sized, $10K+ card shuffling machine, to reveal players' hands — The rigged-poker-game indictment unveiled on Thursday reads like a Hollywood heist film, featuring NBA stars and famous Mafia crime families.
More: Wired, US Department of Justice, Risky Business, ~this week in security~, and Chicago Tribune
X: @fbi and @emircrowne
| Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia: |
In Vietnam, 65 countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite tech companies' and activists' privacy and security concerns — HO CHI MINH CITY — Under a new United Nations treaty, 65 countries have agreed to fight cybercrime, including by sharing data … | Will McCurdy / PCMag: |
X plans to retire the Twitter.com domain, prompting users to re-enroll their security keys for 2FA, and will lock accounts that are not updated by November 10 — If you're using a hardware security key as your two-factor authentication (2FA) method on X, you'll need to re-enroll by Nov. 10 or your account will be locked.
More: 9to5Mac, Hackread, and Forbes
X: @safety, @safety, @marc0zane, @nathanmcnulty, @dinodaizovi, @itsreallynick, @icesolst, and @safety
| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant, including putting OpenAI-related losses into a $4.7B “other, net” expense line in the FY ended June 30 — Company's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant. That is no longer tenable. — How long can Microsoft expect investors …
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, Benzinga, and Techstrong.ai
| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is finalizing $350M in funding led by Felicis at a $10B valuation; founded in 2023, Mercor manages 30K contractors — Founded in 2023 by three college dropouts, Mercor recruits humans to train chatbots, a new industry gold mine| Financial Times: |
Sources: JPMorgan Chase is giving staff the option to use its in-house LLM to write year-end performance reviews, a shortcut to the often painstaking process — Move allows employees to use bank's large language model to generate reviews from their own prompts
X: @rakeshsfnyc
| Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
Indonesia and other developing countries are becoming AI hubs amid the multitrillion-dollar spending boom, in part driven by an “AI decolonization” philosophy — As part of ‘AI decolonization,’ developing nations push Silicon Valley to build locally — JAKARTA, Indonesia—Tap water isn't drinkable.
Bluesky: @justinhendrix
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump and Xi will “consummate” a TikTok deal on October 30 in South Korea, confirming a final US-China deal on the sale — The United States and China are ready to move forward on a TikTok deal, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
More: CBS News, Atlantic Council, Fortune, Tech in Asia, Social Media Today, Tech Times, TRT World, UPI, The Information, Gizmodo, WUSA, Anadolu Ajansı …, New York Times, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, The Guardian, The Post Millennial, Newsmax, New York Post, and Daily Mail
X: @marionawfal, @medicalquack, @sjronanmd, @richsementa, @mockingsfvalues, @robthemarket, @skupor, @kingoffreetime, @newworldman_361, and @facethenation
Bluesky: @sanho, @pedrick46, @rebeccafachner, @revrecluse, @sueinnovates, @davejustdave, @coachfinstock, @justinling.ca, and @hunterwalk.com. Forums: r/NowInTech
| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
IBM launches Digital Asset Haven, a digital assets platform built with crypto wallet provider Dfns for financial institutions, governments, and companies — International Business Machines Corp. is launching a digital assets platform to allow financial institutions, governments and companies …
More: IBM
| Kat Tenbarge / Wired: |
Real estate agents are using AI tools like AutoReel to replace videographers and stagers, cutting costs but generating distorted or misleading property images — Fake video walk-throughs, a magically expanding loft, and stair hallucinations are just some of the new AI-generated features house hunters are coming across.| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
Japanese fintech JPYC launches a yen-pegged stablecoin, the country's first, and its issuance platform JPYC EX, targeting $65.4B in circulation in three years — - JPYC Inc. said today it launched the country's first legally recognized yen-backed stablecoin.| Reuters: |
Papers, patents, and tenders show China's military is integrating DeepSeek and Qwen models in weapons like AI-powered drones, and continues to use Nvidia chips — - PLA entities research using AI for autonomous target recognition and battlefield decision support, documents showSponsor Posts
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