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US prosecutors charge four purported crypto market makers, a handful of crypto projects, and over a dozen individuals with manipulating various crypto markets — Gotbit, CLS Global, MyTrade, and ZM Quant were secretly offering market manipulation services to projects that wanted …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9 — Internet Archive's “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole …
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Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange. X: @brewster_kahle, @brewster_kahle, @haveibeenpwned, @troyhunt, @clancynewyork, and @in_marxist
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Filing: the US DOJ lays out “behavioral and structural remedies”, including a breakup, for the federal judge to consider in the Google Search antitrust case — - Antitrust officials also mull making Google share search data — Justice Department proposes multiple options in historic case
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| Reuters: |
FTC: Marriott agrees to pay a $52M penalty to 49 states and DC to resolve data security allegations, and, in another settlement, agrees to a new infosec program — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it will require Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dan Riccio, Apple's Vision Pro chief and former SVP of hardware engineering, is leaving in October; the Vision Pro team will now report to John Ternus — - Headset group will be overseen by hardware leader John Ternus — The retiring executive had worked at Apple for over 26 years
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Amazon announces AI Shopping Guides, which show AI-generated descriptions and recommendations for 100+ product types on its US mobile website and in its US app — Amazon feeds its large language models vast quantities of retail data. It says its AI agents might someday be smart enough to buy you stuff without you even having to ask.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
| Bloomberg: |
The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction” — - Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins
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| Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post: |
Russia's Roskomnadzor bans Discord, drawing ire from the Russian military, which has extensively used the app to coordinate units on the battlefield in Ukraine — The ban has also renewed a wider debate about how Russia's bureaucratic machine keeps frustrating the military effort.| Reuters: |
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X: @mervenoyann and @carl_dong
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Some Threads and Instagram users say their accounts are being deleted or restricted due to moderation failures; Adam Mosseri says he's “looking into it” — On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending. Some users complain their accounts are being deleted …
More: Social Media Today, Gadgets 360, and Absolute Geeks
Threads: @kylie.robison, @mosseri, @wario64, @tomwarrenuk, @karissabe, @georgebetak, @personality_of_colt, @renee.diresta, @bluesky_social, @georgescriban, @shayan86bbc, @bluesky_social, @mattnavarra, @tomwarrenuk, @bluesky_social, @ckt_bkr, @josh.bellwilson, @willoremus, @maryocontrary, @guillecummings, @nickrmartin, @mattnavarra, @thebrianpenny, @laura_brianna, @jendiagammon, @mattnavarra, @saramontourlewis, @dino.luck, @stuartathompsonnyt, @mattnavarra, and @mattnavarra
Bluesky: @wagatwe.com, @o.simardcasanova.net, @janetcivitelli.bsky.social, @serrata.org, @krisrabberman.bsky.social, @wagatwe.com, and @batsandwires.bsky.social. X: @evacide. Forums: Hacker News
| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
Meta rolls out Meta AI in six more countries, plans to add 15 more countries over the coming weeks, and adds it to its Ray-Ban glasses in Australia and the UK — 15 more countries will get access over the coming weeks. — Meta AI is beginning a big international rollout.
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Florida-based data broker National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admitting an August 2024 leak of SSNs may impact “hundreds of millions” of people — In court documents, National Public Data concedes the breach may impact ‘hundreds of millions’ of people and that state prosecutors across … | Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to restructure as a public benefit corporation to defend itself from hostile takeovers and protect Sam Altman from outsider interference — ChatGPT maker considers largely untested company model to protect chief executive Sam Altman from outside interference| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
X updates its Creator Revenue Sharing program to pay creators based on engagement with their content from Premium users, not how many see ads in their replies — X is making a big change to how creators can earn money from the platform. Since last year, X has shared ad revenue with creators based …
More: TechCrunch, Social Media Today, and Mashable
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Docs: OpenAI's projections suggest it won't turn a profit until 2029, when its revenue would hit $100B; losses could hit $14B in 2026, nearly 3x its 2024 losses — OpenAI's newest investors have signed up for a bumpy and expensive ride. The company's projections suggest it won't turn a profit until 2029 … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Zoom plans to launch a feature in 2025 that lets users create an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar with a head and arms from a video they record of themselves — Zoom wants to turn you into an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar — but not until sometime next year.
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| Natalie Alms / Nextgov/FCW: |
The US GSA says Login.gov is opening up its face recognition capabilities, which compare a live selfie with the photo on a photo ID, to government agencies — Agencies using the government-created service will have the option to incorporate new face-matching capabilities or stick with existing offerings.Sponsor Posts
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