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Filing: Twitter was fined $350K for not giving Trump's account data after special counsel Jack Smith got a warrant in January 2023; Twitter ultimately complied — The special counsel investigation into Donald Trump secured a search warrant of the former president's Twitter account …
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| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
SCOTUS lets Apple keep its App Store payment rules for now, rejecting an Epic request that would have let developers start directing users to cheaper options — - Supreme Court justice won't let appeals court ruling kick in — Epic seeking to open App Store to lower-priced alternatives| CNBC: |
Sony reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to ~$20.7B, PS5 sales up 38% YoY to 3.3M, operating income down 31% YoY to ~$782M, and expects to sell 25M PS5s by March 2024 — Sony on Wednesday reported a 31% fall in profit in the first fiscal quarter as its life insurance unit dragged on its bottom line …
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
In its Q1 earnings report, Sony, the world's largest camera sensor supplier, pushes back expectations for a smartphone market recovery to 2024 at the earliest — - The camera sensor leader had anticipated second-half recovery — Sony warns that conditions are tough in China and the US| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Slack unveils its biggest redesign yet, adding a Home section, a left sidebar, a DMs section similar to the one in Teams, and “a unified inbox” Activity window — Slack is many things. Which is kind of the problem. … Eventually, that even affects the “talk to your team” … | Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Aptos Labs partners with Microsoft to build a ChatGPT-powered Aptos Assistant and plans to host validator nodes on Azure; GitHub will add Aptos' Move to Copilot — Since the A.I.-hype train reached full speed earlier this year, there's been no shortage of crypto entrepreneurs trying to get a piece of the action.| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Coinbase's Base mainnet opens to the public featuring 100+ dApps and service providers as part of the ecosystem, after a developer-specific release in July 2023 — - The Base network, backed by Coinbase, has now officially been opened to the public. — The Base network's journey began … | Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Gizmodo EIC Dan Ackerman sues Apple, the Tetris Company, and others, accusing them of adapting his book about Tetris into a feature film without his permission — Dan Ackerman, editor in chief of the tech-news website Gizmodo, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Monday accusing Apple … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two reports Q1 net revenue up 17% YoY to $1.28B, net bookings up 20% YoY to $1.2B, and forecasts $8B in bookings for the fiscal year 2025, hinting at GTA 6 — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the company behind video games like Grand Theft Auto, rose in extended trading …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google finally adds a native Google Translate option to its Gmail app on Android, gradually rolling out now, and on iOS, rolling out starting on August 21, 2023 — Google is finally adding a native translate capability to Gmail for Android and iOS after long supporting it on the web client.| Aaron Pressman / The Boston Globe: |
Boston-based cybersecurity company Rapid7 lays off 18% of its staff, or ~470 people, and reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $190M and net loss up 69% YoY to $67M — The Boston-based cybersecurity firm said the cuts will enable it to continue to grow while also freeing up cash
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Roblox reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $681M, bookings up 22% YoY to $780.7M, vs. $785M est., a $282.8M net loss, and DAUs up 25% YoY to 65.5M; RBLX drops 20%+ — - Shares of Roblox fell Wednesday after the company reported second-quarter results that missed analysts' expectations on top and bottom lines.| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
China plans to require that app developers file business details with the government or face sanctions from March 2024, likely creating headaches for developers — China will require all mobile app providers in the country to file business details with the government, its information ministry said …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Intel fixes a chip flaw found by a Google researcher that could let attackers steal sensitive data like passwords, affecting Skylake, Tiger Lake, and Ice Lake — The vulnerability could allow attackers to take advantage of an information leak to steal sensitive details like private messages, passwords, and encryption keys.
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| Elizabeth de Luna / Mashable: |
X begins making ad revenue payouts to smaller creators, after issuing payments to select accounts in July 2023; how X calculates the payouts remains unclear — ‘$8 to make $370 is a fantastic ROI for something I do anyway,’ one creator tweeted. … X is finally paying smaller creators …
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
The US debuts a DARPA contest to build AI systems that can proactively identify and fix software flaws, with help from Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI — The winning systems will be able to analyze and correct vulnerable code in critical infrastructure.| The Citizen Lab: |
Analysis: Tencent's Sogou Input Method, the top Chinese character inputting tool in China with 450M+ MAUs, had since-fixed data-leaking flaws in its encryption — We urge Sogou Input Method users to immediately update to the most recent version of the app (at least Windows version 13.7, Android version 11.26, or iOS version 11.25).| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Sex workers who use crypto to store wealth and accept payment, bypassing the banking system, are finding the limits of its utility amid the regulatory scrutiny — Banks and payments companies have long penalized sex workers. Many thought crypto would be a solution, but now exchanges are dumping them too.
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
CCDH: ChatGPT, Bard, My AI, DreamStudio, DALL-E, and Midjourney generated “pro-anorexia” content 41% of the time when asked about common eating disorder topics — Disturbing fake images and dangerous chatbot advice: New research shows how ChatGPT, Bard, Stable Diffusion …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol shuts down Indonesia-based “phishing-as-a-service” platform 16shop, used to create 150K phishing pages and compromising 70K+ people across 43 countries — A joint operation between Interpol and cybersecurity firms has led to an arrest and shutdown of the notorious 16shop phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform.
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| Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal: |
Biden signs an executive order banning US investments in some Chinese companies developing advanced semiconductors and quantum computers, starting in 2024 — Biden's order will also require U.S. private-equity and venture-capital firms to disclose certain investments| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
Sources: former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame is talking with prosecutors to plead guilty to criminal charges and may enter a plea as soon as September — - Ryan Salame was the co-chief executive of FTX Digital Markets — Salame would be fourth former FTX executive to plead guilty| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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