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Intel should spin off its foundry business, and the US government should subsidize cutting-edge chipmaking in the US via purchase guarantees for US-made chips (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Intel should spin off its foundry business, and th...

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A look at X's shrinking clout in Brazil even before the ban; Twitter, the platform now known as X, once dominated Brazilian social media with 40M+ users (Terrence McCoy/Washington Post)

A look at X's shrinking clout in Brazil even befor...

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Amid poor sales, Sony halts sales and offers refunds for its FPS game Concord, which launched as a $40 PS5 and PC title on August 23 after years of development (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Amid poor sales, Sony halts sales and offers refun...

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Financial analysis: Reed O'Connor, a Texas federal judge overseeing X v. Media Matters, has at least three potential connections with Elon Musk-related entities (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Financial analysis: Reed O'Connor, a Texas federal...

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Researchers detail a side channel attack, requiring ~$11K of worth of equipment, which can be used to clone all YubiKeys running firmware prior to version 5.7 (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Researchers detail a side channel attack, requirin...

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Microsoft says Intel's Core Ultra 200V and AMD's Ryzen AI 300 chips will add Copilot+ AI features starting in November 2024, expanding beyond Qualcomm chips (Will Shanklin/Engadget)

Microsoft says Intel's Core Ultra 200V and AMD's R...

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A test of ~1,300 top games on Microsoft's new Copilot+ PCs finds only about half ran smoothly; Microsoft says some titles with demanding graphics may not play (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)

A test of ~1,300 top games on Microsoft's new Copi...

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Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans and was co-founded by Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, launches in London, its first city outside Sweden (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans...

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China-based MiniMax launches video-01, its text-to-video AI model that generates six-second clips with 1280x720 resolution at 25 fps (Ryan Morrison/Tom's Guide)

China-based MiniMax launches video-01, its text-to...

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The White House publishes a roadmap to shore up the weak security of the Border Gateway Protocol, which has long been vulnerable to route hijacking (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

The White House publishes a roadmap to shore up th...

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Docs: Trump's crypto project, World Liberty Financial, is a DeFi lending service with four members who worked on Dough Finance, a similar app hacked in July (CoinDesk)

Docs: Trump's crypto project, World Liberty Financ...

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Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI execs have been meeting with investors to advance a deal to spend tens of billions to build infrastructure for AI in the US (Bloomberg)

Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI execs have be...

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Pico 4 Ultra review: with imprecise hand tracking and few good MR apps, ByteDance's $600 headset is far behind the Quest 3 and works well only as a PC VR device (Josef Erl/MIXED Reality News)

Pico 4 Ultra review: with imprecise hand tracking ...

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In an internal letter, Snap CEO tries to rally staff amid a 48% stock price drop this year, says Snap will test new ad formats in the chat inbox and on Snap Map (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)

In an internal letter, Snap CEO tries to rally sta...

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Volkswagen rolls out its ChatGPT-integrated Plus Speech voice assistant in the US, starting with the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI; a subscription is required (Wes Davis/The Verge)

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Volkswagen rolls out its ChatGPT-integrated Plus Speech voice assistant in the US, starting with the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI; a subscription is required (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Volkswagen rolls out its ChatGPT-integrated Plus S...

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DOJ says it won't pressure social media companies to remove content about foreign threats to national security or elections, after claims platforms were coerced (Chris Strohm/Bloomberg)

DOJ says it won't pressure social media companies ...

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South Korea's media regulator says Telegram has complied with its request to remove 25 pieces of sexual exploitation material (Kim Na-young/Yonhap News Agency)

South Korea's media regulator says Telegram has co...

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Sources: the DOJ sent subpoenas to Nvidia and others, as it seeks evidence that Nvidia violated antitrust laws by making it harder to switch suppliers and more (Bloomberg)

Sources: the DOJ sent subpoenas to Nvidia and othe...

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Starlink says it's now complying with an order from a Brazilian Supreme Court justice to block access to X in Brazil, after the country froze some of its assets (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Starlink says it's now complying with an order fro...

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Semiconductor stocks fell on Tuesday, led by Nvidia, which dropped 9.53%; Intel fell 8.8%, Marvell 8.16%, AMD 7.82%, Qualcomm 6.88%, and Broadcom 6.16% (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Semiconductor stocks fell on Tuesday, led by Nvidi...

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The US FTC says that the money lost to Bitcoin ATM scams increased from $12M in 2020 to $114M in 2023, and $65M has already been lost in the first half of 2024 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

The US FTC says that the money lost to Bitcoin ATM...

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SEMI data: China spent a record $25B on chip tools in H1 2024, more than South Korea, Taiwan, and the US combined, and total spending could hit $50B in 2024 (Nikkei Asia)

SEMI data: China spent a record $25B on chip tools...

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Bluesky says that, as of September 2, it had added over 2M new users in the past week, in the wake of Brazil's ban on X (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky says that, as of September 2, it had added...

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Pixel 9 Pro Fold impressions: a great upgrade from the Pixel Fold, better hinge and display crease, but it's heavy and apps struggle to fit new aspect ratio (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Pixel 9 Pro Fold impressions: a great upgrade from...

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Instagram adds a comment feature for Stories; by default, only followers you follow back can leave comments (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Instagram adds a comment feature for Stories; by d...

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Dutch regulator fines Clearview AI €30.5M, following fines from the UK, France, Australia, and Italy, but Clearview says it is not subject to GDPR (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Dutch regulator fines Clearview AI €30.5M, fo...

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Intel debuts its Core Ultra 200V lineup, touting AI performance, to ship in laptops Sept. 24 and rival Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and AMD's Strix Point chips (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Intel debuts its Core Ultra 200V lineup, touting A...

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A deepfake porn crisis has hit 500+ Korean schools, as police investigate crime rings targeting two major universities and say a probe into Telegram may follow (Jean Mackenzie/BBC)

A deepfake porn crisis has hit 500+ Korean schools...

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Elon Musk said xAI brought its "Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online" over the weekend, which will "double in size to 200k (50k H200s) in a few months" (Christiaan Hetzner/Fortune)

Elon Musk said xAI brought its "Colossus 100k H100...

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Spotter launches Spotter Studio, a set of AI tools that analyze 2B+ top performing YouTube videos to help creators brainstorm video ideas, and more, for $49/mo. (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Spotter launches Spotter Studio, a set of AI tools...

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Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, and their PACs haven't donated to Trump or Harris, instead pursuing a strategy of targeted donations to congressional campaigns (Bloomberg)

Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, and their PACs haven't ...

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Some Big Tech critics worry that Kamala Harris' deep ties to tech companies could prompt her to abandon Democrats' recent aggressive stance toward the sector (Washington Post)

Some Big Tech critics worry that Kamala Harris' de...

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Canva announces price raises, including hikes of 300% for some users, citing its new generative AI features, as it prepares for a US IPO (Denham Sadler/Information Age)

Canva announces price raises, including hikes of 3...

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SAP CTO Juergen Mueller says he will leave the company by the end of September because of inappropriate conduct at a past company event (Sonja Wind/Bloomberg)

SAP CTO Juergen Mueller says he will leave the com...

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Zilch says it made an operating profit in July 2024, hitting profitability within four years of its founding date, and crossed £100M in annual revenue run rate (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Zilch says it made an operating profit in July 202...

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Dubai-based Ziina, a P2P payments app with 50,000 retail and business customers, raised a $22M Series A led by Altos, bringing its total funding to $30M+ (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Dubai-based Ziina, a P2P payments app with 50,000 ...

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Sources: Apple will use OLED displays in all iPhone models sold from next year, switching its lower-priced iPhone SE models to OLED screens from LCDs (Yuka Konishi/Nikkei Asia)

Sources: Apple will use OLED displays in all iPhon...

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Sources detail OpenAI's struggles to transform into a no-nonsense, profit-driven company; 80% of its 1,700+ staff started after ChatGPT's November 2022 release (New York Times)

Sources detail OpenAI's struggles to transform int...

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The use of AI techniques has accelerated and improved drug discovery efforts, in the face of rising antibiotic resistance due to drug overuse (Dhruv Khullar/New Yorker)

The use of AI techniques has accelerated and impro...

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Seven leading SEO experts and publisher audience strategists on changing their approach due to Google Search AI Overviews, how it may alter traffic, and more (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

Seven leading SEO experts and publisher audience s...

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Sources: Huawei's Ascend chips still lag far behind Nvidia's for model training and have stability issues, slower inter-chip connectivity, and inferior software (Financial Times)

Sources: Huawei's Ascend chips still lag far behin...

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Sources: Huawei's Ascend chips still lag far behind Nvidia's for model training and have stability issues, slower inter-chip connectivity, and inferior software (Financial Times)

Sources: Huawei's Ascend chips still lag far behin...

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Doccla, whose "virtual bed" tech helps doctors monitor patients remotely, raised a $46M Series B led by Lakestar after raising a $17M Series A in September 2022 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Doccla, whose "virtual bed" tech helps doctors mon...

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For developing designers, there’s magic in 2.737 (Mechatronics)

For developing designers, there’s magic in 2.737 (...

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HP says it intends to pursue its $4B damages claim in London against the estate of the recently deceased Mike Lynch; HP won the false accounting case in 2022 (Jonathan Browning/Bloomberg)

HP says it intends to pursue its $4B damages claim...

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A look at the growing use of tablets in US prisons, letting inmates make calls, send messages, and more, as the FCC imposes price caps on voice and video calls (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)

A look at the growing use of tablets in US prisons...

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Elon Musk boosts a post disparaging the abilities of "women and low T men", advocating for a "Republic of high status males", and mentioning a "Reich effect" (Ellsworth Toohey/Boing Boing)

Elon Musk boosts a post disparaging the abilities ...

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A US judge issued a last-minute partial block on Texas law HB 18, that would require some large web services to identify minors and filter what they see online (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

A US judge issued a last-minute partial block on T...

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Starlink, which has 250K customers in Brazil, told Brazil's telecom agency that it would not comply with orders to block X until its frozen assets were released (Jack Nicas/New York Times)

Starlink, which has 250K customers in Brazil, told...

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