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Blake Brittain / Reuters:

UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying its Great 78 Project works as an “illegal record store” for songs — Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued …

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Luc Cohen / Reuters:

A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT — Sam Bankman-Fried's bail was revoked ahead of his October fraud trial, a U.S. judge said on Friday, after prosecutors accused …

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Iain Thomson / The Register:

Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow details Veilid, an open-source, P2P application framework, and debuts VeilidChat, a proof-of-concept Signal-like messaging app — 'It's like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing' — DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid …

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Josef Adalian / Vulture:

A look at bundles from smaller streaming services, telcos' potential role in bundling, and big streaming services' opposition to sharing the same user interface — This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture's newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!

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Financial Times:

Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month — Top studios turn screws on customers with price rises that rival expensive cable TV bundles — The era of cheap streaming is ending …

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Jesse Levine / Bloomberg:

After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months — - Musk hasn't agreed on a date for the fight, Meta CEO says — Meta's Threads launch helped fuel the Musk-Zuckerberg rivalry

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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:

Poland arrests five people as Europol and the DOJ take down the Lolek “bulletproof” host for allegedly facilitating Netwalker ransomware and other attacks — Update 8/11/23: Updated with information from DOJ about alleged Netwalker Ransomware involvement.

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Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:

A look at Stanford's bootcamp to educate Congress on deepfakes, how AI can potentially reshape education and health care, and the use of AI in national security — The elite Silicon Valley university coaches Hill staffers on the benefits of artificial intelligence

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Lily Hay Newman / Wired:

Researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple's macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” easy to bypass by “any malware that is somewhat sophisticated” — The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine.

More: MacSecurity.net. Bluesky: @couts.bsky.social. X: @patrickwardle and @patrickwardle

Vishal Chawla / The Block:

a16z crypto unveils Lasso and Jolt, a pair of new tools based on Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge, or SNARK, to help enable scalable ZK-rollups — - A division of Andreessen Horowitz, a16z crypto, has introduced two technologies, Lasso and Jolt, related to SNARKs.

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Liz Lindqwister / The San Francisco Standard:

Some Cruise riders say they've had sex in the driverless cars in San Francisco over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit users to eat, but not drink alcohol — An Illustration generated by the artificial intelligence program Midjourney depicts two people making out in an autonomous vehicle.

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Oliver Barnes / Financial Times:

How SCOTUS overturning the sports betting ban in 2018 transformed the sector into a high-growth tech business; many fear a surge in gambling addiction is coming — Americans have bet $245bn on sporting events since restrictions were loosened in 2018. But many fear a surge in gambling addiction is coming

More: AndroidGuys, The Information, and Legal Sports Report

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

60 Minutes' CECOT segment, pulled by Bari Weiss, was mistakenly aired in Canada via an app owned by Global Television, which airs 60 Minutes in the country

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

WBD's board says it will “carefully review and consider” Paramount's revised offer, which includes a full backstop personally guaranteed by Larry Ellison

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Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:

How hackers at DEF CON are trying to expose flaws and biases in AI models produced by Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others through a public contest

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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:

Some iPhone 14 Pro users complain that the “maximum capacity” of their phone's batteries has already dropped to around 90% after less than a year

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:

A look at Amazon One palm scanning tech, used for payments, age and ID verification, and more at US retailers, stadiums, and other venues, amid privacy concerns

Bluesky: @kashana.bsky.social. X: @quinnypig, @ethanwsj, and @minzengwsj

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon is removing or reducing packaging to speed up deliveries, cut costs, and meet climate goals, amid concerns that visible products could lead to issues

More: Insider, Fortune, PYMNTS.com, and Seattle Business Journal

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Cam Thompson / CoinDesk:

A look at friend.tech, a decentralized social media app built on Base whose August 10 invite-only beta drove 4,400 ETH in trading volume in less than 24 hours

More: The Block, Metaverse Post, and nft now

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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:

The Hollywood Professional Association, which includes Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Sony, urges the AMPTP, the WGA, and SAG-AFTRA to find a resolution

More: Gizmodo, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, Deadline, Bloomberg, and Neil Gaiman

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Fortesa Latifi / Teen Vogue:

Illinois passes the US' first law protecting child influencers, entitling influencers under age 16 and kids featured by influencers to a percentage of earnings

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Manya Saini / Reuters:

Chindata Group plans to go private in a $3.16B deal with investor Bain Capital, ending months of uncertainty about the Chinese data center operator's future

More: Bloomberg

Kate Clark / The Information:

Sources: Modular, which offers AI development tools and a programming language, is discussing a Series A at a ~$600M valuation, after a $30M seed in June 2022

X: @lauramandaro

Connie Kim / HousingWire:

SEC filing: NYC-based digital lender Better.com plans to go public via a SPAC merger, raising $750M, after announcing plans in May 2021 for a $7.7B SPAC merger

More: The Information, US Securities …, and TechCrunch

X: @bayareawriter. LinkedIn: Roger Moore

Jay Peters / The Verge:

Zoom updates its terms of service and a recent blog post to explicitly say that the company won't use “communications-like customer content” to train AI models

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Reuters:

ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:

X lowers its eligibility threshold for ad revenue sharing from 15M to 5M impressions in the past three months; Musk: “only views from verified handles count”

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Reuters:

Filing: Bittrex agrees to pay $24M to settle US SEC claims that the crypto exchange failed to register with the agency; Bittrex doesn't admit to the allegations