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Sources: Meta plans to launch a web version of Threads early this week, addressing a longstanding wish list item; Adam Mosseri confirmed testing the web app — Meta Platforms plans to launch a web version of microblogging app Threads early this week, the biggest new feature to be introduced …
More: 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, T3, Engadget, PhoneArena, Mashable, The Verge, TweakTown, The Information, Livemint, Reuters, Phandroid, and SamMobile
Threads: @salrodriguez. Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social. X: @bariawilliams, @ivanthek, @parkerortolani, @jeremychrysler, and @sivavaid
| Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: |
Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from authors like Stephen King and Junot Díaz — One of the most troubling issues around generative AI is simple: It's being made in secret.
More: TorrentFreak, AI and Copyright, Gizmodo, The Verge, and Mashable
Mastodon: @TryshHQ@mastodon.social, @acookiecrumbles …, @Samuelmoore@hcommons.social, @mpe@ravenation.club, @johnshirley2024 …, @technursejon@mastodon.art, @Dhmspector@mastodon.social, and @elkmovie@mastodon.social
X: @nash076, @cromwellian, @garymarcus, @glynmoody, @cromwellian, @dwcongdon, @galbeckerman, @lmatsakis, @avishaiw, @dlberes, @srnlrsn, @leifweatherby, @iamrobotbear, @garymarcus, @marc__watkins, @lmatsakis, @heidilegg, @lmatsakis, @mkirschenbaum, @stevesi, @kbandersen, @theatlantic, @sam_fentress, @kz_howell, @dlberes, @kylebarr5, @lincodega, @theshawwn, @jeffreygoldberg, and @ivanthek. LinkedIn: João Fiadeiro
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Dayana Mustak / Bloomberg: |
John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and was the company's CEO until 2000 and CTO until retiring in 2001, died on August 19 at age 82 — Technology entrepreneur John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Inc., died on Saturday at age 82, the company said in a statement.
More: Reuters, Adobe Press Releases, Engadget, AppleInsider, The Verge, TechCircle, Cybernews.com, Mercury News, International Business Times, and Stack Diary
Mastodon: @misty@digipres.club and @harrymccracken@sfba.social. Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com
X: @pbump, @johnnie, @timsweeneyepic, @_danilo, @stevesi, @affinitybyserif, @trengriffin, and @themoridwan
LinkedIn: Tim Marklein and Vish Mishra
Forums: r/technology, r/technews, and Slashdot
| Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
A notice from Maine's AG says Tesla's May 2023 data breach impacted 75,735 people, included employee-related records, and was a result of “insider wrongdoing” — - Data breach included employee-related records, Maine AG says — Tesla says two former employees shared info with Handelsblatt| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the potential impact of the EU DSA and DMA on Big Tech; some say the effect could be as severe as Great Depression-era laws that reined in US banks — Google, Meta Platforms and others are set to face regulations that resemble the detail and sweep of those imposed on banks
More: PYMNTS.com, The Information, and Sramana Mitra
X: @hutko, @richardhanania, @wsjtech, @wavesblog, and @samschech
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
PeckShield: a wallet tied to the ~$600M Binance Coin hack in October 2022 had $63M liquidated on lending platform Venus Protocol, after using BNB as collateral — Cryptocurrencies' sudden tumble this week flushed out legions of speculators — and also, judging from blockchain data, the perpetrator of a giant hack.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Instacart, Databricks, and Socure are considered candidates to launch IPOs in 2024, as Arm's forthcoming IPO provides a good test of investor sentiment — Instacart, Databricks and Socure are among the private tech companies reconsidering a stock market flotation
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, and The Economic Times
| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and others detail his growing international power, childhood, career, politics, role in the Ukraine war, and more — How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
X: @michaelluo, @robtornoe, @nxthompson, and @julie_bush
| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
Many images uploaded directly to X between 2011 and 2014 are not loading and links from those years that used Twitter's native shortening service are broken too — Twitter, the social media platform officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014.
More: The Guardian, The Verge, TechCrunch, Fortune, Stack Diary, Ghacks, Insider, Livemint, Gizchina, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Social Media Today, and PCMag
Threads: @reporterzoe, @reporterzoe, and @carnage4life
Mastodon: @tchambers@indieweb.social, @fraying@xoxo.zone, @koutropoulos@social.ds106.us, @adwright@mastodon.social, @reedmideke@mastodon.social, @atax1a@infosec.exchange, and @jenbanim@mastodo.neoliber.al
X: @tomcoates, @zoeschiffer, @illneil, @leahmcelrath, @martinsfp, @fy4chan, @btsthroughyears, @rebel44cz, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @peanut_crunch, @elranno, @mat, @bfriedmandc, @jayrosen_nyu, @velodus, @stealthygeek, @rmac18, @tvaziri, @broderick, @bubbaprog, @faineg, and @tomcoates
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/conspiracy, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/DataHoarder
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
LG Gram Style (2023) review: 120Hz OLED, bold color-changing body, and lightweight, but limited power, poor thermal management and trackpad, and bendy chassis — At this point, I feel like people who want to buy an LG Gram know exactly what they're getting. Grams are made to travel.| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
NFT platform Recur plans to shut down by November 16, 2023, less than two years after raising a $50M Series A, and tells owners to move NFT metadata to the IPFS — - NFT platform Recur has decided to close less than two years after raising $50 million in a Series A funding round.| New York Times: |
A look at Music: Not Impossible's haptic suit, consisting of a backpack and ankle and wrist bands, which lets people feel music as vibrations on their bodies — Wearable backpacks designed by Music: Not Impossible, which allow people to experience music as vibrations on their bodies, are becoming more accessible to the public.
X: @smbahr14, @smbahr14, @smbahr14, and @dave_parisi
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