Meta’s Threads looks to regain momentum

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Paramount settles with Trump: Paramount reached a $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump over a lawsuit that alleged election interference by the company's CBS news network when it showed two different versions of an interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris in October. Trump had sought damages of $20 billion. No money will be paid to him directly.

Baidu's big makeover: Baidu, China's most popular search engine, revamped its flagship product with AI features and a voice function, marking its biggest overhaul in years.

Alleged hacker collusion: US law enforcement officials are looking into an ex-ransomware negotiator suspected of scheming with hackers. The investigation was announced by the accused's former employer, DigitalMint, which negotiates with hackers and facilitates cryptocurrency ransomware payments.

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Private equity firm KKR agreed to buy Spectris for £4.1 billion ($5.6 billion), surpassing an earlier bid for the British maker of precision testing equipment and software from a group led by another PE company, Advent.

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Meta Platform Inc.'s Threads is unveiling a few alternations it hopes will make the site a place where its 350 million monthly users find more relevant, timely news, Kurt Wagner reports in today's Tech In Depth. But it's uncertain whether the changes are enough to take advantage of an opportunity it seemed to squander two years ago to replace then-Twitter as the place to go on the internet for fast-breaking news, politics and commentary.

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The conflict between Iran and Israel — and the US military strike on Iranian nuclear sites — has triggered an overwhelming amount of AI-generated misinformation, Daniel Zuidijk reports in this week's Cyber Bulletin. The flood of fake images created by AI assistants make it easier for influencers to peddle propaganda as a tool of war, he writes.

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