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| CNN: |
Filing: Twitter was fined $350K for not giving Trump's account data after special counsel Jack Smith got a warrant in January 2023; Twitter ultimately complied — The special counsel investigation into Donald Trump secured a search warrant of the former president's Twitter account …
More: The United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Politico, Salon, The Atlantic, Ars Technica, Forbes, Washington Post, TechCrunch, NBC News, New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Associated Press, Financial Times, USA Today, Gizmodo, NBC4 WCMH-TV, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Newser, Axios, Reclaim The Net, New York Post, Mashable, The Hill, Reuters, Associated Press, Watcher Guru, and Engadget
Mastodon: @Teri_Kanefield@law … and @heidilifeldman@mastodon …
X: @zoetillman, @sollenbergerrc, @kyledcheney, @jose_pagliery, @jason_kint, @acyn, @petestrzok, and @kaitlancollins
Forums: r/inthenews and r/politics
| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
SCOTUS lets Apple keep its App Store payment rules for now, rejecting an Epic request that would have let developers start directing users to cheaper options — - Supreme Court justice won't let appeals court ruling kick in — Epic seeking to open App Store to lower-priced alternatives
More: Reuters, The Information, The Verge, Decrypt, 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, Washington Examiner, Ars Technica, GamesIndustry.biz, MarketWatch, Cult of Mac, WebProNews, PhoneArena, CNN, The Hollywood Reporter, Engadget, OnMSFT.com, MacRumors, Supercharged, GameSpot, Gizmodo, Appuals.com, TechCrunch, WRAL TechWire, Thurrott, MacDailyNews, Watcher Guru, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and AppleInsider
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @epro.social. X: @munster_gene, @munster_gene, and @papscun
Forums: r/fuckepic and Slashdot
| Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: |
Bob Iger says Disney is “actively exploring ways” to crack down on password sharing and “will roll out tactics to drive monetization sometime in 2024” — “We will roll out tactics to drive monetization,” the Disney CEO says — Disney+ will begin cracking …
More: The Verge, Engadget, CNET, TechHive, CNBC, Insider, Adweek, Neowin, MobileSyrup, Press Start, KFOR.com Oklahoma City, and IGN
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney plans to raise US prices of Disney+ Premium, Hulu without ads, and ESPN+, and to expand Disney+ ad-supported plans to Canada and nine European countries — Ad-supported Disney+ tier to expand to Canada, U.K. and eight other European countries this fall
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, AdExchanger, USA Today, CNET, Thurrott, The Information, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Walt Disney Company, CNBC, New York Post, MobileSyrup, The Hollywood Reporter, SlashGear, The Streamable, Digital Trends, Polygon, Consequence, BGR, IGN, Deadline, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Slack unveils its biggest redesign yet, adding a Home section, a left sidebar, a DMs section similar to the one in Teams, and “a unified inbox” Activity window — Slack is many things. Which is kind of the problem. … Eventually, that even affects the “talk to your team” …
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Mastodon: @joesteel@duck.haus. X: @austen, @madsviktor, @ilyamiskov, @tobi, @slackhq, @film_girl, and @ow. Forums: Hacker News
| CNBC: |
Sony reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to ~$20.7B, PS5 sales up 38% YoY to 3.3M, operating income down 31% YoY to ~$782M, and expects to sell 25M PS5s by March 2024 — Sony on Wednesday reported a 31% fall in profit in the first fiscal quarter as its life insurance unit dragged on its bottom line …
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| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Coinbase's Base mainnet opens to the public featuring 100+ dApps and service providers as part of the ecosystem, after a developer-specific release in July 2023 — - The Base network, backed by Coinbase, has now officially been opened to the public. — The Base network's journey began … | Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Aptos Labs partners with Microsoft to build a ChatGPT-powered Aptos Assistant and plans to host validator nodes on Azure; GitHub will add Aptos' Move to Copilot — Since the A.I.-hype train reached full speed earlier this year, there's been no shortage of crypto entrepreneurs trying to get a piece of the action.
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X: @valebrent, @aptoslabs, @mdudas, and @defisquared
| Aaron Pressman / The Boston Globe: |
Boston-based cybersecurity company Rapid7 lays off 18% of its staff, or ~470 people, and reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $190M and net loss up 69% YoY to $67M — The Boston-based cybersecurity firm said the cuts will enable it to continue to grow while also freeing up cash
More: TechCrunch, Seeking Alpha, Rapid7, DataBreachToday.com, SiliconANGLE, Cybersecurity Dive, Baseline, CRN, and Rapid7
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
The US debuts a DARPA contest to build AI systems that can proactively identify and fix software flaws, with help from Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI — The winning systems will be able to analyze and correct vulnerable code in critical infrastructure.
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X: @charley_snyder_, @ericgeller, @darpa, @perribus, @royalhansen, and @defcon
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google finally adds a native Google Translate option to its Gmail app on Android, gradually rolling out now, and on iOS, rolling out starting on August 21, 2023 — Google is finally adding a native translate capability to Gmail for Android and iOS after long supporting it on the web client.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two reports Q1 net revenue up 17% YoY to $1.28B, net bookings up 20% YoY to $1.2B, and forecasts $8B in bookings for the fiscal year 2025, hinting at GTA 6 — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the company behind video games like Grand Theft Auto, rose in extended trading …
More: IGN, GamesIndustry.biz, Engadget, Take-Two Interactive Software, GamingBolt, Pure Xbox, Eurogamer.net, TrueAchievements, and TechRadar
X: @stephentotilo, @domsplaying, @mauronl3, @videotechx, @deeketweak, @shinobi602, @dmc_ryan, @domsplaying, and @videotechx
Forums: r/gamingnews and r/PS5
| Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal: |
Biden signs an executive order banning US investments in some Chinese companies developing advanced semiconductors and quantum computers, starting in 2024 — Biden's order will also require U.S. private-equity and venture-capital firms to disclose certain investments
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out the ability to let users verify their Threads profile on other social media platforms, like Mastodon, using “rel=me” links — To be clear, this isn't a free way to get a blue checkmark next to your Threads name; you'll probably need to pay Meta to get one of those.
More: Engadget, RTÉ, SlashGear, and Search Engine Journal
Threads: @mosseri, @timothyjchambers, @0xjessel, @anildash, @tomwarrenuk, @beingrealfrank, and @annamartinmedia
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Deepset, which helps companies build “complex LLM applications” and add NLP to apps, raised $30M led by Balderton, taking its total funding to $46M — Deepset, a platform for building enterprise apps powered by large language models akin to ChatGPT …
More: Sifted, SiliconANGLE, deepset, Tech.eu, VentureBeat, and Balderton Capital
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Gizmodo EIC Dan Ackerman sues Apple, the Tetris Company, and others, accusing them of adapting his book about Tetris into a feature film without his permission — Dan Ackerman, editor in chief of the tech-news website Gizmodo, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Monday accusing Apple … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Roblox reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $681M, bookings up 22% YoY to $780.7M, vs. $785M est., a $282.8M net loss, and DAUs up 25% YoY to 65.5M; RBLX drops 20%+ — - Shares of Roblox fell Wednesday after the company reported second-quarter results that missed analysts' expectations on top and bottom lines.
More: Roblox, VentureBeat, Reuters, Game Developer, PYMNTS.com, NBC 7 San Diego, GameSpot, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, and Pocket Gamer.biz. X: @chrisalbon
| The Citizen Lab: |
Analysis: Tencent's Sogou Input Method, the top Chinese character inputting tool in China with 450M+ MAUs, had since-fixed data-leaking flaws in its encryption — We urge Sogou Input Method users to immediately update to the most recent version of the app (at least Windows version 13.7, Android version 11.26, or iOS version 11.25).| Elizabeth de Luna / Mashable: |
X begins making ad revenue payouts to smaller creators, after issuing payments to select accounts in July 2023; how X calculates the payouts remains unclear — ‘$8 to make $370 is a fantastic ROI for something I do anyway,’ one creator tweeted. … X is finally paying smaller creators …
More: The Register, MarTech, Insider Intelligence, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, Livemint, and Fortune
| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
China plans to require that app developers file business details with the government or face sanctions from March 2024, likely creating headaches for developers — China will require all mobile app providers in the country to file business details with the government, its information ministry said …
More: PingWest, Pocket Gamer.biz, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Sex workers who use crypto to store wealth and accept payment, bypassing the banking system, are finding the limits of its utility amid the regulatory scrutiny — Banks and payments companies have long penalized sex workers. Many thought crypto would be a solution, but now exchanges are dumping them too.
More: Cryptonews. X: @mintstarsreal, @mikestabile, @fscarmy, @jessicavanmeir, @mistressmatisse, and @ashleylatke
Forums: r/ethtrader and r/CryptoCurrency
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba made orders worth $5B to acquire Nvidia chips, amid concerns that the US will soon clamp down on their export — Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba rush to acquire GPUs amid concern US will soon clamp down on their export
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