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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 175M+ MAUs, up from 150M in April, ahead of its one-year anniversary on July 5; source: Meta may turn on ads in Threads in 2025 — A year and a half ago, Threads was but a twinkle in Mark Zuckerberg's eye. — Now, the rival to Elon Musk's X has reached …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real-time content, the fediverse, and more — A year ago this week, Meta introduced Threads to the world. — The text-based social network, which launched as a kind …
More: Japan Today, The Information, We Distribute, Engadget, Reuters, One Man & His Blog, and Thurrott
Threads: @mosseri, @vincentorleck, @jamesklusener, @thatadamguy, @drewharwell, @willoremus, @willoremus, @kurtwag8, @crumbler, @moskov, and @drewharwell
Mastodon: @kdriscoll@aoir.social and @kdriscoll@aoir.social
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Twilio says threat actors identified the phone numbers of users of its 2FA app Authy; last week, hackers claimed to have stolen 33M phone numbers from Twilio — Last week, a hacker claimed to have stolen 33 million phone numbers from U.S. messaging giant Twilio.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon plans to discontinue Astro for Business, its robot security guard for SMBs announced in November 2023, on September 25 to focus on its Astro home robot — Astro is leaving its job to spend more time with family. — Amazon informed customers and employees Wednesday morning that it plans …
More: The Verge, PYMNTS.com, The Register, TechCrunch, Engadget, Android Headlines, and TechHive
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI updates its ChatGPT macOS app to encrypt locally stored conversations, after a user discovered that the app was storing chats in plain text — Until Friday, OpenAI's recently launched ChatGPT macOS app had a potentially worrying security issue: it wasn't hard to find your chats stored …
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Stack Diary, and TestingCatalog News
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| Andrea Hsu / NPR: |
A federal court in Texas temporarily blocks the US government's ban on noncompete agreements that was set to take effect September 4 — A federal court in Texas has partially blocked the government's ban on noncompete agreements that was set to take effect September 4.
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| Rocky Swift / Reuters: |
Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, after scrapping over 1,000 regulations governing their use — Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone …
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| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Information management company OpenText plans to cut about 1,200 jobs, or ~1.7% of its workforce, and expects to reduce its annual expenses by CA$150M in 2025 — OpenText Corp (OTEX.TO) said on Wednesday it would cut about 1,200 jobs, around 1.7% of its workforce, as part of its new business optimization plan.
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| Associated Press: |
Microsoft agrees to pay $14.4M to settle with the California Civil Rights Department over allegations it discriminated against workers who took protected leave — Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay $14.4 million to settle allegations that the global software giant retaliated and discriminated … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Noplace, a Gen Z-focused social media app backed by Alexis Ohanian's 776 and others, tops the US iOS App Store; it raised a $15M Series A1 at a $75M valuation — Aiming to bring the “social” back to “social media,” a new app called noplace has surged to the top of the App Store as it launched out of invite-only mode Wednesday.
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| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
UK-listed Keywords Studios, which provides game development, audio, and art services to Epic and others, agrees to private equity firm EQT's ~£2.1B takeover bid — - Investors get £24.50 per share in cash in private equity deal — Keywords works for titles including Fortnite, Call of Duty
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X: @smarkus, @j_k9, and @toadsanime
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at enterprise browser startups like Island and Here, which aim to provide built-in browser security controls and better app integrations needed for work — Commercial web browsers weren't built for business. New enterprise browsers aim to provide the security controls and user experience needed for work.
LinkedIn: Isabelle Bousquette and Mazy Dar
| Emma Farge / Reuters: |
WIPO: between 2014 and 2023, 54K generative AI patents were filed, 25% of which were filed in 2023; China leads with 38K+ patents, followed by the US with 6,276 — China is far ahead of other countries in generative AI inventions like chatbots, filing six times more patents than its closest rival … | Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet winds down agriculture startup Mineral, which became an independent subsidiary in 2023, and licenses some of its tech to berry producer Driscoll's — The company no longer has a place for all of its moonshot startups — Alphabet Inc. is licensing some technology …
More: The Information, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Investor's Business Daily, and Benzinga
| Sabela Ojea / Wall Street Journal: |
Ericsson expects a $1.1B noncash impairment charge in Q2 for its 2022 purchase of cloud communications company Vonage, after a $2.9B impairment charge in 2023 — Swedish telecom-equipment company cites lower-than-expected growth at Vonage cloud subsidiary — Ericsson said it expects …
More: Ericsson, Reuters, and Light Reading
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Sources: Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law firms, now expects to raise ~$100M at a $1.5B valuation after reported talks to raise $600M at $2B+ — One month ago, we broke the news that Harvey, a startup that sells AI-powered legal software, was looking to raise $600 million … Sponsor Posts
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