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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Intel should spin off its foundry business, and the US government should subsidize cutting-edge chipmaking in the US via purchase guarantees for US-made chips — The best way to both save Intel and have leading edge manufacturing in the U.S. is to split the company, and for the U.S. government …
More: Digits to Dollars, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, 9to5Google, TechRadar, and NewsBytes
Mastodon: @darkuncle@infosec.exchange. X: @gartenberg, @stevesi, @stevesi, @witeken, and @stratechery
| Terrence McCoy / Washington Post: |
A look at X's shrinking clout in Brazil even before the ban; Twitter once dominated Brazilian social media with 40M+ users, while X had an estimated 22M users — The platform formerly known as Twitter once dominated Brazilian social media, fueling nationwide protests in 2013 and propelling Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency.
Forums: Hacker News, r/Twitter, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
More: Bloomberg, The Register, CNBC, The Hindu, Platformer, Associated Press, POCIT, Financial Times, New York Times, MSNBC, Neowin, TmoNews, Axios, The Indian Express, TechIssuesToday.com, Reuters, UPI, Benzinga, The Hill, Techdirt, Pirate Wires, The Brazilian Report, Engadget, Fox Business, Tech Startups, The Verge, Cointelegraph, and Ars Technica
Threads: @mac_ryan_. Mastodon: @dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz. Bluesky: @clemens.vasters.com and @jglypt.net
X: @starlink, @tmfassociates, @alexandrefiles, @micsolana, @parismarx, @basedtorba, @micsolana, @ngrossman81, @piratewires, and @micsolana
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam and r/musked
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: Tech Startups, Daring Fireball, Engadget, Euronews, NBC Bay Area, The Overspill, The Information, MediaPost, PhoneArena, Adweek, Android Headlines, Fortune, Financial Times, Silicon Republic, and Neowin
Threads: @georgebetak. Bluesky: @bsky.app, @t0nyyates.bsky.social, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @jay.bsky.team, @brendelbored.bsky.social, @joshuajfriedman.com, @techcrunch.com, @mackuba.eu, @joshuajfriedman.com, @jaz.bsky.social, @jay.bsky.team, and @jay.bsky.team
Forums: Hacker News and r/BlueskySocial
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a side channel attack, which requires ~$11K worth of equipment and can be used to clone all YubiKeys running firmware prior to version 5.7 — Sophisticated attack breaks security assurances of the most popular FIDO key. — The YubiKey 5, the most widely used hardware token …
More: Yubico, NinjaLab, NinjaLab, ZDNET, Metacurity, Yubico, The Verge, Security Boulevard, Terence Eden's Blog, SecurityWeek, and Cybernews.com
Mastodon: @SecurityWriter@infosec …, @dmnelson@mastodon.social, @jalefkowit@vmst.io, and @dangoodin@infosec.exchange
X: @hackinglz, @atoonk, @cryptadamist, @aselawaid, @topquark, @stef_van_dop, @seedsigner, @krutikvirani, and @allaboutclait
LinkedIn: Philippe Caturegli, Pascal Junod, Rafał Fitt, Simon Geary, Dan Conn, and Steve D.
Forums: Hacker News, r/netsec, r/technology, Beehaw, Lobsters, and Ars OpenForum
| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
Ubisoft's stock fell 10%+ to an almost 10-year low in the past two days, giving it a market cap of €1.99B, following the lukewarm reception to Star Wars Outlaws — Ubisoft stock prices have tanked by over 10% in the past two days following a lukewarm reception to Star Wars Outlaws.
More: Reuters, Video Games Chronicle, Gameranx, Gamereactor UK, Bespin Bulletin, GamesIndustry.biz, PC Games Insider, IGN, GamingBolt, Game Rant, TheGamer, and Game World Observer
Forums: r/KotakuInAction and r/Games
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ sent subpoenas to Nvidia and others, seeking evidence that Nvidia violated antitrust laws by making it harder to switch suppliers and more — - Department also sent subpoenas to third parties in case — Nvidia has built a dominant position in AI computing
More: Tom's Hardware, CNN, DL News, Windows Central, PCMag, The Crypto Basic, Network World, Stratechery, New York Post, City A.M., Fast Company, Thurrott, CCN.com, Crypto Briefing, Investopedia, Reuters, Tech Startups, Computing, Yahoo Finance, Finbold, Forbes, Times of India, PC Gamer, Fortune, Euronews, VideoCardz.com, OC3D, CoinMarketCap Academy, The Guardian, Crypto News Land, COINOTAG NEWS, TipRanks Financial, Evertiq AB, BeInCrypto, Investing.com, RTTNews, Cryptonews, South China Morning Post, FX Empire, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, FXStreet, Business Times, Benzinga, Mobile World Live, The Register, PYMNTS.com, SmartCompany, Cointelegraph, SiliconANGLE, Decrypt, Techstrong.ai, The Information, CNBC, Investor's Business Daily, Wccftech, Wall Street Pit, Quartz, DigiTimes, Capital Brief, CoinGape, The Verge, Fox Business, and Business Insider
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LinkedIn: Michael Lin and Sarah Gill
Forums: Blind, r/nvidia, r/Superstonk, r/technology, r/NVDA_Stock, r/wallstreetbets, r/StockMarket, and Slashdot
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Meta's Oversight Board rules that the phrase “from the river to the sea” is not necessarily hate speech when addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — The independent board said the phrase has ‘multiple meanings’ and is important to political speech on Instagram and Facebook.
More: The Verge, Oversight Board, and Meta
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands daylist, a personalized playlist that evolves through the day depending on listening habits, globally for free and adds support for 14 languages — Spotify is launching daylist globally. It's a personalized playlist that evolves throughout the day depending on your listening habits.
More: Spotify, Android Authority, MacRumors, Music Ally, MakeUseOf, Mashable, and Axios
| Reuters: |
Safe Superintelligence, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raised $1B from a16z, Sequoia, and others, sources say at a $5B valuation — Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in cash … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a Copilot: Wave 2 event on September 16 at 8:00 AM PT, where it is expected to announce a Copilot rebrand and new features — Microsoft is holding a special Copilot event later this month that will be focused on “the next phase of Copilot innovation.”
More: Engadget, Thurrott, Neowin, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces its first 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will ship in new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14, available for $899 each — Today, the company's announcing its first 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will feature in a new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 that'll retail for $899 each.| Will Shanklin / Engadget: |
Microsoft says Intel's Core Ultra 200V and AMD's Ryzen AI 300 chips will add Copilot+ AI features starting in November 2024, expanding beyond Qualcomm chips — A software update will bring features like Live Captions, Cocreator in Paint and Windows Studio Effects.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
In comments to UK's CMA from July 29, Microsoft says Apple's changes to App Review Guidelines aren't enough for it to operate a native iOS Xbox Cloud Gaming app — Earlier this year Apple started opening up its App Store to game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and GeForce Now …
More: UK CMA, Moneycontrol, GamesIndustry.biz, Pure Xbox, MacRumors, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, Cult of Mac, Trusted Reviews, iMore, The Tech Basic, Thurrott, iDownloadBlog.com, and Neowin
Threads: @grantjallen. X: @tomwarren, @leakerapple, @zhugeex, @macrumors, @lshimazakijp, and @tomwarren
Forums: Hacker News, r/GeForceNOW, and r/apple
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
The UK's CMA says Microsoft's acquihire of the Inflection team doesn't cause competition concerns, but designates the deal as a merger — Good news for Microsoft: The U.K.'s antitrust regulator says that the tech titan's high-profile acquihire of the team behind AI startup Inflection …
More: LinkedIn, Wall Street Journal, London Evening Standard, Bloomberg, Reuters, Neowin, City A.M., and The Verge
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
You.com, an AI-powered search engine, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $99M, and launches “multiplayer AI” features for team collaboration — You.com, the AI-powered search and productivity platform, announced today it has raised $50 million in Series B funding … | Anna J Kaiser / Bloomberg: |
Sources: a16z has shut its Miami office in May because staff weren't using it enough; VC funding to Miami-based companies has flagged since 2022's crypto rout — When Andreessen Horowitz opened an outpost in Miami Beach, the $43 billion venture capital giant bolstered the region's ambitions of becoming a tropical tech mecca.
More: crypto.news. Mastodon: @selviano@mastodon.online. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @downi75 and @levynews
| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
In a letter, Evan Spiegel tries to rally Snap staff amid a 48% stock price drop this year, says Snap will test new ad formats in the chat inbox and on Snap Map — - Snap's stock is down almost 50% on ad business struggles — Social media app will begin testing new advertising formats
More: Snap Newsroom, The Verge, Social Media Today, Engadget, TechCrunch, Reuters, Spyglass, Gizchina.com, and Benzinga
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Cortex, which sells an internal developer portal for teams making software, raised $60M from Sequoia, Stripe co-founders, and others, at a $470M valuation — Stripe co-founders John and Patrick Collison also joined in the $60 million funding round. — Cortex Applications Inc. … | Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
The White House publishes a roadmap to shore up the weak security of the Border Gateway Protocol, which has long been vulnerable to route hijacking — The White House on Tuesday indicated it hopes to shore up the weak security of internet routing, specifically the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
More: SC Media, The White House, The Record, CyberScoop, ITPro, SecurityWeek, The Cloudflare Blog, PaymentSecurity.io, and Reuters
| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
Palo Alto Networks says it closed a $500M deal to buy IBM's QRadar cloud security software assets, and plans to migrate customers to Palo Alto's Cortex XSIAM — As part of the deal, Palo Alto is buying IBM's QRadar software-as-a-service assets, with the intention to migrate those customers …
More: CRN
| Min Jeong Lee / BNN Bloomberg: |
Tokyo-based Sakana AI, which unveiled several AI models for Japanese speakers, raised a $100M Series A led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux, with Nvidia participating — (Bloomberg) — Nvidia Corp. has joined a $100 million-plus funding round for Tokyo startup Sakana AI, one of the larger investments … | Reuters: |
Ireland's DPC ends court proceedings against X after it agreed to limit its use of personal data collected from EU users to train its AI on a permanent basis — Ireland's data regulator on Wednesday said it had ended court proceedings against social media platform X after it agreed to limit …
More: The Record, Irish Independent, and RTÉ
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