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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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Forums: r/inthenews and r/politics
| 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
More: Reuters, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Washington Examiner, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, GamesIndustry.biz, CNN, MarketWatch, The Information, WebProNews, Cult of Mac, PhoneArena, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Thurrott, WRAL TechWire, Engadget, Appuals.com, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Hollywood Reporter, OnMSFT.com, MacRumors, Supercharged, GameSpot, MacDailyNews, Watcher Guru, and AppleInsider
| Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: |
Bob Iger says Disney is “actively exploring ways” to crack down on password sharing and “will roll out tactics to drive monetization sometime in 2024” — “We will roll out tactics to drive monetization,” the Disney CEO says — Disney+ will begin cracking …
More: The Verge, CNET, TechHive, Insider, CNBC, MobileSyrup, KFOR.com Oklahoma City, and IGN
| 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| 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” …
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Mastodon: @joesteel@duck.haus. X: @austen, @madsviktor, @ilyamiskov, @tobi, @slackhq, @film_girl, and @ow. Forums: Hacker News
| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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 … | 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.| 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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| 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.
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| 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 … | 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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| 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 …
More: PingWest, Pocket Gamer.biz, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and Tech in Asia
| 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 …
More: The Register, Search Engine Land, MarTech, Insider Intelligence, TechCrunch, gHacks Technology News, Engadget, Livemint, and Fortune
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Deepset, which helps companies build “complex LLM applications” and add NLP to apps, raised $30M led by Balderton, taking its total funding to $46M — Deepset, a platform for building enterprise apps powered by large language models akin to ChatGPT …
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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 … | 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.
More: Cryptonews. X: @mintstarsreal, @mikestabile, @fscarmy, @jessicavanmeir, @mistressmatisse, and @ashleylatke
Forums: r/ethtrader and r/CryptoCurrency
| 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 …
More: Mashable, The Week, Center for Countering …, and Decrypt
X: @willoremus, @rvawonk, @geoffreyfowler, @snchancellor, @jengolbeck, and @emdashes
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba made orders worth $5B to acquire Nvidia chips, amid concerns that the US will soon clamp down on their export — Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba rush to acquire GPUs amid concern US will soon clamp down on their export
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