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Epic debuts the Epic Games Store on iOS in the EU, offering its games, including Fortnite, and plans to start onboarding third-party games starting in December — The Epic Games Store gives iPhone users in the EU an alternative to Apple's App Store for the first time.
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The European Commission asks Meta for more information about its Content Library tool and API under the DSA, following Meta's decision to deprecate CrowdTangle — The Commission is seeking more information from Meta following its decision to deprecate its CrowdTangle transparency tool.
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The Biden administration approves $1.6B in Chips Act grants and $3B in loans for Texas Instruments, to help pay for one chip factory in Utah and two in Texas — - Funding will support $18 billion in spending in Texas, Utah — Biden administration almost finished allocating chips grants| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
OpenAI removed a cluster of Iranian accounts using ChatGPT for an influence campaign targeting the US elections, and says the effort didn't gain much traction — The company said the Iranian effort, which used ChatGPT, did not gain much traction. — OpenAI said on Friday that it had discovered … | Financial Times: |
Danish officials say Margrethe Vestager, known for hitting Big Tech with multibillion-euro fines, isn't being reappointed as EU antitrust chief for a third term — Danish commissioner renowned for being tough on Big Tech will not be reappointed for a third term
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Walmart and DroneUp end drone delivery in all 18 Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Tampa hubs to focus on Dallas-Fort Worth; DroneUp cuts 70, or ~17% of its staff — - The three cities were part of a splashy rollout in 2022 that was described as the first large-scale drone delivery operation in the U.S.| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis: the value of crypto hacks increased ~84.4% YoY to $1.58B in the first seven months of 2024, likely due in large part to the rise in crypto prices — - Number of heists rose slightly, centralized exchanges targeted — Bitcoin made up 40% of the proceeds of this year's heists| Dan Primack / Axios: |
FanDuel founders and other early shareholders sue KKR and Shamrock Capital over the 2018 Paddy Power Betfair merger that wiped out the value of their holdings — - The case has gone through several travails, including being dismissed and having that dismissal successfully appealed.| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Background check service National Public Data confirms a breach after hackers leaked a stolen database with millions of SSNs and other sensitive personal info — Background check service National Public Data confirms that hackers breached its systems after threat actors leaked a stolen database …
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Court filing: TikTok says the US DOJ misstated its China ties, made factual errors in the case, and the divestment law would strip TikTok of free speech rights — TikTok told a federal appeals court on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has misstated the social media app's ties to China …
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Primate Labs releases Geekbench AI 1.0, formerly Geekbench ML, to test AI-centric performances of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, available on Android, iOS, and desktop — Performance test comes out of beta as NPUs become standard equipment in PCs. — Neural processing units (NPUs) …
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Appfigures: consumers spent $3.8B on entertainment mobile apps worldwide in Q1 2024, including $2.1B on streaming apps and $0.9B in short video apps like TikTok — One unlikely culprit: TikTok — Entertainment continues to be a big money maker for publishers and app stores alike … Sponsor Posts
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