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The EU's DSA goes into effect, forcing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to let users opt out of profiling-based content recommendations — Internet users in the European Union are logging on to a quiet revolution on mainstream social networks today: The ability to say ‘no thanks’ to being attention hacked by AI.| Wall Street Journal: |
The US Treasury proposes new rules that would treat crypto exchanges more like stockbrokers, requiring them to report gross proceeds to the IRS starting in 2026 — Long-delayed regulations would treat crypto platforms more like brokers who handle stocks and mutual funds| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Instacart files for a US IPO, reports 2022 revenue up 39% YoY to $2.55B, $428M net income, up from a $73M loss in 2021, and H1 2023 revenue up 31% YoY to $1.48B — Grocery delivery giant Instacart on Friday filed for its initial public offering, with expectations that its shares will begin trading on the Nasdaq next month.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD announces new Radeon RX 7000 series video cards, the $449 RX 7700 XT and the $499 7800 XT, based on its new Navi 32 GPU and aimed at the 1440p gaming market — With the Gamescom convention taking place in Germany this week, AMD is using Europe's largest video game trade show as the venue …
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| Washington Post: |
How Meta and YouTube, battered by content moderation wars, are following X in retreating from policing political misinformation, raising US 2024 election fears — Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Emsisoft: the MOVEit Transfer breach has so far impacted 1,000+ known victim organizations, of which 83.9% are based in the US, and 60M+ individuals — At least 60 million individuals affected, though the true number is far higher — A mass-hack involving the MOVEit Transfer software …
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| Ariel Bogle / The Guardian: |
The New York Times, CNN, Reuters, and other outlets block OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler from accessing their content; some have also blocked Common Crawl's CCBot — Chicago Tribune and Australian newspapers the Canberra Times and Newcastle Herald also appear to have disallowed web crawler from maker of Chat GPT
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Alibaba launches two AI models: Qwen-VL, which can answer questions about images and generate captions, and Qwen-VL-Chat, which can have “complex interactions” — - Alibaba launched on Friday two new artificial intelligence models — Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat …
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Citizen suspends sales of its $350+ CZ Smart smartwatch, launched on May 1; review units had serious issues, like screen freezing and inaccurate tracking data — The second-generation CZ Smart launched a few months ago. Both the company and reviewers have found serious technical issues.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: a company spending $800M+ to buy thousands of acres to build a new Bay Area city is backed by Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, and others — A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land.
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| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Microsoft says Flax Typhoon, a hacking group active since mid-2021 with suspected Beijing ties, is targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan, and elsewhere — A group dubbed Flax Typhoon has targeted “dozens” of Taiwanese organizations, according to new research from Microsoft.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
E-commerce marketing company Klaviyo files for a US IPO and reports H1 2023 revenue of ~$321M, vs. ~$208M YoY, and $15.2M net income, vs. a $24.6M net loss YoY — - Marketing automation company Klaviyo became the latest tech company to try to join the public markets, after Instacart and Arm submitted IPO filings.| M. Sriram / Reuters: |
Sources: food delivery startup Swiggy, which was valued at $10.7B in 2022, is planning an IPO in 2024, after pausing the process for months due to weak markets — Swiggy, the Softbank-backed food delivery company, is eyeing a 2024 stock market listing and has initiated talks with bankers … Sponsor Posts
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