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WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and Meta will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats — They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile — President Trump and his family are getting into the wireless business, in partnership with the three major U.S. carriers.
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X: @davemcclure, @atrupar, @mattyglesias, and @sino_market
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Europol, Germany, and more dismantle Archetyp Market, a darknet drug marketplace active since May 2020 with 612K users processing €250M+ in Monero transactions — Law enforcement authorities from six countries took down the Archetyp Market, an infamous darknet drug marketplace that has been operating since May 2020.
More: The Record, Europol, PCMag, CyberScoop, The Register, Infosecurity, Help Net Security, Cyber Security News, Reuters, and Hackread. X: @europol
| Financial Times: |
Digital asset platform Tron plans to go public via a reverse merger with Nasdaq-listed SRM Entertainment, after the US paused a probe into founder Justin Sun — Deal involving Justin Sun's digital asset venture orchestrated by investment bank linked to Trump's sons
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
TikTok rolls out new AI ad features as part of its Symphony ad suite, including the ability for marketers to use text or images to generate five-second videos — TikTok is rolling out a set of new artificial intelligence-powered advertising features, including the ability for marketers … | Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Amazon Ads and Roku sign an ad initiative that will give media buyers access to 80%+ of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP — In a milestone agreement, Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a new advertising initiative that will give media buyers access …
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X: @amazonads and @markstenberg3
LinkedIn: Krishan Bhatia and Jay Askinasi
| Carl Benedikt Frey / Financial Times: |
AI is just another productivity tool and the productivity gains will be limited; for lasting economic expansion, AI must catalyze new industries and initiatives — Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed — The writer is author of 'How Progress Ends … | Karoline Kan / Bloomberg: |
Chinese state media: researchers implanted a brain-computer interface in a tetraplegia patient in March, making China the second country after the US to do so — China's first clinical trial of a technology that allows signals from the brain to control an external device has proved successful …
More: Global Times, Tom's Hardware, The Independent, and MassDevice
| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Trump Media and Technology Group files an S-1 with the US SEC to launch a spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF, allocating 75% to bitcoin and 25% to ether — The move follows registration for a standalone Truth Social bitcoin ETF earlier this month. — What to know:
More: Trump Media & …, The Block, Benzinga, CryptoSlate, Bloomberg, and CryptoPotato
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users — You have until August 4th to sign up and lock in the current rates instead. … Patreon has announced an update to its pricing … | Bloomberg: |
A whistleblower provides nonpublic data revealing that 1M+ 2FA SMS messages from June 2023 passed via Fink Telecom, a small Swiss company linked to spy agencies — Every day, millions of people sign in to their email, banking app or social media accounts with both their password and a one-time login code they receive by text message.
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In March, New York added a checkbox to its WARN system for companies to show if “technological innovation or automation”, like AI, was a reason for mass layoffs — Form fitting — New York state has quietly become the first in the nation to ask companies to disclose … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Aspora, which makes financial tools like remittance services for the Indian diaspora, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Sequoia and Greylock at a $500M valuation — India has been one of the top recipients of remittances in the world for more than a decade.| Michael Goodier / The Guardian: |
A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 — Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating - and experts says these are tip of the iceberg
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Bluesky: @patrickgaley, @shannonvallor, @hypervisible, and @beijingpalmer
Forums: r/singularity, r/accelerate, r/technology, r/ArtistHate, and r/unitedkingdom
| DhanushVignesh Babu / Reuters: |
The UK CMA opens an investigation into the planned $13.25B merger of ad giants Omnicom and Interpublic to assess potential lower competition in the UK ad market — Britain's competition watchdog on Monday launched a probe into the proposed merger between advertising giants Omnicom and Interpublic … | Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M+ users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M — Knowunity is a global AI learning companion that combines personalised AI and student-created content to make studying easier, more engaging, and effective.Sponsor Posts
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Introducing document delivery and authentication via WhatsApp in Zoho Sign — Let's be real: How many of us still send out SMSs in our daily lives? In many countries, the number is vanishingly small.
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