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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Cofense discovers a phishing campaign that uses QR codes to mainly target a notable US energy company, the first known use of QR codes for phishing at scale — A phishing campaign was observed predominantly targeting a notable energy company in the US, employing QR codes to slip malicious emails into inboxes and bypass security.
More: Cofense, SiliconANGLE, DataBreachToday.com, SecurityWeek, SC Media, TechRadar, Cybernews.com, and The Record
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company's annual gross profit by €35M — An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform
More: The Verge, SoundExchange, Sirius XM Holdings Inc., and RAIN News
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to close its Xbox 360 Store and Xbox 360 Marketplace on July 29, 2024, meaning users will no longer be able to buy games, DLC, avatars, and more — Microsoft is preparing to close down its Xbox 360 Store and Xbox 360 Marketplace on July 29th, 2024.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to hold a “special event” in NYC on September 21, 2023, likely to announce Surface hardware including the Go 4, Laptop Studio 2, and Laptop Go 3 — Microsoft has started sending media invites for a “special event” in New York City next month.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a new Transparency Center to let users report harmful content, make appeals, read transparency reports and product or service policies, and more — Google is launching a new Transparency Center to make it easier for users to learn more about its product policies.
More: The Keyword, Android Police, Android Authority, Social Media Today, Lifewire, Neowin, and BetaNews. LinkedIn: Gianluca Varisco
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Meta starts rolling out HD photo support globally in WhatsApp for Android, iOS, and the web, and says the company plans to add support for HD videos soon — WhatsApp is flipping a switch that will let users send higher-quality “HD” images on the messaging platform.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snap confirms and fixes a My AI glitch that caused the chatbot to post its own one-second Story of a two-toned image and then stop responding to users' messages — Snapchat's My AI feature, an in-app AI chatbot launched earlier this year with its fair share of controversy, briefly appeared to have a mind of its own.
More: Mashable, HotHardware, Dexerto, Silicon Republic, TechRadar, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, CNN, and Social Media Today
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| John Callaham / Neowin: |
Microsoft plans to discontinue Azure Kinect Developer Kit, the depth-sensing camera the company released in 2019, in October 2023, or sooner if supplies run out — Microsoft thought it had the next generation of technology control inputs when it first revealed the Kinect motion-tracking camera sensor for its Xbox 360 console.
More: Microsoft Tech Community, MSPoweruser, and OnMSFT.com
| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
A deep dive into X's Community Notes, including how the algorithm works, whether the feature actually fights polarization, and its use in high-stakes situations — Special thanks to Dennis Pourteaux and Jay Baxter for feedback and review. — The last two years of Twitter X have been tumultuous, to say the least.
More: CoinDesk, Cryptonews, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and CryptoSlate
| Sara Ashley O'Brien / Wall Street Journal: |
Nonprofit Garbo plans to drop its background checking tool used by Match Group's apps on August 31, saying most tech companies “see trust and safety as good PR” — After a news report that sex offenders were using its dating apps, the company funded a nonprofit tool meant to protect users.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Arthur launches Arthur Bench, an open-source tool for comparing the performance of LLMs, like OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and Meta's Llama 2, for specific use cases — New York City-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Arthur has announced the launch of Arthur Bench, an open-source tool … | Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Databricks had a total ~$900M loss in its past two fiscal years, including $380M in the year ending in January 2023, and is moving closer to break-even — Enterprise software firm Databricks is in early discussions with investors for a new cash infusion, likely totaling hundreds … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Solidus: between mid-July and August, developers deployed 500+ scam tokens on Coinbase's Base blockchain, ~300 of which let their creators mint unlimited tokens — - More than 500 scam tokens were deployed on blockchain — Solidus Labs says scammers pocketed about $2 million in profit
More: CCN.com, Cryptopolitan, Watcher Guru, Web3 is Going Just Great, Cointelegraph, and PYMNTS.com
| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
Sei launches its trading-focused blockchain and SEI hits $1.6B in trading volume in the first 24 hours, per CoinMarketCap; many users criticized SEI's airdrop — The buzzy blockchain project's SEI token saw a flurry of trading as it debuted on several crypto exchanges …
More: Finbold, The Block, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, Metaverse Post, and CoinDesk
X: @coinbaseassets, @sei_fnd, @seinetwork, @sei_fnd, @seinetwork, @sei_fnd, and @abrahamchase09. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: Bing had 1% to 3% search market share globally in July, the same as in January 2023, despite adding Bing Chat; Microsoft calls the new Bing a success — The new Bing with AI chatbot is ‘cute, but not a game changer’ — When Microsoft unveiled an AI-powered version of Bing in February …
More: PYMNTS.com, OnMSFT.com, and Search Engine Land
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Filing: NYC-based AI startup Elemental Cognition raised nearly $60M; AI researcher David Ferrucci, who led the team behind IBM Watson, founded Elemental in 2015 — - David Ferrucci, who led the team that created IBM Watson, has raised nearly $60 million for his artificial intelligence startup … | Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Sources: Meta is preparing to release a free open-source code-generating AI model dubbed Code Llama as soon as next week — Meta Platforms is preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate programming code, a challenge to proprietary software from OpenAI … | Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Counterpoint expects 2023 global smartphone shipments to drop 6% YoY to 1.15B units, the lowest level since 2013, due to a slowing Chinese economy and US demand — - Global smartphone shipments are expected to drop 6% from 2022 — Apple is better positioned than others to weather the storm
More: Counterpoint Research, AppleInsider, Apple Must, PhoneArena, Proactiveinvestors UK, Investopedia, DigiTimes, Livemint, The Independent, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Gizmodo, Wccftech, PCMag, CNBC, BGR, 9to5Mac, and iClarified
X: @technology and @tarunpathak
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
A group of crypto investors and developers loses its Coinbase-funded lawsuit arguing that the US Treasury overstepped its authority in sanctioning Tornado Cash — The group of developers and investors sued the Treasury Department last year. — A group of crypto investors and developers lost … | Vlad Turiceanu / Windows Report: |
Leaked images reveal Lenovo's new Legion Go, a Windows 11 gaming handheld that appears to combine features of the Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, and Nintendo Switch — Here's a first look at Lenovo's new gaming handheld, the Legion Go — Lenovo is working on a gaming handheld called Legion Go …
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Llion Jones, who co-authored Google's transformer paper, and David Ha, the former head of Google's AI research arm in Japan, launch Sakana AI in Tokyo — Llion Jones and David Ha take inspiration from nature with start-up Sakana AI — A former Google researcher who co-authored a paper … | Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Shiba Inu's Ethereum Layer 2 network Shibarium goes live, joining 50+ other networks luring users via low fees to an ecosystem for financial services and gaming — The much-awaited Shibarium network saw over 21 million wallets created during its testnet and is expected to position Shiba Inu as a serious DeFi contender.| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
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