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| 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 …
More: Reuters, Halcyon Anti Ransomware …, CSO, BankInfoSecurity.com, iTnews, The Record, SecurityWeek, and CyberScoop
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| 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 — X, the company formerly known as Twitter, sued a research group that had investigated hate speech on the social media platform …
More: Twitter, Reuters, Bloomberg, BBC, Engadget, Center for Countering …, Court Listener, Hollywood Reporter, The Register, Axios, Reclaim The Net, Financial Times, Techdirt, The Verge, Android Police, NBC News, PCMag, MobileSyrup, Tech Xplore, Cryptopolitan, The Hill, SlashGear, NPR, The Information, WRAL TechWire, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, CNN, Insider, Variety, Livemint, New York Times, and TechCrunch
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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.
More: Meta, Engadget, Gizmodo, Neowin, Agence France-Presse, The Hill, Social Media Today, Deadline, Fortune, The Verge, Variety, WHDH 7News, Forbes, Mashable, and Business Post
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| 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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| 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 — - Amazon is expanding its virtual clinic service nationwide. — The company launched Amazon Clinic last November …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia, Pixar, and the Linux Foundation form the Alliance for OpenUSD, to standardize Pixar's Universal Scene Description graphics tech — Five major companies in the 3D content industry — Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar — have come together to form the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD).
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| 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 — As competition with TikTok and Instagram Reels heats up, YouTube today announced an expanded suite of creation tools … | Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Putin signs a Russian law requiring that internet platforms verify new users' identities via state-approved systems during registration, effective December 2023 — Since its invasion of Ukraine in February, Russian Members of Parliament and lawmakers have taken turns to see who can come … | Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $9.23B, gross bookings up 16% YoY to $33.6B, and a $394M net income, its first operating profit, vs. a $2.6B net loss YoY — Ride-hailing and delivery businesses grew in the second quarter, though freight shrank — Uber Technologies posted …
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| Financial Times: |
Source: Meta plans to release AI chatbots with personalities, which staff call “personas”, like Abraham Lincoln, as soon as September 2023, to boost engagement — Facebook owner seeks to seize on hype for AI while challenging rivals such as OpenAI, Snap and TikTok
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| 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| 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 — - Curve's native CRV coin posted three-day, 25% slump after hack — Drop raised concerns about wider fallout from platform's woes
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
A look at the nascent scene of generative AI chatbots trained for phishing and malware attacks, including WormGPT, FraudGPT, DarkBART, and DarkBERT — In the wake of WormGPT, a ChatGPT clone trained on malware-focused data, a new generative artificial intelligence hacking tool called FraudGPT has emerged …
More: SlashNext, Dark Reading, TechCrunch, Decrypt, GovTech, and Security Boulevard. Forums: r/InfoSecNews
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Under pressure from EU regulators, Meta offers to seek user consent in the EU for targeted ads based on users' activity, sources say as soon as October 2023 — Under pressure from regulators, the Facebook and Instagram owner proposes asking users to opt in before targeting ads with their digital activity
More: Ars Technica, Meta, Reuters, TechCrunch, Agence France-Presse, Search Engine Land, noyb, and The Verge
Twitter: @grahamgreenleaf, @nicholasvinocur, @privacymatters, @jason_kint, @robertjbateman, @mediaevan, @samschech, and @jason_kint. LinkedIn: Milton Pedraza. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| 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| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Glasgow university spinout Chemify, which is using a computing process to design new molecules with AI and make them in an automated lab, raised $43M — Chemify's technology aims to remove bottleneck of producing molecules in the lab — A spinout from Glasgow university has raised $43mn to …
More: BBC. Twitter: @clivecookson, @venkvis, @chemifyx, @macfarlanejamie, and @leecronin. LinkedIn: Jamie Macfarlane
| 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 … | 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%+ — Match Group (MTCH.O) forecast revenue for the third quarter above Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, as the Tinder parent expects stronger marketing …
More: Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and Match Group
| 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 — Socket, a startup that provides a scanning tool to detect security vulnerabilities in open source code, today announced …
More: Socket, SecurityWeek, Andreessen Horowitz, and FinSMEs
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| Sam Metz / Associated Press: |
A federal judge dismisses an industry group lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Utah law requiring adult websites to verify the age of their users — A Utah law requiring adult websites to verify the age of their users will remain in effect after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit … | 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 — Multiple generative AI apps have been removed from Apple's China App Store, two weeks ahead of the country's new generative AI regulations …
More: 9to5Mac, South China Morning Post, Android Headlines, Gizmodo, Seeking Alpha, Voicebot.ai, and PYMNTS.com
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