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| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
Apple releases macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS updates to address two zero-day flaws that Citizen Lab says were used to deliver NSO Group's Pegasus spyware — Apple released software updates on Thursday to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that researchers said were used …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's “Wonderlust” event on September 12, including four iPhone 15 models with USB-C and Apple Watch Series 9 with new sensors and chips — Company will spotlight titanium iPhone 15 Pro and cameras, switch to USB-C chargers and faster smartwatches.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
The US and the UK sanction 11 more alleged Trickbot ransomware gang members, and the US DOJ unseals indictments against nine alleged Trickbot and Conti members — Authorities have sanctioned 11 alleged members of the cybercriminal groups, while the US Justice Department unsealed three federal indictments …
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| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
Former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame pleads guilty to US campaign finance and money transmitting charges and will forfeit $1.5B+ as part of the deal — Salame admitted to being a “straw donor” to secretly funnel millions of dollars to Republican political candidates while Bankman-Fried donated to Democrats.
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and Slashdot
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The FBI says North Korea-linked Lazarus Group was responsible for the theft of $41M in crypto from online casino and betting site Stake around September 4, 2023 — - The FBI said North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group was responsible for a $41 million theft this week from crypto-based sports betting platform Stake.com.
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Huawei debuts the Mate 60 Pro+ and the Mate X5 foldable, both likely powered by Huawei's mysterious HiSilicon Kirin 9000S; sources: both phones are 5G devices — The Mate 60 Pro+ and Mate X5 are likely based on Huawei's locally-made chip. — Following Huawei's surprise launch … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X updates its TOS to ban scraping or crawling without “prior written consent”, effective September 29, likely to stop AI models from training on its data — Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has updated its terms of service to prohibit scraping and crawling — likely to fend off any AI models training on its data.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Turkey-based grocery delivery startup Getir is raising $500M from Mubadala, Michael Moritz, and others at a $2.5B valuation, vs. $11.8B in March 2022 — Istanbul-based grocery app company, which had been valued at nearly $12bn in early 2022, raises $500mn| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
TikTok's Shop marketplace goes live for some US users, presenting a feed of “recommended” random products, including cheap Chinese goods that appear counterfeit — The social app's Shop marketplace, key to its growth strategy, is so far hard to navigate.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paying subscribers that offers up to 20 hours of content per month, as part of an audiobook push — Audio streamer to test program with listeners to learn about customer demand for audiobooks — Spotify plans to test …
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| Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: |
Q&A with Threads engineers Jesse Chen and Zahan Malkani on building the app with Instagram's tech stack, handling Threads' unexpectedly intense launch, and more — The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch?
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SAP acquires Germany-based startup LeanIX, which offers tools to help companies map their IT architecture, sources say for around $1.2B — As companies look to stave off technical debt, a process of aging systems limiting a company's ability to modernize, the first step is simply understanding the state of your architecture.
More: SAP News Center, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, and VentureBeat
| Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet — Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at Microsoft's device-agnostic game streaming model; sources say Microsoft prototyped a cloud-focused Xbox handheld, but work on cloud gaming has slowed — With Steam Deck competitors on the rise, Microsoft has been focused on phones for Xbox Cloud Gaming so far.
More: Dexerto. Mastodon: @AAKL@noc.social. X: @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @joshthegamedev, @mattbdev, @zanejwickman, @thoughtlesstale, @mrorange303, @the_crapgamer, @knoebelbroet, and @kjseo
Forums: r/XboxSeriesX and r/Games
| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Similarweb: ChatGPT's worldwide desktop and mobile website visits fell 3.2% MoM to 1.43B in August, following ~10% drops from each of the previous two months — OpenAI's ChatGPT, the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot launched in November, saw monthly website visits decline …
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| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
Ant Group debuts ZAN, a blockchain service aimed at institutional clients and individual Web3 developers in overseas markets, including Hong Kong and Singapore — - Ant Group said ZAN will focus on serving institutional and individual clients in overseas markets including Hong Kong and Singapore.
More: Metaverse Post and Analytics Insight
| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits — Thodex was one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing.
More: Euronews, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Fortune, BBC, crypto.news, Coinspeaker, CryptoPotato, The Block, CoinJournal, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, and CryptoSlate. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Reuters: |
Source: encouraged by the Indian government, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance has held talks with foreign chipmakers to become potential partners in chip manufacturing — Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries (RELI.NS) has begun exploring a foray into semiconductor manufacturing …
More: Entrackr and Business Today
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google releases its relevance and measurement APIs for Privacy Sandbox in general availability, making them available in Chrome without browser flags or trials — Google's Chrome browser is now one important step closer to its goal of phasing out third-party cookies by the end of 2024.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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