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French administrative document: alongside Pavel Durov, French authorities issued an arrest warrant for his Telegram co-founder and brother Nikolai in March 2024 — PARIS — French authorities issued arrest warrants for Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and his co-founder brother Nikolai in March …
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Sources: Emmanuel Macron invited Pavel Durov to move Telegram to Paris in 2018; in 2017, a joint operation between French and UAE spies hacked Durov's iPhone — Pavel Durov had lunch with the French president six years ago. His phone was hacked the previous year by French and U.A.E. spies.| Financial Times: |
How Telegram CEO Pavel Durov miscalculated on moderation, saying earlier in 2024 that he did not expect “significant challenges” despite new laws targeting tech — Social media billionaire's decade-long effort to avoid government scrutiny has backfired with French arrest| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
US-based child safety group NCMEC, Canada-based CCCP, and UK-based IWF say their outreach to Telegram to flag CSAM on the platform has largely been ignored — Telegram's CEO was arrested in relation to an investigation into an unnamed person involving claims of “complicity” in distributing child sexual abuse material.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple lays off ~100 people in its services group, impacting Apple Books, News, and other teams, a rare move as part of a shift in the unit's priorities — Apple Inc. took the rare step of cutting about 100 jobs in its services group, part of a shift in priorities for the critical division …
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| Katherine Ross / Blockworks: |
OpenSea says the US SEC sent it a Wells notice calling NFTs sold on the platform securities; CEO Devin Finzer says the company is “ready to stand up and fight” — OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer said in a post on X that the company is “ready to stand up and fight”
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Super Micro delays filing its annual financial disclosures, a day after short-seller Hindenburg Research alleged “glaring accounting red flags”; SMCI drops 20%+ — - Delay follows Hindenburg short alleging ‘accounting red flags’ — Shares of the server maker tumbled after trading opened| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the app's 10th anniversary, growing in the EU, Pavel Durov's arrest, nonprofit status, X, US election, and more — On its 10th anniversary, Signal's president wants to remind you that the world's most secure communications platform is a nonprofit.
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| Shopify: |
Shopify hires Mikhail Parakhin as its CTO; Parakhin had been Microsoft's CEO for advertising and web services until late March 2024 — Great products come from great craftsmanship, and we're focused on building Shopify with the industry's best crafters and leaders at the helm.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Plaud unveils the $169 NotePin, an AI wearable to transcribe, summarize, and get action items from everyday interactions; some AI features cost $79 per year — After creating an impressive (not to mention somewhat TikTok famous) AI-powered voice recorder, Plaud is launching a more ambitious gadget …
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| The Guardian: |
Venezuelan journalists are using AI avatars to host daily newscasts without putting themselves at risk, as President Nicolás Maduro cracks down on the media — Journalists are using artificial intelligence avatars to combat Maduro's media crackdown since disputed election
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| Eyk Henning / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Zurich-based Swiss-Mile, which makes the autonomous Robotic Mule and Robotic Watchdog robots, is close to raising a $20M seed at a $100M+ valuation — - Swiss-Mile is set to raise about $20 million from investors — Zurich-based firm develops Robotic Mule and Robotic Watchdog| Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit — - Mark Zuckerberg runs Meta, one of the world's most valuable tech companies. — Why did he just send Congress a letter admitting that Meta has screwed up?
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| Christine Fernando / Associated Press: |
X updates Grok to direct users to Vote.gov for election queries, after a letter from five US secretaries of state warned of spreading election misinformation — The social media platform X has made a change to its AI chatbot after five secretaries of state warned it was spreading election misinformation.
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