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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 …
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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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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
PE firm EQT plans to take the German software company SUSE private at €16/share, below the €30 price of its 2021 IPO but above Thursday's closing price of €9.6 — Buyout offer is at €16 per share, compared to €30 at its 2021 IPO — Linux-loving software house SUSE … | 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) …
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London-based credit card processor Checkout.com abruptly terminates its contract with Binance citing reports of regulatory actions and money laundering concerns — Checkout.com, the London-based credit card processing company that ballooned its business model by servicing billions …
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| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
A book excerpt traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar that use forced labor to run pig butchering scams involving Tether — 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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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 …
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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
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitch plans to roll out a long-requested anti-harassment feature in the next few weeks, letting streamers block banned users from watching 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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Lyft and Uber threaten to leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill on August 23 that mandates at least $1.40/mile and $0.51/minute for drivers — New York CNN — — Lyft and Uber threatened to stop doing business in Minneapolis after the city council adopted a new rule Thursday …
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| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
KPMG: Canadian fintech activity totaled $353.7M across 57 deals from January 2023 to June 2023, down from $834.1M across 109 deals for same time period in 2022 — Investment in Canada's financial technology sector was reduced to less than half in the first six months of 2023 from last year … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Viome, which sells supplements to customers based on AI-based assessments of their microbiomes, raised an $86.5M Series C, bringing its total funding to $175M — Research on the human microbiome — microorganism communities that live in a part of your body such as your mouth or gut …
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