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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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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| 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.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out a new version of Microsoft Teams, in preview since March 2023, rebuilt from the ground up to be less resource-hungry on Windows and macOS — Microsoft is rolling out a new and improved version of its Microsoft Teams chat client today.| 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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| Natalie Korach / The Wrap: |
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| Shawn Tully / Fortune: |
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| Bryant Francis / Game Developer: |
Epic Games plans an Unreal Engine per-seat licensing fee for non-gaming sectors like film and TV; Tim Sweeney says “financial problems” hit Epic ~10 weeks ago — A week after laying off almost 900 employees, Epic Games announced that it's increasing the price to use Unreal Engine …
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X: @zekefreek. LinkedIn: Abolfazl Tanha. Forums: r/Games, r/gamingnews, r/fuckepic, r/pcgaming, and Slashdot
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: in 2018 and 2019, Apple and DuckDuckGo talked changing Safari private mode's default search engine; an Apple exec said it's “probably a bad idea” — - DuckDuckGo spoke with Apple about 20 times on possible change — Apple exec testified he viewed it as ‘probably a bad idea’
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X: @sarthakgh, @adamkovac, @newsynick, @bigtechontrial, @hillitech, @jason_kint, and @leah_nylen. Forums: r/technology
| Reuters: |
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 … | Fortune: |
Q&A with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati about joining OpenAI, copyright challenges, AI regulation, competition, safety challenges, DALL-E 3, the future of AI, and more — Murati talks with Fortune about the ultra-high stakes in the generative AI revolution. — Mere moments before Mira Murati … | New York Times: |
How Nvidia, Intel, and Qualcomm are pushing back against the Biden administration's plans for further crackdowns on their sales of semiconductor tech to China — Nvidia, Intel and Qualcomm are campaigning to protect their businesses before further crackdowns on the sale of semiconductor technology to Beijing.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy SmartTag 2, with a revamped design, Bluetooth, UWB, and still compatible only with Samsung devices, available on October 10 for $30 — As the smart tracker market waits for Google to shake things up on the Android side of things, Samsung has today unveiled the Galaxy SmartTag 2 … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The CMA opens an investigation into the supply of public cloud infrastructure services in the UK with the deadline of April 4, 2025, following Ofcom's referral — The clouds are gathering over Microsoft's Azure operations in the EU and now the UK, with the launch of a new investigation …
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X: @cmagovuk, @mark_wharrier, @tomwarren, @maxvonthun, @mikarv, and @wavesblog
LinkedIn: Gary Shewan and Simon Bollans
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
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X: @ofcom, @tboormantony, @ofcom, @ryan_browne_, and @arjunkharpal
| Liz Young / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Flexport plans to lay off up to 30% of its workforce around the end of October, after a sharp revenue drop and cutting ~20% of its staff in January 2023 — The second round of staff cuts at the freight forwarder this year comes as global shipping demand is declining
More: SiliconANGLE and The Information
| 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 — A bombshell government report also found that a CBP official used the data to track coworkers with no investigative purpose.
X: @josephfcox
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