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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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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU is investigating if Telegram gave inaccurate user numbers to stay under the DSA's 45M threshold; Telegram reported 41M EU users in February 2024 — Brussels probing possible failure by messaging platform to provide accurate data under new regulations
More: Engadget, Spyglass, Cointelegraph, and Security Affairs
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, the FT, The Atlantic, Vox Media, USA Today, Condé Nast, 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.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic plans to shift Tumblr's backend to WordPress in a bid to make sharing work across the platforms easier, after acquiring Tumblr for $3M in August 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 TechRadar
| 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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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Codeium, which offers enterprise AI coding tools, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.25B post-money valuation, and reports 700K+ users and 1K+ enterprise clients — A startup whose product competes with GitHub Copilot and other AI-powered coding assistants has achieved unicorn status.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is in talks to invest in OpenAI as part of a new fundraising round that would value the ChatGPT maker above $100B — Following partnership with the ChatGPT maker on Apple Intelligence, tech giant would join multibillion-dollar funding round alongside Microsoft and Thrive Capital| Wall Street Journal: |
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: in the 2025 iPhone lineup, only the iPhone 17 Pro Max will have 12GB of DRAM, instead of 8GB, and a cooling system with vapor chambers 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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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Analysis: 16 of the biggest so-called undress and “nudify” websites have used sign-in infrastructure from Google, Apple, Discord, X, Patreon, or Line for months — Single sign-on systems from several Big Tech companies are being incorporated into deepfake generators, WIRED found.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
The US says OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to give the US AI Safety Institute early access to major new AI models to test and 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.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Johnross ‘JR’ Reyes, and Chris Perkins
Forums: r/business and r/NVDA_Stock
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Threads now lets users see and like fediverse replies on other posts besides their own, and will syndicate posts submitted via the Threads API 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 …
More: Mike's Blog, Thurrott, Social Media Today, Engadget, BetaNews, PhoneArena, and The Verge
Threads: @threads, @pcottle, @karissabe, @theromit, @omar.tosca, @rstephens, @theinstantwin, @gossithedog, @ben.werdmuller, @ericflo, and @chris
Forums: r/technews and r/technology
| Ben Weiss / The Verge: |
Documents and sources detail OpenSea's chaotic work environment, ever-shifting priorities, and tax probes across the globe, as the US SEC and FTC make inquiries — The rise and fall of NFTs made and unmade OpenSea — the largest marketplace for the crypto asset.| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Bungie fired top executive Chris Barrett in March 2024 after female employees accused him of inappropriate behavior; Barrett joined Bungie in 1999 — Veteran developer who worked on hit video game franchises Halo and Destiny was directing the next major title, Marathon.
More: GamesIndustry.biz, KitGuru, Forbes, TechRaptor, The Game Post, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Wccftech, Game Developer, PC Games Insider, Gamereactor UK, and Push Square
X: @muitimach, @cuppy, @paultassi, @jivesh1995, @chrisreggiewait, and @jasonschreier
Forums: r/gamernews, r/pcgaming, r/Games, and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Sources: truck sharing platform Fluid Truck, which raised $80M+, has ousted its sibling co-founders, including CEO James Eberhard, after losing tens of millions — The startup is in the hole for millions — Fluid Truck, a startup that was founded to disrupt the commercial vehicle rental industry … | Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Meta says its Llama models were downloaded almost 350M times, are used by AT&T and others, and usage via cloud providers more than doubled from May to July 2024 — Meta's (META.O) Llama artificial intelligence models are being used by companies including Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and AT&T … Sponsor Posts
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