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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
An interview with X CEO Linda Yaccarino on having “autonomy” under Elon Musk, planning to add video calls, payments between users, brands returning, and more — - X CEO Linda Yaccarino explained to CNBC on Thursday why the company decided to get rid of its Twitter branding.
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X: @yourneighbor57, @raywert, @patrickcoffee, @rmac18, @mrmv84, @stevekopack, @atrupar, @melspence2, @atrupar, @katebevan, @daveleebbg, @sarafischer, @sirbaby6, @daveleebbg, @elonmusk, @erinkwoo, @xdaily, @danprimack, @rmac18, @justinbaragona, @rmac18, and @junlper
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| Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: |
X unveils Sensitivity Settings and Enhanced Blocklist to boost brand safety and control for advertisers, rolling out over the next few weeks in X Ads Manager — The new tools give marketers more say over ad placement. — X, formerly known as Twitter, has launched two new features to improve brand safety and control for advertisers.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google, American Airlines, and Bill Gates' fund Breakthrough Energy partner to use AI to chart more sustainable flights by avoiding routes that create contrails — Google has been working with American Airlines and Bill Gates' climate investment fund, Breakthrough Energy, to chart more sustainable flight routes.
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon cuts dozens of in-house brands in clothing, furniture, and more to fend off regulators and grow profits; Amazon says Basics will remain a focus — Company's cuts include all but three of its 30 clothing labels, such as Goodthreads and Lark & Ro
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
The UK Electoral Commission hack, which lasted 14 months and was disclosed nine months after discovery, likely exploited a now-patched Exchange Server zero-day — Evidence appears to show a critical 0-day tracked as ProxyNotShell was exploited. — It's looking more and more likely … | Reuters: |
Sources: the Kremlin's fear of a serious tech brain drain is the main factor preventing Moscow from nationalizing the Nasdaq-listed Yandex, which has 20K+ staff — The Kremlin's fear of a serious tech brain drain is the main factor preventing Moscow from nationalising Nasdaq-listed Yandex … | Alexander Marrow / Reuters: |
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| Reuters: |
Filing: Bittrex agrees to pay $24M to settle US SEC claims that the crypto exchange failed to register with the agency; Bittrex doesn't admit to the allegations — Bittrex has agreed to pay $24 million to settle claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the cryptocurrency exchange failed …
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| Sarah Fielding / Engadget: |
To fight spam, YouTube plans to deactivate links in Shorts descriptions, comments, and the vertical feed from August 31 and make social media icons unclickable — The move follows other anti-spam measures. — YouTube knows that it has a spam problem, particularly when it comes to its two-year-old Shorts feature.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Skydio shuts down its consumer drone business and plans to expand its enterprise offerings, after raising a $230M Series E at a $2.2B valuation in February 2023 — Skydio today announced that it will be shutting down its consumer drone business. — Beginning today, the firm will no longer …
More: Skydio, DroneDJ, and The Verge
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Meta plans to build only ~1,000 units of its first-gen AR glasses, due in 2024, which use silicon carbide in the lenses, requiring assembly in the US — Meta Platforms plans to build only around a thousand units of the first generation of its augmented-reality glasses due out next year …
X: @pstasiatech, @diliana, @waynema, and @sadlyitsbradley
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI expands “custom instructions”, the user's details that ChatGPT should remember, to all users, after launching the ChatGPT Plus beta feature in July 2023 — OpenAI announced that it's expanding custom instructions — a way to give users more control over how ChatGPT responds …
More: The Hill, MSPoweruser, AI News, and The Decoder
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
California-based Virtualitics, which provides data visualizations that can be viewed in AR and VR, raised a $37M Series C, bringing its total funding to $67M — Many companies grapple with data challenges. In a 2019 survey, Deloitte reports that 67% of executives aren't comfortable accessing or using the data at their organizations.
More: FinSMEs, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, and Tech Startups
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to add Threads features this week: share posts to Instagram DMs, a mention button, and a way to add custom alt text for media — Threads, Meta's Twitter competitor, is getting some new features “this week,” according to a post from CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Circle says it has $1B+ in cash and had $779M in revenue in H1 2023, vs. $772M for all of 2022, as USDC in circulation has fallen to ~$26B from ~$45B in January — - CEO expects payments, financial firms to push for stablecoins — USD Coin market cap plunges this year while rival Tether gains
More: PYMNTS.com, CryptoSlate, Watcher Guru, The Block, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
At Black Hat, researchers detail a hacking technique for Deckmate 2, the most widely used casino shuffling machine, that would give an attacker “full control” — Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler to learn the exact deck order—and the hand of every player at a poker table.
Mastodon: @agreenberg@infosec.exchange. Bluesky: @couts.bsky.social. Forums: r/poker, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$32.3B, vs. ~$31.1B est., and net income up 51% YoY to ~$4.7B, as its core domestic e-commerce unit returned to growth — - Core e-commerce returned to growth for first time in a year — Alibaba is trying to revive its business in a volatile economy| Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: |
Y00ts, once a top Solana-based NFT project and that moved to Polygon in December 2022, plans to migrate to Ethereum and to return its $3M grant from Polygon — The popular project, which started out on Solana and migrated to Polygon earlier this year, said it would return 100% of the grant money it received.
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| Tom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph: |
Fireblocks discloses BitForge, a set of zero-day flaws affecting widely used crypto wallets; Coinbase, Binance, and Zengo have patched their BitForge flaws — Fireblocks said the vulnerabilities affecting Coinbase, Binance and Zengo have since been fixed and has reached out to more than 12 others still at risk.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
ESET: since 2014, Belarus-linked hackers, dubbed MoustachedBouncer, have been targeting foreign diplomats in the country by intercepting their ISP connections — Hackers with apparent links to the Belarusian government have been targeting foreign diplomats in the country for nearly 10 years, according to security researchers.
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