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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect from Apple's “Wonderlust” event on September 12: four iPhone 15 models with USB-C, the Apple Watch Series 9 with a new chip and sensors, and more  —  Company will spotlight titanium iPhone 15 Pro and cameras, switch to USB-C chargers and faster smartwatches.
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 …
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 …
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?
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 …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Reliance's Jio Platforms and Nvidia partner to build an LLM trained on India's languages and AI cloud infrastructure that outperforms India's top supercomputer  —  Reliance Industries's Jio Platforms has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained …
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
The FBI says North Korea-linked Lazarus Group was responsible for stealing $41M in crypto from casino and sports betting website 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.
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.
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.
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.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google plans to update Chrome in the coming weeks to incorporate the company's Material You design language, including refreshed icons and new color palettes  —  Chrome on the desktop is about to get a new look.  Google's widely used browser is getting an update based on its Material …
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

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New York Times:
Court docs detail a smear campaign against actor Blake Lively via media articles and social media posts after she accused director Justin Baldoni of misconduct

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

More News

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
Tom Warren / The Verge:
A look at Microsoft's device-agnostic game streaming model; sources say Microsoft prototyped a cloud-focused Xbox handheld, but its cloud gaming work has slowed
Forbes:
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
Erin Woo / The Information:
X Head of Brand Safety Elyana Thierry left in June per her LinkedIn page, months after being elevated to the role after the previous head resigned in the summer

Earlier Picks

Linda Hardesty / Fierce Wireless:
The Senate votes 55 to 43 to approve Anna Gomez as the fifth FCC commissioner, breaking the deadlock at the agency and giving the FCC a 3-2 Democratic majority
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”
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Meta expands Threads' keyword search to “most” English- and Spanish-speaking countries, including the US and the UK, after a test in Australia and New Zealand
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Anthropic debuts a paid tier of its Claude chatbot in the US for $20/month and the UK for £18/month, offering priority in busy times, early features, and more
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft commits to defending customers of its AI Copilots from copyright infringement lawsuits, as long as they've “used the guardrails and content filters”
Alistair Charlton / Forbes:
BMW drops a controversial subscription that activates heated seats or other hardware already in its cars, limiting subscriptions to software-based functions
Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk:
An IMF and Financial Stability Board paper warns jurisdictions against blanket crypto bans, recommending targeted restrictions and sound monetary policy instead
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