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A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT — Sam Bankman-Fried's bail was revoked ahead of his October fraud trial, a U.S. judge said on Friday, after prosecutors accused …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying its Great 78 Project works as an “illegal record store” for songs — Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued …
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| Iain Thomson / The Register: |
Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow details Veilid, an open-source, P2P application framework, and debuts VeilidChat, a proof-of-concept Signal-like messaging app — 'It's like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing' — DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid … | Jesse Levine / Bloomberg: |
After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months — - Musk hasn't agreed on a date for the fight, Meta CEO says — Meta's Threads launch helped fuel the Musk-Zuckerberg rivalry
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| Liz Lindqwister / The San Francisco Standard: |
Some Cruise riders say they've had sex in the driverless cars in San Francisco over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit users to eat, but not drink alcohol — An Illustration generated by the artificial intelligence program Midjourney depicts two people making out in an autonomous vehicle.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Poland arrests five people as Europol and the DOJ take down the Lolek “bulletproof” host for allegedly facilitating Netwalker ransomware and other attacks — Update 8/11/23: Updated with information from DOJ about alleged Netwalker Ransomware involvement.
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| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
a16z crypto unveils Lasso and Jolt, a pair of new tools based on Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge, or SNARK, to help enable scalable ZK-rollups — - A division of Andreessen Horowitz, a16z crypto, has introduced two technologies, Lasso and Jolt, related to SNARKs.| Oliver Barnes / Financial Times: |
How SCOTUS overturning the sports betting ban in 2018 transformed the sector into a high-growth tech business; many fear a surge in gambling addiction is coming — Americans have bet $245bn on sporting events since restrictions were loosened in 2018. But many fear a surge in gambling addiction is coming
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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon is removing or reducing packaging to speed up deliveries, cut costs, and meet climate goals, amid concerns that visible products could lead to issues — The retail giant is reducing packaging on millions of deliveries — Millions of Amazon orders are arriving on doorsteps across the U.S. without any extra packaging.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Amazon One palm scanning tech, used for payments, age and ID verification, and more at US retailers, stadiums, and other venues, amid privacy concerns — It's also a potentially massive play to make Amazon the central ID system for your whole life—from banking and loyalty programs to tickets … | Fortesa Latifi / Teen Vogue: |
Illinois passes the US' first law protecting child influencers, entitling influencers under age 16 and kids featured by influencers to a percentage of earnings — Illinois has officially passed the nation's first legislation aimed at protecting child influencers, in a move advocates …
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| Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: |
The Hollywood Professional Association, which includes Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Sony, urges the AMPTP, the WGA, and SAG-AFTRA to find a resolution — “Organizations indispensable to the creation of media are cutting staff... and in some cases, even risk closing,” the Hollywood Professional Association writes
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