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Inside Worldcoin's Orb factory in Germany and a pr...

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A recap of Elon Musk's interview of Trump on X which started 42 mins late; X says the interview was at times heard by 1M+ people as Musk prepared for 8M to join (Financial Times)

A recap of Elon Musk's interview of Trump on X whi...

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Sources: the US to remove lidar maker Hesai from a list of Chinese military-affiliated companies, after judging it did not meet the legal criteria for inclusion (Financial Times)

Sources: the US to remove lidar maker Hesai from a...

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Hackers leaked ~2.7B data records of people in the US containing SSNs, names, more on Aug. 6, allegedly from National Public Data, which collects and sells data (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Hackers leaked ~2.7B data records of people in the...

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A source at X says there wasn't actually a DDoS attack that crashed the Trump interview; another X employee said there was a "99 percent" chance Musk was lying (The Verge)

A source at X says there wasn't actually a DDoS at...

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Elon Musk's X Spaces interview of Donald Trump was derailed by technical glitches in the first minutes of the scheduled start time; Musk blamed a "DDoS attack" (Rebecca Picciotto/CNBC)

Elon Musk's X Spaces interview of Donald Trump was...

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Tally, a fintech that helped users manage and pay off credit card debt, is shutting down; it had raised $172M and, per PitchBook, was last valued at $855M (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Tally, a fintech that helped users manage and pay ...

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The FBI says it is investigating an alleged Trump campaign hack, after the campaign claimed that sensitive internal documents were leaked and blamed Iran (Devlin Barrett/Washington Post)

The FBI says it is investigating an alleged Trump ...

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CrowdStrike's president appeared at DEF CON to accept the "Most Epic Fail" Pwnie Award, saying "we got this horribly wrong" and "it's super important to own it" (Michael Kan/PCMag)

CrowdStrike's president appeared at DEF CON to acc...

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The US SEC sues crypto company NovaTech and its co-founders, saying they fraudulently raised $650M+ from 200K+ investors globally, following the NY AG's suit (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

The US SEC sues crypto company NovaTech and its co...

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TikTok adds group chats, with support for up to 32 people, available to all users over 15 years old (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

TikTok adds group chats, with support for up to 32...

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Researchers: in the 30 US states which legalized access to online betting, citizens' likelihood of filing for bankruptcy went up 25-30% after about three years (Slow Boring)

Researchers: in the 30 US states which legalized a...

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Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous robotaxis on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this week, after getting regulator approval in March (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous ...

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NYT, Puck, and others are focusing on Reddit as its traffic went from 132M monthly visitors in August 2023 to 346M in April 2024 following Google Search changes (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)

NYT, Puck, and others are focusing on Reddit as it...

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Patreon says it has begun a migration process to move all creators to Apple's subscription billing by November 2025, after Apple threatened to remove the app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Patreon says it has begun a migration process to m...

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Q&A with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda on AI chatbots, marrying chatbots, Replika's therapy app Tomo, friendship chatbots, LLMs, open source, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda on ...

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Accountable Tech: the average weekly reach per post of five prominent political Instagram accounts fell 65% after Meta began to downrank political content (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg)

Accountable Tech: the average weekly reach per pos...

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PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter review: a robust VR experience, but the setup is a headache, especially with the Bluetooth dependency and the lack of included cables (Gabriel Moss/IGN)

PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter review: a robust VR exp...

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