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N. Korea-linked Lazarus Group stole ~$240M in crypto in the past 104 days, as it ramps up hacks and shifts focus from decentralized services to centralized ones — The elite North Korean hacking group Lazarus appears to have recently ramped up its operations, conducting a confirmed four attacks against crypto entities since June 3rd.
More: Decrypt, Chainalysis, Cryptonews, Crypto Cat AI, Bitcoinist.com, The Record, DL News, Cointelegraph, and Inside Bitcoins
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Q&A with Apple executives Jeremy Sandmel and Tim Millet on the company's gaming ambitions for the iPhone 15 Pro, MetalFX's upscaling, game controllers, and more — Apple is really leaning into the “Pro” aspect of the iPhone 15 Pro. — Apple finally announced the iPhone 15 earlier this week, and pre-orders are now live.
More: iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, BGR, Redmond Pie, MacRumors, Wccftech, and Tom's Guide
X: @taynixster and @videotechx
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| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
Apple's Mother Nature skit at the Wonderlust event was awkward, but every fact or position put forth is a strategic, money-saving, and innovative effort — Apple's showed a widely criticized video showing their efforts to fight climate change. Looking past the video is a significant and strategic set of initiatives worthy of praise.
More: AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Daily Mail, The Drum, Engadget, Fox News, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, Forbes, and New York Post
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TikTok's US staff complain about a new internal app to track office attendance; TikTok requires most staff to be in the office three times a week from October — The company is requiring many employees to use an app that tracks their in-person attendance. — TikTok employees …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
One year after Ethereum's Merge, developers approve a change to slow down staking, which has emerged as one of a few reliable ways to earn returns in crypto — - With validators piling in, the network risks getting clogged — Ethereum developers approved a software fix to that Thursday| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, whose OpenAI-or-bust strategy rankled some staff who found their AI projects pushed aside and their resources curtailed — Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott spearheaded the tech titan's unlikely partnership with OpenAI — In the tech industry's artificial-intelligence race,
More: Wall Street Journal. Threads: @dseetharaman. X: @livemint, @schrep, @cityofthetown, @hadip, and @wsjtech
| Max Hoppenstedt / Washington Post: |
German prosecutors say Elon Musk's X has complied with hundreds of hate-crime user data requests; Twitter used to push back if requests threatened free speech — The social media company has complied with hundreds of hate-crime user data requests from German authorities since Musk's purchase, prosecutors say
More: The Connector, New York Times, CoinGape, The Guardian, and The Hill
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| Karen Naundorf / Wired: |
A look at Buenos Aires' legal battle to turn back on a facial recognition system that activists criticized for its misuse and the city shut down in March 2020 — A scandal unfolding in Argentina shows the dangers of implementing facial recognition—even with laws and limits in place.| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
A look at SBF's ~250 pages of reflections and self-justifications while under house arrest, which signal how he may defend himself at his October criminal trial — The FTX founder wrote hundreds of pages of reflections and self-justifications while under house arrest, shedding light …
More: Bitcoin News, Decrypt, Crypto Cat AI, Cointelegraph, Fortune, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, New York Post, Insider, crypto.news, CoinGeek, and Bitcoinist.com
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| Bloomberg: |
TikTok Shop is planning steep Black Friday deals from October 27 to November 30 by offering to subsidize discounts by up to 50% to entice sellers' participation — - Viral video app launched its Shop tab earlier this week — Social platform is luring sellers ahead of shopping rush
More: The Verge and Insider Intelligence
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
A look at D Billions, a network of YouTube channels run by Kyrgyzstan-based media company AWA and which got billions of views by teaching kids words via songs — A landlocked country in Central Asia is home to an international hit. — The US has Mr. Beast. The Kyrgyz Republic has D Billions.| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google agrees to pay California $93M to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users for commercial gain even after they turned off Location History — Google will pay California $93 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Instacart plans to price its IPO on Monday, September 18 and begin trading on Tuesday, September 19 — Grocery delivery business Instacart is preparing to price its initial public offering on Monday after boosting its price range following a strong trading debut by Arm Holdings Plc …
More: MarketWatch, Axios, and PYMNTS.com
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
A US judge declines to order Jonathan Kanter's recusal from the DOJ's ad antitrust lawsuit against Google, after the company cited his past work for its critics — U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema on Friday declined to order a Justice Department official to stay out of the government's …
More: Big Tech on Trial, Washington Post, NewsBytes, and Bloomberg
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