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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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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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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
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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
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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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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 … | 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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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.| Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
Gamers in China, where online porn is banned, are using the Steam app Wallpaper Engine as a cloud drive and a video player to exchange adult-only content — Wallpaper Engine has become a haven for ingenious Chinese users who use it to smuggle adult content as desktop wallpaper. But how long can it last?| 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 … | Dinesh Nair / Bloomberg: |
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 … | Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
A look at the bipartisan American Data Privacy and Protection Act, which privacy experts say might finally give the US a strong federal data protection law — A bill with bipartisan support might finally give the US a strong federal data protection law. — Usually, when Congress is working …
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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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