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Environmental and health advocates accuse xAI of adding to pollution in Memphis, TN, by using unauthorized gas burning turbines at its new data center (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Environmental and health advocates accuse xAI of a...

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OpenSea says it has received a Wells notice from the US SEC calling NFTs sold on the platform securities (Katherine Ross/Blockworks)

OpenSea says it has received a Wells notice from t...

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Super Micro delays filing its annual financial disclosures, a day after short-seller Hindenburg Research alleged "glaring accounting red flags"; SMCI drops 20%+ (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Super Micro delays filing its annual financial dis...

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Shopify hires Mikhail Parakhin as its CTO; Parakhin had been Microsoft's CEO for advertising and web services until late March 2024 (Shopify)

Shopify hires Mikhail Parakhin as its CTO; Parakhi...

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Sources: Zurich-based Swiss-Mile, which makes the autonomous Robotic Mule and Robotic Watchdog robots, is close to raising a $20M seed at a $100M+ valuation (Eyk Henning/Bloomberg)

Sources: Zurich-based Swiss-Mile, which makes the ...

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Plaud unveils the $169 NotePin, an AI wearable to transcribe, summarize, and get action items from everyday interactions; some AI features cost $79 per year (David Pierce/The Verge)

Plaud unveils the $169 NotePin, an AI wearable to ...

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Investigation: a hacking group linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has targeted former members of the Trump and Biden administrations since 2022 (CNN)

Investigation: a hacking group linked to Iran's Is...

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Snap launches new safety tools and resources for US educators, and says Snapchat has 20M+ US teen users; Pew says 51% of US teens used Snapchat daily in 2023 (April Rubin/Axios)

Snap launches new safety tools and resources for U...

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French administrative document: alongside Pavel Durov, French authorities issued an arrest warrant for his Telegram co-founder brother Nikolai in March 2024 (Politico)

French administrative document: alongside Pavel Du...

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Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the app's 10th anniversary, growing in the EU, Pavel Durov's arrest, nonprofit status, X, US election, and more (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on th...

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Web browser startup Brave lays off 27 employees, after cutting 9% of its workforce in October 2023; PitchBook estimates that Brave has ~191 employees (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Web browser startup Brave lays off 27 employees, a...

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How Telegram CEO Pavel Durov miscalculated on moderation, saying earlier in 2024 that he did not expect "significant challenges" despite new laws targeting tech (Financial Times)

How Telegram CEO Pavel Durov miscalculated on mode...

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Chinese meal delivery giant Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 21% YoY to ~$11.6B, above $11.3B est., as its core business expanded; its stock is up ~25% in 2024 (Bloomberg)

Chinese meal delivery giant Meituan reports Q2 rev...

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X updates Grok to direct users to Vote.gov for election queries, after a letter from five US secretaries of state warned of spreading election misinformation (Christine Fernando/Associated Press)

X updates Grok to direct users to Vote.gov for ele...

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Experts: Pavel Durov's arrest may be an outlier as the legal bar is high in the US and Europe to prosecute executives for content posted on their tech platforms (New York Times)

Experts: Pavel Durov's arrest may be an outlier as...

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Venezuelan journalists are using AI avatars to host daily newscasts without putting themselves at risk, amid President Nicolás Maduro's media crackdown (The Guardian)

Venezuelan journalists are using AI avatars to hos...

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Sources: Emmanuel Macron invited Pavel Durov to move Telegram to Paris in 2018; in 2017, a joint operation between French and UAE spies hacked Durov's iPhone (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Emmanuel Macron invited Pavel Durov to mo...

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Sources: Apple is laying off ~100 people in its services group in a rare move, impacting Apple Books, News, and other teams, as part of a shift in priorities (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is laying off ~100 people in its se...

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