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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 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.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust “hostage laws,” but Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's censorship demands — In the battle between Elon Musk and Brazil, there are no heroes — only two sides engaged in an epic display of hypocrisy and overreach.
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| Nick Burns / Americas Quarterly: |
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X: @brazilbrian, @brazilbrian, and @nickburns
| 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
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| 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 … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot maker Covariant and ~25% of its staff, and signs a non-exclusive license to Covariant's robotic foundation models — Amazon is hiring three of the founders from Covariant, a Bay Area startup that develops AI for advanced warehouse robotics systems.
More: About Amazon, TechCrunch, Covariant, The Decoder, Bloomberg, and The Information
| 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 …
More: The Verge, The Northern District of Texas, The Gateway Pundit, Engadget, Law & Crime, Reason, Fortune, and The Independent
X: @jeffjarvis, @chrisgeidner, @eriqgardner, @jamesrbuk, @chrisgeidner, @chrisgeidner, and @xnews. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| 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 …
More: Financial Times, The Block, Cryptopolitan, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, and Coinspeaker
| 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 — “TikTok reads 230 of the Communications Decency Act to permit casual indifference to the death of a ten-year-old girl.” - Judge Paul Matey
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X: @moonalice, @matthewstoller, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @matthewstoller, @speechu, @leehepner, and @daphnehk. LinkedIn: H. B. Acharya, Ph.D.
Forums: Hacker News, r/law, r/technology, and r/AWDTSGisToxic
| 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 …
More: Ars Technica, WBNS-TV, The Columbus Dispatch, WSYX ABC 6 on YouTube, The Cyber Express, and WOSU Public Media
Mastodon: @x00001@corteximplant.com. X: @shillcockgeorge, @katyashanahan, @katyashanahan, @reporterbush, @dc_dewitt, @randyludlow, @laceycrisp, @shillcockgeorge, @hackingdave, @shillcockgeorge, and @laceycrisp
LinkedIn: Jason Keirstead, Sandeep Shukla, Harlan Carvey, and Robert Fernandes
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A reporter tries fixing his reputation with AI chatbots, including by adding a “strategic text sequence” to data sources, and via an AI optimization startup — When I set out to improve my tainted reputation with chatbots, I discovered a new world of A.I. manipulation.| Wall Street Journal: |
How the Israeli army's Unit 8200 became an incubator for cybersecurity startups, with its alumni starting Wiz, Palo Alto Networks, and other companies — Unit 8200 has become an incubator for cybersecurity startups defending the world's biggest companies against hackers
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