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Australian police say they infiltrated Ghost, a global encrypted communications app developed for criminals, arresting dozens, including the app's alleged admin (Rod McGuirk/Associated Press)

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GoTo signs a five-year cloud infrastructure deal with Alibaba, which has agreed to not sell down its 7.5% stake in GoTo any further for the duration of the deal (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

GoTo signs a five-year cloud infrastructure deal w...

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NYC-based GreenLite, which aims to standardize the construction permitting process across multiple jurisdictions, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Craft Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

NYC-based GreenLite, which aims to standardize the...

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Sources: the US is urging Vietnam to avoid cable-laying firm HMN Technologies and other Chinese companies in Vietnam's plans for 10 new subsea cables by 2030 (Reuters)

Sources: the US is urging Vietnam to avoid cable-l...

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CA Gov. Newsom signs three laws regulating election AI deepfakes, including holding large online platforms liable for not removing content after a user's report (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

CA Gov. Newsom signs three laws regulating electio...

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is concerned about the potential "chilling effect" of AI safety bill SB 1047, which awaits his signature, on AI development (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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The GSM Association plans to enable E2EE on messages between Android and iOS; Google is working to bring cross-platform E2EE to RCS chats "as soon as possible" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

The GSM Association plans to enable E2EE on messag...

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Sources: Apple's A16 SoC is currently being manufactured at Phase 1 of TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona in small, but significant, numbers (Tim Culpan/Tim Culpan's Position)

Sources: Apple's A16 SoC is currently being manufa...

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The Pentagon will award $269M to 33 chip research projects across the US via Chips Act funding to bolster semiconductor efforts for the military (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

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Neuralink says Blindsight, its experimental implant aimed at restoring vision, has received the US FDA's "breakthrough device" designation (Bhanvi Satija/Reuters)

Neuralink says Blindsight, its experimental implan...

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Microsoft: starting in late August, Russian cyber operatives focused on Harris' campaign, with disinfo including videos spread by a site posing as a news outlet (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Microsoft: starting in late August, Russian cyber ...

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California Governor Gavin Newsom signs two bills restricting the use of AI replicas of performers, building on protections SAG-AFTRA sought in its 2023 strike (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs two bills r...

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Sources: BlackRock is aiming to launch a $30B+ AI investment fund with Microsoft, to build data centers and energy projects that meet the growing demands of AI (Financial Times)

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Discord says it is beginning to roll out end-to-end encryption to voice and video chats in DMs, Group DMs, voice channels, and Go Live streams (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Discord says it is beginning to roll out end-to-en...

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Dreamforce 2024 takeaways: Salesforce upgrades all customers from Einstein Copilot to Agentforce, Slack is positioned as an agentic AI-enhanced work OS, more (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Dreamforce 2024 takeaways: Salesforce upgrades all...

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Mozilla says it will shut down its Mastodon server, Mozilla.social, giving users until December 17 to export their data and migrate to another instance (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Mozilla says it will shut down its Mastodon server...

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Pew survey: 17% of US adults say they regularly get news on TikTok in 2024, up from 14% in 2023 and 3% in 2020; 39% aged 18 to 29 do so, up from 32% a year ago (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg)

Pew survey: 17% of US adults say they regularly ge...

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Workday acquires Evisort, an AI-powered contract management service that had raised $155.6M in capital and debt (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Workday acquires Evisort, an AI-powered contract m...

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Snap unveils new Spectacles it will lease to devs creating Snapchat AR lenses, with a more immersive display, longer battery life, and a more lightweight design (Alex Heath/The Verge)

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Snapchat gets a redesign, simplifying from five to three tabs including a new unified For You feed of full-screen videos from publishers and creators (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Snapchat gets a redesign, simplifying from five to...

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Snap debuts a tool to let creators generate AI videos from text prompts and, soon, from image prompts, powered by Snap's own foundational video models (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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IBM acquires Kubecost, a FinOps startup launched in 2019 that helps companies monitor and optimize Kubernetes clusters; Kubecost had raised $30M+ in funding (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

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Google plans to flag AI-generated images that have C2PA metadata on Search, Google Lens, and Circle to Search in the "about this image" box, within a few months (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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The EU picks veteran Finnish lawmaker Henna Virkkunen to take over from Thierry Breton, pending her confirmation; Virkkunen was central in creating the DSA (Bloomberg)

The EU picks veteran Finnish lawmaker Henna Virkku...

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The US FDIC proposes rules for banks holding customer funds for money management apps, to track customers' balances, citing harms done when Synapse cratered (Emily Flitter/New York Times)

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Uber says it plans to start checking US passengers' account info against third-party ID verification databases; drivers will be able to see a user's blue badge (Curtis Heinzl/Bloomberg)

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Wintermute partners with Chaos Labs to launch a crypto-based betting site focused on the US presidential election; Polymarket has ~$1B in wagers on that contest (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

Wintermute partners with Chaos Labs to launch a cr...

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Armenian startup EasyDMARC, which uses the DMARC standard to simplify email security and authentication, raised a $20M Series A led by Radian Capital (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

Armenian startup EasyDMARC, which uses the DMARC s...

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Google plans to use C2PA's standard to identify images taken with a camera, edited in tools like Photoshop, or made using AI via its "about this image" feature (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Google plans to use C2PA's standard to identify im...

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Denver-based Hotel Engine, a hotel booking and management service, now called Engine, raised a $140M Series C at a $2.1B valuation, up from $1.3B in late 2021 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Denver-based Hotel Engine, a hotel booking and man...

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Microsoft calls for "clarity and consistency" over US export controls that have held up shipping AI chips to UAE-based G42, in which Microsoft invested $1.5B (Financial Times)

Microsoft calls for "clarity and consistency" over...

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Apple Watch Series 10 review: bigger display, wide-angle OLED, faster charging, and sleep apnea detection, but no blood oxygen and another year of minor updates (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Apple Watch Series 10 review: bigger display, wide...

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Instagram unveils Teen Accounts, a sweeping update to boost privacy and limit intrusive effects for under-18 users, including making accounts private by default (New York Times)

Instagram unveils Teen Accounts, a sweeping update...

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How Netflix staged a remarkable recovery since its 2022 stock crash, adding 45M+ subscribers via a password crackdown and gaining an edge over Hollywood rivals (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)

How Netflix staged a remarkable recovery since its...

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EssilorLuxottica and Meta agree a 10-year deal to continue developing smart eyewear, after creating two generations of Ray-Ban glasses since 2019 (Reuters)

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OpenAI confirms fixing an issue "where it appeared as though ChatGPT was starting new conversations", after users reported ChatGPT reaching out proactively (Victor Tangermann/Futurism)

OpenAI confirms fixing an issue "where it appeared...

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OpenAI confirms fixing an issue "where it appeared as though ChatGPT was starting new conversations", after users reported ChatGPT reaching out proactively (Victor Tangermann/Futurism)

OpenAI confirms fixing an issue "where it appeared...

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A look at France's LOPMI law, enacted in January 2023 to criminalize tech executives whose platforms allow illegal activities, as Pavel Durov remains on bail (Gabriel Stargardter/Reuters)

A look at France's LOPMI law, enacted in January 2...

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German grocery delivery app Flink raised $115M in equity and $35M in debt, sources say at a valuation just under $1B; Flink has raised $1.5B+, per PitchBook (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

German grocery delivery app Flink raised $115M in ...

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A look at Shenzhen-based Transsion, whose Infinix and Tecno command about 50% of Africa's smartphone market and are finding success in Asia and the Middle East (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

A look at Shenzhen-based Transsion, whose Infinix ...

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Q&A with Philips CEO Roy Jakobs on evolving the company, a three-year restructuring plan, laying off 10,000 staff, FDA litigation, AI in healthcare, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Philips CEO Roy Jakobs on evolving the co...

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Revolut is preparing to launch its services in India in 2025, in an effort to expand outside Europe, which accounted for more than 90% of its sales in 2023 (Financial Times)

Revolut is preparing to launch its services in Ind...

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Trump launches World Liberty Financial, a DeFi lending project on Ethereum underpinned by the WLFI governance token; up to 63% of WLFI to be sold to the public (Jason Shubnell/The Block)

Trump launches World Liberty Financial, a DeFi len...

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A look at the activity of some members of The Com, an online community linked to the Scattered Spider hacking group, and their involvement in extortion groups (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

A look at the activity of some members of The Com,...

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A US federal jury finds Zynga infringed on two IBM patents related to web-based communications and orders the game maker to pay $44.9M; Zynga plans to appeal (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

A US federal jury finds Zynga infringed on two IBM...

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Meta says it's banning Russian media outlet RT from its apps globally, days after the Biden admin accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow's spy agencies (NBC News)

Meta says it's banning Russian media outlet RT fro...

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At an Oracle investor Q&A, Larry Ellison pitched a future where AI systems would constantly monitor citizens through an extensive network of cameras and drones (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

At an Oracle investor Q&A, Larry Ellison pitched a...

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Microsoft unveils a $60B stock buyback program, matching its largest-ever repurchase authorization, and raises its quarterly dividend by 10% to $0.83 per share (Andrew Pollack/Bloomberg)

Microsoft unveils a $60B stock buyback program, ma...

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Runway announces an API for its video-generating AI model Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, with two plans available via a waitlist, starting at $0.01 per credit (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat)

Runway announces an API for its video-generating A...

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The US awards Intel up to an additional $3B under the CHIPS and Science Act for the Secure Enclave program to expand the supply of microelectronics for the DOD (Kristian Burt/CNBC)

The US awards Intel up to an additional $3B under ...

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