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| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Starlink says it's now complying with an order from a Brazilian Supreme Court justice to block access to X in Brazil, after the country froze some of its assets — Elon Musk's satellite broadband company, Starlink, on Tuesday said that it is complying with Brazil's top court judge Alexandre de Moraes' order …
More: Associated Press, NBC News, Bloomberg, UPI, The Hill, The Verge, Pirate Wires, The Brazilian Report, Techdirt, New York Times, Inc.com, Tech Startups, Journal Sentinel, Fox Business, Ars Technica, PCMag, Cointelegraph, Benzinga, The Independent, CNBC, Business Insider, TechIssuesToday.com, Daily Sabah, Business Today, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, and New York Times
Bluesky: @jglypt.net. X: @starlink, @alexandrefiles, @ngrossman81, @micsolana, @piratewires, @micsolana, @micsolana, @tmfassociates, @parismarx, and @basedtorba
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says that, as of September 2, it had added over 2M new users in the past week, in the wake of Brazil's ban on X — Social networking startup Bluesky continues to benefit from X's shutdown in Brazil having now added over 2 million new users over the past four days, up from just half a million as of Friday.
More: Euronews, Engadget, The Information, Daring Fireball, MediaPost, PhoneArena, Fortune, Android Headlines, CCN.com, Silicon Republic, Financial Times, Neowin, Cointelegraph, and Decrypt
| Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg: |
More: Associated Press, The Register, Engadget, Quartz, Garbage Day, The Guardian, TechRadar, TweakTown, Barron's Online, Reclaim The Net, The Media Leader, MediaPost, Information Age, The Gateway Pundit, Tom's Guide, Fortune, Bitcoin Insider, Pixel Envy, Tennessee Star, WinBuzzer, Silicon Republic, Financial Times, Financial Times, Breitbart, Human Events, Cointelegraph, Semafor, Capital Brief, and Preston Byrne
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @JamesBaker@social …. X: @sadsonya4, @lexfridman, @vkhosla, @vkhosla, @actatumonline, @rakeshsfnyc, @vkhosla, @elonmusk, @deanbaker13, @shellenberger, @davidsacks, @shellenberger, @alexandrefiles, @1br0wn, @michaelreid52, @evacide, @elonmusk, @shellenberger, and @elonmusk. LinkedIn: Eric Smit
Forums: r/LinusTechTips, r/worldnews, and r/neoliberal
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the DOJ sent subpoenas to Nvidia and others, as it seeks evidence that Nvidia violated antitrust laws by making it harder to switch suppliers and more — - Department also sent subpoenas to third parties in case — Nvidia has built a dominant position in AI computing
More: The Register, PYMNTS.com, SmartCompany, Decrypt, The Information, Investor's Business Daily, Capital Brief, Cointelegraph, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, COINOTAG NEWS, Techstrong.ai, Reuters, Quartz, CNBC, Benzinga, Wall Street Pit, Wccftech, CoinGape, Business Insider, Forbes, Bloomberg Law, Semafor, and Yahoo Finance
X: @hamandcheese. Forums: Blind, r/hardware, r/wallstreetbets, r/technology, r/Superstonk, r/StockMarket, r/NVDA_Stock, and Slashdot
| Jean Mackenzie / BBC: |
A deepfake porn crisis has hit 500+ South Korean schools, as police investigate crime rings targeting two major universities and consider a probe into Telegram — Last Saturday, a Telegram message popped up on Heejin's phone from an anonymous sender. “Your pictures and personal information have been leaked.
More: Forbes, Bitcoinist.com, New York Times, WinBuzzer, CCN.com, Cointelegraph, Benzinga, MEDIANAMA, Bloomberg, and Cryptopolitan
X: @womenpostingws, @wanqingwanqing, and @ask_aubry
Forums: r/Feminism and r/worldnews
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel debuts Core Ultra 200V chips, touting AI performance, to ship in laptops from September 24 and rival Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and AMD's Strix Point — Do good things come to laptop buyers who wait? Today, Intel is revealing its first nine answers to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite …
More: Intel, Windows Blog, MacRumors, Tom's Hardware, OC3D, VideoCardz.com, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Intel Newsroom on YouTube, Fierce Electronics, MobileSyrup, Digital Trends, ExtremeTech, HotHardware, ServeTheHome, PCMag, heise online, Windows Central, Hindustan Times, Tom's Guide, KitGuru, PCWorld, Eurogamer.net, PC Gamer, Laptop Mag, Constellation Research, Liliputing, Phoronix, Lowyat.NET, Intel on YouTube, The Register, Forbes, Pocket-lint, TechEBlog, Ars Technica, CNET, Windows Central, Gizmodo, Wccftech, and Notebookcheck
X: @stshank, @patrickmoorhead, @intelnews, @pgelsinger, @benbajarin, @maxwinebach, @greengart, @maxwinebach, @intelnews, @anshelsag, @tomwarren, @maxwinebach, @wyp_pc, @danielnewmanuv, @intelnews, @windowsblog, @benbajarin, @carygolomb, @mishaalrahman, @maxwinebach, @intelnews, @bobodtech, @yusuf_i_mehdi, and @tomwarren. Forums: Slashdot
| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
In a letter, Evan Spiegel tries to rally Snap staff amid a 48% stock price drop this year, says Snap will test new ad formats in the chat inbox and on Snap Map — - Snap's stock is down almost 50% on ad business struggles — Social media app will begin testing new advertising formats
More: Snap Newsroom, The Verge, TechCrunch, and Reuters
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
The White House publishes a roadmap to shore up the weak security of the Border Gateway Protocol, which has long been vulnerable to route hijacking — The White House on Tuesday indicated it hopes to shore up the weak security of internet routing, specifically the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
More: The Record, CyberScoop, The White House, The Cloudflare Blog, The White House, PaymentSecurity.io, Nextgov/FCW, and Reuters
X: @oncd and @ericgeller
| Nikkei Asia: |
SEMI data: China spent a record $25B on chip tools in H1 2024, more than South Korea, Taiwan, and the US combined, and total spending could hit $50B in 2024 — Record $25bn spent in first half in Beijing push to develop local supply chain — TAIPEI — China spent more on chipmaking equipment …
More: Benzinga, Financial Times, WinBuzzer, TechSpot, The Register, TechRadar, DigiTimes, and Tom's Hardware
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Dutch regulator fines Clearview AI €30.5M, following fines from the UK, France, Australia, and Italy, but Clearview says it is not subject to GDPR — Clearview AI has been hit with its largest fine yet under Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by a Dutch regulator.
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X: @asher_wolf, @sophieintveld, @nickleslee, @montezumachavez, and @noybeu
LinkedIn: Aleksandre Megrelishvili, Risto Hübner, and Joost Gerritsen
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI execs have been meeting with investors to advance a deal to spend tens of billions to build infrastructure for AI in the US — - Global plan for AI would start with major push in the US — OpenAI's CEO and deputies have been pitching global investors
X: @dinabass
| Christiaan Hetzner / Fortune: |
Elon Musk says xAI brought its “Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online” over the weekend, which will “double in size to 200k (50k H200s) in a few months” — Say what you will about Elon Musk, but when the technological disruptor sets his mind to something, he plays to win.| Josef Erl / MIXED Reality News: |
Pico 4 Ultra review: with imprecise hand tracking and few good MR apps, ByteDance's $600 headset is far behind the Quest 3 and works well only as a PC VR device — Our review of the Pico 4 Ultra shows that despite more power and mixed reality, the mobile VR headset cannot close the gap to Meta's Quest 3.| Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide: |
China-based MiniMax launches video-01, its text-to-video AI model that generates six-second clips with 1280x720 resolution at 25 fps — I tried it on a series of prompts. MiniMax is the latest artificial intelligence video generator to come out of China.
More: South China Morning Post, The Decoder, MIT Technology Review, TechNode, and AIM
| Denham Sadler / Information Age: |
Sydney-based Canva announces a price increase, including hikes of 300% for some users, citing its new AI and generative AI features, as it prepares for a US IPO — Not so affordable anymore. — Canva has announced a price increase of 300 per cent for some of its users …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, The Daily Upside, Android Authority, PetaPixel, Dexerto, Silicon Republic, Fortune, Fox Business, and SmartCompany
X: @wlsndrs, @aleksizy, @johngee45, @barrettbogue, @pavlos1944, @jamiecrain, @martinleblanc, and @davewalker
Forums: Hacker News, r/Affinity, and r/technology
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Volkswagen rolls out its ChatGPT-integrated Plus Speech voice assistant in the US, starting with the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI; a subscription is required — Volkswagen has announced it's rolling out its improved in-car AI voice assistant, IDA, with both locally processed and cloud-based responses …
More: Volkswagen, Cryptopolitan, TechCrunch, and WDEF-TV
Threads: @alexandregiess. Bluesky: @gohor.se, @kilgoretrout.bsky.social, and @darthbluesky.bsky.social. X: @rmhrisk
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Semiconductor stocks fell on Tuesday, led by Nvidia, which dropped 9.53%; Intel fell 8.8%, Marvell 8.16%, AMD 7.82%, Qualcomm 6.88%, and Broadcom 6.16% — Semiconductor stocks, led by Nvidia, fell Tuesday during an overall down day for the market. The S&P 500 slid by more than 1%.Sponsor Posts
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