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Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 122% YoY to $30B, above $28.7B est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est., and approves an additional $50B in share buybacks — Nvidia reported earnings after the bell that beat Wall Street expectations for earnings and guidance, and provided stronger-than-expected guidance for the current quarter.
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| Gaspard Sebag / Bloomberg: |
France charges Pavel Durov for complicity in the spread of CSAM and other crimes on Telegram; Durov posted a €5M bail and prosecutors banned him from traveling — - Pavel Durov isn't responsible for crimes on app, lawyer says — Durov out of detention on €5 million bail; can't leave France
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic plans to shift Tumblr's backend over to WordPress, in a bid to make sharing work across the platforms easier, after buying Tumblr for $3M in 2019 — Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale …
More: The Verge, Automattic, and TechSpot
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Threads now lets users see and like fediverse replies on other posts besides their own, and posts submitted via Threads API will be syndicated to the fediverse — Threads is deepening its ties to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which powers services like X alternative Mastodon …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise funding at a $100B+ valuation; Thrive Capital is leading the round and will invest ~$1B, and Microsoft will also invest — Thrive Capital and Microsoft are among investors putting several billion dollars into ChatGPT maker
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group — Google says it has evidence that Russian government hackers are using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” …
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| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Yelp sues Google, alleging Google used its dominance in general search to gain an unfair advantage in local search services and local search advertising markets — Yelp complained for more than a decade that Google tilted the search market in its favor. After its rival's landmark legal loss, it finally decided to sue.
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| Alex Isenstadt / Politico: |
In his upcoming book, Trump says Mark Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and he'd “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he did it again — The Meta CEO earlier this week asserted that Biden administration tried to “pressure” the company to downplay content about Covid.
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, the FT, The Atlantic, Vox Media, the USA Today network, and more block Apple's Applebot-Extended AI crawler — This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data.| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
California's State Assembly passes the AI safety bill SB 1047, which now goes back to the Senate for a process vote before requiring Governor Newsom's signature — California lawmakers passed a hotly contested artificial-intelligence safety bill on Wednesday, after which it will need … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: in the 2025 iPhone lineup, only the iPhone 17 Pro Max will have 12GB DRAM and an upgraded cooling system combining vapor chamber tech and graphite sheets — Just a day after a noted leaker on Chinese microblogging site Weibo suggested the iPhone 17 lineup in 2025 could see an upgrade …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Bungie fired Chris Barrett, a former top executive, in March 2024 after he was accused by several female employees of inappropriate behavior — Veteran developer who worked on hit video game franchises Halo and Destiny was directing the next major title, Marathon.
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Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Games, and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $963.9M, vs. $958.6M est., and cuts its FY 2025 revenue and profit forecasts, after July's Windows outage — CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) cut its annual revenue forecast on Wednesday, in a sign that demand for its cybersecurity products could have taken … | Tianyu Fang / Rest of World: |
As Chinese EV manufacturers consolidate and close, EV owners say they're losing access to smartphone app updates and features that rely on cloud services — As Chinese EV makers close, drivers of “smartphones on wheels” say software updates and maintenance are in jeopardy.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
The US says OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to let the US AI Safety Institute have early access to major new AI models to evaluate their capabilities and risks — The US government announced agreements with leading artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Anthropic to help test and evaluate their upcoming technologies for safety.
More: Reuters, NIST, Tech Startups, and Axios
| Ben Weiss / The Verge: |
Documents and sources detail OpenSea's chaotic work environment, ever-shifting priorities, and regulatory issues, as the SEC and FTC make inquiries — The rise and fall of NFTs made and unmade OpenSea — the largest marketplace for the crypto asset. But insider accounts of the company reveal …
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| Katherine Ross / Blockworks: |
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Analysis: 16 of the biggest so-called undress and “nudify” websites use sign-in infrastructure from Google, Apple, Discord, X, Patreon, and Line — Single sign-on systems from several Big Tech companies are being incorporated into deepfake generators, WIRED found.Sponsor Posts
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