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| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Vimeo for $1.38B, in an all-cash deal set to close in Q4, representing a 91% premium; Vimeo will be delisted from exchanges — Bending Spoons, one of Europe's largest mobile app developers, has agreed to buy the video platform Vimeo in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.38 billion.
More: Reuters, Sifted, Vimeo.com, Inc., Engadget, Variety, The Information, The Verge, Bloomberg Law, Tech.eu, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, EU-Startups, PetaPixel, NCS | NewscastStudio, and TVBEurope
Bluesky: @hunterwalk.com and @johnvoorhees.macstories.net
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Apple says the iPhone 17 lineup and iPhone Air come with Memory Integrity Enforcement, which provides “industry-first, always-on memory safety protection” — Memory Integrity Enforcement is always-on safety protection designed to make life harder for spyware developers.
More: Apple Security Research, Thurrott, MacRumors, The Hacker News, ZDNET, CyberScoop, AppleInsider, Victor Wynne, The Cyber Express, Stuff, Blockonomi, Coinpedia Fintech News, iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada, Cyber Security News, Cyber Kendra, and 9to5Mac
X: @ryanaraine, @nicbarkeragain, @_samfreedman, @dinodaizovi, @tqbf, @little_34306, @radian, @sumohax0r, @mysk_co, @rajxnull, @shawnbass, @halvarflake, @nedwilliamson, @kayseesee, and @ordinaryinds. LinkedIn: Patrick Wardle
Bluesky: @lukaszolejnik, @tomwarren.co.uk, @filippo.abyssdomain.expert, @migueldeicaza, @jsambushell, @crawshaw.io, @markmx, @gregotto, @durumcrustulum.com, and @darthbluesky. Threads: @crumbler. Mastodon: @ela@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/jailbreak, r/hardware, and MacRumors Forums
| Dan Moren / Six Colors: |
More: The Verge, MacRumors, PCMag, Appleosophy, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iDrop News, The Verge, AppleInsider, TechRadar, Android Headlines, T3, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, 80 Level, The Economic Times, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, The Verge, and Wired
Bluesky: @lauridonahue, @gloriasin, and @paleofuture
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
More: Apple, PCMag, MassDevice, BGR, iThinkDifferent, Benzinga, Appleosophy, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, ZDNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
Forums: r/AppleWatch, r/technology, and r/apple
| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Spotify plans to roll out lossless audio at 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC to Premium users over the next two months in 50 markets, without needing a pricier subscription — Subscribers will be able to enjoy 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC as part of their Premium plan. … It's been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio.
More: Spotify, 9to5Mac, Moneycontrol, PCWorld, PCMag, AppleInsider, CNET, How-To Geek, 9to5Google, Thurrott, WJXX-TV, Engadget, ZDNET, Metro.co.uk, Gamereactor UK, Forbes, CMU, Android Headlines, Android Police, Windows Report, Pocket-lint, Consequence, The Shortcut, TechRadar, The Tab, T3, Digital Music News, iPhone in Canada, Android Authority, TechCrunch, Trusted Reviews, Mashable, Music Business Worldwide, MacRumors, Variety, Music Ally, GB News, TheDesk.net, Digital Trends, Billboard, BGR, and The Hollywood Reporter
Forums: r/technology, r/BudgetAudiophile, r/sonos, r/entertainment, r/spotify, r/headphones, r/sonos, and r/SonyHeadphones
| Anders Melin / Bloomberg: |
Larry Ellison becomes the world's richest person for the first time, at $393B, overtaking Elon Musk at $385B, as Oracle's stock jumps 40%+ after beating Q1 est. — Larry Ellison has become the world's richest person for the first time, ending Elon Musk's nearly year-long reign in the top spot.
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X: @edludlow, @pythiar, @schuldensuehner, @kirksimon9, @tenreirodaniel, @ankurnagpal, @nateobrienn, @gannonbreslin, @jeffnolan, @zephyr_z9, @marceloplima, @spencerhakimian, and @buccocapital. LinkedIn: Bruce K Lee. Mastodon: @andrew@esq.social
Forums: r/MediaMergers and r/Economics
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
More: Oracle, Decrypt, Benzinga, Gizmodo, Forbes, DatacenterDynamics, Proactive, Implicator.ai, The Register, Reuters, crypto.news, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Fast Company, Watcher Guru, Motley Fool, Capital Brief, Reuters, and Constellation Research
X: @ericjhonsa and @ericjhonsa. LinkedIn: Michael Shields. Bluesky: @edzitron.com. Threads: @carnage4life
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Reddit removes subscriber counts from subreddit pages, replacing them with past seven-day metrics to show how many users visited and made how many contributions — Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.
More: Reddit Upvoted, PCMag, and Dexerto
Forums: r/modnews, r/inthenews, r/technology, and r/PowerfulJRE
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Reddit launches free tools for publishers within Reddit Pro to track article performance and get suggestions on which communities to share their stories in — Reddit on Wednesday launched a set of free tools for publishers to track their article performance and receive suggestions … | Financial Times: |
Quantum startup PsiQuantum raised $1B led by BlackRock, Temasek, and Baillie Gifford at a $7B valuation, up from $3.2B in 2021, for a 1M-qubit computer by 2028 — PsiQuantum backed by BlackRock, Temasek and Baillie Gifford as investment race intensifies — PsiQuantum has raised $1bn … | The Information: |
Sources: Amazon is developing consumer AR glasses codenamed Jayhawk, with microphones, speakers, a camera, and color display, set for late 2026 or early 2027 — Amazon is developing a pair of augmented-reality glasses for consumers, say two people with knowledge of the plans.
More: CNET, Benzinga, Reuters, GeekWire, Road to VR, UploadVR, Android Central, Android Authority, and WinBuzzer
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping — Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming because they strike the “right balance”, after exiting Mississippi — After blocking its service in Mississippi over its new age-assurance law, the social networking startup is taking a different approach … | Ben Funk / HotHardware: |
Arm launches four Lumex compute subsystem CPU architectures to improve on-device AI on smartphones, PCs, and wearables, and unveils its new Mali G1-Ultra GPU — As the smartphone market has matured, the workloads that consumers expect from their tiny in-pocket mobile computers has increased drastically.| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Amazon's Zoox launches its robotaxi service in Las Vegas, letting riders hail its toaster-shaped cars between specific destinations in the city's 4.2-mile Strip — The driverless car group launches to the public in challenge to Waymo and Tesla over the future of ride-hailing
More: Forbes, Associated Press, CNBC, Engadget, GeekWire, Reuters, Dexerto, Bloomberg, Fortune, The Verge, TechCrunch, Proactive, The Last Driver License Holder, NDTV Profit, Yahoo Finance, Wired, CNET, and Electrek. X: @zoox
| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Amazon and Netflix partner to let advertisers buy Netflix ad inventory via Amazon's demand-side platform, after Amazon signed a similar deal with Disney in June — Amazon and Netflix are two of the major competitors in Hollywood's streaming wars, but in at least one instance, they're ready to team up.
More: Ad Age, The Streamable, TipRanks Financial, Marketing Dive, MediaPost, Deadline, Adweek, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, and Digiday. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Uber plans to add Blade helicopter rides as soon as 2026 via a partnership with electric air taxi maker Joby Aviation, which acquired Blade for $125M in August — Uber is tackling a new form of ride sharing: helicopters. — The ride hailing company on Wednesday said it will launch Blade helicopter rides …
More: Benzinga, Quartz, Electrek, Forbes, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Gulf News, CBS News, The Verge, TechCrunch, Reuters, Business Wire, Travel + Leisure, Inc.com, and Skift
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft partners with Ann Arbor-based May Mobility to let Atlanta riders request an autonomous minivan, with a safety driver, starting in a seven square-mile area — The vehicles from May Mobility will have safety drivers who will ‘drive manually during initial trips,’ the companies said.
More: Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, Reuters, Axios, Wall Street Journal, The Driverless Digest, CNET, and KrASIA
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Replit raised $250M led by Prysm, nearly tripling its valuation to $3B; its annualized revenue grew from $2.8M to $150M in the past year and it has 40M users — AI coding startup Replit Inc. has raised $250 million in a funding round that nearly triples its valuation to $3 billion … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta's TBD Lab team sits in an area near Mark Zuckerberg's desk that needs special badge access, and their names are not on the company's org chart — An influx of highly paid researchers has created new status divisions, even as some recent hires have already left their jobs| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Kraken opens trading of 60+ tokenized US securities to its EU users, powered by Backed Finance's xStocks; rwa.xyz says tokenized shares' market value is ~$421M — Crypto exchange Kraken opened up trading of tokenized US securities to its customers in the European Union, expanding the reach of the nascent asset class.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU's General Court sides with Meta and TikTok in their legal dispute with the EC over the DSA's 0.05% supervisory fee, saying the EU's methodology is flawed — Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok on Wednesday won their legal fight against a European Union supervisory fee imposed …
More: Euronews, Sharecast, Politico, Ukrainian National News, WinBuzzer, Courthouse News Service, Euractiv, and BMI
| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
Google says it is scrapping multi-cloud data transfer fees for organizations in the EU and the UK ahead of the EU Data Act taking effect on September 12 — Google (GOOGL.O) said on Wednesday it had scrapped data transfer fees for organisations processing workloads “in parallel” …
More: The Register, The Stack, Google Cloud Blog, ComputerWeekly.com, Tech.eu, WinBuzzer, TechRadar, and ITPro
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
A US Treasury Department document says “digital content creators”, including podcasters, social media influencers, and streamers, are eligible for tax-free tips — A U.S. Treasury Department document includes podcasters, social media influencers and streamers among occupations eligible for tax-free tips.| Océane Herrero / Politico: |
Memo: Apple's AI training guidelines update in March for data annotators marked DEI as a “controversial” topic and removed intolerance as a “harmful” behavior — Two months after Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down at Donald Trump's inauguration, several hundred employees … | Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: |
ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral “nano banana” model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics — ByteDance claims that Seedream 4.0 beat Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for image generation and editing on its internal evaluation benchmark| Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood announces a feed where users can follow and copy verified trades of other investors and public figures, rolling out in beta to ~10K users in Q1 2026 — Robinhood Social will allow users to post their trades and track those of public figures, like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
More: Business Insider, Benzinga, Axios, Bloomberg, Finextra, TheStreet, Coinpedia Fintech News, Tech Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Fortune
| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
Global premium smartphone sales rose 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1; Apple grew 3% YoY, capturing a 62% share of the premium market — - The global premium smartphone market's unit sales grew 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1.
| Financial Times: |
How AlphaFold2 and the rise of generative AI kickstarted a new AI drug discovery boom after a spate of startups from the mid-2010s failed to live up to the hype — In the mid-2010s, a spate of start-ups hoping to transform the laborious process of finding new drugs launched with big promises.| Forbes: |
Brain Co., co-founded by Jared Kushner, Elad Gil, and others to help enterprises and governments use AI, comes out of stealth with a $30M Series A — Kushner teamed up with prolific solo investor Elad Gil and Luis Videgaray, the former Mexican foreign minister, to launch Brain Co. … | Sean Michael Kerner / Venturebeat: |
Stability AI launches Stable Audio 2.5, which the company claims is the first audio generation model designed for “enterprise-grade use cases” — Stability AI first gained attention for its Stable Diffusion lineup of gen AI text-to-image models, but that's not all the company does.| Joe Miller / Financial Times: |
The Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and its efforts to accelerate AI adoption across the US are alarming populists in the president's base — Silicon Valley's sway in the White House is alarming populists in the president's base — Flanked by Silicon Valley's most powerful executives …
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| The Verge: |
iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max hands-on: refreshing bold colors, soft matte unibody aluminum frame, and a nice two-tone back with a full-width camera bar — Bold colors and a two-tone design. … For one, the colors and bold — a nice change of pace from last year's barely-there pales.
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| The Verge: |
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X: @adrianweckler, @greengart, @raywongy, @ijustine, @caro_milanesi, @markgurman, and @maxwinebach. Threads: @amyleecodes
| Katie Roof / The Information: |
Sources: Sequoia stands to gain ~$2.65B from Klarna's IPO, a six-fold return on its ~$500M total investment, and is selling ~2% of its stake in the IPO — Klarna's two-decade journey to a public listing means a lucrative return for its biggest backer—Sequoia Capital.| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
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