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July 31, 2023, 1:50 PM
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New York Times:
Twitter/X threatens to sue Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging the nonprofit made “troubling and baseless claims” to hurt Twitter and its ad business  —  The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter's parent company …
Decrypt:
SEC charges Hex crypto project founder Richard Heart with conducting unregistered securities offerings, including Hex, PulseChain, and PulseX, that raised $1B+  —  The SEC has charged Richard Heart, the founder of the crypto project Hex, with allegedly conducting unregistered securities offerings that raised more than $1 billion.
Scott Chipolina / Financial Times:
Brian Armstrong says the SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading all crypto except bitcoin without explaining its interpretation of the law, before it sued Coinbase  —  Request would have meant ‘the end of the crypto industry in the US’, according to Brian Armstrong
Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal:
Apple confirms a Screen Time bug, letting kids go over the time limits imposed by parents to use apps and games, but doesn't offer a timeline for a fix  —  Settings aren't sticking; the company says it's working ‘to improve the situation’  —  Apple's Screen Time controls are failing parents.
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Tether reports a $850M net profit in Q2, vs. $1.5B in Q1, with ~$3.3B in excess reserves, up from $2.44B in Q1, and $86.5B+ in total assets as of June 30  —  - In its latest attestation report, Tether said it had a net profit of $850 million in the second quarter.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Twitter is now “X” in the App Store, seemingly via an exception to Apple's rule that requires app names to have two or more characters  —  After weeks of changes to its social handles, branding on its interface, a redirect on the web, and lots of chatter from its owner …
Molly White:
Worldcoin presents a solution in search of its problem, has a shaky ethical foundation, and lacks decentralization or a robust approach to privacy  —  Worldcoin doesn't seem to know what problem it's trying to solve, but they want to scan your eyeballs anyway.
Neeta Lal / Nikkei Asia:
Some Indian broadcasters are using lifelike AI anchors to deliver news, weather reports, and more, raising job loss fears and questions about media credibility  —  Virtual anchors mean no ‘ego hassles’ in newsrooms, but will they kill jobs?  —  A screenshot from Odisha TV's YouTube channel shows Lisa …
Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
A consortium led by PE firms Francisco and TPG agrees to take observability software company New Relic private in an offer valuing the company at ~$6.5B  —  - A private-equity consortium will take software provider New Relic private at $87 a share, the company announced Monday.

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From Mediagazer

David Shepardson / Reuters:
US Senator Marsha Blackburn raises concerns about Meta's plan to update its commercial terms, saying the terms grant sweeping scraping authority

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez urges the NAB, the broadcast industry's largest lobbying group, to defend the right of TV newsrooms to report on polls

Esther Addley / The Guardian:
Axel Springer's Telegraph begins layoffs, pledging to become an “AI-powered” global business; sources: up to 100 jobs will go, with culture and sports hit hard

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Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt:
After a digital artist opted out of the Stable Diffusion training set, the community made a model copying his style, raising questions around open-source models
The Economic Times:
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