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Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company's annual gross profit by €35M — An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform
More: SoundExchange, Sirius XM Holdings Inc., The Verge, SlashGear, RAIN News, and Music Ally
Threads: @katienotopoulos. X: @mylesudland, @muckymann, @aotearoa_ben, @loudmouthjulia, @ashleyrcarman, @cullend, and @dada_drummer
| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Sources: Meta is preparing to release “Code Llama”, a free code-generating AI model based on Llama 2, as soon as next week — Meta Platforms is preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate programming code, a challenge to proprietary software from OpenAI …
More: The Verge. Mastodon: @jeremiah@tldr.nettime.org. X: @news_by_nick and @amir. Forums: r/singularity
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
OpenSea plans to make creator fees optional for new collections from August 31, and enforce creator fees on certain existing collections through February 2024 — - OpenSea has opted to make creator fees optional for new collections, starting in September. — The platform will disable …
More: OpenSea, Decrypt, The Verge, Coinmonks, Ethereum World News, and NFT Evening
| Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: |
Mandiant: the use of AI to conduct politically-motivated online influence campaigns has grown in recent years, but the impact of such campaigns has been limited — Google-owned U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant said on Thursday it had seen increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) …
More: Mandiant, ITPro, CyberScoop, Dark Reading, and BankInfoSecurity.com
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Cofense discovers a phishing campaign that uses QR codes to mainly target a notable US energy company, the first known use of QR codes for phishing at scale — A phishing campaign was observed predominantly targeting a notable energy company in the US, employing QR codes to slip malicious emails into inboxes and bypass security.
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Meta starts rolling out HD photo support globally in WhatsApp for Android, iOS, and the web, and says the company plans to add support for HD videos soon — WhatsApp is flipping a switch that will let users send higher-quality “HD” images on the messaging platform.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a new Transparency Center to let users report harmful content, make appeals, read transparency reports and product or service policies, and more — Google is launching a new Transparency Center to make it easier for users to learn more about its product policies.
More: The Keyword, Android Police, Lifewire, Android Authority, Neowin, Social Media Today, and BetaNews. LinkedIn: Gianluca Varisco
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to close its Xbox 360 Store and Xbox 360 Marketplace on July 29, 2024, meaning users will no longer be able to buy games, DLC, avatars, and more — Microsoft is preparing to close down its Xbox 360 Store and Xbox 360 Marketplace on July 29th, 2024.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
ProjectDiscovery, a free vulnerability scanning platform to monitor for exploits in websites, apps, APIs, and cloud services, raised a $25M Series A led by CRV — ProjectDiscovery, a platform that detects new, exploitable vulnerabilities in codebases, today announced that it raised $25 million … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Arthur launches Arthur Bench, an open-source tool for comparing the performance of LLMs, like OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and Meta's Llama 2, for specific use cases — New York City-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Arthur has announced the launch of Arthur Bench, an open-source tool … | John Callaham / Neowin: |
Microsoft plans to discontinue Azure Kinect Developer Kit, the depth-sensing camera the company released in 2019, in October 2023, or sooner if supplies run out — Microsoft thought it had the next generation of technology control inputs when it first revealed the Kinect motion-tracking camera sensor for its Xbox 360 console.
More: Microsoft Tech Community, MSPoweruser, and OnMSFT.com
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
A group of crypto investors and developers loses its Coinbase-funded lawsuit arguing that the US Treasury overstepped its authority in sanctioning Tornado Cash — The group of developers and investors sued the Treasury Department last year. — A group of crypto investors and developers lost … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to hold a “special event” in NYC on September 21, 2023, likely to announce Surface hardware including the Go 4, Laptop Studio 2, and Laptop Go 3 — Microsoft has started sending media invites for a “special event” in New York City next month.
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| Sara Ashley O'Brien / Wall Street Journal: |
Nonprofit Garbo plans to drop its background checking tool used by Match Group's apps on August 31, saying most tech companies “see trust and safety as good PR” — After a news report that sex offenders were using its dating apps, the company funded a nonprofit tool meant to protect users.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snap confirms and fixes a My AI glitch that caused the chatbot to post its own one-second Story of a two-toned image and then stop responding to users' messages — Snapchat's My AI feature, an in-app AI chatbot launched earlier this year with its fair share of controversy, briefly appeared to have a mind of its own.
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Filing: NYC-based AI startup Elemental Cognition raised nearly $60M; AI researcher David Ferrucci, who led the team behind IBM Watson, founded Elemental in 2015 — - David Ferrucci, who led the team that created IBM Watson, has raised nearly $60 million for his artificial intelligence startup … | Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Databricks had a total ~$900M loss in its past two fiscal years, including $380M in the year ending in January 2023, and is moving closer to break-even — Enterprise software firm Databricks is in early discussions with investors for a new cash infusion, likely totaling hundreds … | Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
Sei launches its trading-focused blockchain and SEI hits $1.6B in trading volume in the first 24 hours, per CoinMarketCap; many users criticized SEI's airdrop — The buzzy blockchain project's SEI token saw a flurry of trading as it debuted on several crypto exchanges …
More: Finbold, Inside Bitcoins, NewsBTC, Cryptopolitan, The Block, CryptoSlate, Metaverse Post, and CoinDesk
X: @coinbaseassets, @sei_fnd, @seinetwork, @sei_fnd, @seinetwork, @sei_fnd, and @abrahamchase09. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Counterpoint expects 2023 global smartphone shipments to drop 6% YoY to 1.15B units, the lowest level since 2013, due to a slowing Chinese economy and US demand — - Global smartphone shipments are expected to drop 6% from 2022 — Apple is better positioned than others to weather the storm
More: Counterpoint Research, AppleInsider, Apple Must, The Independent, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, Wccftech, Proactiveinvestors UK, Investopedia, PCMag, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Livemint, CNBC, BGR, 9to5Mac, and iClarified
X: @tarunpathak and @technology
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Solidus: between mid-July and August, developers deployed 500+ scam tokens on Coinbase's Base blockchain, ~300 of which let their creators mint unlimited tokens — - More than 500 scam tokens were deployed on blockchain — Solidus Labs says scammers pocketed about $2 million in profitSponsor Posts
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