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August 8, 2024, 6:55 AM

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Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central:
Meta closes Ready at Dawn Studios, acquired in 2020 and that produced VR games like Lone Echo and Echo VR, to meet the new Reality Labs budgetary ceiling  —  Echo VR developer Ready at Dawn Studios is now closed for business.  —  Updated 8/17 at 5:19pm ET: The information Android Central …
Financial Times:
Sources: Google and Meta ran a pilot program in the US in May 2024 to target Instagram ads to teenagers on YouTube, which prohibits targeting ads to under-18s  —  Campaign on YouTube to boost Instagram's appeal to young people skirted search group's rules for marketing to under-18s
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Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg:
A US judge orders Ripple to pay a $125M penalty for selling XRP to institutional investors, well below the ~$2B the SEC had sought in the case; XRP jumps 20%+  —  - Regulator had sought almost $2 billion in fines, penalties  — Ripple token XRP surges on court ruling but is flat this year
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Researchers: hackers have used an 18-year-old flaw in how Safari, Chrome, and Firefox on macOS handle queries to a 0.0.0.0 IP address to breach private networks  —  Weaknesses in Chrome, Firefox and Safari gave hackers a route into internal networks, even those protected by firewalls, security researchers warn.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
A researcher details a Windows Update vulnerability that could be exploited to downgrade key components of Windows to older versions that contain known flaws  —  A researcher found a vulnerability that would let hackers strategically downgrade a target's Windows version to reexpose patched vulnerabilities.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
A group of VCs, including Reid Hoffman and Ron Conway, hosted a “VCs for Kamala” Zoom call to support Harris' campaign with up to 600 attendees, raising $150K  —  It started with a “rage tweet.”  —  “Gonna start ‘VCs for Democracy,’” Leslie Feinzaig, founder and general partner at Graham & Walker, wrote on X in late July.
RTÉ:
Ireland's DPC launches High Court proceedings against X over concerns about the company's use of user data in the EU and EEA to train AI systems including Grok  —  The Data Protection Commission has launched High Court proceedings against Twitter International Unlimited Company over concerns …
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Bill Peters / MarketWatch:
Robinhood reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to $682M, vs. $640M est., crypto transaction revenue up 161% to $81M, and net income of $188M, up from $25M in Q2 2023  —  Cryptocurrencies revenue up 161% in second quarter, while equities revenue rises 60%  —  Robinhood Markets Inc. reported second …

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