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September 20, 2024, 9:55 AM

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Bloomberg:
Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft data centers  —  Constellation to invest $1.6 billion to restart dormant reactor as data-center power demand surges.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
macOS 15 Sequoia appears to have broken security tools made by CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft, and others; CrowdStrike had to delay support for Sequoia  —  On Monday, Apple released its latest computer operating system update called macOS 15, or Sequoia.
Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Firewalk, the studio behind the PlayStation flop, is left in limbo, with some staffers expecting mass layoffs  —  Ryan Ellis was the hero shooter's game director at Firewalk Studios  —  It's been two weeks since Sony announced it was taking …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
A look at the two “specification proceedings” that the EU has opened on Apple under the DMA, instructing Apple on how to comply with interoperability provisions  —  The European Union has opened two “specification proceedings” on Apple under the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA) …
Julia King / Fierce Network:
Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into the radio access network and could allow telcos to run third-party AI apps at the network's edge  —  - Nvidia thinks that AI could be the answer to the very problems it is causing  — AI-RAN will leverage billions of data points …
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: Disney plans to stop using Slack in most units by the end of 2024, after a hacking group leaked 1TB+ of its data, including 44M Slack messages, in July  —  The company said in a memo that most of its businesses would stop using the tool by the end of this year
Vishal Chawla / The Block:
Singapore-based crypto exchange BingX suffered a security hack on its hot wallet, resulting in a “minor” loss; PeckShield: the loss was $43M in cryptocurrencies  —  - BingX suffered an apparent security exploit on its hot wallet.  — Security analysts at PeckShield estimated …

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