Japan’s SLIM lunar spacecraft landed upside down on the moon – Engadget | Link Apple is finally letting developers release game streaming services on the App Store – TechRadar | Link Fossil is quitting smartwatches – The Verge | Link Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead |- Ars Technica | Link FTC accuses Microsoft of misrepresenting its Activision Blizzard plans after layoffs | Link Google rebrands its Bard AI chatbot as Gemini, which now has its own Android app – Engadget | Link Moon mission: Intuitive Machines is about to launch its Odysseus spacecraft – New Scientist | Link U.S. Government Forms Groundbreaking AI Safety Consortium to Address Mounting Risks – The Tech Report | Link Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software – Ars Technica | Link OpenAI unveils Sora, its latest AI tool that can make instant videos from written commands – Euronews | Link
NASA says it’s reestablished contact with the Ingenuity Mars helicopter – Engadget | Link UAE to provide airlock for NASA’s moon-orbiting Gateway space station – Space | Link Not dead yet: Japan prepares for possible recovery of SLIM moon lander – Space | Link Microsoft is now a $3 trillion company – The Verge | Link NASA finally opens OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample canister after freeing stuck lid – Space | Link
OpenAI debuts GPT Store, new business tier after leadership fracas – CNBC | Link Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Apple’s Appeal In Antitrust Trial – Tech Report | Link Google CEO says more layoffs expected ‘throughout the year’ in internal memo – Engadget | Link Apple offers EU set of pledges aimed at settling Apple Pay antitrust probe | TechCrunch | Link Japan becomes the fifth nation to land a spacecraft on the Moon – Ars Technica | Link
Apple reportedly plans big overhaul to iPad family to make it less confusing – CNBC | Link E3 is officially over forever – The Verge | Link Adobe terminates its $20 billion Figma acquisition amid regulatory scrutiny – Engadget | Link Teenage ‘GTA 6’ hacker sentenced to an indefinite hospital stay – Mashable | Link
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Amazon is getting rid of its gaming content channel amid larger games layoffs – The Verge | Link Bing Chat is now Copilot – TechCrunch | Link The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less – The Verge | Link SpaceX’s second Starship and Super Heavy flight test cleared for launch – The Verge | Link Apple, Disney and IBM to pause ads on X after antisemitic Elon Musk tweet – Apple – The Guardian | Link AI boss Sam Altman ousted after board loses confidence – BBC News | Link SpaceX Launches Giant New Rocket, Explosions End Test Flight – TIME | Link Sam Altman joins Microsoft as OpenAI taps Shear for interim CEO – CNN Business | Link Most of OpenAI’s staff threatens to quit unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam Altman as CEO – Engadget | Link Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO – Engadget | Link CEO of world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange pleads guilty to money laundering violations – CNN | Link Sam Altman Officially Returns to OpenAI—With a New Board Seat for Microsoft – WIRED | Link Google Gemini: all the details on the AI model Google hopes can take on GPT-4 – The Verge | Link X officially launches its ChatGPT rival Grok – Search Engine Land | Link The EU Just Passed Sweeping New Rules to Regulate AI | WIRED | Link
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Crunchyroll is now an Amazon Prime Video channel – Engadget | Link Amazon’s virtual health clinic can now treat patients for a cough, cold or flu | TechCrunch | Link Amazon Web Services To Roll Out European Sovereign Cloud – The Tech Report | Link WeWork Just Filed For Bankruptcy | WIRED | Link Apple to pay up to $25 million over hiring discrimination | The Verge | Link
Everything announced at Apple’s fall event: iPhone 15, USB-C, Apple Watch Series 9 and more | Link Google Agrees to $93M Settlement Over Location Data Issue | Tech Report | Link iPhone 12 Faces European Investigations Over Radiation Fears | Tech Report | Link Microsoft product chief Panos Panay is leaving the company | CNBC | Link All the new devices Amazon announced at its fall hardware event | Mashable | Link John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and other prominent authors sue OpenAI | CNBC | Link Microsoft Surface event: the 6 biggest announcements – The Verge | Link The EU’s Chips Act enters into force – TNW | Link Amazon to invest up to $4 billion into OpenAI rival Anthropic – The Verge | Link NASA OSIRIS-REx mission: A long-awaited asteroid sample has landed in the US | CNN | Link Everything announced at Meta Connect: Quest 3 release date, smart glasses and Meta AI – Engadget | Link Amazon officially announces Panay as new device, services chief (AMZN) | Seeking Alpha | Link Valve fails to get out of paying its EU geo-blocking fine | Engadget | Link WGA ends strike, releases details on tentative deal with studios | CBS | Link Happy 25th birthday: How Google changed the world in the past quarter-century | Android Police | Link Raspberry Pi 5 Announced for End of October, Here Are the Specs – 9to5Linux | Link
Russia’s Luna 25 lunar lander has ‘emergency situation’ during moon approach | CNN | Link ChatGPT is reportedly heading toward bankruptcy | Windows Central | Link Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted | Ars Technica | Link Russia’s first lunar mission in 47 years smashes into the moon in failure | Reuters | Link Chandrayaan-3 landing: India becomes the fourth country ever to land a spacecraft on the moon | CNN | Link India’s Chandrayaan-3 moon rover Pragyan snaps 1st photo of its lander | Space | Link China Prohibits Government Officials from Using iPhones at Work – The Tech Report | Link
PayPal launches ERC20 stablecoin ‘PYUSD’ with Paxos | CryptoSlate | Link Russia’s moon craft starts processing first data – space agency | Reuters | Link TSMC will build a fab in Europe for 28/22nm and 16/12nm chips – GSMArena.com news | Link
Twitter begins its transition to ‘X’ | Engadget | Link Netflix AI Jobs: Netflix posts $900,000 AI job listing as Hollywood actors, writers continue to strike for protection against artificial intelligence – The Economic Times | Link
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