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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute — Elon Musk says X's — formerly Twitter's — block feature is on the chopping block …
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Threads: @carnage4life, @bestofdyingtwitter, @d.d._jackson, @lindy_li, @carnage4life, @bestofdyingtwitter, @taylorlorenz, @mollyjongfast, @keithedwards, @markbower, @keithedwards, @tommorton, @hunterwalk, @renee.diresta, @saribethrose, @johnnypalmadessa, @mehtology, @roneneffect, @xeynon, @reporterzoe, @moskov, @benedictevans, @alex.stamos, and @keithedwards
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Forums: Hacker News and r/popculturechat
| Pete Evans / CBC News: |
Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information — Meta notes government sources not blocked as northerners duck ban by sharing screenshots of information
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| David Ljunggren / Reuters: |
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge demands that Meta lift its “reckless” news ban on Facebook and Instagram for the safety of people fleeing wildfires — The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta (META.O) lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms … | Anirban Sen / Reuters: |
Sources: SoftBank acquired a 25% stake in Arm from its Vision Fund unit at a $64B valuation and plans to make the chip designer's IPO filing public on August 21 — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) has acquired the 25% stake in Arm Ltd it does not directly own from its Vision Fund unit in a deal …
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| Bloomberg: |
Draft IPO filing: Arm's revenue fell 1% YoY to $2.68B in its fiscal year ended on March 31, 2023; sources: Arm plans to sell ~10% of its shares in its listing — - Decline in revenue is according to US accounting standards — Arm's parent SoftBank posted gains for unit under IFRS
More: Reuters, The Information, Beyond Search, and Tech in Asia
| David Jeans / Forbes: |
Credit card processor Checkout.com cuts its Binance contract short over regulatory “actions and orders in relevant jurisdictions” and money laundering concerns — Checkout.com, the London-based credit card processing company that ballooned its business model by servicing billions …
More: TechCrunch, Blockworks, The Verge, Cointelegraph, Protos, Watcher Guru, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Information, CryptoSlate, The Block, CoinJournal, and CoinGape
Forums: r/Buttcoin and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Email: Amazon offers some creators up to $12,500 for 500 videos, or $25 per video, for its TikTok-like shopping feed; creators typically charge $200+ per video — - Content creators typically charge more than $200 a pop — Amazon.com Inc., looking to amp up its TikTok-like shopping feed …
More: The Information, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Insider, ChinaTechNews.com, and Digiday
Mastodon: @jenn@pixel.kitchen. X: @kyndhalugc, @mustafachakmak, @lindseygamble_, and @alexbarinka. Forums: Slashdot
| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams — The mysterious WhatsApp message arrived one night in August 2022, while I was out at a bar with a friend: “Hi David, I'm Vicky Ho don't you remember me?”
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LinkedIn: Kelvin Low and John Coffey
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta updates Threads with a Repost tab on users' profile pages and adds reposts to the reverse-chronological Following feed — Threads is adding reposts (aka retweets) to its reverse-chronological “Following” feed, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced in a Threads post on Thursday.
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Threads: @mosseri, @jaypetersplus, @joshuatopolsky, and @bobsmithreal123
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Private equity firm EQT plans to take German software company SUSE private at €16/share, below its 2021 IPO's €30 price but above August 17's €9.6 closing price — Buyout offer is at €16 per share, compared to €30 at its 2021 IPO — Linux-loving software house SUSE …
More: SUSE, SiliconANGLE, ITPro, Financial Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Phoronix
Mastodon: @housepanther@mstdn …. X: @suse. LinkedIn: Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen. Forums: Hacker News and r/linux
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
OpenSea plans to make creator fees optional for new collections from August 31 and enforce creators' preferred fees on all secondary sales through February 2024 — - OpenSea has opted to make creator fees optional for new collections, starting in September.
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Mastodon: @fraying@xoxo.zone. X: @mcuban, @3orovik, @3antar_eth, @adion_17, @bitgod21, @heyjeremyhorn, @betty_nft, @icollectdigital, @nftpowerranking, @goblinmayn, and @kineticweb3
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitch plans to roll out a long-requested anti-harassment feature within weeks that automatically blocks a streamer's banned users from watching their streams — Twitch's chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with.
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