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| Kent Walker / Google: |
Google tells Canada's government it will remove Canadian news links from Search, News, and Discover and close Google News Showcase when Bill C-18 takes effect — President of Global Affairs, Google & Alphabet … The Government of Canada has enacted a new law called Bill C-18 …
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| Nitish Pahwa / Slate: |
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
YouTube is running a test globally that limits ad blocker users to three videos, giving them the option to turn off their tool or subscribe to YouTube Premium — YouTube is currently running what it describes as a “small experiment globally,” warning users to toggle off their ad blockers …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta plans to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads; a pilot is set to start with select Android app developers as soon as in 2023 — Meta is planning to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads, setting the company up to eventually compete with Google and Apple's app stores.
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| Kotaku: |
Niantic lays off 230 employees, closes its Los Angeles studio, and moves away from in-house game development, saying its expenses grew faster than its revenue — Pokémon Go will remain one of Niantic's top priorities moving forward — Niantic is shuttering its Los Angeles studio …
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Forums: r/Games, r/PikminBloomApp, r/technology, r/nbaallworldhub, and r/Ingress
| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Hackers claim responsibility for an attack on Russian satellite service Dozor-Teleport; IODA project says the network has been offline since 10pm EST on June 28 — A group of previously unknown hackers has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the Russian satellite communications …
More: CyberScoop, Washington Post, and PCMag
Twitter: @netblocks, @daryna_antoniuk, @ajvicens, and @lukolejnik
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Executives from over 150 European companies sign an open letter saying the draft AI Act will jeopardize the EU's competitiveness without addressing challenges — Executives from 150 businesses, including Siemens and Heineken, highlight risks of tight regulation
More: Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Tech Monitor, RTÉ, and EU Policy Blog
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| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
The Netherlands publishes new export controls to restrict more ASML machines from export to China, starting September 1; ASML doesn't expect a “material impact” — The Netherlands published new export controls that will restrict more of ASML Holding NV's chipmaking machines from being sent to China.
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| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Fidelity refiles for a spot bitcoin ETF with the US SEC, after similar applications from BlackRock, Invesco, WisdomTree, Valkyrie, Bitwise, and others — Fidelity Investments is the latest financial services heavyweight to throw its name into the race to offer the first US exchange-traded fund investing in Bitcoin.
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| Sachin Ravikumar / Reuters: |
The UK amends its Online Safety Bill, requiring higher age verification standards for porn sites and holding executives personally responsible for child safety — Britain said on Friday it had tightened protections in its Online Safety Bill that will prevent children from viewing pornography …
More: Bloomberg, The Guardian, Silicon Republic, UKTN, and GOV.UK
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Court docs: Satya Nadella said Azure's cloud server business made $34B in revenue in the year ended June 2022; AWS generated $72B in revenue in the same period — For years Microsoft has kept a lid on details about the true size of its Azure cloud server rental business …
More: BigTechWire, SiliconANGLE, and The Verge
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| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Police in San Francisco and other cities are obtaining warrants for Waymo and Cruise driverless car camera footage to help solve murders and other crimes — In December 2021, San Francisco police were working to solve the murder of an Uber driver. As detectives reviewed local surveillance footage …
Mastodon: @jann@twit.social. Twitter: @rachelmetz, @lancemackwilson, @eff, @sarahfrier, and @tomaxwell. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
An Indian court dismisses Twitter's challenge to government content rules and fines the company ~$61K after it failed to explain its delayed compliance — An Indian court has dismissed Twitter's lawsuit against the federal government that sought to challenge New Delhi's block orders on tweets and accounts.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft adds AI-powered shopping tools, including GPT-generated buying guides in the US, to its Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in Edge's sidebar — Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar.
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