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Politico:
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
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.
New York Times:
Experts say Pavel Durov's arrest is likely an outlier, as the legal bar is high in the US and Europe to prosecute tech executives for content on their platforms
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 …
Julia Love / Bloomberg:
Google plans to roll out image generation of people to Gemini paid users soon, after suspending the feature in February amid criticism about racial depictions
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”
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the app's 10th anniversary, its EU focus, being a nonprofit, Pavel Durov's arrest, X, the 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.
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 25%+  —  - Delay follows Hindenburg short alleging ‘accounting red flags’  — Shares of the server maker tumbled after trading opened
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Environmental and health advocates accuse xAI of adding to pollution in Memphis, Tennessee, by using unauthorized gas burning turbines at its new data center  —  Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is being accused by environmental and health advocates of adding to the pollution problem …
Shopify:
Shopify hires Mikhail Parakhin as its CTO; Parakhin joined Microsoft in September 2019 and had been CEO of Advertising and Web Services since September 2022  —  Great products come from great craftsmanship, and we're focused on building Shopify with the industry's best crafters and leaders at the helm.

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From Mediagazer

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
After CBS aired two 60 Minutes segments, Trump calls on CBS to lose its license and asks FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to “impose the maximum fines and punishment”

Andrew Marchand / New York Times:
Sources: College GameDay host Rece Davis agreed to a new seven-year deal worth tens of millions to stay with ESPN, after being heavily pursued by Fox Sports

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Less than a week before A Minecraft Movie had a $160M+ opening weekend in the US and Canada, experts projected ~$65M, following four high profile misses in 2024

More News

Christine Fernando / Associated Press:
X updates Grok to send users to Vote.gov for election queries, after a letter from five US secretaries of state warned it was spreading election misinformation
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
Kenya-based Wasoko and Egypt-based MaxAB, two of Africa's largest B2B e-commerce platforms, merge in an all-stock deal; the companies raised over $240M combined

Earlier Picks

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
MakerDAO rebrands as Sky and debuts a new USDS stablecoin, but users criticize USDS after noticing that the token lets the issuer remotely freeze the asset
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave the GOP just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta into more trouble amid its FTC antitrust lawsuit
Joanna Nelius / The Verge:
Google rolls out a Google Meet AI feature that automatically takes notes during meetings conducted in spoken English, available to select Workspace customers
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Cerebras launches the “world's fastest” AI inference service with “GPU-impossible performance”, with costs starting at $0.10 per million tokens, to rival Nvidia
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Instagram now lets users add text to photos right from its post editor, rather than needing a separate app, and add more photos as stickers on top of a photo
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Sources: China-linked hackers penetrated deep into two big US ISPs and several smaller ones in recent months, using a zero-day flaw in Versa Networks software
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