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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Adobe faces a backlash over its terms of service that say Adobe may access user content via “automated and manual methods” to improve its services and software — Adobe has been one of the leading legacy enterprise software companies to embrace generative AI and make it accessible …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a new Passwords app in macOS 15, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18, powered by iCloud Keychain, and will let users import passwords from rival services — Apple Inc. will introduce a new homegrown app next week called Passwords, aiming to make it easier for customers to log …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A website for cybercriminals lists 500+ allegedly stolen Snowflake customer credentials, including for environments belonging to Santander and Ticketmaster — Cloud data analysis company Snowflake is at the center of a recent spate of alleged data thefts, as its corporate customers scramble …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Cara, an artist-run, anti-AI social platform, grew from 40K to 650K users in the past week, as some Instagram artists leave over plans to train AI on user data — ‘Building a product is a bit like making art,’ said founder Jingna Zhang — Artists have finally had enough with Meta's predatory AI policies …
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Forums: r/aiwars, r/ArtistHate, and r/technology
| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
Telegram launches Stars, a new in-app currency for the purchase of digital goods and services in Telegram mini apps; developers can convert Stars into TON — Developers of mini apps on Telegram will now be able to sell digital goods and services for Stars, which can be converted into Toncoin.| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
The US charges three UK nationals with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a ~$3M NFT rug pull scam known as Evolved Apes in 2021 — Evolved apes was a $3 million NFT rug pull that lured investors in with the promise of developing a video game.
More: US Department of Justice, The Block, Cryptonews, The Crypto Times, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, and The Crypto Times
Forums: r/ethtrader and r/CryptoCurrency
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
After Microsoft eroded Windows users' trust with bad practices for years, Recall is a PR disaster, as users remain skeptical despite the company's assurances — The world is up-in-arms over Windows Recall, but why? It stems from Microsoft's seeming lack of care for Windows and its users.
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Forums: r/technology, r/france, and r/aiwars
| Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: |
A US federal court finds Mike Lynch not guilty of criminal charges that he duped HP into buying Autonomy for $11B in 2011; he lost a UK civil trial in 2022 — - San Francisco acquittal follows Lynch's defeat in civil trial — He's claimed for years he was scapegoated for merger gone bad
More: Tech Monitor, BBC, Wired, The Guardian, Proactive, Reuters, The Stack, Wall Street Journal, Irish Independent, Telegraph, The Information, The Register, and Financial Times. X: @danprimack
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google partners with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency first responders, to let users contact 911 via RCS, from December and initially only in Google Messages — Google said today it is partnering with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency first responders, to enable users to contact 911 through RCS (Rich Messaging Service).
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| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
NY AG sues crypto companies AWS Mining and NovaTechFX for allegedly operating pyramid schemes that targeted Haitian immigrants and bilked investors out of $1B+ — NovaTech's founders Cynthia and Eddy Petion allegedly preyed on Creole-speaking church-goers and advertised their scheme as a way to gain “freedom from the plantation.”| Samanth Subramanian / Wired: |
Q&A with Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins on running the world's foremost open source intelligence agency, AI-generated content, legal accountability, and more — Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits … | Adam Morgan / Esquire: |
Over a dozen video game professionals discuss the Summer Game Fest, amid concerns about the event's high entry fees, opaqueness, celebritization, and more — Suddenly, Geoff Keighley's June showcase is one of the industry's most important events. Whether or not it's a positive force …
More: Game Developer, Insider Gaming, Kotaku, Kotaku Australia, Press Start, Push Square, Dot Esports, and Aftermath
Forums: r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/gamernews, r/kindafunny, r/Games, and r/PS5
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kraken seeks to raise $100M+ in a pre-IPO round; the crypto exchange's previous attempts to go public were thwarted in part by a dispute with the SEC — - Crypto exchange has talked about doing IPO for several years — Closely held exchange is engaged in a dispute with the SEC
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X: @ldrogen, @web3quant, and @satoshiflipper
| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans WhatsApp features, including an AI-powered assistant for businesses in India and Singapore, and AI tools to create ads in English-speaking markets — - Assistant lets businesses chat with customers using AI — New features will roll out first in India and Singapore| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
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