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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Spotify gives its Android app's home screen separate feeds for Music and Podcasts & Shows to better highlight recommendations, will bring the change to iOS soon — Spotify announced today that it's launching a new Home experience that includes separate feeds for “Music” and “Podcasts & Shows.”
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Spotify, TechHive, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Thurrott
Tweets: @chrismessina and @alexhern
| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
Served with a warrant, Facebook gave a teen's private chats to Nebraska authorities, who charged her and her mother with breaking laws related to an abortion — Motherboard has obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a teenager's private chats about her abortion.
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| Reuters: |
AppLovin offers to buy Unity for $58.85 per share, an 18% premium to Unity's Monday closing price, in a $17.54B all-stock deal; AppLovin's stock drops 10.29% — Gaming software company AppLovin Corp (APP.O) made an offer on Tuesday to buy its peer Unity Software Inc (U.N) …
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AppLovin, Mobile Dev Memo, SiliconANGLE, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, TechSpot, AdExchanger, TechCrunch, GameSpot, Bloomberg, Gameranx, Slashdot, San Francisco Business Journal, Game Developer, Eurogamer.net, and Appuals.com
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Coinbase misses with Q2 revenue down 64% YoY to $808.3M, vs. $832.2M est., a $1.1B net loss, trading volume down 53% YoY to $217B, and 9M MTUs; stock falls ~5% — - Coinbase's revenue declined almost 64% in the quarter as cryptocurrency prices fell. — The exchange operator lowered its full-year forecast for transacting users.
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Coinbase - Investor Relations, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Block, Protocol, Blockworks, and Reuters
Tweets: @thestalwart, @sbf_ftx, @sbf_ftx, @jeffmacke, @kevin_stank, @ron_miller, @bloombergtv, @yueqi_yang, and @silvermanjacob
| CoinDesk: |
An anonymous Tornado Cash user sent ETH to high-profile crypto users, such as Jimmy Fallon and Brian Armstrong, from a sanctioned address, likely to troll them — An anonymous crypto user sent small amounts of ether from a sanctioned Tornado Cash address to celebrities and prominent crypto figures on Tuesday.
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Bitcoin News, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, The Block, and Crypto Adventure
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Crypto Briefing, CryptoSlate, HackRead, NullTX, STAKE N' EGGS, The Hacker News, and BTC Times
Tweets: @tonyajoriley, @chainalysis, @chainalysis, @chainalysis, and @chainalysis
| Kollen Post / The Block: |
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Tweets: @semenov_roman_, @secblinken, @jerallaire, @ustreasury, @vitalikbuterin, @neerajka, @jchervinsky, @tornadocash, @econoar, @semenov_roman_, @frankresearcher, @statedeptspox, @semenov_roman_, @lefterisjp, @arrington, @smdiehl, @thestalwart, @matthew_d_green, @ncweaver, @blockanalia, @cobie, @ourielohayon, and @tier10k
| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
President Biden signs the CHIPS and Science Act into law, including $52B+ for US companies producing semiconductors, as well as billions more in tax credits — - President Joe Biden signed into law a bipartisan bill that aims to boost U.S. competitiveness with China.
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Tweets: @potus, @mattgaetz, @commercegov, @whitehouseope46, @therecount, and @costasamaras46
| Prarthana Prakash / Bloomberg: |
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WhatsApp rolls out privacy features to let users leave Groups silently, choose who can see when they are online, and block screenshots of View Once messages — Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry — WhatsApp is building new ways to increase user privacy and security in order to improve their experience while using the app.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
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Tweets: @whatsapp, @andymstone, @palesa_moloto, and @techcrunch
| Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert / Insider: |
Meta's BlenderBot 3 chatbot, released in the US on August 5, repeats antisemitic stereotypes, claims Donald Trump is the current US president, and more — - Meta's new machine-learning chatbot, BlenderBot 3, is the company's most advanced AI chatbot to date.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ is preparing to sue Google over its ad market business as soon as September, as the DOJ's antitrust division lawyers interview publishers — The US Justice Department is preparing to sue Google as soon as next month, according to people familiar with the matter … | New York Times: |
Sources: Walmart has held talks with Paramount, Disney, and Comcast, as the retailer explores bundling a streaming service into its Walmart+ membership program — The retail giant is exploring bundling a streaming service into its Walmart+ membership program.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, and The Streamable
Tweets: @mikefinger, @nickmillermusic, @85mf, @srirachachau, @frankpallotta, @shehanjeyarajah, and @fallnalien
| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
CreatorDAO, a DAO offering creators capital and operational support for a cut of their future earnings, raised a $20M seed led by a16z and Initialized Capital — Paris Hilton and musicians The Chainsmokers also invested in the project. — CreatorDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization …
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CreatorDAO, Fortune, Tubefilter, and The Block
Tweets: @caseynewton, @coindesk, @caseynewton, @michaelandma, and @initialized
| Bloomberg: |
Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo is found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over Saudi dissidents' Twitter account data in exchange for bribes — A former Twitter Inc. employee was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over personal information of platform users … | Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: |
The DOJ says former BitMEX Head of Business Development Gregory Dwyer pled guilty to violating US federal anti-money laundering rules and agreed to a $150K fine — A federal court in New York previously sentenced the firm's co-founders to probation time and fines.
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U.S. Department of Justice. More:
Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Law, InfoRiskToday.com, CoinGape, CryptoSlate, PYMNTS.com, Coinspeaker, and Blockworks
Tweets: @silvermanjacob, @ander_hk, and @sdnynews
| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Cryptocurrency exchange Nuri, previously known as Bitwala, filed for insolvency in Berlin and says its customers still have access to their deposits — Users are still able to access deposits, according to the exchange. — Cryptocurrency exchange Nuri GmbH has filed for insolvency in Berlin, according to a court filing.| Mike Truppa / The Block: |
Reddit partners with Ethereum Layer 2 scaling platform Arbitrum to bring its Community Points system to the Arbitrum Nova blockchain; FTX and others will advise — - Arbitrum announced that Reddit's Community Points will be built on the Arbitrum Nova chain.
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FTX US, Fortune, CryptoSlate, Decrypt, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @amytongwu, @sbf_ftx, @wublockchain, @toptickcrypto, @neerajka, @silvermanjacob, @tr401, @amytongwu, and @sbf_ftx
| Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of SMIC co-CEO Liang Mong Song, a Taiwanese chip wizard who previously led Samsung's chip development and was one of the key people behind TSMC's rise — When Asian semiconductor makers make dramatic advances, there's often a common element: Berkeley-educated Liang Mong Song
Tweets: @jchengwsj, @kanthan2030, and @jchengwsj
| Bloomberg: |
ByteDance acquired Amcare Healthcare, one of China's largest private hospital chains, source says for about $1.5B, deepening its foray into health care — ByteDance Ltd. has acquired one of China's largest private hospital chains for about $1.5 billion, deepening a foray into health care via …
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TechCrunch, VICE, South China Morning Post, Neowin, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @faycortez, @quicktake, @faycortez, @business, @lmatsakis, @bendwalsh, @bobjherman, @caseynewton, @economictimes, and @bb_hong_tw
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Nvidia unveils its Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine, a suite of cloud-native AI models and services for developers building 3D models of lifelike chatbot avatars — Stephen Shankland — What's happening Why it matters — You're probably used to interacting by voice with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Miami-based Column, a public benefit company offering software to streamline placing public notices in newspapers, raised a $30M Series A led by Lux Capital — Column, a public benefit company that provides software to streamline the placement of public notices, has raised a $30 million series … Sponsor Posts
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