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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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| 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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| 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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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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 … | Katie Bo Lillis / CNN: |
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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| 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 … | 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| Bloomberg: |
Source: FTX is in advanced talks to acquire South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb — FTX, the crypto trading platform co-founded by billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, is in advanced talks to buy South Korea's Bithumb, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
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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Blockchain infrastructure company Chain acquires Measurable Data Token, including the cash-back app RewardMe and the financial data protocol MeFi, for $100M — - Chain acquires Measurable Data Token ecosystem for $100 million. — The deal is unique inasmuch as it will involve a merge between Chain's XCN and MDT.
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| Dinesh Nair / Bloomberg: |
Sources: British satellite internet company OneWeb is nearing a deal to combine with France's Eutelsat, valuing OneWeb at $3B+ — British satellite firm OneWeb is nearing a deal to combine with France's Eutelsat Communications SA in a transaction that would create a pan-European operator … | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
CBRE: San Francisco's office vacancy rate rose to 24.2% in Q2 2022, up 0.4% QoQ, as tech companies' flexible return-to-office demands slows the city's recovery — - The office vacancy rate in San Francisco rose to 24.2% in the second quarter from 23.8% in the prior period, according to CBRE research.| Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Epidemic Sound, which provides royalty-free music, sues Meta for allegedly letting Facebook and Instagram creators use 94% of Epidemic's tracks without licenses — Meta has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit demanding at least $142 million in damages.
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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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