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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
In an interview, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says she has “autonomy” under Elon Musk, X plans to add video calls, is “close” to break-even as brands return, and more — - X CEO Linda Yaccarino explained to CNBC on Thursday why the company decided to get rid of its Twitter branding.
More: TechCrunch, The Guardian, Insider, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Information, and New York Post
Bluesky: @seesmith.bsky.social. X: @raywert, @atrupar, @atrupar, @melspence2, @erinkwoo, @yourneighbor57, @sirbaby6, @mrmv84, @xdaily, @daveleebbg, @daveleebbg, @patrickcoffee, @stevekopack, @katebevan, @danprimack, and @junlper
LinkedIn: Maurith Or Man and David Blaser
| 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 the Ads Manager — The new tools give marketers more say over ad placement. — X, formerly known as Twitter, has launched two new features …
More: X for Business, TweakTown, Engadget, TechCrunch, Social Media Today, The Register, MobileSyrup, Forbes, and Mashable
| 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.
More: The Keyword, The Decoder, OnMSFT.com, The i Paper, and American Airlines
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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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| 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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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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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 …
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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: |
| 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.| 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.| 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.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Check Point acquires rival cybersecurity startup Perimeter 81 in a ~$490M “cash free, debt free” deal; Perimeter 81 raised $100M at a $1B valuation in June 2022 — There is yet more M&A coming out of the security industry. In the latest development, Check Point …
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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, using silicon carbide in the lenses, which require 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
| 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| 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.
More: WeLiveSecurity, BleepingComputer, Dark Reading, and CyberScoop
| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Lyft begins serving in-app ads to riders when they match with a driver, as they wait for rides, and during their trips, and plans to add video ads later in 2023 — The ride-sharing company and its larger rival, Uber, are racing to build significant ad operations| 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.| 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: MSPoweruser and AI News
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Filing: the US SEC plans to appeal a July 2023 court ruling that Ripple's programmatic XRP sales to retail investors on exchanges didn't violate securities law — A federal judge ruled that while Ripple's direct sales of XRP to institutional investors violated securities law …
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| Financial Times: |
The EU didn't immediately follow Biden's executive order banning Chinese tech investment outright and instead plans to make its own proposals by the end of 2023 — Brussels unwilling to follow suit straight away and says it will issue its own proposals by year-end
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