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| Josh Self / Politics.co.uk: |
In a now-deleted X post that hit 1.8M views, Elon Musk reposted a fake story shared by far-right party Britain First about the UK opening “Detainment Camps” — Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about “detainment camps” …
More: Politico, The Guardian, Tech.eu, BBC, The Mirror, Times of India, The Independent, and The Daily Beast
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Researchers: 50 false or misleading claims about the US election posted to X in 2024 by Elon Musk have generated ~1.2B views and none displayed a Community Note — The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate said that Musk's debunked claims are spreading widely and do not appear …
X: @davidstehle
| Financial Times: |
Similarweb: active UK Telegram users hit 3.1M on July 29 and 3.7M on July 30 after a stabbing, as rioters used chat apps, up from a ~2.7M average in early 2024 — Messaging service, known for ‘hands off’ approach to content moderation, faces pressure to tackle extremist groups
More: Wired, Bloomberg, The Independent, and Shields Gazette
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google and Meta ran a pilot program in the US in May 2024 to target Instagram ads to teenagers on YouTube, which prohibits targeting ads to under-18s — Campaign on YouTube to boost Instagram's appeal to young people skirted search group's rules for marketing to under-18s
More: The Information, The Verge, Benzinga, Engadget, Dexerto, Cybernews.com, Boing Boing, Android Headlines, TipRanks Financial, Invezz, More About Advertising, and NewsBytes
X: @matthewstoller, @joejerome, @riptari, and @ariellesgarcia
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/technology, r/technews, and Ars OpenForum
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A researcher details a Windows Update vulnerability that could be exploited to downgrade key components of Windows to older versions that contain known flaws — A researcher found a vulnerability that would let hackers strategically downgrade a target's Windows version to reexpose patched vulnerabilities.
More: SafeBreach, Metacurity, Washington Post, CSO, The Register, Ghacks, TechRadar, Help Net Security, The Register, SecurityWeek, Neowin, The Hacker News, WinBuzzer, TechSpot, Cybernews.com, BleepingComputer, PCMag, and Notebookcheck. Mastodon: @HoustonDog@mastodon.world
| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
The UK CMA opens a formal merger inquiry into Amazon's Anthropic investment after getting “sufficient information” about the deal; Amazon is “disappointed” — CMA to escalate matter to the first phase after seeking views on tech giant's investment in the AI start-up| Adam James / The Block: |
“Over the next few days”, Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to undo all trades following its July 18 withdrawal freeze, after hackers stole $230M+ in crypto — - WazirX announced plans to undo all trades following its withdrawal freeze on July 18.| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Researchers: hackers have used an 18-year-old flaw in how Safari, Chrome, and Firefox on macOS handle queries to a 0.0.0.0 IP address to breach private networks — Weaknesses in Chrome, Firefox and Safari gave hackers a route into internal networks, even those protected by firewalls, security researchers warn.| Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central: |
Meta closes Ready at Dawn Studios, acquired in June 2020 and which produced VR games like Lone Echo and Echo VR, to meet Reality Labs' new budgetary ceiling — Echo VR developer Ready at Dawn Studios is now closed for business. — Updated 8/17 at 5:19pm ET: The information Android Central …
More: WinBuzzer, Gematsu, TechRaptor, AltChar, Game Developer, Metro.co.uk, TechRadar, Gameranx, TheSixthAxis, KitGuru, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamesIndustry.biz, NewsBytes, Press Start, IGN, PC Gamer, Road to VR, Phandroid, Engadget, PlayStation LifeStyle, GamingBolt, UploadVR, Digital Trends, VG Charts, Niche Gamer, TheGamer, MIXED Reality News, Neowin, Eurogamer.net, Video Games Chronicle, and Push Square
X: @ethangach, @edzitron, @lunayian, @tyrielwood, @chadverrall, @thomas_griebel, @gwanatu, @nathievr, @jeffcannata, @hero_kvatch, @7egend, @shrives93, @gwanatu, and @asychov
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/virtualreality, r/PS4, r/EchoArena, r/oculus, r/OculusQuest, r/Games, and r/PS5
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
TikTok launches TikTok Spotlight, in-app hubs for movies and TV shows that add links to “applicable” videos with information and where to watch, tested on Dune — TikTok will now create in-app hubs for movies and TV shows and place them directly on fan-made videos.
More: TechCrunch, Deadline, ChannelX, Variety, The Media Leader, and The Hollywood Reporter
| RTÉ: |
Ireland's DPC launches High Court proceedings against X over concerns about the company's use of user data in the EU and EEA to train AI systems including Grok — The Data Protection Commission has launched High Court proceedings against Twitter International Unlimited Company over concerns … | Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
A US judge orders Ripple to pay a $125M penalty for selling XRP to institutional investors, well below the ~$2B the SEC had sought in the case; XRP jumps 20%+ — - Regulator had sought almost $2 billion in fines, penalties — Ripple token XRP surges on court ruling but is flat this year
More: Blockworks, DL News, Decrypt, BNN Bloomberg, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, The Block, Cointelegraph, CoinGeek, Proactive, Milk Road, The Crypto Basic, Crypto Briefing, CryptoGlobe, Blockonomi, Unchained, Inside Bitcoins, BanklessTimes, CryptoPotato, Crypto Adventure, CoinDesk, Reuters, Coinpedia Fintech News, ZyCrypto, PYMNTS.com, The Crypto Times, Watcher Guru, CryptoSlate, and Decrypt
| New York Times: |
Analysis: Truth Social is increasingly relying on niche ad campaigns that target hard-core Trump fans and Christian conservatives, often from small advertisers — Donald J. Trump's social network is increasingly relying on a niche of the ad market that caters to hard-core Trump fans and Christian conservatives for revenue.
X: @konrad_it, @mattgoldstein26, and @mattgoldstein26
| Tim Stevens / The Verge: |
YouTube channels focusing on cars, like Car Throttle and Donut, have seen an exodus of popular on-camera talent, often after investors acquired their channels — From Car Throttle to Donut, countless YouTube creators are fleeing. But is this a new trend or a tale as old as venture capital?| John Liu / New York Times: |
Interviews with 12 TSMC staff detail ongoing culture clashes in Arizona, as well as Japan and Germany; about 50% of the 2,200 Phoenix workers came from Taiwan — The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company facility in Phoenix.Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
A group of VCs, including Reid Hoffman and Ron Conway, hosted a “VCs for Kamala” Zoom call to support Harris' campaign with up to 600 attendees, raising $150K — It started with a “rage tweet.” — “Gonna start ‘VCs for Democracy,’” Leslie Feinzaig, founder and general partner at Graham & Walker, wrote on X in late July.
More: The Block, The Information, Benzinga, New York Times, GeekWire, and The Hollywood Reporter
Bluesky: @tylerking.bsky.social. X: @macconwell, @teddyschleifer, @eringriffith, @micsolana, @bizcarson, and @agarfinks
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google says it stopped making the Chromecast after intense competition, shifting to a premium device, and views the Nvidia Shield as something to strive towards — The Chromecast is going away after more than a decade in Google's hardware portfolio, with the company phasing it out to make room for the new Google TV Streamer.
More: Tech Advisor, What Hi-Fi?, Newser, Android Headlines, and Broadband TV News
| Axios: |
Anduril Industries raised a $1.5B Series F co-led by Founders Fund and Sands Capital at a $14B valuation, up from ~$8.5B after raising ~$1.5B in December 2022 — - Sands Capital and existing investor Founders Fund co-led the Series F round, which is at a 65% post-money premium to where Anduril last raised money in late 2022.
More: Quartz, Tech Startups, Anduril Industries, Bloomberg, Wired, TechCrunch, and Financial Times
X: @anduriltech and @ashleevance
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
How VP nominee Tim Walz vetoed a bill to raise minimum pay for Uber and Lyft drivers in Minnesota, before signing an updated law in May 2024 to raise pay by 20% — Last year, when Minnesota's progressive politicians coalesced around a bill to raise the minimum pay for Uber and Lyft drivers in the state … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ofcom publishes an open letter to social media platforms raising concerns about the use of their tools to incite violence, following days of rioting in the UK — The U.K.'s internet regulator, Ofcom, has published an open letter to social media platforms raising concerns about the use of their tools to incite violence.
More: Reuters, The Verge, Ofcom, CNBC, ComputerWeekly.com, BBC, and Bloomberg
X: @beverleyturner, @davidheniguk, @ofcom, @martinabettt, @sundersays, @plymouthcraig, @davidheniguk, @pjdunleavy, @shayna620, @mrmoosey1, and @wokenonsense. Forums: r/TSLA
| Financial Times: |
More: Wired, Washington Post, The Independent, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, The Times, SiliconANGLE, Politico, The Register, PCMag, New York Times, The Verge, Bloomberg, CNBC, BBC, Washington Post, The Guardian, Business Insider, Bloomberg, and NBC News
X: @josh_self_, @keir_starmer, @georgemonbiot, @albertonardelli, @davidfrum, @adam_grant_bell, @keir_starmer, @sangitamyska, @webdevlaw, @jamesrbuk, @elonmusk, @aaronbastani, @mrjamesob, @iandunt, @tomabacon, @marcowenjones, @jmpsimor, @netblocks, @adam_grant_bell, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @drjennings, @mrdenmore, @annasophiegross, @mij_europe, @johnobrennan2, @elonmusk, and @elonmusk
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/NewsAndPolitics, r/inthenews, and r/politics
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