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| Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post: |
X sues the Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging CCDH researchers violated Twitter's terms of service and the CFAA while studying hate speech on the site — X, the company formerly known as Twitter, sued a research group that had investigated hate speech on the social media platform …
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Halcyon: Cloudzy, a Wyoming-registered web hosting company likely operating out of Tehran, is acting as a command-and-control provider for state-backed hackers — A little-known cloud company provided web hosting and internet services to more than two dozen different state-sponsored hacking groups …
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| Financial Times: |
Source: Meta plans to release AI chatbots with personalities, which staff call “personas”, like Abraham Lincoln, as soon as September 2023, to boost engagement — Facebook owner seeks to seize on hype for AI while challenging rivals such as OpenAI, Snap and TikTok
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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
Meta begins the process to end news access on Facebook and Instagram in Canada, in response to a law forcing some companies to negotiate deals to pay publishers — Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Tuesday it has begun the process to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon expands its Amazon Clinic virtual health service to 50 US states and DC, available via video or texting; regulations limit the SMS feature to 34 states — - Amazon is expanding its virtual clinic service nationwide. — The company launched Amazon Clinic last November …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia, Pixar, and the Linux Foundation form the Alliance for OpenUSD, to standardize Pixar's Universal Scene Description graphics tech — Five major companies in the 3D content industry — Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar — have come together to form the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD).
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $9.23B, gross bookings up 16% YoY to $33.6B, and a $394M net income, its first operating profit, vs. a $2.6B net loss YoY — Ride-hailing and delivery businesses grew in the second quarter, though freight shrank — Uber Technologies posted …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
To challenge TikTok, YouTube releases new Shorts creation tools for remixing, adding effects, going live, as well as a new interactive Q&A sticker and more — As competition with TikTok and Instagram Reels heats up, YouTube today announced an expanded suite of creation tools for its own short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts.| Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Putin signs a Russian law requiring that internet platforms verify new users' identities via state-approved systems during registration, effective December 2023 — Since its invasion of Ukraine in February, Russian Members of Parliament and lawmakers have taken turns to see who can come …
Forums: r/privacy and r/worldnews
| Bloomberg: |
After Curve disclosed a hack, CRV dropped by ~25% in three days, prompting fears of wider market turbulence; DefiLlama: crypto using Curve fell ~50% to $1.9B — - Curve's native CRV coin posted three-day, 25% slump after hack — Drop raised concerns about wider fallout from platform's woes
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
A look at the nascent scene of AI chatbots trained for phishing and malware attacks, including WormGPT, DarkBERT, and FraudGPT — In the wake of WormGPT, a ChatGPT clone trained on malware-focused data, a new generative artificial intelligence hacking tool called FraudGPT has emerged … | Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Under EU pressure, Meta offers to seek user consent in Europe for targeted ads based on users' activity to comply with GDPR, sources say as soon as October 2023 — Under pressure from regulators, the Facebook and Instagram owner proposes asking users to opt in before targeting ads with their digital activity
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q2 revenue down 18% YoY to $5.36B, net income down 94% to $27M, Client revenue down 54% to $998M, and Data Center revenue down 11% to $1.3B — - AMD said revenue for the second quarter fell 18% from a year earlier. — The company's sales forecast for the third quarter trailed analysts' estimates.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Socket, which offers a scanning tool to detect vulnerabilities in open-source code, raised a $20M Series A led by a16z, taking its total funding to $24.6M — Socket, a startup that provides a scanning tool to detect security vulnerabilities in open source code, today announced …
More: Socket, Andreessen Horowitz, FinSMEs, and SecurityWeek
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Apple removes many generative AI apps from its China App Store, supposedly over 100, ahead of China's new generative AI rules taking effect on August 15 — Multiple generative AI apps have been removed from Apple's China App Store, two weeks ahead of the country's new generative AI regulations that are set to take effect on August 15.
More: 9to5Mac, South China Morning Post, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, Seeking Alpha, and Voicebot.ai. Twitter: @sid_sarasvati
| Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: |
Court filings: FTX Group details a draft plan to repay creditors, including settling claims in USD and wiping out FTT; seven classes of creditors can now vote — - Customer claims to be valued in US dollars as of bankruptcy — Company hasn't ruled out rebooting offshore exchange
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Twitter: @ftx_official and @zoomerjd
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
How illicit data brokers on apps like Telegram peddle internal Amazon market data and offer services like attacking rivals' product listings — - Amazon internal information is finding its way onto messaging apps like Telegram, where brokers are selling data to third-party sellers.| New York Times: |
The FBI says a contractor misled the agency and used NSO's Landmark to track people in Mexico without consent; the FBI terminated the contract in April 2023 — After a Times report, the bureau canceled its contract with a government contractor that used the tool on its behalf. But questions remain.
More: Washington Post, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Overspill, and Gizmodo
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: senior EU and US officials are concerned about China's accelerated push into the production of older-generation chips made with 28nm equipment or above — - China is building more plants than others despite US sanctions — Officials are worried about impact on domestic chip plans
More: Tom's Hardware and The Hill
| Christian Davies / Financial Times: |
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