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2024-09-19 23:40:48

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)
https://kotaku.com/concord-firewalk-studios-relaunch-ps5-sony-playstation-1851652811
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p36#a240919p36

2024-09-19 21:20:52

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)
https://www.wsj.com/business/disney-to-stop-using-slack-following-hack-that-exposed-company-data-c5311caf?st=eqyxtt&mod=googlenewsfeed
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p35#a240919p35

2024-09-19 20:20:45

OpenAI makes its latest AI models, o1-preview and o1-mini, available to all ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu customers (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-expands-o1-ai-models-to-enterprise-and-education-competing-directly-with-anthropic/
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p34#a240919p34

2024-09-19 20:01:56

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)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/18/fal-ai-which-hosts-media-generating-ai-models-raises-23m-from-a16z-and-others/
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p33#a240919p33

2024-09-19 18:40:56

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)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/apples-new-macos-sequoia-update-is-breaking-some-cybersecurity-tools/
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p32#a240919p32

2024-09-19 18:10:58

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)
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/19/apple-seeds-first-ios-18-1-public-beta/
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p31#a240919p31

2024-09-19 17:45:56

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)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/eu-to-tell-apple-how-to-do-interoperability-dma-style/
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p30#a240919p30

2024-09-19 17:10:56

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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-19/datamaran-gets-33-million-investment-from-morgan-stanley-funds
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p29#a240919p29

2024-09-19 16:10:53

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)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/19/24248820/google-chrome-passkey-logins-device-sync-password-manager-pin
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p28#a240919p28

2024-09-19 15:46:00

Sources: server CPU designer Ampere is exploring a potential sale; Ampere was reportedly valued at $8B in a proposed minority investment in 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-18/oracle-backed-chipmaker-ampere-explores-potential-sale
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p27#a240919p27

2024-09-19 15:35:55

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)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-says-it-has-no-plans-divest-majority-stake-mobileye-2024-09-19/
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p26#a240919p26

2024-09-19 15:20:45

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)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/19/24245559/google-employee-privileged-confidential-deleted-chats
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p25#a240919p25

2024-09-19 15:10:48

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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-19/brazil-top-court-slaps-elon-musk-s-x-with-fines-for-skirting-ban
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p24#a240919p24

2024-09-19 14:16:12

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)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/amazon-releases-a-video-generator-but-only-for-ads/
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p23#a240919p23

2024-09-19 13:45:52

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)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/business/amazon-joins-motion-picture-association.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p22#a240919p22

2024-09-19 13:30:41

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)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/19/amazon-introduces-amelia-an-ai-assistant-for-third-party-sellers.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p21#a240919p21

2024-09-19 13:20:46

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)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/technology/ftc-meta-tiktok-privacy-surveillance.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p20#a240919p20

2024-09-19 12:45:41

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)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/picus-security-founded-by-turkish-3-mathematicians-raises-45m-after-simulating-1b-cyberattacks/
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p19#a240919p19

2024-09-19 12:20:44

The EU's top court says Booking.com's restrictions on hotels offering lower rates on their websites or on rival sites are unnecessary and may reduce competition (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/bookingcoms-price-curbs-hotels-may-hinder-competition-eu-top-court-says-2024-09-19/
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p18#a240919p18

2024-09-19 12:05:42

Amazon's new competition TV show, debuting October 30, will have entrepreneurs pitch judges, including Amazon execs; finalists' product will be sold on Amazon (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/amazon-competition-show-buy-it-now-645512fe?st=goNdWC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/240919/p17#a240919p17