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Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into Telegram allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderation — Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly …
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| Bloomberg: |
Telegram says CEO Pavel Durov has “nothing to hide” and the messaging app “abides by EU laws”, including the Digital Services Act, after France arrested Durov — - Company says it isn't responsible for abuse on messaging app — Billionaire co-founded taken into custody at a Paris airport
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| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: |
A look at Telegram's claims that it is a “secure messenger” despite lacking default end-to-end encrypted messages and any E2E encrypted option for group chats — This blog is reserved for more serious things, and ordinarily I wouldn't spend time on questions like the above.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's robotics efforts; sources say Meta will unveil prototype “Orion” AR glasses, a cheaper Quest, and new AI features for Ray-Ban Meta at Connect — Also: Meta nears the launch of a cheaper Quest; Apple tries a new Vision Pro sales tactic; and the App Store chief is leaving as part of a reorganization.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese-made, Tencent-backed game Black Myth: Wukong sold 10M copies in just 83 hours, one of the fastest game debuts in history, earning an estimated $450M+ — - Adventure title has one of the fastest game launches ever — Strong debut signals China's games industry turning a corner| New York Times: |
An excerpt from the book Character Limit details the chaotic revamp of Twitter Blue, including Elon Musk's haphazard planning and Esther Crawford's involvement — By Nov. 9, 2022, anxiety was high among the Twitter employees gathered at the company's San Francisco headquarters.
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| Financial Times: |
Chinese tech giants splurge on AI infrastructure, doubling their 2024 capex; Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu had a combined capex of ~$7B in H1 2024, up 50%+ YoY — Alibaba reports artificial intelligence servers running at full capacity, while ByteDance buys limited-power Nvidia chips in bulk
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| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fines Uber a record €290M for failing to abide by European protection standards when sending sensitive driver data to the US — - Uber was fined for not sufficiently protecting driver data — The fine is the highest penalty ever issued by Dutch regulator| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
A look at voice bots from Indian startups Sarvam AI, CoRover, and Gnani.ai; Samsung-backed Gnani now handles millions of voice conversations daily for companies — India's startups are betting AI voice products can reach more of the country than text-based chatbots| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: IBM shuts its China R&D department, affecting 1,000+ employees, and plans to move some R&D functions overseas, the latest company to retreat from China — Jobs to be added in India, employees are told — IBM is shutting down its China research and development department …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Threads says it is testing ephemeral posts that disappear within 24 hours with a limited number of users, but doesn't say if the experiment is region-specific — Automatically disappearing posts on social networks could be handy for users who have a habit of deleting their posts through third-party tools …
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| Joe Supan / CNET: |
A look at the aftermath of the FCC ending the Affordable Connectivity Program for ~23M US households in May 2024; Spectrum says it lost 154K customers in Q2 — The Affordable Connectivity Program provided low-income households with discounts on home internet. — Phyllis Jackson loves being online.| Grant Stoner / IGN: |
How prominent games accessibility advocate Susan Banks, who worked with studios and raised awareness for accessibility in games, may never have existed at all — In 2019, the games accessibility community mourned the death of Susan Banks. Now, evidence suggests she may have never existed to begin with.
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