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October 9, 2024, 10:35 PM

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CoinDesk:
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 …
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 …
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
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
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
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:
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 …
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.
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 …
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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