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Google fires engineer Blake Lemoine, who said he believes Google's LaMDA conversational tech is sentient, citing employment and data security policy violations — Google has fired Blake Lemoine, the engineer who said he believed the company's LaMDA conversational technology was sentient.
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Sources: the FBI determined around 2017 that Huawei gear in cell towers near US military bases in the Midwest was capable of capturing and disrupting DoD comms — On paper, it looked like a fantastic deal. In 2017, the Chinese government was offering to spend $100 million to build …
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
DoorDash and Uber Eats are moving beyond food, focusing on groceries and alcohol as users cut spending due to high inflation and a potential economic downturn — Delivery apps look to move beyond food as they face high inflation, a potential economic downturn — Grubhub CEO on the Postpandemic Future of Food Delivery| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Meta closed down 7.59% and Alphabet closed down 5.63% on Friday, as Snap's and Twitter's weak earnings, inflation, and interest rates lead to online ad worries — Weak earnings raise fears that inflation and interest rates are starting to hit social media companies| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A South Carolina bill would make it illegal to host a website or “an internet service” with information that is “reasonably likely to be used for an abortion” — More states could follow, setting up a battle over the future of online speech across the country. — Listen
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T-Mobile agrees to pay $350M to settle class action lawsuits over a 2021 cyberattack that impacted ~76.6M customers and pledges to invest $150M in data security — T-Mobile agreed Friday to pay $350 million to settle class-action lawsuits brought over an August 2021 cyberattack … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft resumes rolling out an update to block VBA macros by default in downloaded Office documents, after rolling it back earlier in July over user feedback — Microsoft announced today that it resumed the rollout of VBA macro auto-blocking in downloaded Office documents after temporarily rolling … | Bloomberg: |
An interview with 3AC founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, who may be hiding in the UAE, on its “regrettable” collapse, leverage, Luna, risk management, and more — After five weeks in hiding, the disgraced founders of Three Arrows Capital spoke extensively about the spectacular implosion …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Uber admits it failed to inform the FTC of the November 2016 hack that affected 57M passengers and drivers, as part of a settlement to avoid US criminal charges — Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) on Friday accepted responsibility for covering up a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million passengers …
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The Dutch Ministry of Education suspends the use of Chrome OS and Chrome until August 2023 over concerns Google services collect student data and violate GDPR — The Dutch Ministry of Education has decided to suspend the use of Chrome OS and Chrome web browser until August 2023 over concerns about data privacy.
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Sources: British satellite internet startup OneWeb is nearing a merger with France's Eutelsat, in a deal valuing OneWeb at $3B+; Eutelsat invested in OneWeb — British satellite firm OneWeb is nearing a deal to combine with France's Eutelsat Communications SA in a transaction that would create … | Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Epidemic Sound, which offers music tracks to creators, sues Meta for allegedly letting Facebook and Instagram creators use 94% of its tracks without licenses — Faced with the prospect of copyright strikes, Content ID claims and potential account loss, thousands of YouTubers, TikTok users …
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FTX plans to let customers of bankrupt crypto lender Voyager create new accounts on FTX, funded by an early distribution of a part of their bankruptcy claims — The crypto exchange will allow Voyager customers to create accounts funded by an early distribution of a part of their bankruptcy claims.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Twitter reports Q2 revenue down 1% YoY to $1.18B, vs. 1.32B est., a $270M net loss, down from $66M in net income a year ago, and 237.8M mDAUs, up 16.6% YoY — - Twitter reported earnings for the second quarter on Friday that missed analyst estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth.
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