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French administrative document: alongside Pavel Durov, French authorities issued an arrest warrant for his Telegram co-founder brother Nikolai in March 2024 — PARIS — French authorities issued arrest warrants for Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and his co-founder brother Nikolai in March … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Emmanuel Macron invited Pavel Durov to move Telegram to Paris in 2018; in 2017, a joint operation between French and UAE spies hacked Durov's iPhone — Pavel Durov had lunch with the French president six years ago. His phone was hacked the previous year by French and U.A.E. spies.| Financial Times: |
How Telegram CEO Pavel Durov miscalculated on moderation, saying earlier in 2024 that he did not expect “significant challenges” despite new laws targeting tech — Social media billionaire's decade-long effort to avoid government scrutiny has backfired with French arrest| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
US-based child safety group NCMEC, Canada-based CCCP, and UK-based IWF say their outreach to Telegram to flag CSAM on the platform has largely been ignored — Telegram's CEO was arrested in relation to an investigation into an unnamed person involving claims of “complicity” in distributing child sexual abuse material.
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Sources: Apple is laying off ~100 people in its services group, impacting Apple Books, News, and other teams, a rare move as part of a shift in its priorities — Apple Inc. took the rare step of cutting about 100 jobs in its services group, part of a shift in priorities for the critical division …
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Sources: China-linked hackers penetrated deep into two big US ISPs and several smaller ones in recent months, using a zero-day flaw in Versa Networks software — Beijing's hacking effort has “dramatically stepped up from where it used to be,” says former top U.S cybersecurity official.
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| Christine Fernando / Associated Press: |
X updates Grok to direct users to Vote.gov for election queries, after a letter from five US secretaries of state warned of spreading election misinformation — The social media platform X has made a change to its AI chatbot after five secretaries of state warned it was spreading election misinformation.
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| Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit — - Mark Zuckerberg runs Meta, one of the world's most valuable tech companies. — Why did he just send Congress a letter admitting that Meta has screwed up?
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| Joanna Nelius / The Verge: |
Google rolls out a Google Meet AI feature that automatically takes notes during meetings conducted in spoken English, available to select Workspace customers — Google Meet's newest AI-powered feature, “take notes for me,” has started rolling out today to Google Workspace customers …
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| April Rubin / Axios: |
Snap launches new safety tools and resources for US educators, and says Snapchat has 20M+ US teen users; Pew says 51% of US teens used Snapchat daily in 2023 — - Snapchat was the third most used app among teens in a 2023 Pew study, behind YouTube and Instagram.| The Guardian: |
Venezuelan journalists are using AI avatars to host daily newscasts without putting themselves at risk, as President Nicolás Maduro cracks down on the media — Journalists are using artificial intelligence avatars to combat Maduro's media crackdown since disputed election
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
How call centers in the Philippines' vast outsourcing industry are adopting AI tools to assist human operators, in an effort to stay competitive — The experiences of staff in the Philippines' outsourcing industry are a preview of the challenges and choices coming soon to white-collar workers around the globe.| Kali Hays / Fortune: |
Source: in 2023, Meta abandoned plans to build its own custom chips for its AR glasses, instead opting to rely on third-party chipmakers like Qualcomm — Mark Zuckerberg's vision of AR smart glasses no longer includes custom chips — Ambitious efforts inside Meta to build its own custom chips … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
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