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India's Open Network for Digital Commerce expands into financial services, starting with APIs for digital lending, and adds nine lending service providers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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The US charges Deniss Zolotarjovs, a member of the Russian Karakurt ransomware group that has ties to Conti, with money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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Apple unveils iOS 18 changes to comply with the EU's DMA: browser choice screen updates, more default app settings, and letting users delete some system apps (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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Letter and sources: nearly 200 Google DeepMind workers, or 5% of its overall headcount, signed a letter dated May 16 calling to drop its military contracts (Billy Perrigo/TIME)

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Dublin, California-based Opkey, which provides AI-based ERP testing software, raised a $47M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Dublin, California-based Opkey, which provides AI-...

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Instagram announces a Myspace-like feature to let ...

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The Kamala Harris campaign launches a Twitch channel, and plans to stream her DNC address there; the campaign has hired 175+ staff to work across digital (Makena Kelly/Wired)

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Meta confirms users can now cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads globally, after rolling out Instagram and Facebook cross-posting in 2021 (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

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Ticketing service TickPick raised $250M from Brighton Park, which now has a majority stake, and Symphony; the app has 2M MAUs and processes nearly $1B annually (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg)

Ticketing service TickPick raised $250M from Brigh...

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Mike Lynch experienced some of the most extreme career highs and lows of any British tech entrepreneur, selling Autonomy for $11B before a 12-year legal ordeal (Financial Times)

Mike Lynch experienced some of the most extreme ca...

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The NHTSA closes a preliminary probe into Cruise's hard-braking and immobilization issues in 1,194 autonomous ride-hailing vehicles, after Cruise made updates (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

The NHTSA closes a preliminary probe into Cruise's...

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Chinese self-driving startup WeRide delays its planned IPO in the US, citing its need for more time to complete documents, after filing for an IPO in July 2024 (CNBC)

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Chinese self-driving startup WeRide delays its planned IPO in the US, citing its need for more time to complete documents, after filing for an IPO in July 2024 (CNBC)

Chinese self-driving startup WeRide delays its pla...

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Chinese government data: Chinese companies imported $25.9B of chip machinery in January to July 2024, passing $23.8B in 2021, $21.6B in 2022, and $18B in 2023 (James Mayger/Bloomberg)

Chinese government data: Chinese companies importe...

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Interviews with dozens of Byju's staff and other sources show a growing sense of desperation, as its insolvency rumbles on; some staff weigh their legal options (Reuters)

Interviews with dozens of Byju's staff and other s...

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Microsoft, Amazon, and others plan to use old power stations and industrial sites for data centers, as land and power in many markets are "heavily constrained" (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)

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Walmart's China business is booming, driven by its Sam's Club memberships; Walmart says e-commerce orders delivered within one hour rose 28% to 59M last quarter (Bloomberg)

Walmart's China business is booming, driven by its...

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Baidu reports Q2 revenue flat YoY to ~$4.67B, vs. ~$4.7B est., net income down 8% YoY to ~$1B, vs. ~$900M est., online marketing revenue down 2% YoY to ~$2.7B (Reuters)

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Researchers: a network of 200+ Russia-linked X accounts shows how Russian trolls are trying to go viral, including low-quality, high-volume replies to Elon Musk (Wall Street Journal)

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The FCC says Lingo Telecom agreed to pay a $1M fine after the agency said Lingo transmitted fake robocalls imitating President Joe Biden in New Hampshire (David Shepardson/Reuters)

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Twitch plans to raise its new Tier 1 sub and gift sub prices on mobile in 40+ countries on October 1; in an email, Twitch says Tier 1 will rise by $2 to $7.99 (Michael Gwilliam/Dexerto)

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Italian officials: UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's body has been recovered from the wreckage of the superyacht Bayesian, which sank three days ago off Sicily (Financial Times)

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A look at the facial recognition systems becoming common at major league sporting venues, like the MLB's Go-Ahead Entry, as privacy advocates raise concerns (Caroline Haskins/Wired)

A look at the facial recognition systems becoming ...

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A look at interoperability challenges to the adoption of the C2PA's authentication standard, including the lack of support for C2PA metadata in cameras (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Neuralink says surgery for its second human implant "went well" and the patient, who had a spinal cord injury, can design 3D objects and play Counter-Strike 2 (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

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The unsealed list of X Holdings shareholders names nearly 100 entities, including 8VC, Italy-based UnipolSai S.P.A., and a fund linked with Sean "Diddy" Combs (Trisha Thadani/Washington Post)

The unsealed list of X Holdings shareholders names...

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LiteSpeed Cache, the top WordPress site acceleration plugin, had a critical flaw that left sites open to takeover attacks; 2M+ sites are likely still vulnerable (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

LiteSpeed Cache, the top WordPress site accelerati...

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Zomato acquires Paytm's entertainment ticketing business for $244.1M; the division contributed about 9% to Paytm's overall revenues in Q1 2024 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Zomato acquires Paytm's entertainment ticketing bu...

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A US district judge rules X Holdings should unseal its corporate disclosure statement by September 4, revealing X and xAI shareholders fully for the first time (Kali Hays/Fortune)

A US district judge rules X Holdings should unseal...

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In a letter to Sen. Scott Wiener, OpenAI says California's AI safety bill would hurt innovation and that AI safety regulation should come from the federal level (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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Snowflake reports Q2 revenue up 29% YoY to $868.8M and raises its FY 2025 product revenue forecast, but not its margin forecast; SNOW drops 7%+ after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

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Google and the state of California strike a deal to jointly contribute $125M+ over five years to support local news; it also includes support for an AI project (Politico)

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Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 2.1% YoY to $1.16B, vs. $1.15B est., enterprise revenue up 3.5% YoY to $682.8M, and a Q3 revenue forecast beating estimates (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 2.1% YoY to $1.16B, vs....

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Microsoft says Recall will be available to Windows Insiders in October; it delayed the launch of the AI feature in June after security concerns were raised (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft says Recall will be available to Windows...

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Sources: Apple App Store VP Matt Fischer is leaving in October; App Store group will split into two teams, one for its own store, one for alt app distribution (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple App Store VP Matt Fischer is leavin...

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Users in Russia report outages affecting Telegram, WhatsApp, and other services; Roskomnadzor blames a DDoS attack, while activists suspect Kremlin interference (Meduza)

Users in Russia report outages affecting Telegram,...

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Duane Boning named vice provost for international activities

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Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL review: great build quality, brighter screens, faster fingerprint sensors, but the AI features are inconsistent and all over the place (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

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Microsoft announces the $30 Xbox Adaptive Joystick, a wired companion to other Xbox controllers, for players with limited mobility, launching in early 2025 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Public Citizen: crypto companies have spent $119M+ in the 2024 election cycle through Q2, or 48% of all corporate money, an "unprecedented" spending spree (Brendan Pedersen/Punchbowl News)

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Public Citizen: crypto companies have spent $119M+ in the 2024 election cycle through Q2, or 48% of all corporate money, an "unprecedented" spending spree (Brendan Pedersen/Punchbowl News)

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Interviews with US political campaigns and tech companies: despite offers from 30+ companies for AI products, most campaigns are wary and largely not biting (Sheera Frenkel/New York Times)

Interviews with US political campaigns and tech co...

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US court records: US agencies are increasingly accessing parts of the 500M encrypted message haul retrieved from the hack of encrypted phone company Sky in 2021 (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

US court records: US agencies are increasingly acc...

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US court records: US agencies are increasingly accessing parts of the 500M encrypted message haul retrieved from the hack of encrypted phone company Sky in 2021 (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

US court records: US agencies are increasingly acc...

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Source: Meta's Llama struggles to gain traction on AWS, where Claude is most popular; Microsoft pitches Llama to clients with data expertise, per a staffer (The Information)

Source: Meta's Llama struggles to gain traction on...

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Microsoft plans to launch the $450 white discless Xbox Series X, a $600 2TB Galaxy Black special-edition Series X, and $350 1TB Series S on October 15 in the US (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Microsoft plans to launch the $450 white discless Xbox Series X, a $600 2TB Galaxy Black special-edition Series X, and $350 1TB Series S on October 15 in the US (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Grafana Labs, which makes the Grafana visualization tools, completes a primary and secondary transaction worth ~$270M at a $6B+ valuation, up from $3B in 2022 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Grafana Labs, which makes the Grafana visualizatio...

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Sources and docs: sales reps say Google's targeting of teen minors goes beyond Meta; Google lets advertisers target an "unknown" group that skews toward teens (Catherine Perloff/Adweek)

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PIP Labs, which is developing the blockchain Story Protocol to track IP usage, raised an $80M Series B led by a16z Crypto, sources say at a $2.25B valuation (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

PIP Labs, which is developing the blockchain Story...

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