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Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country — SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil …
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| New York Times: |
Brazilian judge orders Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app in Brazil and says those using a VPN to access X would face a fine of ~$9,000 a day — The social network will go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be said online.
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon's revamped “Remarkable” Alexa, due for release in October 2024, will be powered primarily by Anthropic's Claude, and cost $5 to $10 per month — Amazon's revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily …
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Forums: r/singularity and MacRumors Forums
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep AnandTech's website and articles live indefinitely — It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I've ever needed to write here at AnandTech.
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LinkedIn: Georgiana Comsa, Patrick Moorhead, Jon Masters, Matthew S Smith, Hyoun Park, Ranbir Mahapatra, and Anil Nanduri
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel explores options including splitting its product design and foundry units and potentially scrapping some factory projects; INTC closes up 9.5% — - Once-dominant chipmaker looks to longtime bankers for help — Possible moves could include scrapping some factory projects
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X: @patrickmoorhead, @mackhawk, @markgurman, @matthewstoller, @kevinkingsbury, @christophauto, and @benthompson
LinkedIn: Patrick Moorhead, Sarah Gill, and Woz Ahmed
Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/hardware, and r/intel
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a now-patched zero-day in a Chromium core engine to steal crypto from organizations — A North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a previously unknown bug in Chrome to target organizations with the goal … | Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI is in discussions about changing its corporate structure to become more investor-friendly, including removing a cap on profits for investors — Discussions come as Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft consider funding round that would value start-up at more than $100bn| New York Times: |
Sources: the cryptology part of France's charges against Pavel Durov raises concerns at US tech companies with E2EE messaging apps, like Signal, Apple, and Meta — The criminal charges against Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, raised concerns in Silicon Valley about encryption and the app's approach to privacy and security.
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Threads: @crumbler and @benedictevans
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The City of Columbus, OH, sues security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of sharing data stolen by a ransomware gang with media — The City of Columbus, Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf …
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X: @katyashanahan, @katyashanahan, @reporterbush, @dc_dewitt, @randyludlow, @laceycrisp, @shillcockgeorge, @hackingdave, @shillcockgeorge, and @laceycrisp. LinkedIn: Robert Fernandes
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Telegram's 2023 financials: $342.5M revenue, 40% of which came from crypto-related line items, and $108M operating loss; it had holdings of ~$400M in Toncoin — Pavel Durov's company has been coining it in — Pavel Durov's arrest in France for allegedly failing to control criminal content on Telegram … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google says Search AI Overviews, Gemini image generation, and other AI products will not respond to election-related topics ahead of the US elections — Google is gearing up for the upcoming U.S. presidential election by rolling out safeguards for more of its generative AI products.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims has been “thoroughly cleaned” of CSAM — LAION, the German research org that created the data used to train Stable Diffusion, among other generative AI models …
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| Chainalysis: |
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