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Netflix announces Microsoft as its “global advertising technology and sales partner” for its upcoming ad-supported streaming tier — Microsoft will become Netflix's ‘global advertising technology and sales partner’ — Netflix is partnering with Microsoft for its upcoming ad …
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Andrej Karpathy, director of AI at Tesla, announces he's leaving the company after five years; Karpathy led Tesla's Autopilot Vision team — - Tesla's AI leader Andrej Karpathy announced on Wednesday that he is leaving the company. — Karpathy worked for Elon Musk's electric vehicle venture …
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Celsius files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York, declaring assets between $1B and $10B with an equal amount in estimated liabilities — - Crypto company Celsius has started the process of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. — Earlier, CNBC reported the company's lawyers …
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Amazon gave police Ring camera footage 11 times in 2022 without a warrant or permission by Ring owners, saying it makes “good-faith determination” in such cases — Ring, Amazon's perennially controversial and police-friendly surveillance subsidiary, has long defended …
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An in-depth look at the rise and fall of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, whose founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies bet everything on prices only going up — Days before Bitcoin fell decisively below $40,000, and two months before his hedge fund went bankrupt, Su Zhu sat down for an interview …
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Uber is sued by 500+ women in the US over sexual assault by some drivers, alleging the company knew about sexual misconduct on rides, including rape, since 2014 — Uber Technologies Inc. is being sued by more than 500 women across the US who claim to have been assaulted by drivers on the platform.
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Barracuda survey: 94% of 800 senior IT and security officers of industrial IoT or OT systems faced some form of attack on their systems in the past 12 months — A report commissioned by cloud security company Barracuda found that 94% of respondents have experienced some form of attack … | Annabelle Dickson / Politico: |
UK's Online Safety Bill is expected to be dropped from parliamentary schedule next week, halting the bill's progress until the fall, amid Johnson's resignation — LONDON — Progress on Britain's proposed new content regulation law is expected to be delayed until the fall …
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Unity plans to merge with app monetization service ironSource, valued at $4.4B in the all-stock deal; Silver Lake and Sequoia will invest $1B after the merger — Update: the companies have confirmed the news here. IronSource is being valued at $4.4 billion in the all-stock deal.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Uplevel, which uses data from software tools to help engineering teams analyze their effectiveness, has raised $20M led by Cota Capital — The news: Seattle startup Uplevel landed $20 million to fuel growth. The 5-year-old company helps engineering teams analyze the effectiveness …
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| Rachel Cheung / VICE: |
A woman wrote 206 interconnected Wikipedia articles in Chinese since 2019 with false accounts of Russian medieval history, one of the largest hoaxes on the site — She “single-handedly invented a new way to undermine Wikipedia,” says a Wikipedian. — RC| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Qustodio analysis of 400K family profiles: by 2021's end, young users spent an average of 91 minutes on TikTok per day, surpassing 56 minutes spent on YouTube — Kids and teens are now spending more time watching videos on TikTok than on YouTube. — In fact, that's been the case since June 2020 …
Tweets: @chriskeall
| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
China's crackdown and economic downturn have led to massive layoffs in its tech sector, but some workers are relieved to quit the industry's “996” work culture — A government crackdown and economic downturn have led to massive layoffs, but some are relieved to exit the grueling ‘996’ work life.
Tweets: @vickiturk, @cengizyar, and @alvinfoo
| Amanda Morris / New York Times: |
Blind users say websites using automated accessibility tools, which are popular due to advances in AI and new legal pressures on companies, make access harder — Companies say their A.I.-powered tools are the best way to fix accessibility problems online, but many blind people find they make websites harder to use.
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Boston-based Merlin Labs, which develops an autonomous flight system for existing aircrafts, announces a $105M Series B and a partnership with the US Air Force — Autonomous flight is a grand challenge in aviation — and a gold mine. The first company to crack it at scale stands … | Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: crypto startups received $6.76B in VC funding in Q2 2022, down 31% from a record $9.85B in Q1 2022 — Crypto startups finally felt the effects of an economic storm that has been cooling digital currencies, public stocks and venture capital all year.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok unveils Content Levels, a content classifying system like age ratings in films, and plans to let users filter out videos with certain words or hashtags — Earlier this year, TikTok said it was developing a new system that would restrict certain types of mature content from being viewed by teen users.
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| Shen Lu / Wall Street Journal: |
New Oriental, one of China's largest private-tutoring companies, reinvents itself as a livestream grocery service on Douyin, after China's regulatory crackdown — New Oriental's rebranding catches on with viewers as English tutors go viral selling produce online
Tweets: @shenlulushen and @carlminzner
| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
SEC filing: Twitter isn't planning big layoffs but will continue to restructure; it sought Musk's consent for two employee retention programs in June — Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) is not looking at company-wide layoffs but could likely continue to restructure the business, the social media company said in a filing on Wednesday.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is testing a feature that will remind users to add image descriptions to photos, currently live to 10% of users across Android, iOS, and web — In the midst of absolutely no internal chaos whatsoever, Twitter's accessibility team launched a much-requested feature test.Sponsor Posts
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