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August 25, 2024, 11:10 AM

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Reuters:
Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderators on the app  —  Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly …
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Threads says it is testing ephemeral posts that disappear within 24 hours with a limited number of users, but doesn't say if the experiment is region-specific  —  Automatically disappearing posts on social networks could be handy for users who have a habit of deleting their posts through third-party tools …
New York Times:
An excerpt from the book Character Limit details the chaotic revamp of Twitter Blue, including Elon Musk's haphazard planning and Esther Crawford's involvement  —  By Nov. 9, 2022, anxiety was high among the Twitter employees gathered at the company's San Francisco headquarters.
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
The problem with Xbox's new vision isn't that it's moving away from console-exclusive games, but that its release strategy is confusing and inconsistent  —  Hi everyone.  Today we're trying to figure out just what the heck Xbox is doing, but first...  - Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz was really into Dreamcast
New York Times:
Some San Francisco city officials say they're not lamenting X's departure from the city, as X bears little resemblance to the company that SF welcomed in 2012  —  The company, founded in the city as Twitter, is moving its headquarters to Texas as a shadow of its former self.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft plans to hold an event on September 10 with CrowdStrike and other cybersecurity vendors to discuss how to prevent incidents like the July 19 outage  —  Microsoft said Friday it will hold a conference in September for cybersecurity firms to discuss ways the industry can evolve following …
Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times:
A look at Germany-based discount retailer Lidl's foray into offering cloud computing services, signing up clients like SAP and generating €1.9B in sales in 2023  —  A unit of Europe's largest retailer is offering IT services to companies wary of big providers such as Amazon and Google
Connor Jones / The Register:
The US DOJ sues Georgia Tech and an affiliate company, alleging failures since at least 2019 to meet the DOD's cybersecurity standards for contract awardees  —  Rap sheet spells out major no-nos after disgruntled staff blow whistle  —  The US is suing one of its leading research universities …
Colin Kellaher / Wall Street Journal:
US SEC filing: oilfield services company Halliburton says it has taken some systems offline after discovering that an unauthorized party had gained access  —  The company has taken some systems offline to help protect them  —  Oilfield-services company Halliburton has joined the growing ranks of firms hit by cyberattacks.
Lex Fridman:
An interview with Nomad List and Photo AI founder Pieter Levels, aka @levelsio on X, on launching 12 startups in 12 months, the digital nomad life, and more  —  Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, programmed, launched over 40 startups, many of which are highly successful.

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