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August 2, 2023, 8:35 AM
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
X now lets XBlue subscribers hide their verified checkmarks, although “the checkmark may still appear in some places” and some features “may not be available”  —  Social media company X, formerly Twitter, now lets paid users hide their verification checkmarks.
Chavi Mehta / Reuters:
Meta begins the process to end news access on Facebook and Instagram in Canada, in response to a law forcing some companies to negotiate deals to pay publishers  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Tuesday it has begun the process to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada.
Wall Street Journal:
Internal Binance data and current and former employees say Chinese users traded ~$90B in crypto assets on the exchange in May 2023, despite China's crypto ban  —  Retaining its Chinese footprint will be crucial for Binance as it faces a global regulatory crackdown
Aidan Ryan / The Information:
Sources: Changpeng Zhao tried to liquidate Binance.US earlier this year, before pivoting to attempting to sell the company, holding talks with Gemini and others  —  Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao attempted to shut down the crypto exchange's U.S. offshoot earlier this year …
Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Halcyon: Cloudzy, a Wyoming-registered web hosting company likely operating out of Tehran, is acting as a command-and-control provider for state-backed hackers  —  A little-known cloud company provided web hosting and internet services to more than two dozen different state-sponsored hacking groups …
Steven Church / Bloomberg:
A Voyager Digital lawyer says the crypto lender's user data may have been stolen when the company started letting customers recover their funds in June 2023  —  - Voyager customers hit with scams amid bankruptcy payout  — Voyager lawyers referred potential hack to law enforcement
Jen Christensen / CNN:
An early-stage study of 80,000 women in Sweden who underwent a mammogram in 2021 and 2022 finds AI-supported screening increased breast cancer detection by 20%  —  Artificial intelligence found more breast cancers than doctors with years of training and experience and cut doctors' mammogram …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
AMD reports Q2 revenue down 18% YoY to $5.36B, net income down 94% YoY to $27M, Client revenue down 54% YoY to $998M, and Data Center revenue down 11% to $1.3B  —  - AMD said revenue for the second quarter fell 18% from a year earlier, but results still topped analysts' estimates
Chethan Rao / Android Police:
YouTube asks a small number of viewers to share their feedback on a test that generates AI-based “quick overview” summaries on some English-language videos  —  YouTube's new experiment is currently limited to English content  —  YouTube constantly adds new features to its mobile …

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New York Times:
Fox News pulling Maria Bartiromo off the air reflects a growing willingness to break from Trump on certain issues, following its $787.5M Dominion settlement

CBS News:
A US federal judge allows the Pentagon to fire three Stars and Stripes journalists, ruling the government likely did not violate their First Amendment rights

Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
SCOTUS rules via an emergency order that political parties are entitled to the same low-cost TV ad rates as candidates, giving an advantage to Republicans

More News

Alex Pasternack / Fast Company:
An interview with Google Jigsaw engineer Lucy Vasserman on how OpenAI and others use Jigsaw's AI tool Perspective for flagging toxic speech to evaluate LLMs
More: Platformer.  Twitter: @pasternack, @dburghart, @max_uf, @pasternack, and @fastcompany.  Forums: Slashdot
Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
GameStop plans to remove its iOS and Chrome crypto wallet extensions on November 1 due to “regulatory uncertainty”, about one year after rolling out the service
Clive Cookson / Financial Times:
Glasgow University spinout Chemify, which uses a computing process to design new molecules with AI before making them in an automated lab, raised $43M
Reuters:
Match Group reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $830M, vs. $811M est., payers down 5% YoY to 15.6M, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates; MTCH jumps 11%+
Eari Nakano / Bloomberg:
Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $708M, vs. $699M est., MAUs up 8% YoY to 465M, and expects “Q3 revenue to grow in the high single digit range” YoY
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
How illicit data brokers on Telegram, WeChat, WhatsApp, and Facebook peddle internal Amazon market data and services like attacking rivals' product listings

Earlier Picks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Socket, which sells a scanning tool for detecting vulnerabilities in open-source code, raised a $20M Series A led by a16z, taking its total funding to $24.6M
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
In a challenge to TikTok, YouTube releases new Shorts creation tools for remixing, adding effects, going live, as well as an interactive Q&A sticker, and more
Rita Liao / TechCrunch:
Apple removes many generative AI apps from its China App Store, supposedly over 100, ahead of China's new generative AI rules set to take effect on August 15
Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
X sues the Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging CCDH researchers violated Twitter's terms of service and the CFAA while studying hate speech on the site
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon expands its Amazon Clinic virtual health service to 50 US states and DC, available via video or texting; regulations limit the SMS feature to 34 states
Bloomberg:
After Curve disclosed a hack, CRV fell ~25% in three days, prompting fears of wider crypto market turbulence; DefiLlama: crypto using Curve fell 50%+ to $1.7B
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