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Sources: Twitter was working to monetize its adult content with OnlyFans-style subscriptions until a “red team” noted the prevalence of CSAM on the platform — Internal documents and Twitter employees reveal the need for massive investment to remove illegal content — but executives haven't listened
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Sony plans to acquire Savage Game Studios and creates a new PlayStation Studios Mobile Division, operating independently from console game development — Sony is acquiring mobile game developer Savage Game Studios, the company announced on Monday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter releases its Circle feature out of beta on iOS, Android, and the web, letting users tweet to smaller, selected groups of up to 150 people — Twitter is launching its Circle feature — which lets you post a tweet to a select set of people — globally.
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| Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
In an SEC filing, Elon Musk adds Peiter Zatko's allegations as a reason to terminate the $44B takeover bid, saying Twitter is in “material noncompliance” — Elon Musk has cited the recent accusations from a Twitter Inc. whistle-blower as a new reason to terminate the $44 billion takeover of the social media platform.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC CEO C. C. Wei says an endemic shortage of low-end chips costing $0.50 to $10 is holding up production in key segments of the global supply chain — An endemic shortage of chips costing anywhere from 50 cents to $10 is slowing down swathes of the $600 billion semiconductor industry …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Philadelphia-based delivery startup Gopuff seeks to borrow up to $300M after burning ~$400M in Q1 2022; Gopuff raised $2B+ at a $15B valuation in 2021 — Instant-delivery startup is negotiating a credit line of up to $300 million after delayed IPO| Shannon Grixti / Press Start: |
Sony updates the PS5 in Australia ahead of a broader rollout, reducing the disc model's weight by 300g and digital model's by 200g compared to the 2021 versions — Earlier today it was revealed by Japanese retailers that a brand new PS5 model dubbed the CFI-1200 model was releasing on September 15th …
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| Jordan Middler / Video Games Chronicle: |
Meta plans to shutter the Facebook Gaming app on iOS and Android on October 28, 2022, transferring games, content, and groups to the main Facebook app — MUCH OF THE FUNCTIONALITY WILL BE MIGRATED TO THE MAIN FACEBOOK APP — Facebook will end support for its Facebook Gaming app in October, it's announced.
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| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Cloudflare is facing growing protests for providing services to Kiwi Farms, a forum with a long history of harassment; Cloudflare remains silent on the matter — Hello, and welcome to Protocol Enterprise! Today: why Cloudflare finds itself yet again under fire for doing business with communities of hate …
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| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
Mental health content creators on TikTok and Instagram are increasingly filling a health care gap, which critics fear could lead to harmful self-diagnoses — Issey Moloney signed up for therapy through Britain's National Health Service when she was just 12 years old. She was on a waiting list for four years.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Google says it has not yet approved Truth Social's Play Store app due to insufficient content moderation; CEO Devin Nunes said the decision “is up to Google” — Google hasn't yet approved Truth Social's Android app for distribution via its Play Store because of insufficient content moderation …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl plans to leave in early 2023 after 12+ years as a senior executive; Google veteran Mary Ellen Coe will replace him — Robert Kyncl will exit YouTube in early 2023 after more than 12 years as a senior exec at video giant.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
California's State Senate passes an online safety bill requiring services to increase protections for users under 18; Governor Newsom must approve the bill — The new rules, which would require many online services to increase protections for children, could change how popular social media and game platforms treat minors.
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| Emily Anthes / New York Times: |
Scientists are using ML to decode communication between fruit bats, crows, naked mole rats, and whales, even planning “chatbots” to talk with the marine animals — Scientists are using machine learning to eavesdrop on naked mole rats, fruit bats, crows and whales — and to communicate back.
Tweets: @dodaistewart, @nickkristof, @natalieben, @jcalpickard, @justinhendrix, @tuviae, and @justinhendrix
| Ben Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
In a first, school districts in Texas, New York, and California are creating permanent, full-time virtual schools, seeking to help vulnerable children — Districts in Texas, California and New York are creating full-time remote learning this fall for the first time
Tweets: @cprattmedia and @chapmanreports
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A researcher says a huge Chinese database with up to 800M records was exposed for months, storing images of faces, license plates, resident ID numbers, and more — Another mass data lapse exposes new weaknesses in China's sprawling surveillance state — A massive Chinese database storing millions …
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
Social media “war rooms” that are set up to fight misinformation and reported on by the media ahead of the US midterms are nothing more than theater — Read to the end for a great Reddit post — The Election War Room Scam — We're less than three months away from the US midterms …
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| Financial Times: |
Rakuten founder Hiroshi Mikitani, whose mobile business is bleeding cash, defends his reputation with investors ahead of a planned IPO of Rakuten's online bank — Hiroshi Mikitani's group is bleeding cash as he tries to enlist shareholders to back online bank IPO
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