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Microsoft says Chinese hackers who in June breached US government email accounts stole an MSA key from a crash dump after hacking a Microsoft engineer's account — Microsoft says Storm-0558 Chinese hackers stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump …
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LinkedIn: Vasu Jakkal and Jeremy Dallman
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/InfoSecNews
| Financial Times: |
The UK concedes that Ofcom would only use the Online Safety Bill to force companies to scan encrypted messaging apps when it's “technically feasible” to do so — Ministers will not immediately enforce online safety bill powers to scan apps after WhatsApp threatened shutdown
More: Wired, Daring Fireball, Wired, BBC, TechRadar, Apple Must, Social Media Today, Bloomberg, PaymentSecurity.io, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Cybernews.com, Computerworld, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac, CyberScoop, and Supercharged
Threads: @benedictevans. Mastodon: @glennf@twit.social, @JamesBaker@social …, @fj@mastodon.social, @fj@mastodon.social, @Mer__edith@mastodon.world, and @element@mastodon.matrix.org. Bluesky: @martinsfp.bsky.social
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Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, r/ukpolitics, and Slashdot
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Clubhouse updates its iOS and Android apps to include asynchronous voice-only group chats, in an attempt to be “more like a messaging app” — Clubhouse is back, kinda. The app that popularized social audio rooms is reinventing itself “to be more like a messaging app” …
More: Clubhouse Blog, Engadget, Social Media Today, TechCrunch, The Information, The Information, and BGR
Threads: @carnage4life, @chris, and @crumbler
Bluesky: @mhwilliams.bsky.social and @caseynewton.bsky.social
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Apple's budget for training AI is now millions of dollars per day; its conversational AI team Foundational Models has ~16 people led by Ruoming Pang — Apple has been expanding its computing budget for building artificial intelligence to millions of dollars a day.
More: MacRumors, The Verge, Mashable, iThinkDifferent, Neowin, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Wccftech, Supercharged, BGR, and 9to5Mac
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU designates Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft as DMA gatekeepers, and will assess if some Microsoft services and iMessage qualify — - Tech firms set to challenge EU in digital antitrust clampdown — Apple's App Store, Google Search, Amazon marketplace on list
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/technology, r/technology, r/technology, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Wall Street Journal: |
Flexport CEO Dave Clark resigns after one year at the company, which he joined from Amazon; sources: Clark is considering a potential run for governor of Texas — The former Amazon senior executive is considering a potential run for governor of Texas, according to people familiar with the matter
More: The Information, CNBC, GeekWire, Bloomberg, Fortune, The Information, and FreightWaves
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| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Google plans a November policy update requiring election advertisers to prominently disclose when their ads contain generative AI-based images, video, or audio — Audio, images and video on political advertising will need to be labeled … The policy update, which applies starting mid-November …
More: The Hill, Engadget, Business Today, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Politico, Financial Times, Axios, Reuters, and Search Engine Land
| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Sources: data analytics software company Alteryx has been working with an investment bank to explore a sale after attracting takeover interest; AYX jumps 13%+ — Alteryx Inc (AYX.N), a data analytics software company with a market value of $2.2 billion, has been working with an investment bank …
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI announces its first developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, on November 6 in San Francisco, and plans to livestream a keynote presentation — OpenAI will host its first developer conference this fall, as the ChatGPT-maker looks to bolster interest in its products while facing growing competition …
More: OpenAI, San Francisco Business Journal, TechCrunch, and Analytics India Magazine
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
California Gov. Newsom signs an EO on AI risks, instructing state agencies to examine AI threats and authorizing state employees to experiment with AI tools — Gavin Newsom touted Silicon Valley's AI dominance, but warns of a “Pandora's box.” — The state of California has entered …
More: Executive Department, State of California, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, Politico, The Messenger, StateScoop, California Globe, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, UC Berkeley, and The Hill
X: @cagovernor, @stanfordhai, @brandonrichards, and @kent_walker
LinkedIn: Fei-Fei Li and Brad Stone
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Spotify is testing making song lyrics a Premium-only feature, currently “with a limited number of users in a pair of markets” — A number of Spotify users began to notice something strange over the last day or so: the in-app lyrics, which typically pop up under the currently playing song …
More: PCMag, BGR, Dexerto, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, and Gizmodo
Forums: r/truespotify and r/popheads
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube is dropping some YouTube Studio ad controls, limiting creators' control over pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads starting in November — YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators. Beginning in November, YouTube … | New York Times: |
A look at US et al v. Google, the federal government's first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, set to last 10 weeks; top executives will likely testify — The 10-week trial, set to begin Tuesday, amps up efforts to rein in Big Tech by targeting the core search business that turned Google into a $1.7 trillion behemoth.
More: New York Post, The Register, and The Week
| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
X: @kent_walker, @quinnypig, @lutherlowe, @killedbygoogle, @william_fitz, and @lewis_crofts. LinkedIn: Brian Feldman
| Reuters: |
Filing: Google tentatively settles a US Play Store class action antitrust lawsuit brought by 30+ states and representing 21M+ customers; the court must approve — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday tentatively settled a class action suit alleging that its U.S. Play Store … | Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China widens its ban on using iPhones and other foreign-branded devices for work, or bringing them to the office, to all central government agencies — The directive is the latest step in Beijing's campaign to cut reliance on foreign technology and could hurt Apple's business in the country.| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Slack announces Slack AI, which can generate channel highlights, thread summaries, and search answers based on messages, with a pilot starting “this winter” — Salesforce will pilot the generative AI capabilities it developed for Slack later this year.
More: The Verge, Slack, CNET, Axios, Neowin, TechCircle, VentureBeat, Salesforce, Computerworld, CIO Dive, ITPro, Emerging Tech Brew, SiliconANGLE, and Tech Monitor
| Alex York / Forbes: |
London-based Shop Circle, which provides e-commerce software to merchants, raised a $120M Series A in equity and debt led by 645 Ventures and 3VC — London-based e-commerce software startup Shop Circle has raised $120 million in Series A funding, the company announced Wednesday.
More: PYMNTS.com, Shop Circle, Shop Circle, and FinSMEs
X: @mralijamal, @shopcircleco, @peteflint, and @qedinvestors
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Google started rolling out Chrome's Enhanced Ad Privacy, part of its Topics API, via a popup; some say the Got It button is misleading for leaving tracking on — YMMV, based on where you are — Google has been gradually rolling out Chrome's “Enhanced Ad Privacy.”
Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social. X: @wdormann, @matthew_d_green, @brave, @protonprivacy, @uk_daniel_card, @lukemulks, @mebeim, and @matthew_d_green
Forums: Hacker News, r/google, r/degoogle, and r/privacy
| Caitlin Harrington / Wired: |
The CWA files charges with the US NLRB against Grindr, alleging the company laid off 82 workers, or 46% of its staff, for rejecting a return-to-office mandate — Two weeks after staff at queer dating app Grindr unionized, bosses ordered employees back to the office.
X: @caitharr, @zackmoran12, @polclarissou, and @waterslicer
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT review: great for 1440p gaming and less power hungry but the 7800 XT barely outperforms the 6800 XT and older GPUs may suffice — It's hard to get excited about yesterday's performance at yesterday's prices. — Nearly a year ago, Nvidia kicked off this GPU generation with its GeForce RTX 4090.
More: Tom's Hardware, VideoCardz.com, Tom's Hardware, Eurogamer.net, ExtremeTech, Digital Trends, TechPowerUp, and The Verge
X: @wsjudd, @amdradeon, and @tomwarren
Forums: r/Amd and Ars OpenForum
| CNBC: |
Tencent is launching its Hunyuan AI model for business use on Sept. 7 and integrating the model with its existing video conferencing and social media products — - Chinese tech giant Tencent is launching its artificial intelligence model “Hunyuan” for business use at an annual summit on Thursday.
More: Reuters and Tech in Asia
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