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Mastodon releases Mastodon 4.2, making it easier for users to get started, use its network even when logged out, more easily search for content, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Mastodon releases Mastodon 4.2, making it easier for users to get started, use its network even when logged out, more easily search for content, and more  —  As changes at Elon Musk’s X continue to push former Twitter users to seek alternatives, the open-sourced, decentralized social network Mastodon …

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Microsoft announces the Surface Go 4 with a four-core Intel N200 chip and plans to sell the 2-in-1 only to businesses, available on October 3, starting at $579 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Microsoft announces the Surface Go 4 with a four-core Intel N200 chip and plans to sell the 2-in-1 only to businesses, available on October 3, starting at $579  —  Microsoft has announced the Surface Go 4 — the latest version of its affordable 2-in-1 laptop series — at its Surface

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Nnete Matima and Joël Carter, two Black ex-TikTok staff, file a civil rights complaint alleging ByteDance fired them because they spoke up about discrimination (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: Nnete Matima and Joël Carter, two Black ex-TikTok staff, file a civil rights complaint alleging ByteDance fired them because they spoke up about discrimination  —  TikTok’s parent company was accused of racism and retaliation by Black former employees in a complaint …

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Microsoft announces Surface Hub 3 with portrait mode

Image: Microsoft Microsoft has revealed the Surface Hub 3, the latest version of the company’s all-in-one collaborative touchscreen device. Unlike its predecessors, the Surface Hub 3 supports smart rotation and portrait mode, allowing users to physically rotate the screen to a vertical orientation while the layout updates automatically. The Surface Hub 3 comes in two

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YouTube announces Dream Screen, a Shorts feature that lets users create an AI-generated video or image background using text prompts, rolling out in early 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube announces Dream Screen, a Shorts feature that lets users create an AI-generated video or image background using text prompts, rolling out in early 2024  —  YouTube today announced a new feature coming to its short-form video platform Shorts that will allow users to leverage AI tools to create videos.

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Microsoft plans to release 365 Copilot AI on November 1 for Microsoft 365 customers on certain business and enterprise plans for $30 per month per user (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Wes Davis / The Verge: Microsoft plans to release 365 Copilot AI on November 1 for Microsoft 365 customers on certain business and enterprise plans for $30 per month per user  —  Microsoft’s 365 Copilot AI assistant will be available starting on November 1st for Microsoft 365 customers on certain business and enterprise plans.

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MGM Resorts ended a 10-day computer shutdown on September 20 after a hack on September 7 and says that “all of our hotels and casinos are operating normally” (Ken Ritter/Associated Press)

Ken Ritter / Associated Press: MGM Resorts ended a 10-day computer shutdown on September 20 after a hack on September 7 and says that “all of our hotels and casinos are operating normally”  —  MGM Resorts brought to an end a 10-day computer shutdown prompted by efforts to shield from a cyberattack data including …

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Microsoft to add DALL-E 3 to Bing Chat

Image: Microsoft Microsoft announced it will soon add access to OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 image generator for users to create images right in a chat. DALL-E 3, which will be released for ChatGPT’s enterprise users in October, will allow people to type a couple of sentences to create a photo. Microsoft did not specify when DALL-E

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Facebook officially embraces fake profiles

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is going to let Facebook users create multiple personal profiles and switch between them without logging out and logging back in, according to a blog post published Thursday. Basically, Meta is embracing finstas but for Facebook. “Whether you’re new to Facebook or a longtime user, you may

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YouTube unveils YouTube Studio AI features coming in 2024 and lets select creators test Aloud, a dubbing tool that creates AI-generated dubs in other languages (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube unveils YouTube Studio AI features coming in 2024 and lets select creators test Aloud, a dubbing tool that creates AI-generated dubs in other languages  —  YouTube is expanding its Creator Music Studio, announced last year, with new AI features in addition to the launch of an AI-dubbing tool.

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Microsoft announces the 14.4″ Surface Laptop Studio 2, offering Intel’s 13th Gen chips, Nvidia RTX 4050 or RTX 4060, and up to 2TB storage, starting at $1,999 (David Pierce/The Verge)

David Pierce / The Verge: Microsoft announces the 14.4″ Surface Laptop Studio 2, offering Intel’s 13th Gen chips, Nvidia RTX 4050 or RTX 4060, and up to 2TB storage, starting at $1,999  —  Microsoft just showed off its new high-end convertible laptop, the Surface Laptop Studio 2, at its launch event in New York City.

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