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WhatsApp rolls out privacy features to let users leave Groups silently, choose who can see when they are online, and block screenshots of View Once messages — Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry — WhatsApp is building new ways to increase user privacy and security in order to improve their experience while using the app.
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WhatsApp now lets users delete a private or group chat message up to 2.5 days after sending it; before, users had one hour, eight minutes, and 16 seconds — While iMessage is getting the option to “unsend” messages for the first time with iOS 16 beta, WhatsApp already provides a similar feature.
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The US Treasury sanctions crypto mixing service Tornado Cash and 44 related ETH and USDC wallets, citing their use in high-profile hacks, such as by North Korea — - The Treasury is sanctioning DeFi mixing service, Tornado Cash. — The move is the agency's second sanction of a mixing service.
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Meta's BlenderBot 3 chatbot, released in the US on August 5, repeats antisemitic stereotypes, claims Donald Trump is the current US president, and more — - Meta's new machine-learning chatbot, BlenderBot 3, is the company's most advanced AI chatbot to date.
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ByteDance acquired Amcare Healthcare, one of China's largest private hospital chains, source says for about $1.5B, deepening its foray into health care — ByteDance Ltd. has acquired one of China's largest private hospital chains for about $1.5 billion, deepening a foray into health care via …
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Reddit partners with Ethereum Layer 2 platform Arbitrum to bring its Community Points system onto the Arbitrum Nova blockchain; FTX and others will advise — - Arbitrum announced that Reddit's Community Points will be built on the Arbitrum Nova chain. — The deployment on Nova will open …
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President Biden signs the CHIPS and Science Act into law, including $52B+ for US companies making semiconductors, as well as billions more in tax credits — - President Joe Biden signed into law a bipartisan bill that aims to boost U.S. competitiveness with China.| Prarthana Prakash / Bloomberg: |
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Shopic, which offers an AI-powered shopping cart clip-on device to identify items, raised a $35M Series B led by Qualcomm, bringing its total funding to $56M — The smart shopping cart startup Shopic Technologies Ltd. said today it has raised $35 million in funding to get closer to fulfilling …
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Sources: Beijing has grown frustrated with a years-long failure to develop semiconductors that can replace US chips, capped by anti-graft probes into top execs — China's top leadership has grown increasingly frustrated with a years-long failure to develop semiconductors that can replace US circuitry …
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Influencers on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are documenting trips to Syria, helping burnish the regime's image, often sponsored by brands, such as Surfshark — Sophie Fullerton is a political scientist and human rights researcher based in New York. — Last November, around the same … | Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Oppo and OnePlus halt sales in Germany after a court found in July 2022 the two companies used 5G technology without paying for the appropriate Nokia patents — Oppo - an OEM that has a far-reaching consumer base - has officially withdrawn from selling devices in Germany.| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's planned acquisitions of iRobot and One Medical are emblematic of Andy Jassy's hunt for a so-called fourth “pillar”, beyond AWS, Prime, and Marketplace — Amazon has snapped up robotic vacuum maker iRobot, undaunted by antitrust concerns. But first:| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat rolls out parental controls through a new Family Center feature, letting parents see who teens are talking to, but not view the content of the messages — Snapchat today is rolling out its first set of parental controls, after announcing last October it was developing tools …
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The DOJ says BitMEX's head of business development, Gregory Dwyer, pleaded guilty to violating US federal anti-money laundering rules and will pay a $150K fine — A federal court in New York previously sentenced the firm's co-founders to probation time and fines.
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