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Former President Trump campaigned in the Wisconsin town of Prairie du Chien on Saturday, making migrant crime a core part of his speech after a rape suspect was arrested in the small, rural community. The rally, which was supposed to take place outside, but was moved indoors due to a Secret Service staffing shortage, focused on migrant crime. During the speech, Trump referenced the arrest of assault suspect Alejandro Jose Coronel Zarate, 26, who is an alleged member of Venezuela's violent Tren de Aragua migrant gang.   Earlier this month, Zarate was charged with sexual assault, battery, strangulation and suffocation, in addition to false imprisonment, child abuse and disorderly conduct, according to WXOW. The suspect, who is accused of sexually assaulting a mother and abusing her daughter "under particularly brutal circumstances," was arrested in Prairie du Chien on Sept. 6.  WHITE HOUSE MUM AMID OUTRAGE OVER DATA SHOWING HOW MANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS ARE IN ...

Steven Levy / Wired : Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and Executive Chairman of Anduril, on autonomous AI's role in warfare, building a wearable e-reader, and more   —  He's deep in the defense-startup world as a Founders Fund partner and Anduril cofounder.  His bunker, though, isn't fully prepped for the end times.

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times : Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their friend-finding and community-building products to attract young users hit by so-called dating app fatigue   —  Bumble and Match Group launch friendship and social products to help reverse post-pandemic slowdown

Brian Steinberg / Variety : Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veteran anchor Brian Williams to host a live Election Night special, its first entry into news-related programming   —  Brian Williams may have found his next TV-news job....except it won't be on traditional TV.  —  The veteran NBC News …

Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google rolls out Gemini-powered contextual Smart Replies, which analyzes the context of an email and suggests a detailed reply, in Gmail for paid users   —  Following the announcement at I/O 2024, Google is now rolling out Contextual Smart Replies to Gmail for Android and iOS.

Washington Post : Neo-Nazis are creating AI videos of Hitler making English versions of his speeches and to rebrand him as “misunderstood” via TikTok, X, Instagram, and YouTube   —  Videos of the Nazi leader speaking in English are reaching millions online.  Experts fear they are fueling a surge of antisemitism.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a slew of bills Wednesday, including one that would have required state agencies to report how successful the state's costly homeless programs are to Newsom's Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) every year.  In his veto message, Newsom said while he supports efforts "to increase accountability and the effectiveness" of such programs, "similar measures are already in place." "For these reasons, I cannot sign this bill," Newsom wrote after listing several bills in the legislature that will require additional reporting of outcomes of several programs. "These reports will be made publicly available by Cal ICH." NEWSOM SEEKS TO RESTRICT STUDENTS' CELLPHONE USE IN SCHOOLS: 'HARMING THE MENTAL HEALTH OF OUR YOUTH' California's homelessness spending — more than $20 billion since Newsom took office — has drawn more scrutiny from legislators, including Democrats, this year. Meanwh...

Reuters : LG Display agrees to sell its stake in its large LCD display plant in China to TCL's LCD unit CSOT for ~$1.54B; LG will now no longer make LCD panels in China   —  South Korea's LG Display (034220.KS) said on Thursday it had agreed to sell its stake in its large liquid crystal display (LCD) …

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch : Meta updates Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with new features, including real-time AI video processing, live translation, QR code scanning, and Audible integration   —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced updates to the company's Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Senate President Pro tempore Patty Murray, D-Wash., and others revealed on Tuesday their plans to force votes on abortion-related bills in the wake of two pregnant women's deaths after taking abortion pills. In floor remarks, Schumer said, "What happened in Georgia is a direct example of how abortion bans continue to exacerbate the racial disparities in maternal death. Amber’s doctors didn’t perform the medical procedures they knew she needed because of Georgia’s law." "It was the law overruling their good medical judgment. She went into septic shock and her heart stopped – all while doctors did everything except the medically-sound treatment she needed," he said, in reference to ProPublica 's reporting on the deaths of Candi Miller and Amber Nicole Thurman .  JOHN CORNYN FLEXES FUNDRAISING CHOPS AS BATTLE TO SUCCEED MITCH MCCONNELL RAMPS UP Both of the women died in Georgia after taking abortion pills and s...

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch : OpenAI adds five voices to Advanced Voice Mode, which is now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users and, next week, to enterprise and education users   —  OpenAI announced it is rolling out Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) to an expanded set of ChatGPT's paying customers on Tuesday.

The campaign for former President Donald Trump said it is giving "maximum attention and resources" to its ground game in battleground states, and it's working. In key battleground states where voters register by party, and where the margins in 2020 were razor-thin, Republicans have cut into Democrats’ voter registration advantage — in some cases by hundreds of thousands of registered voters.  During the 2020 election cycle in Pennsylvania, there were approximately 685,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans. But going into Election Day 2024, that gap has been cut down significantly, with approximately 343,000 more Democratic voters than Republicans, according to the Trump campaign, which said it compiled the data from secretaries of state offices in Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina and Arizona. TRUMP CAMPAIGN TOUTS 'TRUMP FORCE 47' GRASSROOTS RECRUITMENT EFFORT 100 DAYS OUT FROM ELECTION DAY Similarly, in Nevada, there were 87,000 more Democratic ...

Tom Warren / The Verge : Microsoft releases a progress report on its efforts to make security its top priority, which began in November 2023 after a scathing report from the US CSRB   —  Microsoft made security its No. 1 priority for every employee earlier this year, following years of security issues and a scathing report from the US Cyber Safety Review Board.

Ivana Saric / Axios : An analysis shows that at least 26 US states have passed or are considering bills regulating the use of generative AI in election-related communications   —  - There have already been instances of generative AI being “used to confuse - and even suppress - voters," Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) told Axios in an email.

A TikTok creator who was featured in Oprah Winfrey's town hall interview with Vice President Kamala Harris last week slammed the use of her video without permission, mocking Harris and vowing she will not vote for her come November.  "So I got my four seconds of fame on The Oprah Winfrey Show , and of all people to be her guest, let me show you who it was," a TikTok creator behind the account Blaire_Allison said in a video posted Saturday.  The TikTok then showed a clip of Winfrey's town hall-style interview with Harris that aired Thursday evening, featuring various people describing how the cost of living is strangling average Americans’ pocketbooks, including a video from Blaire Allison posted in November 2023.   "I don't understand how people are affording life right now," Allison said in the featured clip.  KAMALA HARRIS PANNED ONLINE FOR DELIVERING RAMBLING REMARKS DURING OPRAH EVENT: 'UNBELIEVABLE CRINGE' The TikTok creator launched a...

Wall Street Journal : Sources: TSMC and Samsung execs have visited the UAE and are considering building chip factories funded by the UAE, with a central role for Abu Dhabi's Mubadala   —  Potential projects in the United Arab Emirates could be worth more than $100 billion, though major hurdles remain