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A look at the aftermath of the FCC ending the Affordable Connectivity Program for ~23M US households in May 2024; Spectrum says it lost 154K customers in Q2 (Joe Supan/CNET)

A look at the aftermath of the FCC ending the Affo...

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How some Chinese AI companies use brokers to access GPUs despite US sanctions, sometimes using cryptocurrency smart contracts to anonymously process orders (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

How some Chinese AI companies use brokers to acces...

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Chinese tech giants splurge on AI infrastructure, doubling their 2024 capex; Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu had a combined capex of ~$7B in H1 2024, up 50%+ YoY (Financial Times)

Chinese tech giants splurge on AI infrastructure, ...

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How Ukraine is working with private firms to test AI and other tech in drones to find land mines, save lives, and allow military forces to advance more quickly (Lara Jakes/New York Times)

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A look at voice bots from Indian startups Sarvam AI, CoRover, and Gnani.ai; Samsung-backed Gnani now handles millions of voice conversations daily for companies (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

A look at voice bots from Indian startups Sarvam A...

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A deeper look at Google's shockingly good Reimagine feature for Pixel 9, which lets users add things to photos via prompts and lacks strong guardrails (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

A deeper look at Google's shockingly good Reimagin...

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A look at Telegram's claims that it's a "secure messenger" despite lacking default end-to-end encrypted messages and any E2E encrypted option for group chats (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)

A look at Telegram's claims that it's a "secure me...

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A look at Telegram's claims that it's a "secure messenger" despite lacking default end-to-end encrypted messages and any E2E encrypted option for group chats (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)

A look at Telegram's claims that it's a "secure me...

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Telegram says its CEO Pavel Durov has "nothing to hide" and that the messaging app "abides by EU laws", including the Digital Services Act (Bloomberg)

Telegram says its CEO Pavel Durov has "nothing to ...

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Telegram says its CEO Pavel Durov has "nothing to hide" and that the messaging app "abides by EU laws", including the Digital Services Act (@telegram)

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How prominent games accessibility advocate Susan Banks, who worked with studios and raised awareness for accessibility in games, may never have existed at all (Grant Stoner/IGN)

How prominent games accessibility advocate Susan B...

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A look at Apple's robotics efforts; sources: Meta will unveil prototype "Orion" AR glasses, a cheaper Quest, and new AI features for Ray-Ban Meta at Connect (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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An excerpt from the book Character Limit details the chaotic revamp of Twitter Blue, including Elon Musk's haphazard planning and Esther Crawford's involvement (New York Times)

An excerpt from the book Character Limit details t...

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The problem with Xbox's new vision isn't that it's moving away from console-exclusive games, but that its release strategy is confusing and inconsistent (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

The problem with Xbox's new vision isn't that it's...

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Some San Francisco city officials say they're not lamenting X's departure from the city, as X bears little resemblance to the company that SF welcomed in 2012 (New York Times)

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Threads says it is testing ephemeral posts that disappear within 24 hours with a limited number of users, but doesn't say if the experiment is region-specific (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Threads says it is testing ephemeral posts that di...

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Reports: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, after being targeted by an arrest warrant in France (Reuters)

Reports: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested at ...

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A look at Germany-based discount retailer Lidl's foray into offering cloud computing services, signing up clients like SAP and making €1.9B in 2023 annual sales (Olaf Storbeck/Financial Times)

A look at Germany-based discount retailer Lidl's f...

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