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Juby Babu / Reuters:
SpaceX says it's complying with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice's order to block Starlink 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 …
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
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers detail a side channel attack, which requires ~$11K worth of equipment and can be used to clone all YubiKeys running firmware prior to version 5.7  —  Sophisticated attack breaks security assurances of the most popular FIDO key.  —  The YubiKey 5, the most widely used hardware token …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Intel should spin off its foundry business, and the US government should subsidize cutting-edge chipmaking in the US via purchase guarantees for US-made chips  —  The best way to both save Intel and have leading edge manufacturing in the U.S. is to split the company, and for the U.S. government …
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
Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming:
Ubisoft stock fell by 10%+ to a ten year low in the past two days, giving it a market cap of €1.99B, following the lukewarm reception to Star Wars Outlaws  —  Ubisoft stock prices have tanked by over 10% in the past two days following a lukewarm reception to Star Wars Outlaws.
David Ingram / NBC News:
Meta's Oversight Board rules that the phrase “from the river to the sea” is not necessarily hate speech when addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict  —  The independent board said the phrase has ‘multiple meanings’ and is important to political speech on Instagram and Facebook.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
In comments to UK's CMA from July 29, Microsoft says Apple's changes to App Review Guidelines aren't enough for it to operate a native iOS Xbox Cloud Gaming app  —  Earlier this year Apple started opening up its App Store to game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and GeForce Now …
Will Shanklin / Engadget:
Microsoft says Intel's Core Ultra 200V and AMD's Ryzen AI 300 chips will add Copilot+ AI features starting in November 2024, expanding beyond Qualcomm chips  —  A software update will bring features like Live Captions, Cocreator in Paint and Windows Studio Effects.
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).
CoinDesk:
Docs: Trump's crypto project, World Liberty Financial, is a DeFi lending service with four members who worked on Dough Finance, a similar app hacked in July  —  Four team members listed in World Liberty Financial's white paper previously worked on Dough Finance, which was drained of $2 million in July.
Reuters:
Nvidia stock fell 9.5% on Tuesday, losing $279B in market value, the biggest single-day drop for a US company, as investors soften their optimism about AI  —  Shares of AI heavyweight Nvidia (NVDA.O) tumbled 9.5% on Tuesday in the deepest ever single-day decline in market value for a U.S. company …
Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal:
A test of ~1,300 top games on Microsoft's new Copilot+ PCs finds only about half ran smoothly; Microsoft says some titles with demanding graphics may not play  —  Qualcomm-Arm processor chips have compatibility problems with ‘Fortnite’ and other titles  —  The latest Windows personal computers …
Washington Post:
People who got access to OpenAI's SearchGPT say it struggled with some shopping and local queries, and sometimes presented untrue or hallucinated information  —  OpenAI's search tool shows promise but lacks Google's specialized functions and can suffer from hallucinations.

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How NewsGuard, which attained “sustainable profitability” six years after its launch, became a prime target of the GOP's battle against disinformation watchdogs

Wall Street Journal:
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Amid poor sales, Sony halts sales and offers refunds for its FPS game Concord, which launched as a $40 PS5 and PC title on August 23 after years of development
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
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
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
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
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