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An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new Elon Musk biography details Musk's decision to buy Twitter and how his moods fluctuated wildly before the official closing — In an exclusive excerpt from his new biography ‘Elon Musk,’ Walter Isaacson offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most surprising …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta begins testing keyword search on Threads in Australia and New Zealand, and plans a rollout to more English-speaking countries before adding more languages — Threads launched one of the most anticipated features, a web version of the platform, last week.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
University of Zürich and Intel researchers reveal Swift, an autonomous drone trained via deep reinforcement learning to beat human champions in FPV drone racing — University creates the first autonomous system capable of beating humans at drone racing.
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| New York Times: |
A look at Starfield, a game by Microsoft's Bethesda with 1,000 explorable planets, set for September 6 after a 10-month delay, as Microsoft needs an Xbox hit — The stakes are high for Bethesda's newest role-playing game. Microsoft needs an Xbox hit, and players are hungry for an expansive and satisfying space adventure.
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 in Europe on October 1, discounting the suites by €24/year and selling Teams for €60/year — - Company offers to unbundle Teams from other business software — EU investigating if Microsoft's bundling broke antitrust law
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| Charlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says X users will be able to make video and audio calls without sharing a phone number, as X “is the effective global address book”, but gives no date — Users of X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, will be able to make video and audio calls through …
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
A US district judge grants a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that requires age verification to access porn sites — Texas was supposed to start enforcing the law tomorrow. — The day before a Texas antiporn law that requires age verification …
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| Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: |
Swift and Web3 services startup Chainlink send tokenized value across private and public blockchains using Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol — The interbank messaging system Swift announced in June it was collaborating with Chainlink and dozens of financial institutions to test connecting blockchains.
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| Mark Wilding / The Verge: |
Investigation: in July, IBM signed a £54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, despite a 2020 pledge to stop such work — IBM has returned to the facial recognition market — just three years after announcing it was abandoning work on the technology due … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Network security company LogicMonitor confirms “a security incident”, a source says due to assigning customers' default passwords, like “Welcome@” plus a number — Some customers of the network security company LogicMonitor have been hacked due to the use of default passwords, TechCrunch has learned.| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Binance plans to “gradually” end support for its BUSD stablecoin by February 2024, as “Paxos halted minting of new BUSD” after an NYDFS order in February 2023 — The move follows Paxos' decision to halt minting of new BUSD. — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it will … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube Music redesigns its Now Playing screen on Android and iOS with larger cover art and a comments section, after launching real-time lyrics last week — After pulling a variant at the start of this year, YouTube Music is rolling out the latest redesign of Now Playing on Android and iOS, adding a comments section.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta releases FACET, an AI benchmarking tool for evaluating the “fairness” of AI models that classify and detect things in photos and videos, including people — Continuing on its open source tear, Meta today released a new AI benchmark, FACET, designed to evaluate the “fairness” … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bumble updates its community guidelines to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxxing, and says the company blocked 8.2M+ accounts in 2023, mostly using AI — Dating app company Bumble has released its updated community guidelines with an aim to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting and doxing.
More: Mashable
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes lays off 100+ employees in preparation of a major restructuring to separate its consumer and corporate-facing business units — Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes this week laid off 100 employees as it prepares for a major restructuring that will see the business split into two, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based telehealth startup Babylon Health, once valued at ~$2B after being backed by DeepMind and others, is being sold for parts after going bankrupt — It's the end of the road for Babylon Health, the London telehealth startup once valued at nearly $2 billion after being backed … | David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Magic Leap tells customers the Magic Leap 1 AR headset, which launched in August 2018, and its apps will “cease to function” from December 31, 2024 — Magic Leap 1 AR headsets will “cease to function” from 31 December 2024, the company announced. — Magic Leap sent an email to all customers containing the following:
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| Morgan Park / PC Gamer: |
Activision partners with Modulate to test ToxMod, an AI-based voice moderation tool, across Modern Warfare 2, Warzone 2, and other games, in North America — There's a new AI-powered sheriff in town, and its name is ToxMod. — Call of Duty is joining the growing number …
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| James Hunt / The Block: |
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Uniswap, founder Hayden Adams, a16z, and others over scam token sales, as software cannot be held liable for user losses — - Uniswap founder Hayden Adams hailed the court's comments as “based” after a class action lawsuit alleging liability for scam token sales was thrown out.
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Otto, formerly TeleVet, which makes software for veterinary clinics, raised a $43M Series B led by Mercury Fund, which led its $5M Series A in December 2022 — Scheduling medical appointments is challenging enough for humans, so Otto, formerly TeleVet, wants to make it easy to, at the very least, care for our pets.| Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press: |
A US district judge temporarily blocks an Arkansas law requiring parental consent for minors to open social media accounts that was set to take effect on Sep. 1 — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent … | Wired: |
A monthslong investigation exposes the secrets of Russian ransomware gang Trickbot, which thrives despite global disruption efforts, and a key member's identity — A WIRED investigation into a cache of documents posted by an unknown figure lays bare the Trickbot ransomware gang's secrets, including the identity of a central member.Sponsor Posts
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