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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
An interview with X CEO Linda Yaccarino on having “autonomy” under Elon Musk, planning to add video calls, payments between users, brands returning, and more — - X CEO Linda Yaccarino explained to CNBC on Thursday why the company decided to get rid of its Twitter branding.
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X: @yourneighbor57, @raywert, @patrickcoffee, @rmac18, @mrmv84, @stevekopack, @atrupar, @melspence2, @atrupar, @katebevan, @daveleebbg, @sarafischer, @sirbaby6, @daveleebbg, @elonmusk, @erinkwoo, @xdaily, @danprimack, @rmac18, @justinbaragona, @rmac18, and @junlper
LinkedIn: David Blaser and Maurith Or Man
| Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: |
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association to foster RHEL-based distributions development, after Red Hat limited RHEL source code access — The fallout from Red Hat's recent decision to make it harder to access to the source code of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution continues.
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon cuts dozens of in-house brands in clothing, furniture, and more to fend off regulators and grow profits; Amazon says Basics will remain a focus — Company's cuts include all but three of its 30 clothing labels, such as Goodthreads and Lark & Ro
More: The Verge, The Information, PYMNTS.com, PCMag, Reuters, Engadget, CNBC, and Cord Cutters News
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LinkedIn: Ashlee Davidhizar and Jason Del Rey
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google, American Airlines, and Bill Gates' fund Breakthrough Energy partner to use AI to chart more sustainable flights by avoiding routes that create contrails — Google has been working with American Airlines and Bill Gates' climate investment fund, Breakthrough Energy, to chart more sustainable flight routes.
More: The Keyword, PCMag, OnMSFT.com, The Decoder, The i Paper, and American Airlines
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| Reuters: |
Filing: Bittrex agrees to pay $24M to settle US SEC claims that the crypto exchange failed to register with the agency; Bittrex doesn't admit to the allegations — Bittrex has agreed to pay $24 million to settle claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the cryptocurrency exchange failed …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
The UK Electoral Commission hack, which lasted 14 months and was disclosed nine months after discovery, likely exploited a now-patched Exchange Server zero-day — Evidence appears to show a critical 0-day tracked as ProxyNotShell was exploited. — It's looking more and more likely … | Reuters: |
Sources: the Kremlin's fear of a serious tech brain drain is the main factor preventing Moscow from nationalizing the Nasdaq-listed Yandex, which has 20K+ staff — The Kremlin's fear of a serious tech brain drain is the main factor preventing Moscow from nationalising Nasdaq-listed Yandex … | Alexander Marrow / Reuters: |
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
CISA releases a report detailing Lapsus$'s key techniques, calls for passwordless logins, and asks the FTC and the FCC for stricter SIM swapping protections — The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is calling for stricter SIM swapping protections and the transition …
More: Ars Technica, CNN, Department of Homeland …, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, and The Record. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Skydio shuts down its consumer drone business and plans to expand its enterprise offerings, after raising a $230M Series E at a $2.2B valuation in February 2023 — Skydio today announced that it will be shutting down its consumer drone business. — Beginning today, the firm will no longer …
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| Sarah Fielding / Engadget: |
To fight spam, YouTube plans to deactivate links in Shorts descriptions, comments, and the vertical feed from August 31 and make social media icons unclickable — The move follows other anti-spam measures. — YouTube knows that it has a spam problem, particularly when it comes to its two-year-old Shorts feature.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI expands “custom instructions”, the user's details that ChatGPT should remember, to all users, after launching the ChatGPT Plus beta feature in July 2023 — OpenAI announced that it's expanding custom instructions — a way to give users more control over how ChatGPT responds …
More: The Hill, Search Engine Journal, MSPoweruser, AI News, and The Decoder
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Meta plans to build only ~1,000 units of its first-gen AR glasses, due in 2024, which use silicon carbide in the lenses, requiring assembly in the US — Meta Platforms plans to build only around a thousand units of the first generation of its augmented-reality glasses due out next year …
X: @pstasiatech, @diliana, @waynema, and @sadlyitsbradley
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
California-based Virtualitics, which provides data visualizations that can be viewed in AR and VR, raised a $37M Series C, bringing its total funding to $67M — Many companies grapple with data challenges. In a 2019 survey, Deloitte reports that 67% of executives aren't comfortable accessing or using the data at their organizations.
More: FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, and Tech Startups
| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Circle says it has $1B+ in cash and had $779M in revenue in H1 2023, vs. $772M for all of 2022, as USDC in circulation has fallen to ~$26B from ~$45B in January — - CEO expects payments, financial firms to push for stablecoins — USD Coin market cap plunges this year while rival Tether gains
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
The California Public Utilities Commission allows Waymo and Cruise to operate driverless cabs 24/7 throughout San Francisco, after a contentious public hearing — Waymo and Cruise were approved to operate their robotaxi services 24/7 in San Francisco, after a contentious public hearing …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
At Black Hat, researchers detail a hacking technique for Deckmate 2, the most widely used casino shuffling machine, that would give an attacker “full control” — Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler to learn the exact deck order—and the hand of every player at a poker table.
Mastodon: @agreenberg@infosec.exchange. Bluesky: @couts.bsky.social. Forums: r/technology, r/poker, and Beehaw
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Check Point acquires rival cybersecurity startup Perimeter 81 in a ~$490M “cash free, debt free” deal; Perimeter 81 raised $100M at a $1B valuation in June 2022 — There is yet more M&A coming out of the security industry. In the latest development, Check Point …
More: CSO, SiliconANGLE, CTech, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, ITPro, CRN, Bloomberg, Globes Online, and SecurityWeek
X: @checkpointsw, @perimeter_81, and @ingridlunden
LinkedIn: Pramod Gosavi, Avi Eyal, Amit Jakob Blanka, Richard Stiennon, and Asaf Elhai
| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Hosting provider Uberspace takes down youtube-dl's website, which linked to YouTube ripping software, but is appealing a German court order forcing the takedown — In 2020, the RIAA infuriated many players in the open source community by targeting YouTube-ripping tool, youtube-dl.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to add Threads features this week: share posts to Instagram DMs, a mention button, and a way to add custom alt text for media — Threads, Meta's Twitter competitor, is getting some new features “this week,” according to a post from CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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