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September 8, 2024, 11:45 PM

Top News

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple will launch Image Playground and Genmoji in iOS 18.2; Sonos cuts its plans to build ~1M units of Ace headphones per year, to ~100K per year  —  Apple's AI features keep getting delayed — and that slow rollout likely means that the iPhone 16 won't see a “super cycle” of orders.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: xAI discussed a deal that would give Tesla access to its AI models to help power Full Self-Driving in exchange for a share of Tesla's software revenue  —  Under a proposed arrangement, the startup would give Tesla access to its AI technology in exchange for a slice of the carmaker's software revenue
New York Times:
Analysis of 3.2M+ Telegram messages from 16K+ channels shows how the app is inundated with criminal activity, CSAM, drug dealers, white nationalists, and more  —  Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic speech on the platform …
Eva Hartog / Politico:
Anthony Cuthbertson / The Independent:
CelesTrak: SpaceX controls 62%+ of all active satellites in orbit, ~10x more than closest rival OneWeb, after launching its 7,000th Starlink satellite on Sep. 5  —  SpaceX's Starlink network is growing by an average of three satellites per day  —  Elon Musk now controls nearly two thirds …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
A look at the 2nd Circuit's incredibly damaging ruling favoring publishers in a copyright dispute over The Internet Archive's ebook lending program  —  What would you think if an author told you they would have written a book, but they wouldn't bother because it would be available to be borrowed for free from a library?
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Austin Carr / Bloomberg:
A profile of Texas-based Tyler Tech, which has become a dominant US local government software provider, despite a history of software flaws and release delays  —  Tyler Tech dominates America's software industry managing parks, courts, municipal offices and prison networks.  And you thought the DMV was rough before.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Bluesky says it had over 9M users as of September 6, after adding 3M new users in the week or so since Brazil blocked X, and that video support is “coming soon”  —  Bluesky keeps growing: The company announced that as of Friday morning, it had added 3 million new users, bringing its total user count to more than 9 million.

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