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October 12, 2023, 6:00 AM

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Reuters:
In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more  —  The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Letter: European regulator Thierry Breton urges Mark Zuckerberg to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation from Meta's platforms during the Israel-Hamas war  —  - European regulator Thierry Breton shared a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday urging the billionaire to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation.
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Jake Piazza / CNBC:
Microsoft receives Notices of Proposed Adjustment from the IRS for an additional $28.9B tax payment; Microsoft plans to appeal, a process expected to take years  —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at federal court on October 2, 2023 in Washington, DC.  Nadella is testifying …
Bloomberg:
US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says SBF asked her to make false balance sheets to hide debt, he considered offering FTX shares to the Saudi crown prince, and more  —  - Ellison takes witness stand for second day at SBF trial  — Ellison discusses mounting loans to Alameda Research
Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch:
US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says Alameda paid $100M to $150M in crypto transfers to Chinese officials to unfreeze its OKX and Huobi trading accounts, worth ~$1B  —  During the Sam Bankman-Fried trial on Wednesday, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison testified that the crypto trading …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Automattic expands ActivityPub support to WordPress.com hosted sites, letting blog owners reach 13.3M users across the fediverse, including Mastodon's 1.8M MAUs  —  Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse …
Tom Ivan / Video Games Chronicle:
Sony plans to launch PS5 game cloud streaming for PlayStation Plus Premium members in Japan on October 17, Europe on October 23, and North America on October 30  —  Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced plans to launch cloud streaming for PlayStation 5 this month.
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro review: useful, if troubling, AI photo editing tools, Face Unlock now works for payments, but the Tensor G3 runs hot occasionally  —  These might just be the Pixel phones we've been waiting for, but it all depends on how much trust you're willing to put into Google.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Gabe Bullard / Nieman Reports:
Internal memo: NPR lost a negligible amount of traffic in the six months since leaving Twitter, after the service labeled the outlet “US state-affiliated media”  —  The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn't worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft plans to deprecate VBScript and make the programming language an on-demand feature in future Windows releases before its eventual removal from the OS  —  Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed.

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