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Associated Press:
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 …
New York Times:
Brazilian judge amends his order, no longer requiring Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app; those using a VPN to access X still face a ~$9K/day fine  —  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.
Matt Stoller / BIG:
Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 protections is in jeopardy after a US court ruled TikTok's algorithmic curation is not protected by Section 230  —  Algorithms are no longer a Get out of Jail free card.  The Third Circuit ruled that TikTok must stand trial for manipulating children into harming themselves.
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
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 …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
A Texas federal judge who held Tesla stock denies a motion to dismiss X's lawsuit accusing Media Matters of misrepresenting the amount of extremist content on X  —  Judge says Musk critic “targeted” advertisers in Texas, denies motion to dismiss.  —  A federal judge in Texas yesterday ruled …
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 …
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.
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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CNN:
Don Lemon pleads not guilty to two federal charges stemming from his reporting at an anti-ICE protest in a Minnesota church

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
While announcing its sports buildup, Banner EIC Audrey Cooper noted the civic value: “At a time when so much pulls communities apart, sports bring us together”

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Source: New York Daily News is cutting six of 10 national desk staffers, one metro reporter, seven print production people, and two photo department staffers

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Kalley Huang / The Information:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has over 185M weekly active users and over 400M MAUs and it's “growing quickly” even without a rollout “in UK, Brazil, or EU yet”
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

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Rachel Graf / Bloomberg:
A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk and Tesla pumped up Dogecoin into a “pyramid scheme”, finding that Musk's statements were “aspirational”
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
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out Gmail Q&A, a feature that allows users who pay for Gemini to chat with the AI assistant about their emails, on Android and “coming soon to iOS”
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Magic, which makes AI tools for coding and to automate software development tasks, raised $320M from Eric Schmidt and others, bringing its total raised to $465M
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
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
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