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Source: Microsoft plans to close its $68.7B Activision acquisition on October 13, with a final decision from UK's CMA allowing the deal expected next week — Microsoft is planning to finalize its $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard next week.
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Sources: OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and has evaluated a potential acquisition target; Sam Altman made acquiring more AI chips a top priority — OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is exploring making its own artificial intelligence chips and has gone as far as evaluating …
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| Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: MGM Resorts refused to pay hackers' ransom in the September cyberattack; filing: MGM says the hack will have a $100M negative impact on its Q3 earnings — Fallout will have a $100 million negative impact on quarterly earnings, Las Vegas-based company says| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
Source: Linda Yaccarino told the banks that funded Elon Musk's Twitter takeover that X is testing three premium service tiers that vary how many ads are shown — - CEO Linda Yaccarino discusses plan in briefing to lenders — X advertisers have been returning, but with smaller budgets
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Sony notifies 6,791 US individuals, including current and former employees and their family members, that a MOVEit Transfer data breach on May 28 affected them — Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) has notified current and former employees and their family members about a cybersecurity breach that exposed personal information.
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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Some 4chan users are running a coordinated campaign to flood the internet with racist images created using Bing's text-to-image generator powered by DALL-E 3 — 4chan users are coordinating a posting campaign where they use Bing's AI text-to-image generator to create racist images that they can then post across the internet.
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| RT Watson / The Block: |
Elliptic: total value of crypto laundered via decentralized exchanges, bridges, and coin swaps hits $7B; Lazarus Group was the top culprit, laundering $900M+ — - Elliptic's new report shows $7 billion was laundered through decentralized exchanges (DEXs), cross-chain bridges and coin swaps.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Report: the US DHS finds that ICE, CBP, and the Secret Service illegally used phone location data; a CBP official tracked coworkers for no investigative purpose — In a bombshell report, an oversight body for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement … | Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: |
Filing: the US SEC sues Elon Musk to force him to testify in its probe into his Twitter takeover in 2022, after Musk failed to appear for testimony in September — - Agency says that billionaire failed to appear last month — Musk attorney says that his client testified multiple times
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Getty Images' Craig Peters on the company's generative AI tool, copyright issues, attribution for rights holders, deepfakes, disinformation, and more — Getty's entire brand is built on authenticity. CEO Craig Peters sat down with us at Code to talk about how the company is dealing with AI and disinformation.
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| Knight First Amendment Institute: |
Former Facebook policy staff detail their experience with “jawboning”, or informal government efforts to persuade platforms to change their moderation policies — Dispatches from two former tech platform employees. — A research initiative studying governmental efforts …
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| Javier Paz / Forbes: |
Analysis: Binance transferred just ~10.78M BNB tokens in its 2017 ICO vs. the 100M earmarked, and quietly gave angel investors 40M BNBs, double their allocation — The mythology surrounding the rise of the world's largest crypto exchange is impressive. However, a Forbes investigation reveals …
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