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Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Firewalk, the studio behind the PlayStation flop, is left in limbo, with some staffers expecting mass layoffs (Ethan Gach/Kotaku)

Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Fi...

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Memo: Disney plans to stop using Slack in most of its businesses by the end of this year, after a hacking group leaked more than 1TB of company data in summer (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

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OpenAI makes its latest AI models, o1-preview and o1-mini, available to all ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu customers (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

OpenAI makes its latest AI models, o1-preview and ...

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Fal.ai, a developer-focused platform for media-generating AI models, raised a $9M seed and a $14M Series A from Kindred Ventures, a16z, First Round, and others (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Fal.ai, a developer-focused platform for media-gen...

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macOS 15 Sequoia appears to have broken several security tools made by CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft, and others; CrowdStrike delays support for Sequoia (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

macOS 15 Sequoia appears to have broken several se...

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Apple seeds iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 public betas with some Apple Intelligence features, including Writing Tools and Siri redesign (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple seeds iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequo...

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A look at the two "specification proceedings" that the EU has opened on Apple under the DMA, instructing Apple on how to comply with interoperability provisions (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

A look at the two "specification proceedings" that...

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Datamaran, which offers an analytics platform for clients to monitor adherence to ESG regulations, raised a $33M Series C from Morgan Stanley funds (Curtis Heinzl/Bloomberg)

Datamaran, which offers an analytics platform for ...

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Google announces Password Manager PIN to let users sync passkeys across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android devices, with iOS support coming soon (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Google announces Password Manager PIN to let users...

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Sources: server CPU designer Ampere is exploring a potential sale; Ampere was reportedly valued at $8B in a proposed minority investment in 2021 (Bloomberg)

Sources: server CPU designer Ampere is exploring a...

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Intel says it has no plans to sell its majority stake in Mobileye; the self-driving tech company's stock, which is down 73% in 2024, jumps 13%+ (Reuters)

Intel says it has no plans to sell its majority st...

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US DOJ lawyers told a court that Google employees liberally labelled emails as "privileged and confidential", a strategy that may backfire in the antitrust case (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

US DOJ lawyers told a court that Google employees ...

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Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to reimpose a block or face a $920K daily fine after a software update made X accessible; X says the restoration was inadvertent (Bloomberg)

Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to reimpose a bloc...

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Amazon launches an AI-powered video generator, available for some US advertisers in beta, which turns a single product image into a few-seconds-long video clip (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Amazon launches an AI-powered video generator, ava...

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Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after a long courtship; the lobbying group's other members are Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and WBD (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)

Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after...

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Amazon launches Amelia, an AI tool to help third-party sellers resolve account issues and fetch sales and inventory data, in beta for select US sellers (CNBC)

Amazon launches Amelia, an AI tool to help third-p...

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The US FTC releases a four-year study of how Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six others collected and used data, finding "vast surveillance" of consumers (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

The US FTC releases a four-year study of how Meta,...

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Picus Security, which helps fix inconsistencies in code and network activity, raised a $45M Series C, bringing its total funding to $80M, and has 500+ clients (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Picus Security, which helps fix inconsistencies in...

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