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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.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to roll out the biggest overhaul to its grocery business since buying Whole Foods in the coming weeks, including one cart for supermarket offerings — It's revamping stores, unifying online shopping carts and offering fresh-food delivery to customers who aren't Prime subscribers.
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| 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.
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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| 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank's Arm is targeting an IPO at a valuation of between $60B and $70B as soon as September 2023, a sign of bullish interest in AI chips — - Chip design firm may raise as much as $10 billion in debut — Nvidia, Intel are in discussions to be anchor investors| 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 …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out spatial audio for Teams on Windows and macOS after a few months of testing; the audio of each person on a call now has a distinct position — After a few months of testing the feature, Microsoft has widely rolled out spatial audio for its Teams desktop app on Windows and macOS.
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow plans to detail P2P protocol Veilid, to encrypt social media and apps, at Def Con next week, its biggest release in 10 years — Cult of the Dead Cow is a hacker collective whose members at one time included Texas politician Beto O'Rourke
Twitter: @veilidnetwork and @retweetablen14
| Sahil Patel / The Information: |
Sources: some top ad agency executives plan to commit at least 10% to 20% more with YouTube this fall than in 2022; traditional TV ad commitments are down 15% — The Hollywood labor strikes have proven a boon for YouTube, with Google's video-streaming service luring television ad buyers …
More: MIT Technology Review and Digiday
| 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 …
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Bernstein analysts estimate that nearly 10% of servers worldwide are powered by Arm SoCs and 40% of those are in China — The rise of Arm-based servers us clear and consistent, Bernstein says. — Due to increasing difficulty in obtaining high-performance x86 servers … | Financial Times: |
Analysts and executives say the UK risks becoming an also-ran in the race to roll out 5G, despite starting in 2019, due to limited investment and the Huawei ban — Expansion of high-speed mobile networks hit by factors including limited investment and disruption from ban on Huawei kit| 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
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| Bloomberg: |
China releases draft rules to limit smartphone use by minors, including two hour limits for those age 16 to 18, although enforcement remains unclear — - Aims to prevent kids from spending too much time on phones — Beijing has pursued campaigns to alleviate burden on minors| Colin Wilhelm / The Block: |
3AC co-founder Kyle Davies tells a US court he is not subjecting himself to or accepting the jurisdiction of US courts since he renounced citizenship in 2020 — - Three Arrows Capital co-founder Kyle Davies said he renounced his U.S. citizenship, and that U.S. courts no longer have jurisdiction over him.| Alex Ross / New Yorker: |
After iTunes failed to save classical music, Apple Music Classical seems an oddly clumsy point of entry, offering some good features but falling short of rivals — As classical listeners shift to streaming, Apple's bespoke app falls short of its smaller-scale competitors.
Twitter: @scurve, @ajdoug, @artsjournalnews, and @ionarts
| Nikkei Asia: |
Inside Apple's plans to move more of its supply chain to India, catalyzed by Foxconn protests in Zhengzhou, as Apple aims to build 20%+ of all iPhones in India — Tech giant aims to move at least 20% of iPhone production to India as it accelerates away from China
More: Livemint, Reuters, The Economic Times, Business Today, TechNode, and PingWest
| 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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