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How Jared Kushner and Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban brokered the EA takeover using Kushner's deep Saudi Arabia ties; sources: Kushner's firm will own ~5% of EA (t.co)
2025-9-30 Arabia Silver Saudi Arabia

ChatGPT Adds 'Instant Checkout' To Shop Directly In Chat (news.slashdot.org)
2025-9-30

Buyers of RadioShack Accused of Running $112 Million Ponzi Scheme (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-9-30

South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions raised a $250M Series C at a $1.4B valuation; Arm joined the round as a strategic partner (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30 Korea AI

Leaked document: a “widespread cybersecurity incident” at FEMA allowed hackers to steal employee data from both FEMA and US CBP through a Citrix vulnerability (www.nextgov.com)
2025-9-30

Sources: Saudi Arabia's PIF is the largest contributor to the $36B in equity used to finance the EA deal; it will roll over its $5B EA stake into the new entity (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30 Arabia Equity Saudi Arabia

FCC Mistakenly Leaks Confidential iPhone 16e Schematics (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-9-30 iPhone

How Brazil's Pix digital payment system, adopted by 80%+ of citizens, became a target of the Trump administration, which says it unfairly undercuts US companies (www.nytimes.com)
2025-9-30 Trump Brazil

Afghanistan Hit By Nationwide Internet Blackout As Taliban Cuts Fiber Optic Cables (mobile.slashdot.org)
2025-9-30 Afghanistan

Open-source Android app store F-Droid says Google's upcoming requirement for all Android devs to verify their identity threatens to kill alternative app stores (arstechnica.com)
2025-9-30 Android Google

Internal memo: Microsoft is unifying its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization led by Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, reversing a 2018 split (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-30 Microsoft

Gavin Newsom Signs First-In-Nation AI Safety Law (slashdot.org)
2025-9-30 AI

UK convicts "Bitcoin Queen" in world's largest cryptocurrency seizure (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-9-30 Bitcoin Cryptocurrency

Automated financial advisor startup Wealthfront files publicly for an IPO and reports net income of $60.7M on revenue of $175.6M in H1 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30 IPO Startup

A judge sentences Frank founder Charlie Javice to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase by overstating how many customers the fintech company had (www.cnbc.com)
2025-9-30 Fintech JPMorgan

Open Source Android Repository F-Droid Says Google's New Rules Will Shut It Down (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-9-30 Android Google Open Source

Japan's largest brewer suspends operations due to cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-9-30 Japan

Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev says Robinhood Prediction Markets crossed 4B event contracts traded all-time, with over 2B in Q3 alone; HOOD closes up 12.27% (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30

Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after Jan. 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits (www.wsj.com)
2025-9-30 Trump YouTube

OpenAI's New Sora Video Generator To Require Copyright Holders To Opt Out (slashdot.org)
2025-9-30

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; the first-in-the-nation AI safety law requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes (www.politico.com)
2025-9-30 AI California

Sources: Vanguard, the asset manager which has historically been critical of cryptocurrencies, prepares to allow access to crypto ETFs on its brokerage platform (www.cryptoinamerica.com)
2025-9-30 ETF Asset

UK Government To Guarantee $2 Billion Jaguar Land Rover Loan After Cyber Shutdown (news.slashdot.org)
2025-9-30

Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed with AI-generated videos and a recommendation page (www.wired.com)
2025-9-30 AI

Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It's Messing With Our View of the Cosmos (news.slashdot.org)
2025-9-30

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is faster and more steerable than Opus 4.1 and excels in Claude Code, but GPT-5 Codex is still better for difficult production coding tasks (every.to)
2025-9-30

Anthropic prices Claude Sonnet 4.5 at $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens, same as Sonnet 4, cheaper than Opus at $15/$75 but higher than GPT-5 at $1.25/$10 (simonwillison.net)
2025-9-30

Sources: OpenAI told studios that it plans to release a new version of Sora that creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out (www.wsj.com)
2025-9-30

Environmental Damage is Putting European Way of Life at Risk, Says Report (news.slashdot.org)
2025-9-30 Europe

Microplastics Could Be Weakening Your Bones, Research Suggests (science.slashdot.org)
2025-9-30

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