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A look at the surge of interest-based sites as users grow weary of big platforms; MAUs for Letterboxd, Strava, and AllTrails grew 55%, 20%, and 10% YoY in H1 (Teresa Xie/Bloomberg)

A look at the surge of interest-based sites as use...

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A look at France's J3 cybercrime unit behind Sky ECC and Encrochat prosecutions, which now leads the case against Telegram's Pavel Durov (Gabriel Stargardter/Reuters)

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Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are building or testing AI tools and chatbots to generate icebreakers, coach users, and more, in a bid to bring back users (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are building or ...

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Big YouTube shows including Hot Ones and Good Mythical Morning attract large audiences but aren't yet getting Primetime Emmy nominations and ensuing ad revenue (Wall Street Journal)

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How Brazil's experiment to fight fake news during the 2022 elections, giving a justice broad power to order social media content removal, led to the ban on X (New York Times)

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A look at the farcical situation at Bolt as it insists in a letter that Silverbear is on the hook to invest $200M; Source: Bolt lost $310M on $27M 2023 revenue (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

A look at the farcical situation at Bolt as it ins...

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In a lawsuit, OSOM's ex-chief privacy officer alleges that the CEO of the smartphone startup misused funds to pay for his racing hobby and lavish lifestyle (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

In a lawsuit, OSOM's ex-chief privacy officer alle...

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Bluesky reports a record spike in usage as many X users in Brazil move to Bluesky and Threads; Brazil is X's fifth-largest international market, with 20M+ users (New York Times)

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Coatue founder Philippe Laffont has left the board of ByteDance following a report that Coatue was considering selling a portion of its ByteDance stake (The Information)

Coatue founder Philippe Laffont has left the board...

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A profile of Alexandre de Moraes as even some supp...

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X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust "hostage laws," but Elon Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's demands (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust "hostage...

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A reporter tries fixing his reputation with AI chatbots, including by adding a "strategic text sequence" to data sources, and via an AI optimization startup (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

A reporter tries fixing his reputation with AI cha...

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Seagate Game Drive M.2 SSD for PS5 review: easy to recommend

Seagate Game Drive M.2 SSD for PS5 review: easy to...

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How the Israeli army's Unit 8200 became an incubator for cybersecurity startups, with its alumni starting Wiz, Palo Alto Networks, and other companies (Wall Street Journal)

How the Israeli army's Unit 8200 became an incubat...

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It's time for audio services like Spotify to deal with AI by using labels and banning or downweighting music made with AI tools that don't license training data (Ed Newton-Rex/Music Business Worldwide)

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Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 protections is in jeopardy after a US court ruled TikTok's algorithmic curation is not protected by Section 230 (Matt Stoller/BIG)

Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 pr...

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Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot maker Covariant and ~25% of its staff, and signs a non-exclusive license to Covariant's robotic foundation models (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot make...

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A Texas federal judge who held Tesla stock denies a motion to dismiss X's lawsuit accusing Media Matters of misrepresenting the amount of extremist content on X (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

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An analysis of 6,599 keywords shows Google is offering AI Overviews for 17% of queries in the UK and US, but rarely for searches about current events (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)

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Brazilian judge orders Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app in Brazil and says those using a VPN to access X would face a fine of ~$9,000 a day (New York Times)

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has over 185M weekly active users and over 400M MAUs and it's "growing quickly" even without a rollout "in UK, Brazil, or EU yet" (Kalley Huang/The Information)

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has over 185M weekly ...

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Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country (Associated Press)

Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Morae...

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Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a now-patched zero-day in a Chromium core engine to steal crypto from organizations (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group earlie...

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Telegram's 2023 financials: $342.5M revenue, 40% of which came from crypto-related line items, and $108M operating loss; it had holdings of ~$400M in Toncoin (Financial Times)

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Sources: OpenAI is in discussions about changing its corporate structure to become more investor-friendly, including removing a cap on profits for investors (Financial Times)

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LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims has been "thoroughly cleaned" of CSAM (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to tr...

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The City of Columbus, OH, sues security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of sharing data stolen by a ransomware gang with media (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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Google says Search AI Overviews, Gemini image generation, and other AI products will not respond to election-related topics ahead of the US elections (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Google says Search AI Overviews, Gemini image gene...

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Sources: the cryptology part of France's charges against Pavel Durov raises concerns at providers of messaging apps with E2EE, like Signal, Apple, and WhatsApp (New York Times)

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Investor note: 360 One values Indian startup VerSe, which operates popular news aggregator Dailyhunt, at $2.9B, down from $5B in April 2022 when it raised $805M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Investor note: 360 One values Indian startup VerSe...

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Once hesitant to openly comment about politics, German tech leaders publicly voice their opposition to the far-right AfD ahead of Sunday's state elections (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)

Once hesitant to openly comment about politics, Ge...

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Steam Deck OLED review: a decent upgrade, but left me wanting more

Steam Deck OLED review: a decent upgrade, but left...

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AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep its website and articles live indefinitely (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)

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Huione Guarantee, a Cambodia-based online marketplace that facilitates pig butchering and other scams, has processed $49B+ in crypto transactions since 2021 (Chainalysis)

Huione Guarantee, a Cambodia-based online marketpl...

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A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk and Tesla pumped up Dogecoin into a "pyramid scheme", finding that Musk's statements were "aspirational" (Rachel Graf/Bloomberg)

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As Russia plans a trial of cross-border payments using crypto, some senior Russian leaders suggest it can help counter sanctions; experts doubt it will work (CoinDesk)

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Sources: Amazon's revamped "Remarkable" Alexa, due for release in October, will be powered by Anthropic's Claude, with plans to charge users $5 to $10/month (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Sources: Amazon's revamped "Remarkable" Alexa, due...

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China's top antitrust regulator says it has seen "effective results" that Alibaba has ceased the monopolistic practices that prompted an investigation in 2020 (Bloomberg)

China's top antitrust regulator says it has seen "...

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A look at Google's HeAR, a bioacoustics healthcare AI model trained 300M sounds, including 100M cough sounds, to analyze users' coughs and detect tuberculosis (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

A look at Google's HeAR, a bioacoustics healthcare...

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Sources: Tencent and NetEase reconsider or scale back Japanese game studio investments, after the strategy yielded few hit games and the Chinese market revived (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Intel explores options to cope with historic slump, including a split of its product and foundry units and potentially scrapping some factory projects (Bloomberg)

Sources: Intel explores options to cope with histo...

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Analysts and industry execs say Nvidia's Blackwell engineering challenges stem from combining two new processors and several memory components in a single chip (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

Analysts and industry execs say Nvidia's Blackwell...

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Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises $340M at a $5B valuation, up from $3.6B in June 2024, in a round led by General Catalyst (Reuters)

Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises...

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Alibaba releases Qwen2-VL, a new AI model that it says can analyze videos longer than 20 minutes to summarize and answer questions about the videos' content (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Alibaba releases Qwen2-VL, a new AI model that it ...

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Google rolls out Gmail Q&A, a feature that allows users who pay for Gemini to chat with and use the AI assistant for their emails, on Android and soon on iOS (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Google rolls out Gmail Q&A, a feature that allows ...

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A US district judge dismisses, with prejudice, a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk and Tesla of defrauding investors by hyping Dogecoin and conducting insider trading (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

A US district judge dismisses, with prejudice, a l...

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Bridge, which aims to build a global payment network around stablecoins, raised $40M led by Sequoia and Ribbit, taking its total funding to $58M (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

Bridge, which aims to build a global payment netwo...

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MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $478.1M, vs. $464.1M est., and forecasts Q3 and FY 2025 revenue above estimates; MDB jumps 13%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $478.1M, ...

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Meta is opening up Horizon Worlds to users aged 10 to 12 with parental approval, and rolls out a new age rating system for worlds to help parents supervise kids (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Meta is opening up Horizon Worlds to users aged 10...

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Source: a Brazilian Supreme Court justice blocks Starlink bank accounts in Brazil, to force Elon Musk to pay X's fines; the court has also threatened to block X (Daniel Carvalho/Bloomberg)

Source: a Brazilian Supreme Court justice blocks S...

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