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Kylie Robison / The Verge:
A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the company's first AR glasses, a cheaper Quest 3S headset, new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, and more are expected  —  Over the past year, Meta has made a big push to integrate AI features into the platforms it owns: whether it be through its ChatGPT rival …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+  —  Meta finally announced the very heavily leaked Quest 3S VR headset, and the leaks were right: it's a $299.99 headset that looks like a mix of the Quest 2 and Quest 3.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta says Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud with celebrity voices and is piloting a tool to automatically translate voices in Instagram Reels
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Google files an EU antitrust complaint alleging Microsoft engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers' reliance on products like Windows  —  Search giant seeks antitrust probe of Big Tech rival over dominance of Azure platform
Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing it of tracking Firefox users on websites without consent  —  Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Sony announces seven more games that the $700 PS5 Pro, arriving November 7, will enhance via AI-powered “PSSR” upscaling, taking the total to 20 Enhanced games  —  Sony has just revealed seven additional games that'll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed.
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
A look at Caroline Ellison's motivations in the FTX fraud, including her relationship with SBF; the judge said he had “never seen” a cooperator like Ellison  —  The story of Sam Bankman-Fried was obvious enough: a Shakespearean level of arrogance that led to tragedy.
Brady Dale / Axios:
Caroline Ellison, a key witness in prosecuting FTX cofounder and ex-boyfriend Sam Bankman-Fried, is sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the scandal
David Lumb / CNET:
Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones  —  The new models are small enough to assist in tasks on people's phones... and potentially smaller accessories, too.
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
X releases its first transparency report since Elon Musk took over; X took action on 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021  —  In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps  —  Anyone who works at a computer for eight-plus hours a day will likely know that the amount of tools and “context switching” required to stay productive can be overwhelming.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent a C&D letter on September 23  —  The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
How a security researcher used a now-fixed flaw to store false memories in ChatGPT via indirect prompt injection to exfiltrate all user input in perpetuity  —  Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories.  —  When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported …
Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg:
US federal court records: the DOJ has been investigating SAP, Carahsoft, and others for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies over a decade  —  - DOJ investigating billions in purchases from SAP over a decade  — Other companies under scrutiny in civil False Claims Act probe
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Book excerpt: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the video game industry's unstoppable pair, had a falling out from 2013  —  Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime were the video game industry's unstoppable pair, until they fought each other.  An excerpt from the new book Play Nice.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records; Threads.com was owned by a Slack alternative startup acquired by Shopify in June  —  Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records of the URL that were updated on September 24.
Tim Starks / CyberScoop:
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers  —  House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Meta updates Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with new features, including real-time AI video processing, live translation, QR code scanning, and Audible integration  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced updates to the company's Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday.
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to integrate Samsung's SmartThings IoT platform with future car infotainment systems developed by Hyundai and Kia  —  Samsung and fellow South Korean giants Kia and Hyundai have struck up an IoT alliance that will see cars drive home appliances …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70

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Will Knight / Wired:
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Earlier Picks

Reece Rogers / Wired:
An interview with Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor on their new book AI Snake Oil, which is based on their popular newsletter about AI's shortcomings
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
AI's first wave of successful implementation will probably look more like the first wave of computing, which was led by enterprise installations that cut jobs
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, brings Street View to four new locations, and sharpens Google Earth and Maps satellite imagery
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
SAG-AFTRA calls a strike against League of Legends, formerly strike exempt, filing an NLRB complaint and saying Formosa Interactive also refuses “fair AI terms”
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