Plane brings 89 Russian nationals home from Lebanon, foreign ministry says

TechCrunch Wikipedia says hasn't received notice over alleged bias concerns from India Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia, said on Thursday that the firm hasn't received an official notice from the Indian government over alleged concentrated editorial control and persistent complaints about bias and inaccuracies on the platform. A number of outlets, including TechCrunch, reported on Tuesday that the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had questioned the encyclopedia's intermediary status that's offered to tech platforms in India. A Wikimedia spokesperson denied receiving an official notice from the Indian government in the last two days and said the foundation "stands behind its community of volunteers and core values, enabling millions worldwide to access well-sourced information at no cost."

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a "relentless onslaught of change." When reached by TechCrunch, Mozilla Foundation's communications chief Brandon Borrman confirmed the layoffs in an email. According to its annual tax filings, the Mozilla Foundation reported having 60 employees during the 2022 tax year.

ChatGPT Search is not OpenAI's 'Google killer' yet Last week, OpenAI released its highly anticipated search product, ChatGPT Search, to take on Google. The industry has been bracing for this moment for months, prompting Google to inject AI-generated answers into its core product earlier this year and producing some embarrassing hallucinations in the process. OpenAI's search product was impressive in some ways and offered a glimpse of what an AI-search interface could one day look like.

Wiz CEO says company was targeted with deepfake attack that used his voice Speaking onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Wiz's CEO and co-founder Assaf Rappaport, who recently turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google, noted that his employees had been targeted by a deepfake attack just two weeks ago. "Dozens of my employees got a voice message from me," he explained. The team caught on that something wasn't right, however, because the hacker had tracked down audio of the CEO's voice from a conference to create the deepfake.

US government considers historic break-up of Google in antitrust case The U.S. Justice Department has put forth a sweeping proposal to force Google to sell off parts of its business, potentially leading to the first major corporate breakup in four decades and reshaping one of the world's most valuable tech companies. The Department of Justice and a coalition of state attorneys general on Tuesday submitted a 32-page filing (PDF) for potential remedies to address Google's monopolies in search and search advertising. The proposed remedies framework, submitted to U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who ruled against Google in a landmark antitrust case last August, presents a range of options including behavioral restrictions and more drastic structural measures.

Elon Musk's X boosts DSA info for EU users as bloc's probe of its complaint handling continues An incoming privacy policy update to Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) will see the company making it clearer to users in the European Union that they have the right to appeal decisions under the bloc's Digital Services Act (DSA), such as account bans, content takedowns and shadowbanning. Although the law does not make these bodies' decisions binding on regulated services, as X's user memo also notes.

Google Cloud to make multi-factor authentication mandatory in 2025 Google has confirmed plans to require all Google Cloud customers to use multi-factor authentication (MFA), a process that kicks off this month with prompts and "helpful reminders" embedded inside the Google Cloud console, before a gradual enforcement period starting in the new year. The internet and cloud giant quietly announced its MFA plans in a document published in October, though the company's VP of engineering, Mayank Upadhyay, formally announced this in a blog post this week. "We will be implementing mandatory MFA for Google Cloud in a phased approach that will roll out to all users worldwide during 2025," Upadhyay wrote.

Yahoo Finance Jay Powell says Donald Trump couldn't fire him even if he tried President-elect Donald Trump has sent mixed signals for years on whether he would fire or demote Jerome Powell. But Powell made it clear Thursday that he won't be going anywhere even if Trump tried.

SpaceX to launch Starship for the sixth time this month SpaceX will conduct the sixth flight test of Starship, the largest rocket ever built, as soon as November 18, following the smooth success of the previous mission less than a month ago. The high flight cadence is thanks, in part, to that success, which included the first-ever return of the Super Heavy booster to the launch site — where massive "chopstick" arms jutting from the launch tower caught it in mid-air — and a controlled, on-target splashdown after suborbital flight of the Starship upper stage in the Indian Ocean. This sixth test includes many of the same objectives; this fact led the Federal Aviation Administration to approve both flight 5 and 6 at the same time last month.

Yahoo Sports Week 10 waiver wire pickups + Panic Meter: Cowboys offense, Jaylen Waddle, and more | Yahoo Fantasy Forecast Week 9 is in the books and oh my there's a lot of panic on these fantasy streets. Dalton Del Don joins Matt Harmon for another edition of the 'People's Panic Meter' to answer all of your listener submissions. The duo examines the situations for Jaylen Waddle, CeeDee Lamb, and many more.

Lucid Motors starts taking orders for its existential Gravity SUV Lucid Motors has officially started taking orders for its electric Gravity SUV, a critically important vehicle that's supposed to go into production by the end of this year. Interested buyers can now place $1,000 refundable deposits on the "Grand Touring" trim, which starts at $94,900, on the company's website. Similar to the company's current model, the Air sedan, the Gravity is a more-than-capable electric vehicle.