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| Gabriela Galindo / Wired: |
How Apple is trying to gain IP rights over depictions of apples globally, worrying Fruit Union Suisse that the 111-year-old company may need to change its logo — Apple, the company, wants rights to the image of apples, the fruit, in Switzerland—one of dozens of countries where it's flexing its legal muscles.
More: AppleInsider, Android Authority, Mashable, Neowin, Gizchina, PC Gamer, Supercharged, MacDailyNews, The Verge, TechRadar, iMore, and Beehaw
Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social. Twitter: @nproctor. Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/apple, and r/Switzerland
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The BlackCat ransomware gang threatens to release 80GB of data allegedly stolen from Reddit; the company says BlackCat's claims relate to a February 5 attack — Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company pays a ransom demand - and reverses its controversial API price hikes.
More: The Verge, BleepingComputer, MacRumors, DataBreachToday.com, TweakTown, Digital Trends, Forbes, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, HotHardware, WRAL TechWire, SiliconANGLE, MobileSyrup, Android Police, Security Boulevard, Tech Monitor, Silicon Republic, Developer Tech News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, TechRadar, Dexerto, Techlusive, International Business Times, The Record, Security Affairs, DataBreaches.net, and Neowin
Twitter: @brettcallow, @chengrob, @alvierid, @ido_cohen2, and @devaonbreaches
Forums: r/apolloapp, r/hacking, r/technology, r/theworldnews, r/ModCoord, r/anonymous, r/hackernews, and Slashdot
| Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba announces Eddie Wu to succeed Daniel Zhang as CEO and names Executive Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai as Chairman; Zhang will continue as Alibaba Cloud CEO — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is replacing eight-year veteran chief Daniel Zhang at the helm of a Chinese e-commerce leader bleeding market share …
More: Financial Times, Pandaily, Alizila, CNN, PingWest, South China Morning Post, TechCrunch, New York Times, Nikkei Asia, Insider, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, Alibaba Group, Financial Times, DealStreetAsia, and Tech in Asia
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Germany and Intel agree on subsidies worth ~€10B for its chip plant in Magdeburg, up from an initial agreement on €6.8B, as part of a ~€30B project — Germany and Intel Corp. sealed an agreement for the US company to receive an enlarged subsidy package worth about €10 billion …
More: Reuters, Associated Press, SiliconANGLE, WRAL TechWire, Windows Central, Politico, iTnews, The Register, Tech Xplore, Financial Times, Oregonian, Tom's Hardware, HPCwire, and Neowin
Forums: r/worldnews, r/hardware, and Slashdot
| Jon Pincus / The Nexus Of Privacy: |
Amid ongoing Reddit protests, decentralized link aggregation and discussion forum projects Lemmy and Kbin grow to a total of 70K+ MAUs and 1,000+ instances — Tens of thousands of people have signed up for KBin and Lemmy accounts since I first published Don't tell people “it's easy” …
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Mastodon: @tchambers@indieweb.social, @jbaert@mastodon.social, @pre@boing.world, @dansup@mastodon.social, @mastodonmigration …, @threadcount@botsin.space, and @nexusofprivacy@mastodon …. Twitter: @mahemoff. Forums: Hacker News
| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Sources: internal teams at Singapore-based Crypto.com trade tokens for profit on the exchange and elsewhere, a little-known fact since the company's 2016 launch — Singapore group has desk to profit from market moves — Crypto.com, the exchange endorsed by Hollywood actor Matt Damon …
More: Inside Bitcoins, The Block, CoinDesk, Decrypt, CryptoPotato, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, Cryptonews, Unchained Crypto, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, DL News, Watcher Guru, and CoinGape
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| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Celebrities, including aging star athletes, are signing deals to put AI duplicates of themselves into ad campaigns, helping brands de-age them, among other uses — Using AI-generated duplicates, brands also benefit, using stars in ways they never could before
More: Tech News Outlet and Livemint
| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
How kids are using hacked Discord servers or Twitter accounts and “NFT drainers” for phishing attacks to steal millions of dollars' worth of NFTs and tokens — - NFT drainers like Inferno and Venom are commonly used to carry out phishing attacks involving compromised Discord servers and Twitter accounts.
More: Cryptonews and crypto.news
Twitter: @dabitch, @bgurley, @timccopeland, and @lex_node
Forums: r/ethtrader and r/CryptoCurrency
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Filings: FTX paid $121.8M in legal, consulting, and financial services fees between February 1 and April 30, as some former clients push to reboot the exchange — - FTX's bankruptcy estate paid $121.8 million in legal, consulting and financial services fees and expenses between February 1 and April 30 … | Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Some publishers say they have seen a sharp drop in Facebook traffic since May 2023; Echobox: the share of traffic to publisher sites from Facebook fell ~50% YoY — With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm, and they say it's punishing them.
More: Geek News Central Podcast and Beehaw
| Tim Hakki / Decrypt: |
Twitter suspends Explain This Bob, a GPT-4 chatbot tied to the BOB Token, after Elon Musk called the account a “scam”; Musk replied “I love Bob” in April 2023 — The move marks an abrupt about-face for Musk, who had previously engaged with the bot's content on Twitter.
More: Cointelegraph, OpIndia, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoinist.com, and Coinspeaker
Twitter: @elonmusk, @defidownsin, @obesechess, @talalunfiltered, @titterdaily, @mattbinder, and @poordart
| Dewi Kurniawati / Reuters: |
SpaceX launches Indonesia's largest telecom satellite as part of a $540M project to offer internet in remote areas; the SATRIA-1 has a 150Gbps throughput — Indonesia and Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX on Monday launched the country's largest telecommunication satellite from the United States … Sponsor Posts
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