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August 12, 2024, 9:55 PM

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
After Apple's threats, Patreon memberships via its iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% fee from November 2024; creators must switch to subscription billing  —  Apple has threatened to remove crowdfunding app Patreon from the App Store if creators continue to use unsupported third-party billing options …
The Verge:
Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:
Elon Musk's Donald Trump X Spaces interview was quickly derailed by technical glitches at the scheduled start time; Musk blamed it on “a massive DDoS attack”  —  Elon Musk's much-hyped interview of former President Donald Trump on the social media platform X was quickly derailed …
Washington Post:
The FBI is investigating an alleged Trump campaign hack; sources: it's probing suspected hacking attempts by Iran targeting the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns  —  Since June, agents have been pursuing evidence Iran has targeted advisers to the two presidential campaigns.
Wall Street Journal:
Iran has emerged as the most aggressive foreign threat to the US election; a Microsoft report showed ways it has tried to hack a presidential campaign and more  —  Hack of Trump campaign has led some to accuse Tehran just weeks after U.S. officials believed Russia posed bigger threat
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous cars with no safety driver on freeways in the Bay Area this week, after getting regulatory approval in March  —  Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous vehicles with no human safety driver on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this week.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
The US SEC sues crypto company NovaTech and its co-founders, saying they fraudulently raised $650M+ from 200K+ investors globally, following the NY AG's lawsuit  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday sued the cryptocurrency company NovaTech and its married co-founders …
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
NYT, Puck, and others are focusing on Reddit; Semrush: Reddit's monthly visitors went from 132M in August 2023 to 346M in April 2024 after Google Search changes  —  Several publishers notched a record number of Reddit referrals in July  —  Last September, in an initiative called the Helpful Content Update …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda on AI chatbots, marrying chatbots, Replika's therapy app Tomo, friendship chatbots, LLMs, open source, and more  —  The head of chatbot maker Replika discusses the role AI will play in the future of human relationships.

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