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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, r/apple, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.| 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 … | 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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| 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.| 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 raises $500M from Mubadala, Michael Moritz, and others at a $2.5B valuation, down from $11.8B in early 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 several counterfeit Chinese goods — The social app's Shop marketplace, key to its growth strategy, is so far hard to navigate.| 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.
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| 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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| 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.
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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.
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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
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Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paid subscribers, including up to 20 hours of content a month, as part of a push into audiobooks — Audio streamer to test program with listeners to learn about customer demand for audiobooks — Spotify plans to test … | 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.
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Inside Apple's impossible war on child exploitation, as the company scrapped its on-device CSAM scanning system and key team members behind the initiative left — Apple spent years trying to design a system that would stop the spread of child sexual abuse material on iPhones and iCloud.| 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, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Fortune, BBC, crypto.news, Coinspeaker, The Block, CryptoPotato, CoinJournal, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, and Coinpedia Fintech News. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Square says it has resolved a day-long outage that has left some small business owners unable to access accounts or process credit card payments — Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments.| 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
| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Microsoft says Chinese state-affiliated hackers are using AI to generate content designed to “go viral across social networks in the US and other democracies” — Chinese state-affiliated hacking groups are become more adept at using artificial intelligence to generate content designed to …
More: Microsoft On the Issues, Forbes, WinBuzzer, Insider, Cryptopolitan, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, DeviceSecurity.io, Voice of America, The Hill, and CNBC. LinkedIn: Amy Hogan-Burney
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