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Bloomberg:

Qualcomm says Apple extended its modem deal for three more years, covering “smartphone launches in 2024, 2025, and 2026”; the prior deal was set to end in 2023 — - Pact between the companies had been scheduled to end this year — The iPhone maker has been trying to create its own components

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X: @benbajarin, @bzamayo, @greengart, @thetranscript_, @ericjhonsa, @markgurman, @saschasegan, @fosspatents, @tech_reve, and @saschasegan. LinkedIn: Phil Solis

Forums: r/apple, r/technews, and MacRumors Forums

Blake Brittain / Reuters:

The US Copyright Office denies protection for an AI-made image that won an art competition, despite Adobe Photoshop alterations and 624+ text prompt revisions — The U.S. Copyright Office has again rejected copyright protection for art created using artificial intelligence …

More: Ars Technica. Bluesky: @glinden.bsky.social. Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot

Reuters:

Filing: Instacart aims to raise up to $616M in its IPO at an up to $9.3B valuation and prices shares at $26 to $28; the listing is expected later in September — Instacart is aiming for a valuation of up to $7.73 billion, the grocery delivery company said on Monday, in its march toward …

WABetaInfo:

WhatsApp releases an Android beta that adds a “Third-party chats” screen, revealing how Meta plans to comply with the EU's DMA chat interoperability regulations — WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.19.8.

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Fortune, Thurrott, Android Authority, iPhone in Canada Blog, KnowTechie, Neowin, WinBuzzer, Pocket-lint, Engadget, T3, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, The Verge, BigTechWire, SamMobile, Digit, Gizmochina, Android Police, and Gizchina

X: @wabetainfo and @3dimmune. Forums: r/Android

Reuters:

Sources: seeking to shore up its finances, Embracer is considering its options for US-based Borderlands developer Gearbox, acquired for $1.4B in February 2021 — Embracer (EMBRACb.ST) is considering options for its U.S. game developer Gearbox Entertainment including a sale …

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X: @poweredbyidtech, @stephentotilo, @maxkriegervg, @madz_pl, and @lawoftd

Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Games, and r/XboxSeriesX

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk:

Filing: FTX's estate has now marshalled ~$7B in assets, including $2.6B in cash, $1.16B in solana, $560M in bitcoin, and ~$200M in 38 properties in the Bahamas — The company says it paid billions to executives including founder Sam Bankman-Fried before filing for bankruptcy last year. — Register Now

More: The Block, Metaverse Post, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, CryptoSlate, Watcher Guru, and Coinpedia Fintech News. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency

Zack Abrams / The Block:

FTX sues cross-chain swap protocol builder LayerZero Labs, seeking to undo a $45M deal made four days before FTX filed for bankruptcy and $40M+ in withdrawals

More: Bloomberg, Cryptonews, The Block, Fortune, Unchained Crypto, CCN.com, Crypto Daily, Forkast, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin News, CoinJournal, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph

X: @primordialaa, @arthur_0x, and @freddieraynolds

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:

Guardio Labs details a campaign using fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send 100K+ Messenger phishing messages per week, targeting business accounts — Hackers use a massive network of fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send out millions of Messenger phishing messages …

More: Guardio, The Hacker News, and Tom's Guide

Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social. X: @guardiosecurity

Hunter Walk:

Why there has never been a better time to be an online creator: it might be harder than ever to earn $1M per year, but it has never been easier to make $50K — I judge the health of the creator economy by one single controversial factor: ease of access and probability of survival for its participants.

Threads: @mathewi and @carmona. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to

X: @nikita_arora17, @mrdylancollins, @runciedan, @hunterwalk, and @obrien

Zac Bowden / Windows Central:

Microsoft drops software support for the first-generation Surface Duo, three years after its launch; the Android smartphone received only two major OS updates — On its third birthday, the original Surface Duo is no longer supported by Microsoft. — What you need to know

More: PCMag, Thurrott, iPhone in Canada Blog, MobileSyrup, Gizchina, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, OnMSFT.com, SamMobile, and XDA Developers

X: @markhachman. Forums: r/Android, r/gadgets, and Slashdot

Wall Street Journal:

A competition between Wharton MBA students and ChatGPT that judges generating ideas for a new product or service finds that 35 of the top 40 came from ChatGPT — We put humans and AI to the test. The results weren't even close. — How good is AI in generating new ideas?

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, PYMNTS.com, and Beyond Search

X: @sfmcguire79, @gventuri5, @robkhenderson, and @hsu_steve

Melanie Mitchell / AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans:

A look at whether LLMs reason, the downsides of “chain of thought”, how models might solve problems without reasoning, and evaluating LLMs for general reasoning — What should we believe about the reasoning abilities of today's large language models?

Mastodon: @baldur@toot.cafe. X: @mattbeane, @rtk254, @rodneyabrooks, and @piesaac

Gillian Tett / Financial Times:

An interview with Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk, the new biography, why Musk agreed, the Twitter acquisition, Musk being “driven by demons”, surprises, and more — The writer tells Gillian Tett what he learnt during two years spent with ‘total access’ to the tech tycoon

More: Washington Post, The Atlantic, Insider, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Futurism, Observer, Wall Street Journal, and Fortune

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Ismail Shakil / Reuters:

Canada's Competition Bureau sues Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, seeking Google to sell two of its ad tech tools and more

Michael Gennaro / Courthouse News Service:

The First Amendment Coalition sued the CA AG and SF City Attorney for allegedly punishing journalists who publish info related to sealed arrest records

Asif Shahzad / Reuters:

Pakistani TV host Matiullah Jan was picked up off the street and charged with terrorism after investigating claims of casualties in a protest march in Islamabad

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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:

Tests show Threads' new search function blocks terms like “sex”, “gore”, and “vaccines”; Meta admits “covid” is a blocked term but declines to disclose others

X: @loscharlos

Dylan Martin / CRN:

Nvidia claims its upcoming open-source library TensorRT-LLM will double the H100's performance for running inference on leading LLMs when it debuts next month

More: NVIDIA, Tom's Hardware, The Information, Forbes, TechPowerUp, Wccftech, The Next Platform, StorageReview.com, and DatacenterDynamics

Lydia Saad / Gallup:

Survey: 22% of US workers worry that tech will replace their job, up from 15% in 2021, 17% in 2019, and 13% in 2017, a jump driven by college-educated workers

More: Bloomberg, Insider, Fast Company, and The Hill

Adrienne So / Wired:

Garmin Epix Pro (Gen 2) review: big, beautiful screen, tough, durable, and incredible satellite support, but no solar charging, pricey, and kind of embarrassing

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

UK-based Open Cosmos, which builds “sustainable” low-earth orbit satellites and a platform to manage their data, raised $50M, taking its total funding to ~$57M

More: FinSMEs, Featured News, TNW, Silicon Canals, ETF Partners, Tech.eu, EU-Startups, and UKTN. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle:

Nintendo and DeNA tell Mario Kart Tour users that the mobile game won't be updated after October 4, 2023, hinting at Nintendo's lessening focus on mobile titles

More: Engadget, The Verge, Nintendo Everything, Eurogamer.net, Dexerto, iPhone in Canada Blog, Dot Esports, GamesIndustry.biz, Phandroid, Kotaku, GameSpot, Mobilegamer.biz, TechRadar, Game Developer, GoNintendo, GamingBolt, and IGN

Associated Press:

A Myanmar official says his ethnic minority militia arrested and repatriated 1,200+ Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations

More: Cybernews.com

Clive Cookson / Financial Times:

UK researchers unveil Bluebird, a “digital twin” of English airspace for examining AI's potential role in air traffic control, part of a £15M government project

X: @mattgarrahan and @katebevan. LinkedIn: Dr. Anhad Sandhu

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Q&A with Brian Ward, the CEO of Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group, on the $4.9B acquisition of Scopely, esports, human rights issues in Saudi Arabia, and more

Financial Times:

How cybercriminals in Turkey teamed up with Russian émigré hackers to steal and sell tens of millions of credit card numbers, passwords, “hot” cookies, and more

Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Bengaluru-based fintech Perfios, which offers real-time credit underwriting tools to financial companies, raised a $229M Series D led by Kedaara Capital

More: FinTech Global, Moneycontrol, Metaverse Post, Entrackr, VCCircle, and Tech in Asia. X: @refsrc

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Coinbase says the company disabled sign-ups in India in June but remains committed to the country, after emailing users about ceasing operations on September 25

Max Tani / Semafor:

NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users: X is throttling posts with New York Times links, with “weekly average shares per article” down 75%+ from a July peak

More: Gizmodo and The Verge

Threads: @carnage4life, @drewharwell, and @goldengateblond. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social

X: @tomcoates and @minimaxir

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