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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 …
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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.
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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
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
CrowdStrike's president appeared at DEF CON to accept the “Most Epic Fail” Pwnie Award, saying “we got this horribly wrong” and “it's super important to own it” — CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas appears at DEF CON's annual Pwnie Awards to accept …
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TikTok adds group chats, with support for up to 32 people, available to all users over 15 years old, and adds safety measures specifically to protect teens — TikTok looks to be taking on popular messaging services like Meta's WhatsApp and Apple's Messages, as the company announced on Monday … | 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 …
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| 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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Researchers: in the 30 US states which legalized access to online betting, citizens' likelihood of filing for bankruptcy went up 25-30% after about three years — New evidence makes it clear that more lawmakers need to take the issue seriously — Today's post is by our regular Saturday correspondent …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
A researcher finds 15K+ hardcoded secrets and 66K vulnerable websites, including details on accessing Stanford's Slack, by searching overlooked data sources — Security researcher Bill Demirkapi found more than 15,000 hardcoded secrets and 66,000 vulnerable websites—all by searching overlooked data sources.
Forums: r/technews, r/cybersecurity, r/Nebraska, and r/technology
| 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 … | Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Thomas White, who served five years for administering Silk Road 2.0 and possessing images of CSAM, claims to have co-founded activism organization DDoSecrets — A co-founder of transparency activism organization Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) was a dark web drug kingpin who ran …
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| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users, including a weeks-old disaster warning; TikTok removed some of the notifications — False claims about Taylor Swift among outdated and misleading information in news-style notifications from video-sharing app
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