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The European Commission has been too focused on tackling Big Tech and not enough on improving digital services for citizens. That is according to Poland’s minister of digital affairs, Janusz Cieszyński. He believes the EU needs to shift its digital policy focus to helping Europeans interact with government services. Speaking to TNW at the recent Tallinn Digital Summit in Estonia, Janusz Cieszyński

• A Ukrainian general discussed the country's counteroffensive against Russia. 
• He told CNN country wasn't leaning heavily on vehicles and instead using small groups of infantry.
• The general said this would be a benefit come winter because bad weather will slow them

• Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly played a video game the first time he was interviewed on live TV.
• Author Michael Lewis said a clip showed SBF's eyes moving as he tried to win the game while on air.
• The "Big Short" author is about to release a book on the FTX cofounder.

FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly played a video game during his first

Answers to each clue for the Oct. 2, 2023 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

• People are criticizing a women's tech conference after it was flooded by men.
• Women reported being shoved out the way by men submitting resumes to employers at the Grace Hopper conference.
• The event bills itself as a celebration of woman and non-binary people in computer science

A tech conference celebrating women and non-binary people in computer science sparked a backlash

• FTX hired two architects to design its multi-million dollar Bahamas HQ, per an upcoming biography.
• They talked to uninterested employees to figure out what they might want for their offices.
• That unveiled one anecdote where FTX spent $1 million to settle an argument over a door in its former office.

FTX spent $1 million removing one doorway and adding another when

• Prosecutors say SBF's lawyers declined a request for a Ukraine-based FTX customer to testify remotely. 
• The customer lost a "large portion" of his life savings from FTX's collapse, they said.
• And he can't testify in person because of a wartime law stopping men from leaving the country. 

Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers declined a request from prosecutors

• A Kansas Chipotle manager repeatedly asked a Muslim teenage worker to remove her hijab, the EEOC said
• This culminated in the manager "forcibly" pulling it off her head to see her hair, the EEOC said.
• The worker was forced to quit her job, the EEOC said in a lawsuit it filed against Chipotle.

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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #835 on October 2, as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

• Tom Hanks says an advert making its way around social media was created without his permission.
• Hanks warned fans his likeness had been recreated by AI.
• The ad reportedly includes an AI-generated version of Hanks selling dental insurance.

Tom Hanks is warning fans about an AI version of himself used in an advert for a dental plan.

Taking to his Instagram page

• A Russian soldier started working for Ukraine's military intelligence in July, a Ukrainian official said.
• He then convinced 11 other Russians to defect with him, the official

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