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The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming “consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing” plan terms — The US government is suing Adobe for allegedly hiding expensive fees and making it difficult to cancel a subscription.
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Apple says it will no longer offer Apple Pay Later, the BNPL service launched in the US in 2023, and will focus on installment loan features coming in 2024 — Apple has announced that it is no longer offering Apple Pay Later, the “buy now, pay later” service that launched in the United States last year.
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| María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg: |
Stablecoin provider Tether announces a synthetic dollar backed by gold that will trade as aUSDT via smart contracts on the Ethereum Mainnet blockchain — - Alloy by Tether designed to track dollar with gold collateral — Tether Gold has a $573 million market capitalization| Amar Subramanya / Google: |
Google launches a Gemini app for Android in India, supporting English and nine other languages; Gemini will be available on Google's iOS app in the coming weeks — Vice President, Engineering, Gemini Experiences — Gemini, your AI assistant from Google, has had an exciting first year in India.
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| Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Shein CEO Xu Yangtian has deliberately kept a low profile for fear of attracting unwanted public attention; Shein has never published any photos of him — - Even by the standards of Chinese tech business leaders, the lack of public information about Xu Yangtian is unusual| Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority: |
Adobe updates Acrobat with Firefly-powered AI image generation, AI Assistant supporting analysis of multiple documents, including non-PDF files, and more — Acrobat's AI Assistant is getting more useful, just months after its debut. — • — TL;DR| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Signal president Meredith Whittaker warns the EU's recent “upload moderation” proposal to detect CSAM “fundamentally undermines encryption” of messaging apps — A controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan the private messages of citizens in a bid …
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| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
Uber says “tens of thousands of riders” in Phoenix have matched with a “Waymo (AI) driver” and have given “a nearly 4.9 average star rating” since the launch — The Alphabet Inc. unit, which operates its commercial ride service in three major cities …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a $130 stylus coming in September for the Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and “future headsets”, the Quest's first third-party input device — The stylus works in 2D or 3D art in VR and AR, arriving this fall. Your move, Apple.
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Cambridge, UK-based CuspAI, which is developing AI-powered tech for designing new materials, raised a $30M seed and adds Geoffrey Hinton to its advisory board — Former Google AI researcher to work with CuspAI, which has raised $30 million to combat climate change with AI-designed materials.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in September 2023, on the streaming industry, working within Fox, subscription fatigue, copyright, and more — TV isn't just competing with Netflix for your time — it needs to beat TikTok, too. … Today, I'm talking with Anjali Sud, the CEO of Tubi.| Bloomberg: |
Mandiant: up to 10 companies breached in a campaign targeting Snowflake customers have been extorted with stolen data and face ransom demands from $300K to $5M — - As many as 10 companies are being extorted with stolen data — Scammers previously made death threats against researchers
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Microsoft says Windows 11 version 24H2, now in the Release Preview Channel, is “targeting Copilot+ PCs devices” and devices previously using Insider 24H2 builds — Microsoft has split the future of Windows between two user groups: those with AI-powered Copilot+ PCs and those without.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
A look at India's quick commerce market, which has become an important distribution channel for Indian food brands, as Zepto and others expand beyond groceries — India's 2023 e-commerce sales of $60B-$65B were less than half of China's Singles Day sales — Even as quick commerce startups … Sponsor Posts
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