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In a Reddit AMA, CEO Patrick Spence said Sonos won't rerelease its old app, after testing showed that doing so "would make the problems worse, not better" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

In a Reddit AMA, CEO Patrick Spence said Sonos won...

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Filing: chipmaker Microchip Technology says its servers were breached by an unauthorized party, causing its operations to run at "less than normal levels" (Nick Turner/Bloomberg)

Filing: chipmaker Microchip Technology says its se...

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A US appeals court revives a class action suit by Google Chrome users who say Google collected personal info even if Chrome was not synced with a Google account (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

A US appeals court revives a class action suit by ...

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Condé Nast makes a multiyear deal with OpenAI, letting ChatGPT and SearchGPT surface stories from The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, and Wired (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Condé Nast makes a multiyear deal with Open...

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OpenAI launches fine-tuning for GPT-4o, which lets developers customize a version of the model with their own datasets to improve domain-specific performance (OpenAI)

OpenAI launches fine-tuning for GPT-4o, which lets...

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Flight tracking site FlightAware, which claims 10M+ monthly users, reports a breach dating back to January 2021 that exposed names, SSNs, addresses, and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Flight tracking site FlightAware, which claims 10M...

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Microsoft launches a single unified Microsoft Teams app that allows switching between work, personal, and education accounts on Windows and Mac (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft launches a single unified Microsoft Team...

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Ofcom says it has 460+ people working on enforcing the Online Safety Act and plans to grow that by 20% to 550+ by March 2025, or 33% of its 1,500 total staff (Anna Gross/Financial Times)

Ofcom says it has 460+ people working on enforcing...

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Writers and journalists Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sue Anthropic, saying it misused books of theirs and others to train Claude (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Writers and journalists Andrea Bartz, Charles Grae...

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Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo is now giving 100K+ paid robotaxi rides every week in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, a few months after passing 50K+ (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo is now gi...

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Letter to investors: Bolt is finalizing a $450M Series F valuing the startup at $14B but with harsh terms for existing investors; Ryan Breslow to return as CEO (Erin Woo/The Information)

Letter to investors: Bolt is finalizing a $450M Se...

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Nvidia plans to let users link an Xbox account to its GeForce Now streaming service to enable automatic sign-in for supported games, starting on August 22 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Nvidia plans to let users link an Xbox account to ...

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Virginia-based Defcon AI, which aims to use ML to improve US military logistics, raised a $44M seed led by Bessemer, and has earned $15M in government contracts (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch)

Virginia-based Defcon AI, which aims to use ML to ...

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Qualcomm details its mid-range Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 SoC, based on TSMC's N4P, with up to 40% better GPU performance than the 7s Gen 2, shipping via Xiaomi first (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)

Qualcomm details its mid-range Snapdragon 7s Gen 3...

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The UK CMA accepts Meta's changes to its ad rules to ensure Marketplace advertisers' data is not used to improve Marketplace, without having to opt in or out (Radhika Anilkumar/Reuters)

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The AGs of 10 states join the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster; 39 states, plus DC, are now part of the lawsuit (Daniel Tencer/Music Business Worldwide)

The AGs of 10 states join the DOJ's antitrust laws...

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PitchBook: seven banks' ~$13B loans to Elon Musk to buy X have been "hung" for two years, weighing on balance sheets, the worst buyout for banks since 2008-09 (Wall Street Journal)

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Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese-made, Tencent-backed game, became Steam's fourth most popular title ever within hours of its launch with 1.4M+ concurrent players (Bloomberg)

Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese-made, Tencent-backed...

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Updated antitrust complaint: the DOJ says Ticketmaster's push for nontransferable SafeTix tickets, rolled out in 2019, aimed to make using rival services harder (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

Updated antitrust complaint: the DOJ says Ticketma...

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TSMC breaks ground on its €10B chip fab in Dresden, Germany, its first European plant; the EU approves Germany's ~€5B subsidy for the project (Kamil Kowalcze/Bloomberg)

TSMC breaks ground on its €10B chip fab in Dr...

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US labor and environmental groups submit comments to the Commerce Department saying draft health and environmental assessments for new chip factories fall short (Justine Calma/The Verge)

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Stephen Chamberlain, who faced the same charges as Mike Lynch over Autonomy's sale, died after a road accident, per his lawyer, days before Lynch went missing (Reuters)

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Q&A with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on AI, GitHub Copilot, letting developers test AI models in GitHub, open-source AI models, working within Microsoft, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on AI, GitHub Co...

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Business groups including Asia Internet Coalition, which includes Amazon, Google, and Meta, criticize Hong Kong's new cyber rules, calling them "unprecedented" (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Apple plans to make iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max in India for the first time as Foxconn rushes to produce the high-end models closer to the global debut (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple plans to make iPhone 16 Pro and Pro...

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PhonePe and Google Pay accounted for over 85% share of 14.4B UPI transactions in July; PhonePe led with 5.9B transactions, Google Pay 5.3B, and Paytm 1.1B (Digbijay Mishra/The Economic Times)

PhonePe and Google Pay accounted for over 85% shar...

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Cisco Talos: eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's macOS apps could be abused by attackers to record video/sound from a user's device, log user input, and more (Connor Jones/The Register)

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Ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who was acquitted on US fraud charges in June, is among six missing after a yacht sank off Sicily, according to Italian authorities (Associated Press)

Ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who was acquitted on U...

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Donald Trump shared AI-generated images on Truth Social that show Taylor Swift and her fans vowing their support for his campaign; Swift hasn't endorsed Trump (Nick Robins-Early/The Guardian)

Donald Trump shared AI-generated images on Truth S...

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The FBI and US intelligence agencies say they are "confident" that Iran was responsible for recent attempted hacks into the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns (Perry Stein/Washington Post)

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Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $2.2B, vs. $2.16B est., FY 2025 revenue guidance above est., and increases its share buyback by $500M to $1B (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY t...

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Gemini Live is not too useful as a premium feature as it lacks many integrations that text-based Gemini supports and cannot yet interpret images or video (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Gemini Live is not too useful as a premium feature...

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University professors still face the seemingly impossible task of detecting AI-fueled cheating, which continues unabated on both small and large assignments (Ian Bogost/The Atlantic)

University professors still face the seemingly imp...

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A week after data broker NPD confirmed a breach, which reportedly impacted 272M+ people, a review of NPD property Records Check shows exposed admin credentials (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

A week after data broker NPD confirmed a breach, w...

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Apple debuts a web app for Podcasts, letting users log in to listen to podcasts, view the Up Next queue and library, and browse new shows, at podcasts.apple.com (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Apple debuts a web app for Podcasts, letting users...

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Google will end the Google Play Security Reward Program, introduced in 2017 to incentivize researchers to find bugs in popular Android apps, on August 31 (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

Google will end the Google Play Security Reward Pr...

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Fabric Cryptography, a startup working on a "verifiable processing unit" chip for cryptography, raised a $33M Series A co-led by Blockchain Capital and 1kx (Bradley Keoun/CoinDesk)

Fabric Cryptography, a startup working on a "verif...

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Waymo unveils its cheaper "generation 6" self-driving tech that's integrated with Geely Zeekr vehicles, with 13 cameras and 4 lidar sensors, down from 29 and 5 (CNBC)

Waymo unveils its cheaper "generation 6" self-driv...

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Raspberry Pi launches a Raspberry Pi 5 with 2GB of RAM for $50, alongside the existing 4GB model for $60 and 8GB for $80, and may release a future 1GB model (Les Pounder/Tom's Hardware)

Raspberry Pi launches a Raspberry Pi 5 with 2GB of...

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Source: GM is cutting over 1,000 software engineers, including 600+ in Michigan, as the automaker moves to lean up its software and services organization (David Welch/Bloomberg)

Source: GM is cutting over 1,000 software engineer...

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Procreate CEO James Cuda says the iPad illustration app is "not going to be introducing any generative AI into our products", drawing praise from creatives (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Procreate CEO James Cuda says the iPad illustratio...

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Girls In Tech, Women Who Code, and other groups that aimed to diversify Silicon Valley are closing or rebranding to stay afloat, as critics attack DEI efforts (Washington Post)

Girls In Tech, Women Who Code, and other groups th...

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In Q2, Walmart said its ad business grew 30% in the past year; eMarketer says Walmart will claim 6.8% of 2024 US retail media spending, for $3.7B in ad revenue (Gregory Meyer/Financial Times)

In Q2, Walmart said its ad business grew 30% in th...

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After Google's antitrust loss, what comes next is not clear, besides the court ordering Google to stop or reduce TAC payments; Apple may build its own search (Benedict Evans)

After Google's antitrust loss, what comes next is ...

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AMD agrees to buy New Jersey-based ZT Systems, founded in 1994 to design and make servers, server racks, and other infrastructure, for $4.9B, closing in H1 2025 (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

AMD agrees to buy New Jersey-based ZT Systems, fou...

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Carta: 254 of its VC-backed clients went bust in Q1 2024 and the startup bankruptcy rate is over 7x that of 2019, as funds raised in the 2021-2022 boom run out (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Carta: 254 of its VC-backed clients went bust in Q...

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Roblox has grown rapidly and consistently since 2018 and now sees an estimated average of 80M+ daily and 380M+ monthly users, over 2x that of Steam or Minecraft (Matthew Ball/MatthewBall.co)

Roblox has grown rapidly and consistently since 20...

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FOI docs: water consumption by data centers in Virginia, home to world's largest cluster of data centers, reached 1.85B+ gallons in 2023, up from 1.13B in 2019 (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)

FOI docs: water consumption by data centers in Vir...

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How Worldcoin is building its World ID identity system, trying to assuage government and privacy activists' concerns about its iris scanning tech and data usage (Angus Berwick/Wall Street Journal)

How Worldcoin is building its World ID identity sy...

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Arize AI: 56% of Fortune 500 companies cited AI as a "risk factor" in their recent annual reports, up from 9% in 2022; 86% of software firms cited AI as a risk (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

Arize AI: 56% of Fortune 500 companies cited AI as...

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