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Twitter/X threatens to sue Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging the nonprofit made “troubling and baseless claims” to hurt Twitter and its ad business — The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter's parent company …
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Brian Armstrong says the SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading all crypto except bitcoin without explaining its interpretation of the law, before it sued Coinbase — Request would have meant ‘the end of the crypto industry in the US’, according to Brian Armstrong
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SEC charges Hex crypto project founder Richard Heart with conducting unregistered securities offerings, including Hex, PulseChain, and PulseX, that raised $1B+ — The SEC has charged Richard Heart, the founder of the crypto project Hex, with allegedly conducting unregistered securities offerings that raised more than $1 billion.| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple confirms a Screen Time bug, letting kids go over the time limits imposed by parents to use apps and games, but doesn't offer a timeline for a fix — Settings aren't sticking; the company says it's working ‘to improve the situation’ — Apple's Screen Time controls are failing parents.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether reports a $850M net profit in Q2, vs. $1.5B in Q1, with ~$3.3B in excess reserves, up from $2.44B in Q1, and $86.5B+ in total assets as of June 30 — - In its latest attestation report, Tether said it had a net profit of $850 million in the second quarter.
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| Qianer Liu / Financial Times: |
Source: Shenzhen-based Luxshare has won favor and increased business with Apple by being prepared to test “crazy” ideas and is the sole maker of the Vision Pro — Chinese contract manufacturer is sole assembler of Vision Pro mixed-reality headset| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is now “X” in the App Store, seemingly via an exception to Apple's rule that requires app names to have two or more characters — After weeks of changes to its social handles, branding on its interface, a redirect on the web, and lots of chatter from its owner …
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| The Economic Times: |
Sources: Tiger Global has completed its exit from Flipkart, in a years-long selloff that led to gains totaling $3.5B — The US fund exits online retailer with a 4% stake sale to Walmart in final deal of phased selloff. — New York-headquartered investment firm Tiger Global informed its limited partners …
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| Neeta Lal / Nikkei Asia: |
Some Indian broadcasters are using lifelike AI anchors to deliver news, weather reports, and more, raising job loss fears and questions about media credibility — Virtual anchors mean no ‘ego hassles’ in newsrooms, but will they kill jobs? — A screenshot from Odisha TV's YouTube channel shows Lisa … | Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: |
After a digital artist opted out of the Stable Diffusion training set, the community made a model copying his style, raising questions around open-source models — More popular than Picasso and Leonardo Da Vinci among AI artists, Greg Rutkowski opted out of the Stable Diffusion training set.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ArtistHate, and Beehaw
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
A consortium led by PE firms Francisco and TPG agrees to take observability software company New Relic private in an offer valuing the company at ~$6.5B — - A private-equity consortium will take software provider New Relic private at $87 a share, the company announced Monday.| CoinDesk: |
Curve, a stablecoin exchange on Ethereum, says bugs in Vyper, a programming language used by parts of Curve, are being exploited; ~$100M of crypto is at risk — More than $100M-worth of cryptocurrency could be at risk due to a bug impacting Curve, a stablecoin exchange at the center of Ethereum's DeFi ecosystem.
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