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August 29, 2024, 1:10 PM

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group  —  Google says it has evidence that Russian government hackers are using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” …
Financial Times:
Sources: the EU is investigating if Telegram gave inaccurate user numbers to stay under the DSA's 45M threshold; Telegram reported 41M EU users in February 2024  —  Brussels probing possible failure by messaging platform to provide accurate data under new regulations
Gaspard Sebag / Bloomberg:
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, the FT, The Atlantic, Vox Media, USA Today, Condé Nast, and more block Apple's Applebot-Extended AI crawler  —  This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Automattic plans to shift Tumblr's backend to WordPress in a bid to make sharing work across the platforms easier, after acquiring Tumblr for $3M in August 2019  —  Tumblr is making the move to WordPress.  After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
In his upcoming book, Trump says Mark Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and he'd “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he did it again  —  The Meta CEO earlier this week asserted that Biden administration tried to “pressure” the company to downplay content about Covid.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 122% YoY to $30B, above $28.7B est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est., and approves an additional $50B in share buybacks  —  Nvidia reported earnings after the bell that beat Wall Street expectations for earnings and guidance, and provided stronger-than-expected guidance for the current quarter.
Bloomberg:
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Kuo: in the 2025 iPhone lineup, only the iPhone 17 Pro Max will have 12GB of DRAM, instead of 8GB, and a cooling system with vapor chambers and graphite sheets  —  Just a day after a noted leaker on Chinese microblogging site Weibo suggested the iPhone 17 lineup in 2025 could see an upgrade …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Threads now lets users see and like fediverse replies on other posts besides their own, and will syndicate posts submitted via the Threads API to the fediverse  —  Threads is deepening its ties to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which powers services like X alternative Mastodon …
Nico Grant / New York Times:
Yelp sues Google, alleging Google abused its dominance in general search to gain an unfair advantage in the local search and local search advertising markets  —  Yelp complained for more than a decade that Google tilted the search market in its favor.  After its rival's landmark legal loss, it finally decided to sue.
Katie Paul / Reuters:
Meta says its Llama models were downloaded almost 350M times, are used by AT&T and others, and usage via cloud providers more than doubled from May to July 2024  —  Meta's (META.O) Llama artificial intelligence models are being used by companies including Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and AT&T …
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Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Bungie fired top executive Chris Barrett in March 2024 after female employees accused him of inappropriate behavior; Barrett joined Bungie in 1999  —  Veteran developer who worked on hit video game franchises Halo and Destiny was directing the next major title, Marathon.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Codeium, which offers enterprise AI coding tools, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.25B post-money valuation, and reports 700K+ users and 1K+ enterprise clients  —  A startup whose product competes with GitHub Copilot and other AI-powered coding assistants has achieved unicorn status.
Anna Tong / Reuters:
California's State Assembly passes AI safety bill SB 1047, which now requires a Senate process vote and then Governor Newsom's signature before September 30  —  California lawmakers passed a hotly contested artificial-intelligence safety bill on Wednesday, after which it will need …
Tianyu Fang / Rest of World:
As Chinese EV manufacturers consolidate and close, EV owners say they're losing access to smartphone app updates and driving features reliant on cloud services  —  As Chinese EV makers close, drivers of “smartphones on wheels” say software updates and maintenance are in jeopardy.
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Sources: truck sharing platform Fluid Truck, which raised $80M+, has ousted its sibling co-founders, including CEO James Eberhard, after losing tens of millions  —  The startup is in the hole for millions  —  Fluid Truck, a startup that was founded to disrupt the commercial vehicle rental industry …

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