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CNBC:

The FTC and 17 US states sue Amazon for allegedly using monopoly power to keep its prices artificially high, push sellers to pay fees, and harm its rivals — - Amazon is facing its first set of antitrust charges from the U.S. federal government after the Federal Trade Commission filed …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google plans to shut down Google Podcasts “later in 2024”, moving its streaming listeners to YouTube Music, which will support US podcasts and RSS feeds by 2024 — Google announced this morning it will be shutting down its Google Podcasts app later in 2024 as part of its broader transition …

More: YouTube Official Blog, 9to5Google, Thurrott, Android Police, The Verge, BGR, OnMSFT.com, Digital Trends, Neowin, MSPoweruser, Variety, Android Headlines, Droid Life, and Chrome Unboxed

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Lisa O'Carroll / The Guardian:

First EU DSA report: Twitter had the highest disinformation rate in H1 2023, followed by Facebook; TikTok closed ~6M fake accounts; YouTube closed 400+ channels — Musk is told his platform, now known as X, must comply with new laws designed to combat fake news and Russian propaganda

More: Bloomberg, European Commission, TechCrunch, CNN, Gizmodo, Associated Press, European Commission, Deadline, Barron's Online, and Reuters

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Forums: r/UkraineWarVideoReport, r/news, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/LoveForUkraine, and r/europe

Bloomberg:

The CIA is planning to roll out a ChatGPT-style tool across the 18-agency US intelligence community to give analysts better access to intelligence — - Intelligence agency looking for ‘needles in the needle field’ — Program will help sift through huge amounts of available data

Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk:

Email: Chase bans crypto-linked payments for UK clients starting on October 16 as “fraudsters are increasingly using crypto assets to steal large sums of money” — Starting Oct. 16, the bank will decline customer attempts to make payments related to crypto assets via debit card or outgoing bank transfers.

More: Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, The Block, Finextra, Reuters, Watcher Guru, CNBC, Cybernews.com, Bitcoin News, Protos, Cryptopolitan, Cryptonews, UKTN, Cointelegraph, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoSlate, and Web3 is Going Just Great

Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @autismcapital. Forums: r/Buttcoin

New York Times:

More than half of the testimony given in the Google antitrust trial so far has been behind closed doors, due to a secrecy push from Google, Microsoft, and Apple — Efforts to seal testimony have increasingly raised questions as the federal antitrust case enters its third week in court.

More: Search Engine Land, The Verge, BIG by Matt Stoller, The Messenger, and AppleInsider

X: @matthewstoller and @jason_kint

Aaron Holmes / The Information:

Sources: Microsoft is developing “distilled”, smaller AI models for features like Bing Chat that cost less to operate and mimic OpenAI's more advanced models — Microsoft's push to put artificial intelligence into its software has hinged almost entirely on OpenAI …

More: The Verge. X: @benbajarin and @aaronpholmes. LinkedIn: Aaron Holmes

Bloomberg:

The US SEC objects to Coinbase's role in Celsius' plan to emerge from bankruptcy, saying the proposal goes “far beyond the services of a distribution agent” — - Regulator objects to Coinbase distribution agreements — Coinbase, Celsius each face separate lawsuits from the SEC

Brian Heater / TechCrunch:

Q&A with Apple execs Ron Huang and Eric Treski on AirPods Pro's Adaptive Audio, Conversational Awareness, Personalized Volume, faster device switching, and more — Ron Huang and Eric Treski discuss Adaptive Audio, Personalized Volume, Conversational Awareness and AirPods Pro 2's Vision Pro connectivity

More: iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and BGR

X: @tailosivetech and @snazzylabs

Elizabeth Pineau / Reuters:

Sources: French authorities received and are reviewing an iPhone 12 software update from Apple that is meant to defuse a row over the device's radiation levels — French authorities have received a software update from Apple (AAPL.O) for its iPhone 12 and are reviewing it …

More: AppleInsider, The Messenger, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, and Wccftech

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google:

Google Messages has been installed 5B+ times, after crossing 1B installations in May 2020 and becoming the default messaging app on most new Android devices — In the midst of Google's “#GetTheMessage” campaign, the company's own RCS/SMS/MMS app for Android, Google Messages, has now been installed over five billion times.

Steve Dent / Engadget:

DJI Mini 4 Pro review: lightweight, improved obstacle avoidance, great ActiveTrack 360 subject tracking, 4K at 60fps, but expensive at $760+ and not crashproof — Better range, tracking and crash protection, plus ultra slow mo 4K — Last year, DJI showed what was possible in a small drone …

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From Mediagazer

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

The firings of three Stars and Stripes journalists are on hold until September 4, when a judge set an injunction hearing to pause the firings during litigation

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:

SiriusXM will drop Howard Stern's Howard 101 channel while keeping Howard 100 as part of a programming shuffle to make room for Audacy sports radio stations

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:

Disney+ and The Pokémon Company announce a global distribution deal including a new Aardman stop-motion Pokémon series in 2027 and the classic animated series

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Khari Johnson / Wired:

Skydio debuts X10, an autonomous drone capable of mitigating high-speed police chases by flying at 45 mph and tracking people in the dark using infrared sensors

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

Series, which offers ERP-like tools, including for managing payroll and benefits, contract lifecycles, and treasuries, raised $25M across a Series A and a seed

More: TechStartups

Alexandra Garfinkle / Yahoo Finance:

Q&A with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on generative AI making developers more efficient and shortening software development cycles, managing AI's risks, and more

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

San Diego-based edge AI chipmaker Kneron raised a $49M Series B extension, after raising a $48M Series B in October 2022, bringing its total funding to $190M

More: DatacenterDynamics, CNBC, and Metaverse Post

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Valve announces SteamVR 2.0 in beta, with an updated keyboard, Steam Chat and Voice Chat integration, and an improved Store, after teasing the project in 2019

More: Steam Community, Blue's News, WinBuzzer, Dexerto, MIXED Reality News, PC Gamer, UploadVR, Neowin, and Road to VR

Financial Times:

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission plans to publish a list of crypto exchange license applicants in the wake of the JPEX crypto exchange probe

Balkan Insight:

Investigation: some stakeholders, like AI firms selling CSAM scanning tech, funded lobbying efforts for EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson's CSAM scanning proposal

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Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, and r/europe

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:

Email: YouTube plans to stop offering its ad-free €6.99/month Premium Lite tier after October 25, 2023, following a two year pilot in some European countries

More: Engadget, Thurrott, Android Police, Android Authority, ResetEra, Mashable, Neowin, Sammy Fans, Ghacks, Phandroid, PhoneArena, and 9to5Google

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Earlier Picks

Simon Sharwood / The Register:

Google plans to discontinue Gmail's Basic HTML version in January 2024, saying the view does not include “full Gmail feature functionality”

More: Gizmodo, The Verge, TechCrunch, Android Police, WebProNews, BetaNews, and ZDNet

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Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority:

Many users report that their iPhone 15 series devices, including the 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, get too hot to hold, especially during charging or prolonged use

CNBC:

Memos: Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith is stepping down on December 4 and retiring on January 2, set to be replaced by Amazon SVP of Devices and Services Dave Limp

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:

LG unveils the Gram Fold, its first foldable-screen laptop, weighing 2.76 lbs and arriving in South Korea on October 4 for ~$3,700 to rival Asus, Lenovo, and HP

More: TechEBlog, TechSpot, LG, Tabletmonkeys, CNET, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Engadget, TweakTown, Notebookcheck, and BigTechWire

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Leke Oso Alabi / Financial Times:

Gripped by worker shortages, some security companies are using robots developed by 1X, Knightscope, Ava Robotics, Ascento, and others to augment human labor

Kyle Wiens / iFixit News:

iPhone 15 Pro Max teardown: a redesigned frame helps with replacing the back glass, a tetraprism periscope lens, software lockdown makes repairs hard, and more

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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums

David Pierce / The Verge:

OpenAI updates ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Enterprise to let users prompt the tool using voice commands or by uploading an image, coming to all users “soon after”

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:

DeFi project Mixin Network suspends deposits and withdrawals after a hack involving $200M in crypto assets; SlowMist says Mixin's cloud provider was compromised