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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 175M+ MAUs, up from 150M in April, ahead of its one-year anniversary on July 5; source: Meta may turn on ads in Threads in 2025  —  A year and a half ago, Threads was but a twinkle in Mark Zuckerberg's eye.  —  Now, the rival to Elon Musk's X has reached …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real-time content, the fediverse, and more  —  A year ago this week, Meta introduced Threads to the world.  —  The text-based social network, which launched as a kind …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
OpenAI updates its ChatGPT macOS app to encrypt locally stored conversations, after a user discovered that the app was storing chats in plain text  —  Until Friday, OpenAI's recently launched ChatGPT macOS app had a potentially worrying security issue: it wasn't hard to find your chats stored …
Andrea Hsu / NPR:
A federal court in Texas temporarily blocks the US government's ban on noncompete agreements that was set to take effect September 4  —  A federal court in Texas has partially blocked the government's ban on noncompete agreements that was set to take effect September 4.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
A global law enforcement operation takes down 593 servers hosting unlicensed versions of Cobalt Strike, a penetration testing tool abused by cybercriminals  —  Europol coordinated a joint law enforcement action known as Operation Morpheus, which led to the takedown of almost 600 Cobalt Strike servers used …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Twilio says threat actors identified the phone numbers of users of its 2FA app Authy; last week, hackers claimed to have stolen 33M phone numbers from Twilio  —  Last week, a hacker claimed to have stolen 33 million phone numbers from U.S. messaging giant Twilio.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon plans to discontinue Astro for Business, its robot security guard for SMBs announced in November 2023, on September 25 to focus on its Astro home robot  —  Astro is leaving its job to spend more time with family.  —  Amazon informed customers and employees Wednesday morning that it plans …
Associated Press:
Microsoft agrees to pay $14.4M to settle with the California Civil Rights Department over allegations it discriminated against workers who took protected leave  —  Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay $14.4 million to settle allegations that the global software giant retaliated and discriminated …
Rocky Swift / Reuters:
Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, after scrapping over 1,000 regulations governing their use  —  Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Noplace, a Gen Z-focused social media app backed by Alexis Ohanian's 776 and others, tops the US iOS App Store; it raised a $15M Series A1 at a $75M valuation  —  Aiming to bring the “social” back to “social media,” a new app called noplace has surged to the top of the App Store as it launched out of invite-only mode Wednesday.
CRN:
OpenText to lay off 1,200 employees and add 800 positions, resulting in a ~1.7% reduction in workforce, and expects to reduce annual expenses by CA$150M in 2025  —  “The business optimization plan is intended to strategically align the company's workforce to support its 'growth and innovation plans …
New York Times:
Researchers say GPS spoofing has impacted 60K+ commercial flights so far in 2024; GPS could become a relic as Chinese, Russian, and European systems modernize  —  The Global Positioning System runs the modern world.  —  But it is under daily attack.  —  This year alone, researchers say …

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From Mediagazer

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
The North American box office records its biggest weekend ever with ~$430M in total, driven by Spider-Man: Brand New Day's $355M and The Odyssey's $51M

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: former 60 Minutes EP Bill Owens seeks ~$50M to launch a rival news series with Scott Pelley and other fired staffers; a source close to Owens denies it

Natalie Korach / Status:
Sources: WaPo Opinion Editor Adam O'Neal's exit stunned some colleagues, as he sounded confident and recently boasted he pushed the section further to the right

More News

Tom Bergin / Reuters:
An investigation details how online gambling giants Flutter and Entain employ practices in the US that they dropped in the UK after admitting risks to UK users
Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal:
Canada authorizes the implementation of a 3% levy on revenue from large tech companies that provide digital services to or sell data of Canadian users
Rand Fishkin / SparkToro:
Datos: 58.5% of Google searches in the US and 59.7% in the EU result in no clicks; for 1,000 searches, 360 clicks go to the open web in the US and 374 in the EU

Earlier Picks

Emma Farge / Reuters:
WIPO: between 2014 and 2023, 54K generative AI patents were filed, 25% of which were filed in 2023; China leads with 38K+ patents, followed by the US with 6,276
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Proton launches Docs in Proton Drive, a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs, after acquiring secure note-taking app Standard Notes in April 2024
Paula Arend Laier / Reuters:
Brazil's data regulator suspends the validity of Meta's privacy policy for using personal data to train AI models in the country and sets a daily ~$8,800 fine
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Blockchain platform Polkadot faces criticism from users after spending $87M in H1 2024, doubling its H2 2023 spend, including $36M+ on marketing and outreach
Financial Times:
Google says its greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48% in the past five years due to the expansion of the data centers that underpin its AI efforts
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