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| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
Served with warrants, Meta gave a teen's Messenger chats to Nebraska authorities, who charged her and her mother with breaking laws related to an abortion — Motherboard has obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a teenager's private chats about her abortion.
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| Meta: |
Meta says the warrants in the Nebraska case didn't mention abortion, only the burning and burial of a stillborn, came before Roe's reversal, and had a gag order — Much of the reporting about Meta's role in a criminal case against a mother and daughter in Nebraska is plain wrong.
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Coinbase misses with Q2 revenue down 64% YoY to $808.3M, vs. $832.2M est., a $1.1B net loss, trading volume down 53% YoY to $217B, and 9M MTUs; stock falls ~5% — - Coinbase's revenue declined almost 64% in the quarter as cryptocurrency prices fell. — The exchange operator lowered its full-year forecast for transacting users.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Cloudflare says its employees fell for an SMS phishing scam, but the company's use of hardware MFA keys stopped the hackers from accessing its internal network — Unusually resourced threat actor has targeted multiple companies in recent days. — At least two security-sensitive companies …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Walmart has held talks with Paramount, Disney, and Comcast, as the retailer explores bundling a streaming service into its Walmart+ membership program — The retail giant is exploring bundling a streaming service into its Walmart+ membership program.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Get The Message, a campaign to pressure Apple to support RCS over SMS/MMS, highlighting low-resolution photos and videos, no e2ee, and more — For the past year, Google has been increasingly calling out Apple for not adopting RCS (Rich Communication Services) on the iPhone.
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| CoinDesk: |
An anonymous Tornado Cash user sent ETH to high-profile crypto users, such as Jimmy Fallon and Brian Armstrong, from a sanctioned address, likely to troll them — An anonymous crypto user sent small amounts of ether from a sanctioned Tornado Cash address to celebrities and prominent crypto figures on Tuesday.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Spotify gives its Android app's home screen separate feeds for Music and Podcasts & Shows to better highlight recommendations, will bring the change to iOS soon — Spotify announced today that it's launching a new Home experience that includes separate feeds for “Music” and “Podcasts & Shows.”
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Tweets: @chrismessina and @alexhern
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ is preparing to sue Google over its ad market business as soon as September, as the DOJ's antitrust division lawyers interview publishers — The US Justice Department is preparing to sue Google as soon as next month, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Tweets: @anthony, @rustybrick, and @counternotions
| Bloomberg: |
A jury finds former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over Saudi dissidents' account data in exchange for bribes — A former Twitter Inc. employee was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over personal information of platform users …
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Tweets: @kenroth, @lindseyboylan, and @therealschoifet
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Nvidia unveils its Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine, a suite of cloud-based AI models and services for developers building 3D models of lifelike chatbot avatars — Stephen Shankland — What's happening Why it matters — You're probably used to interacting by voice with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri.| Russell Redman / Supermarket News: |
Amazon plans to expand its Amazon One palm-recognition payment service to 65+ Whole Foods locations in California in the coming weeks, its first broad rollout — Palm-recognition payment service to expand to another 65-plus locations — Amazon has stepped up its rollout of the Amazon … | Reuters: |
AppLovin offers to buy Unity for $58.85 per share, an 18% premium to Unity's Monday closing price, in a $17.54B all-stock deal; AppLovin's stock drops 10.29% — Gaming software company AppLovin Corp (APP.O) made an offer on Tuesday to buy its peer Unity Software Inc (U.N) …
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| JD Alois / Crowdfund Insider: |
Las Vegas-based Fortress Blockchain Technologies, which is building financial, regulatory, and tech B2B infrastructure for Web3 companies, raised a $22.5M seed — Fortress Blockchain Technology has raised a $22.5 million seed round to pursue its vision for B2B infrastructure for Web3.
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| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
Forage, whose software helps grocers accept online SNAP food stamp payments, has raised a $22M Series A led by Nyca Partners, valuing the startup at ~$100M — Each year, 42 million Americans receive food stamps-now known as SNAP benefits-which they can use at 250,000 retailers.
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PYMNTS.com, GlobeNewswire News Room, The Paypers, IBS Intelligence, Winsight Grocery Business, Crunchbase News, and FinSMEs. Tweets: @jeffkauflin
| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
CreatorDAO, a DAO offering creators capital and operational support for a cut of their future earnings, raised a $20M seed led by a16z and Initialized Capital — Paris Hilton and musicians The Chainsmokers also invested in the project. — CreatorDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization …
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CreatorDAO, Fortune, Tubefilter, and The Block
Tweets: @coindesk, @michaelandma, @caseynewton, @caseynewton, and @initialized
| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
President Biden's antitrust adviser Tim Wu denies reports he is leaving the White House, saying “I'm not leaving anytime soon — still have lots of work to do” — White House adviser Tim Wu said “I'm not leaving anytime soon — still have lots of work to do" …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based PreciTaste, which uses computer vision to monitor food quality and predict demand and supply in quick-service kitchens, has raised a $24M Series A — The food service industry faces steep labor, quality control and sustainability challenges exacerbated by the pandemic.
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| The Information: |
Source: BeReal had 7.9M DAUs in July 2022, up from 2M in January 2022; this spring, BeReal raised a Series B led by DST Global at a pre-money valuation of $600M — The siren song of a fast-growing social media network still holds investors spellbound. — Take BeReal.
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