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| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
Apple releases macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS updates to address two zero-day flaws that Citizen Lab says were used to deliver NSO Group's Pegasus spyware — Apple released software updates on Thursday to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that researchers said were used …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's “Wonderlust” event on September 12, including four iPhone 15 models with USB-C and Apple Watch Series 9 with new sensors and chips — Company will spotlight titanium iPhone 15 Pro and cameras, switch to USB-C chargers and faster smartwatches.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
The US and the UK sanction 11 more alleged Trickbot ransomware gang members, and the US DOJ unseals indictments against nine alleged Trickbot and Conti members — Authorities have sanctioned 11 alleged members of the cybercriminal groups, while the US Justice Department unsealed three federal indictments …
More: U.S. Department …, US Department of Justice, GOV.UK, Metacurity, CNN, The Moscow Times, BleepingComputer, Office of Foreign …, The Record, Tech Monitor, TechCrunch, The Register, Cybernews.com, Reuters, The Record, Axios, Sky News, CyberScoop, Flashpoint, Fox News, NBC News, and PaymentSecurity.io
| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
Former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame pleads guilty to US campaign finance and money transmitting charges and will forfeit $1.5B+ as part of the deal — Salame admitted to being a “straw donor” to secretly funnel millions of dollars to Republican political candidates while Bankman-Fried donated to Democrats.
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and Slashdot
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The FBI says North Korea-linked Lazarus Group was responsible for the theft of $41M in crypto from online casino and betting site Stake around September 4, 2023 — - The FBI said North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group was responsible for a $41 million theft this week from crypto-based sports betting platform Stake.com.
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Huawei debuts the Mate 60 Pro+ and the Mate X5 foldable, both likely powered by Huawei's mysterious HiSilicon Kirin 9000S; sources: both phones are 5G devices — The Mate 60 Pro+ and Mate X5 are likely based on Huawei's locally-made chip. — Following Huawei's surprise launch … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X updates its TOS to ban scraping or crawling without “prior written consent”, effective September 29, likely to stop AI models from training on its data — Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has updated its terms of service to prohibit scraping and crawling — likely to fend off any AI models training on its data.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Turkey-based grocery delivery startup Getir is raising $500M from Mubadala, Michael Moritz, and others at a $2.5B valuation, vs. $11.8B in March 2022 — Istanbul-based grocery app company, which had been valued at nearly $12bn in early 2022, raises $500mn| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
TikTok's Shop marketplace goes live for some US users, presenting a feed of “recommended” random products, including cheap Chinese goods that appear counterfeit — The social app's Shop marketplace, key to its growth strategy, is so far hard to navigate.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paying subscribers that offers up to 20 hours of content per month, as part of an audiobook push — Audio streamer to test program with listeners to learn about customer demand for audiobooks — Spotify plans to test …
More: 9to5Mac and Music Ally
| Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: |
Q&A with Threads engineers Jesse Chen and Zahan Malkani on building the app with Instagram's tech stack, handling Threads' unexpectedly intense launch, and more — The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch?
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X: @pragmatic_eng, @surajr_, @hughdurkin, @bartekci, @ablenessy, and @gergelyorosz
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SAP acquires Germany-based startup LeanIX, which offers tools to help companies map their IT architecture, sources say for around $1.2B — As companies look to stave off technical debt, a process of aging systems limiting a company's ability to modernize, the first step is simply understanding the state of your architecture.
More: SAP News Center, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, and VentureBeat
| Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet — Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at Microsoft's device-agnostic game streaming model; sources say Microsoft prototyped a cloud-focused Xbox handheld, but work on cloud gaming has slowed — With Steam Deck competitors on the rise, Microsoft has been focused on phones for Xbox Cloud Gaming so far.
More: Dexerto. Mastodon: @AAKL@noc.social. X: @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @joshthegamedev, @mattbdev, @zanejwickman, @thoughtlesstale, @mrorange303, @the_crapgamer, @knoebelbroet, and @kjseo
Forums: r/XboxSeriesX and r/Games
| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Similarweb: ChatGPT's worldwide desktop and mobile website visits fell 3.2% MoM to 1.43B in August, following ~10% drops from each of the previous two months — OpenAI's ChatGPT, the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot launched in November, saw monthly website visits decline …
More: Insider, Business Today, Tech Startups, Cointelegraph, The Decoder, Coinspeaker, Livemint, and Tech in Asia
X: @carlquintanilla and @kenli729
| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
Ant Group debuts ZAN, a blockchain service aimed at institutional clients and individual Web3 developers in overseas markets, including Hong Kong and Singapore — - Ant Group said ZAN will focus on serving institutional and individual clients in overseas markets including Hong Kong and Singapore.
More: Metaverse Post and Analytics Insight
| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits — Thodex was one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing.
More: Euronews, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Fortune, BBC, crypto.news, Coinspeaker, CryptoPotato, The Block, CoinJournal, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, and CryptoSlate. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Reuters: |
Source: encouraged by the Indian government, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance has held talks with foreign chipmakers to become potential partners in chip manufacturing — Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries (RELI.NS) has begun exploring a foray into semiconductor manufacturing …
More: Entrackr and Business Today
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google releases its relevance and measurement APIs for Privacy Sandbox in general availability, making them available in Chrome without browser flags or trials — Google's Chrome browser is now one important step closer to its goal of phasing out third-party cookies by the end of 2024.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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X: @tomwarren and @markhachman
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