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Elon Musk's lawyers claim in a Pennsylvania court that the $1M/day giveaway to registered voters, which Musk said multiple times is "random", is not a lottery (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

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The US NLRB alleges Grindr illegally imposed a return-to-office policy last year forcing out ~80 of its 178 staffers in an attempt to thwart a unionization push (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)

The US NLRB alleges Grindr illegally imposed a ret...

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Netflix plans to delist nearly all of its interactive shows and films as of December 1 saying the tech "served its purpose", after launching the format in 2017 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Meta confirms it has made Llama models available for US national security applications, with partners like Anduril, Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin using Llama AI (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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The Times Tech Guild, representing 600+ NYT devs, data analysts, and more, goes on strike ahead of the US election; management offered a 2.5% annual wage rise (Katie Robertson/New York Times)

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How hackers used infostealer malware to breach AT&T, Ticketmaster, Santander, EA, and more, as global law enforcement tries to shut down the growing industry (Joseph Cox/Wired)

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Q&A with GM SVP Baris Cetinok on having a "high conviction" that ditching CarPlay and Android Auto is the right call, building autonomous cars, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with GM SVP Baris Cetinok on having a "high co...

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Meta plans to use its AI-based "adult classifier" tool to identify young Instagram users who are lying about their age and automatically switch privacy settings (Bloomberg)

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Sources: as US rules bite, US chip toolmakers tell suppliers that they need alternatives to Chinese products and that suppliers can't have Chinese investors (Wall Street Journal)

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Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 review: the new $60 screen is easy to build, works with the latest OS, and holds the Pi on its back, but scrolling can be awkward (Les Pounder/Tom's Hardware)

Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 review: the new $60 s...

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Physical Intelligence, which plans to use AI to create brains for robots, raised $400M led by Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital, and Lux Capital at a $2B valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

Physical Intelligence, which plans to use AI to cr...

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Sources: Meta's plans to build a US nuclear-powered AI data center were thwarted in part after a rare bee species was found on land earmarked for the project (Financial Times)

Sources: Meta's plans to build a US nuclear-powere...

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An analysis of 50 Telegram "election integrity" channels with 500K+ users finds disinformation, conspiracy theories, and violent imagery before the US election (New York Times)

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Shenzhen-based autonomous driving startup DeepRoute.ai raised $100M from an unnamed Chinese automaker, and plans to launch 10+ models with clients in 2025 (Reuters)

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Blackstone, Pimco, Carlyle, BlackRock, and others have loaned $11B+ to CoreWeave, Crusoe, and other "neocloud" companies, creating a lucrative new debt market (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

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An analysis of 800 US adults' TikTok feeds: female users received ~11% more content about Harris than men did, and saw 40% more Harris campaign videos than men (Washington Post)

An analysis of 800 US adults' TikTok feeds: female...

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The US fines GlobalFoundries $500K and says it sent 74 shipments worth $17.1M to SJ Semiconductor, an affiliate of SMIC, without seeking a license (Reuters)

The US fines GlobalFoundries $500K and says it sen...

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X starts rolling out the update to let users see public posts and following and followers lists of users who block them; blocked users still can't engage or DM (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

X starts rolling out the update to let users see p...

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