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| Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: |
X unveils Sensitivity Settings and Enhanced Blocklist to boost brand safety and control for advertisers, rolling out over the next few weeks in the Ads Manager — The new tools give marketers more say over ad placement. — X, formerly known as Twitter, has launched two new features …
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google, American Airlines, and Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy partner to create more sustainable flight routes by avoiding those that create contrails — Google has been working with American Airlines and Bill Gates' climate investment fund, Breakthrough Energy, to chart more sustainable flight routes.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A closer look at the UK Electoral Commission hack, disclosed nine months after discovery, which likely relied on a now-patched Microsoft Exchange Server flaw — Evidence appears to show a critical 0-day tracked as ProxyNotShell was exploited. — It's looking more and more likely …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out the ability to let users verify their Threads profile on other social media platforms, like Mastodon, using “rel=me” links — To be clear, this isn't a free way to get a blue checkmark next to your Threads name; you'll probably need to pay Meta to get one of those.
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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
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney plans to raise US prices of Disney+ Premium, Hulu without ads, and ESPN+, and to expand Disney+ ad-supported plans to Canada and nine European countries — Ad-supported Disney+ tier to expand to Canada, U.K. and eight other European countries this fall
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| Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: |
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon cuts dozens of in-house brands in clothing, furniture, and more to placate regulators and grow profits; Amazon says Basics will remain a focus — Company's cuts include all but three of its 30 clothing labels, such as Goodthreads and Lark & Ro| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Check Point buys rival cybersecurity company Perimeter 81 for $490M in a “cash free, debt free” deal; Perimeter 81 raised $100M at a $1B valuation in June 2022 — There is yet more M&A coming out of the security industry. In the latest development, Check Point … | Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: |
Y00ts, once among the top Solana-based NFT projects and that moved to Polygon in 2022, plans to migrate to Ethereum and will return its $3M grant from Polygon — The popular project, which started out on Solana and migrated to Polygon earlier this year, said it would return 100% of the grant money it received.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Filing: the US SEC plans to appeal a court ruling in July that Ripple's programmatic sales of XRP to retail investors on exchanges didn't violate securities law — A federal judge ruled that while Ripple's direct sales of XRP to institutional investors violated securities law …
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| Tom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph: |
Fireblocks discloses BitForge, a set of zero-day flaws affecting widely-used crypto wallet providers; Coinbase, Binance, and Zengo have patched BitForge flaws — Fireblocks said the vulnerabilities affecting Coinbase, Binance and Zengo have since been fixed and has reached out to more than 12 others still at risk.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Researchers: since 2014, Belarus-linked hackers, dubbed MoustachedBouncer, have targeted foreign diplomats in the country by intercepting ISP connections — Hackers with apparent links to the Belarusian government have been targeting foreign diplomats in the country for nearly 10 years, according to security researchers.| CNN: |
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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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Filing: autonomous sidewalk delivery company Serve Robotics, which was spun out from Uber-owned Postmates and raised $56M, to go public via a SPAC merger — Serve Robotics, the autonomous sidewalk delivery robot startup that spun out of Uber's acquisition of Postmates, is going public via a reverse merger with a blank check company.
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| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Lyft begins serving in-app ads to riders as they wait for rides, when they match with a driver, and during their trips, and plans to add video ads by year-end — The ride-sharing company and its larger rival, Uber, are racing to build significant ad operations| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 review: powerful multitasking, new hinge folds flat, and good support, but still pricey, heavy, and clunky, with unknown durability — Samsung's head start in foldables is paying off, but it'll have to do more next time around to stay in front.
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