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Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Brazilian digital fraud prevention provider ClearSale for $350M; the deal is expected to close in H1 2025 (Reuters)

Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Bra...

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In an email to a16z employees, Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a "significant" personal donation to Harris' campaign; he endorsed Trump in July (Dan Primack/Axios)

In an email to a16z employees, Ben Horowitz says h...

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In an email to a16z employees, Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a "significant" personal donation to Harris' campaign; he endorsed Trump in July (Dan Primack/Axios)

In an email to a16z employees, Ben Horowitz says h...

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Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model that can generate a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU, using a single image (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI...

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As Mark Zuckerberg aims to be politically "neutral", some argue he's placating critics like Trump; source: Nick Clegg now makes most election policy decisions (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

As Mark Zuckerberg aims to be politically "neutral...

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Cloudflare says it stopped a month long DDoS campaign targeting orgs in financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, that peaked at 3.8Tbps (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)

Cloudflare says it stopped a month long DDoS campa...

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Coinbase says it will delist all unauthorized stablecoins, like Tether's USDT, from its exchange in the EEA by 2024's end, to comply with the EU's MiCA rules (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Coinbase says it will delist all unauthorized stab...

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Meta launches a Gen-Z focused redesign for Facebook, including a Local tab in 10 US cities, an Explore tab, and a full screen video player in the Video tab (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Meta launches a Gen-Z focused redesign for Faceboo...

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Meta launches a Gen-Z focused redesign for Facebook, including a Local tab in 10 US cities, an Explore tab, and a full screen video player in the Video tab (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Meta launches a Gen-Z focused redesign for Faceboo...

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Researchers say a Linux malware named "perfctl" has been targeting Linux servers to mine the hard-to-trace Monero cryptocurrency for at least three years (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Researchers say a Linux malware named "perfctl" ha...

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Sources: Tencent and Ubisoft's founding Guillemot family are considering options including a buyout of Ubisoft after it lost 50%+ of its market value this year (Bloomberg)

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Meta announces Movie Gen, which creates videos up to 16 seconds long based on a text prompt; Meta plans to make it available on its apps in 2025 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta announces Movie Gen, which creates videos up ...

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Meta announces Movie Gen for generating realistic video and audioclips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Audio has 13B; it is not publicly available (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Meta announces Movie Gen for generating realistic ...

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The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Faceb...

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Robinhood plans to debut margin trading in UK in the coming weeks; it is exploring offering retirement products and letting British users invest in UK stocks (Bloomberg)

Robinhood plans to debut margin trading in UK in t...

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Google is "running a small experiment" showing blue verified checkmarks beside business links in its search results that indicate the company is genuine (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Google is "running a small experiment" showing blu...

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Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, ~8.4% of staff, accepted a generous buyout package offered to those who disagreed with his direction of WordPress (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, ~8.4...

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The CJEU sides with Max Schrems over his privacy dispute with Meta after an Austrian court asked CJEU if Facebook undermines GDPR with its use of data for ads (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

The CJEU sides with Max Schrems over his privacy d...

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