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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, Windows Central, The Register, Computerworld, eWeek, BonTech Labs, Implicator.ai, The Guardian, Neowin, ITPro, TechRadar, Decrypt, Windows Report, XDA Developers, Capacity, Tech Times, Dow Jones Newswires, Information Age, Benzinga, iTnews, Livemint, Sydney Morning Herald, The Economic Times, Cyber Daily, 9News, Capital Brief, and Mediaweek
X: @acccgovau, @accan_au, @consumer_action, @wavesblog, and @mumbletwits
Bluesky: @richardtroupe, @magnificom, @picketer, @rewhan, @raymondwilton, @kels316, @eliseswritings, @yungenchee, @jilldlawrence, @joshtaylor, and @leanneveronica
Mastodon: @brucelawson@social …, @NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net, and @b9AcE@todon.eu
Forums: r/BuyFromEU, r/assholedesign, r/BetterOffline, r/australia, and r/technology
| 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, Moneycontrol, The Register, Macworld, Hackread, and Forbes
X: @safety, @safety, @safety, @marc0zane, @nathanmcnulty, @dinodaizovi, @itsreallynick, and @icesolst
| 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 … | 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.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm unveils two AI chips, the AI200, set for 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, based on its Hexagon NPUs, and says Humain is the first customer — Qualcomm announced Monday that it will release new artificial intelligence accelerator chips, marking new competition for Nvidia …
More: Bloomberg, HotHardware, Qualcomm, Axios, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, and Yahoo Finance
| 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
| 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, Tom's Hardware, Bloomberg, Implicator.ai, 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
More: Tech Funding News
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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
| 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, CNBC, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, The Guardian, Tech in Asia, Tech Times, Fortune, TRT World, Anadolu Ajansı …, UPI, The Information, Gizmodo, WUSA, New York Times, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, The Post Millennial, Newsmax, New York Post, and Daily Mail
X: @mockingsfvalues, @marionawfal, @medicalquack, @robthemarket, @skupor, @kingoffreetime, @newworldman_361, @facethenation, @sjronanmd, and @richsementa
Bluesky: @sanho, @pedrick46, @rebeccafachner, @revrecluse, @sueinnovates, @davejustdave, @coachfinstock, @justinling.ca, and @hunterwalk.com
Forums: r/NowInTech and r/news
| 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
| Marc Hogan / New York Times: |
A look at Live Nation's Setlist.fm, a wiki-like site with 80M annual users that changed live music by letting users document songs that artists play at concerts — Live music used to be a guessing game. Concert times were posted, but exactly when the headlining performers would take the stage … | 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 show
Forums: r/neoliberal
| New York Times: |
How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle — In northwest Saudi Arabia near the Red Sea, a planned $5 billion data center would provide enough computing muscle for coders … Sponsor Posts
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