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At an internal town hall, Chris Cox said Meta is looking to add more “retention-driving hooks” to Threads, like showing Instagram users important Threads — Meta Platforms (META.O) executives are heavily focused on boosting retention on their new Twitter rival Threads …
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Twitter/X reinstates the account of a right-wing influencer with over 500K followers who posted child sex abuse imagery that drew over 3M views and 8K retweets — It's only the latest incident of banned imagery making its way onto the site since Musk bought it — CORRECTION
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In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more — In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook's and Instagram's algorithms …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to require developers to submit reasons to use certain APIs in their apps starting this fall, to prevent the misuse of those APIs for fingerprinting — The App Store review process is very strict to ensure that apps comply with Apple's guidelines. And soon, this whole process will get even stricter.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Wiz researchers say two vulnerabilities in the OverlayFS filesystem module in Ubuntu may allow unprivileged local users to gain elevated privileges — Two Linux vulnerabilities introduced recently into the Ubuntu kernel create the potential for unprivileged local users to gain elevated privileges on a massive number of devices.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Google launches RT-2 or Robotics Transformer 2, a “vision-language-action” model trained on text and images from the web that can output robotic actions — Our sneak peek into Google's new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.
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| Gareth Jenkinson / Cointelegraph: |
Crypto.com says it has received approval from the Netherlands' central bank to offer its services in the country, after a comprehensive review — The exchange received the green light from De Nederlandsche Bank to offer services in the country. … Join us on social networks
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sequoia cut the size of its cryptocurrency fund to $200M from $585M and of its ecosystem fund, which invests in other funds, to $450M from $900M — Brand has come under scrutiny following a series of controversial decisions — Sequoia Capital pared back the size of two major venture funds …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Analyses: hackers infect players of an old Call of Duty game with a worm that spreads in online lobbies; Activision turns off multiplayer for the game on Steam — Hackers are infecting players of an old Call of Duty game with a worm that spreads automatically in online lobbies, according to two analyses of the malware.| Colin Wilhelm / The Block: |
The SEC's Paul Munter warns that the accounting firms working with crypto companies could be held liable for misleading public statements made by their clients — - The SEC's chief accountant issued a warning to accounting firms that work with crypto clients, saying auditors …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out Android unknown tracker alerts, including manual scan, and pauses a Find My Device update to locate missing items until Apple updates iOS — Google today will begin to roll out a new safety feature, unknown tracker alerts, first announced at its developer event Google I/O this spring.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue down 15% YoY to $12.9B, Data Center and AI revenue down 15% YoY to $4B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates; INTC jumps 6%+ — - Intel reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday, including a return to profitability after two straight quarters of losses, and a stronger-than-expected forecast.
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| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
To build a super app like those in Asia, Elon Musk will face issues such as cultural differences and regulatory scrutiny, like Meta, Snap, and Uber did before — Mr. Musk, the owner of Twitter, is the latest Silicon Valley mogul to pursue an all-in-one app, the kind that has thrived in Asia but not elsewhere.
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