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| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Elon Musk says X will remove headlines from link previews in posts with news articles, so that the previews display only the lead image and the news site's URL — X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service …
More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Economic Times, Engadget, The Verge, Social Media Today, and The Wrap
Mastodon: @JBrodkinWebb@journa.host, @cspam@mastodon.cloud, and @TodayInTwitter@mastodon …
Bluesky: @malwaretech.com, @caseynewton.bsky.social, and @intelwire.bsky.social
X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @lexnfx, @tomcoates, @edzitron, @yashar, @kyliebytes, @yashar, @xdaily, @lum_, @lauraloomer, @kyliebytes, @rmac18, @mcwm, @jen_mcfadden, @daveleebbg, @annevedingell, @parismarx, @kronykal, @kyliebytes, @jason_kint, @kyliebytes, @ivanthek, @karaswisher, @beijingpalmer, @cit_uprising, @killedbygoogle, @erinkwoo, @kyliebytes, @kwalkertweets, @kyliebytes, @lauraloomer, @mollyjongfast, @petersterne, and @phil_lewis_. Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
X says the company fixed a bug that prevented the service from displaying many images from before 2014 over the weekend, and that “no images or data were lost” — Over the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted …
More: The Guardian, Business Today, The Economic Times, Techdirt, Digital Trends, Engadget, GovTech, MobileSyrup, Fortune, TechCrunch, Insider, Livemint, Social Media Today, and Gizchina
Forums: r/AnythingGoesNews, r/inthenews, and r/AirlinerAbduction2014
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
To appease the UK, Microsoft restructures its Activision deal by agreeing to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft; the UK CMA will now investigate — Microsoft is restructuring its proposed Activision Blizzard deal to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft.
More: Microsoft On the Issues, Ubisoft, Bloomberg, GamesIndustry.biz, Windows Central, The Guardian, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Reuters, Financial Times, GOV.UK, IGN, Video Games Chronicle, Variety, CNBC, Wccftech, Activision Blizzard King, WhatIfGaming, and Press Start
X: @martinsfp, @cmagovuk, @bradsmi, and @ubisoft
| CNBC: |
SoftBank's Arm files to list on the Nasdaq and reports $524M net income on $2.68B in FY 2023 revenue, down 1% YoY from $2.7B; the company wants the ticker ARM — - Arm, which is owned by SoftBank, filed on Monday to list on the Nasdaq. — The U.K.-based chipmaker is looking to go public during …
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Bluesky: @tristanr.bsky.social. X: @arjunkharpal, @tanayj, @maxwinebach, @maxwinebach, @tiernanraytech, and @natebecker
| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and dozens of others detail his growing power, childhood, career, politics, role in Russia's Ukraine war, and more — How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
More: Insider, UPROXX, On my Om, Benzinga, and The Verge
Threads: @moskov. Mastodon: @JamesGleick@zirk.us, @MoiraEve@mastodon.world, @TimKarr@mastodon.social, @markmetz@sfba.social, @robpegoraro@journa.host, and @DM_Ronin@mstdn.social
Bluesky: @hadleysheley.bsky.social and @vasabjit.bsky.social
| Craig Trudell / Bloomberg: |
More: Livemint, UPROXX, and Insider
Mastodon: @TimKarr@mastodon.social, @GaryRLundberg@newsie.social, @jayreding@mastodon.world, and @KimPerales@toad.social
Bluesky: @andrewbaron.bsky.social and @andimann.bsky.social
X: @business, @tomcoates, @mehdirhasan, @robtornoe, and @nxthompson
Forums: r/UkrainianConflict and r/politics
| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience and Bard listed favorable arguments when asked about “benefits” of slavery, genocide, fascism, and colonization — Large Language Models shouldn't offer opinions or advice. — If you asked a spokesperson from any Fortune 500 Company …
More: Gizmodo. X: @sarafina7707, @gizmodo, @weirdstrug, @blakersdozen, @geekinchief, @ttp_updates, @blakersdozen, @nobiggovduh, and @weirdstrug
| Financial Times: |
Nvidia's A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US rules, have seen huge demand as they more are powerful than anything else before 2023 — Nvidia's processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternatives| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Coinbase takes a “small” equity stake in Circle for the first time, as the companies close the Centre Consortium, which previously governed the USDC stablecoin — On Monday, Coinbase and Circle, the two companies behind USD Coin, settled on new terms that would change the governance …
More: Coinbase, CoinDesk, CryptoPotato, Coinpedia Fintech News, Forkast, Cryptopolitan, Benzinga, Blockworks, The Block, Bitcoinist.com, Watcher Guru, Bloomberg, Decrypt, Unchained Crypto, CryptoSlate, The Information, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and CoinGape
X: @jerallaire, @jerallaire, @coinbase, @jerallaire, @architect9000, @iampaulgrewal, and @brian_armstrong. LinkedIn: Victoria Wong
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Friend.tech, which lets people use crypto to buy “shares” of X accounts, hits 100K users, per a database of wallet addresses that has raised privacy concerns — The growth correlates with the more than $25 million in revenue generated by the platform since its Aug. 10 launch.
More: The Block, Unchained Crypto, Decrypt, Ethereum World News, The Week, Cryptonews, Crypto Briefing, BeInCrypto, Ethereum World News, Cointelegraph, Metaverse Post, Watcher Guru, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
X: @bantg, @friendtech, @bantg, @shazow, @poordart, @nikitabier, @dogetoshi, @blknoiz06, @liron, @jerallaire, @bantg, @tomkysar, @alexsmirnov__, @0xfoobar, and @dogetoshi
| Reuters: |
Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose stock is down ~80% over the past two years, has been exploring options, including a sale; S jumps 15%+ — SentinelOne Inc (S.N), a cybersecurity company with a market value of $4.2 billion, has been exploring options that could include a sale …
More: SiliconANGLE, iTnews, The Information, CRN, and NBC 7 San Diego
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds Subscription Analytics to Podcasts, adds more hosts to Delegated Delivery, and integrates its podcast analytics into Linkfire's marketing platform — Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom Q2: revenue up 3.6% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.12B est., net income up 298% YoY to $182M, enterprise customers up 1% QoQ to ~218.1K, and raises FY 2024 guidance — - Zoom surpassed expectations on the top and bottom lines and pushed up full-year guidance. — During the quarter Zoom … | Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
A draft US and ByteDance summer 2022 agreement to avoid a TikTok ban would give US agencies power to block app policy changes, veto executive hirings, and more — For the past several years the Biden Administration and TikTok have been negotiating a deal to resolve national security concerns posed by the Chinese-owned app.| Gian Volpicelli / Politico: |
China's metaverse proposals at the UN's ITU include a digital identity system, akin to the country's social credit system, that experts say invades user privacy — China wants to define how a new, promising technology called the metaverse works — and it is pushing proposals that bear …
More: Politico, Protos, CryptoPotato, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, Decrypt, Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, and Cointelegraph
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