Roblox removes 'meat grinder' Ukraine v Russia game The War on Larkiv game was accepted and promoted by the world's largest children's game platform. October 01, 2022 at 04:11AM

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Messages reveal how Musk and Twitter boss fell out New text messages between Musk and Twitter boss Parag Agrawal reveal how the relationship broke down. October 01, 2022 at 02:45AM

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Prince William makes online safety plea after Molly Russell verdict The Prince of Wales says online safety for young people should be "a prerequisite, not an afterthought". October 01, 2022 at 02:36AM

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Report: Bruce Willis sold his "digital twin" likeness rights to Deepcake, for use in ads and possibly even movies; a Russian ad already used a Willis deepfake (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

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Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)

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Court records: FTX's winning bid for Voyager Digital includes a $51M cash payment, and $60M in earnouts and incentives for Voyager users that onboard with FTX (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

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Filing: European Commission sets a provisional November 8 deadline to complete the review of Microsoft's proposed $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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Court filing: in March, Jack Dorsey told Elon Musk he tried to add Musk to Twitter's board, but felt the rest of the board was too "risk averse" (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

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An investigation shows how self-publishing platform Wattpad's lack of moderation, age verification, and safety features helps sexual predators exploit teens (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

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Gov. Newsom signs a law forbidding California-based businesses from providing users' personal info in response to other states' abortion-related search warrants (CNN)

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Twitter plans to add a TikTok-like full-screen video scrolling UI for English-speaking users on iOS, and a video carousel to the Explore tab on iOS and Android (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

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Source: Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and reduce budgets across teams, citing economic conditions (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

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VMware and Google's Mandiant say a sophisticated hacker group has been installing backdoors in VMware's virtualization software on multiple targets' networks (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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Square launches support for Apple's Tap to Pay on iPhone to sellers across the US, available within its Square Point of Sale app on the iPhone XS or newer (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

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Sources: Google Ventures has shelved its algorithm that for years had served as a gatekeeper for new investments (Dan Primack/Axios)

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Major advertisers say they suspended marketing campaigns from Twitter because their promoted tweets appeared alongside tweets soliciting or selling child porn (Reuters)

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Google unveils search results with a "Discussions and forums" section, rolling out on mobile in the US, and with machine-translated news coverage, in early 2023 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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EU Commission to make it easier to sue over AI products People harmed by such items and digital ones like drones will have easier access to legal help. September 28, 2022 at 11:52PM

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DocuSign will lay off 9% of staff as part of a major restructuring to be completed by 2023 end, incurring charges of $30M-$40M; it had 7,461 staffers in January (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Google says its multisearch tool, which lets users search using both images and text, will expand to more than 70 languages in the next few months (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Lyft says it is freezing all hiring in the US through the end of 2022 (Theo Wayt/New York Post)

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Intel plans to launch its Arc A770 graphics card for $329 on October 12, hoping to compete with Nvidia's budget GeForce RTX 3060 on price and performance (Jacob Ridley/PC Gamer)

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MPCH Labs, which is developing a cryptographic technique to split and store private keys for multiple users, raised a $40M Series A led by Liberty City Ventures (Brandy Betz/CoinDesk)

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The latest iPadOS 16 developer beta makes Stage Manager compatible with older A12X and A12Z iPads, but does not include external monitor support for the feature (Nathan Ingraham/Engadget)

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SEC sues two former MoviePass CEOs, charging them with misleading investors about profit potential, data operations, studio relationships, and revenue sources (Eileen AJ Connelly/The Wrap)

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Sources: FTX won the auction for the assets of bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital with a bid of ~$50M, a price that could climb if certain milestones met (Bloomberg)

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Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Vodafone, and 12 other European telecoms argue that Meta, Google, Netflix, and other US giants should share network costs (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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UK police arrest and charge a 17-year-old with computer misuse and breaches of bail, believed to be related to the recent Uber and Rockstar hacks (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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South Korea says Interpol has issued a Red Notice for Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon; prosecutors say Kwon disappeared from Singapore after September 17 (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

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Amazon confirms a second two-day shopping event for 2022 named Prime Early Access Sale, to be held on October 11-12 in 15 countries including the US and the UK (The Verge)

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Apple confirms that a Foxconn plant near Chennai is manufacturing iPhone 14 models; locally assembled phones will be sold in India later in 2022 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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In a new paper, Meta researchers demonstrated a system that can reconstruct a user's plausible pose from only the Quest 2's sensors using reinforcement learning (David Heaney/UploadVR)

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Researchers say Slack and Microsoft Teams have fundamental issues vetting third-party apps and should overhaul their app model to be more like traditional OSes (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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iPhone, in the third year of a three-year design cycle, may be overhauled next year; Apple Pay Later may arrive in 2023; Apple may not hold an October event (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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An interview with Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun on his critics and why today's most popular approaches to AI won't lead to human-level intelligence (Tiernan Ray/ZDNet)

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Using translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs, some Chinese creators are getting millions of views for TikTok videos summarizing Hollywood movies and shows (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

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A look at The Follower, an art project using open-source facial recognition software to match Instagram photos with EarthCam video footage of people taking them (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)

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A profile of YMTC, China's top memory chip maker that could end up in the crosshairs of US sanctions; YMTC had 1% share of the global memory chip market in 2020 (Che Pan/South China Morning Post)

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Paris-based Zenchef, which offers restaurants tools to enhance customer experience and optimize front-of-house operations, has raised €50M+ from PSG Equity (Patricia Allen/EU-Startups)

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A look at Kyiv-based Respeecher, which uses performers' archival voice recordings and AI to create new dialogue, including for Darth Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi (Anthony Breznican/Vanity Fair)

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Governor Newsom vetoes a crypto regulation bill that required licenses to facilitate transactions; the bill was passed by the California Assembly last month (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Center for Countering Digital Hate: the largest "incel" forum is becoming more violent; Google, YouTube, Cloudflare, Twitter, and Discord facilitate its growth (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)

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Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson's blockchain technology startup Lamina1 releases a whitepaper on building an open metaverse, dubbed Theee Metaverse (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

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Iran unrest: What's going on with Iran and the internet? The internet is cutting out and residents are unable to access social media in parts of the country. September 24, 2022 at 04:30AM

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Internal letter shows Twitch SVP of global creators Constance Knight resigned on the same day the company announced revenue sharing changes for top creators (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

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Report: some NFT startups say they are limiting functionality in iOS apps, as Apple insists that its 30% commission from IAP must be paid on all trades (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)

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Report: email shows Amazon is walking back pay raises after a bug caused it to overstate bonuses for some corporate staff by using older, higher stock prices (Colin Lodewick/Fortune)

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How an 8-year-old Danish kid's YouTube account sparked a nationwide debate on Google's ubiquity in the country's schools and its handling of children's data (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

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The firms making flour from mushrooms and cauliflower The search for wheat alternatives is being driven by a demand for healthier diets and food security. September 23, 2022 at 04:44AM

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In 70+ lawsuits against Meta, Snap, TikTok, and Google, parents are making product liability claims, blaming algorithms for kids' mental health issues, and more (Joel Rosenblatt/Bloomberg)

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