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The US DOJ seizes 32 internet domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian interference in the 2024 US elections — The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence …
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Mastodon: @protecttruth@mastodon.online and @metacurity@infosec.exchange
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
The Internet Archive loses its appeal of a US district court ruling that favored publishers in a copyright dispute over the nonprofit's ebook lending program — The legal battle was spurred by book publishers objecting to the archive's digital lending library.
More: The Verge, Ars Technica, Internet Archive Blogs, Reuters, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, TechIssuesToday.com, Fight for the Future, The Overspill, The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly, SiliconANGLE, Publishing Perspectives, Rolling Stone, AV Club, IPWatchdog.com, TechCrunch, Associated Press, MediaPost, Engadget, VICE, Mailchimp, Public Knowledge, Library Journal infoDOCKET, and Bloomberg Law
Mastodon: @juergen_hubert … and @internetarchive …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube expands its existing parental controls to let parents link their account to their teens' account and gain insight into the teens' activity — YouTube is expanding its existing set of parental controls with a new feature that would allow a parent to link their account to their teen's account … | Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
YouTube begins restricting repeated video recommendations to teens about fitness levels, body weights, or physical features globally, expanding beyond the US — Platform will ensure algorithms do not keep pushing similar content to young viewers, even though it does not breach guidelines
More: Cybernews.com, Business Standard, The Verge, YouTube Official Blog, and NewsBytes. Forums: r/technology
| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Kantar: 26% of marketers plan to cut back ad spending on X in 2025 and 14% say they will pull budgets this year, due to concerns about content on the platform — Annual survey highlights growing concern about platform content and trust in information disseminated| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Sources: OSOM, the smartphone company founded by former Essential employees, is shutting down later this week, after a lawsuit alleged its CEO misused funds — OSOM is effectively closing up shop later this week and laying off most of its employees. — • — TL;DR| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia says it has inquired with the US DOJ and hasn't been subpoenaed, following a report that it had received a subpoena from the DOJ over antitrust concerns — - Bloomberg reported on the antitrust investigation Tuesday — Nvidia says it has been in contact with the Justice Department
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Android 15, making its source code available on the Android Open Source Project; supported Pixel devices will get the new OS in the coming weeks — Google announced on Tuesday it's releasing Android 15 and making its source code available ahead of the coming consumer launch …
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Cybersecurity company Pango Group is acquiring all of Kaspersky's US customers, or ~1M users, after Commerce Department banned Kaspersky's software in the US — - Pango owns and offers a portfolio of cybersecurity products, including VPNs, antivirus software and identity theft protection tools.| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Shares of Truth Social's parent TMTG continue to slide, as the expiration date nears for a lockup agreement preventing Trump and others from selling their stock — Trump Media shares on Wednesday closed below where they stood at the end of 2023, as the Truth Social maker's stock continued …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked Disney files include personal data of some staff and customers, and show that Disney+ had $2.4B+ revenue in March quarter, or 43% of Disney's DTC revenue — Data trove sheds light on entertainment giant's operations, and exposes personal data of some staff and customers| Reuters: |
Safe Superintelligence, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raised $1B from a16z, Sequoia, DST, and others, sources say at a $5B valuation — Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in cash …
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LinkedIn: Juan Avellan V., Eze Vidra, and Jonas Schuett
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/mlscaling
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SpaceX has moved to evacuate employees from Brazil and warned others against traveling to the country, as Elon Musk battles Brazil's top court over X — The moves show how Musk's legal dispute about X is affecting SpaceX and its Starlink satellite-internet service
More: Washington Post, Bloomberg, Business Insider, The Indian Express, and Reuters
Mastodon: @parismarx@mastodon.online and @dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz. Bluesky: @clemens.vasters.com. X: @micahmaidenberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/space
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel cancels plans for using its 20A process node for its Arrow Lake processors for the consumer market and will use external nodes instead, likely from TSMC — Out with the Intel node, in with TSMC. — In a surprise move, Intel announced today that it no longer plans to use …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/stocks, r/hardware, r/intel, r/AMD_Stock, and r/wallstreetbets
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to cultivate AI technologists “equipped with deep philosophical thinking”, with plans for an AI lab, a VC arm, and more — The Cosmos Institute, a nonprofit whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark …
More: Cosmos Institute, SiliconANGLE, and Marginal REVOLUTION
X: @mbrendan1, @ethicsinai, and @nayafia
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Germany-based Aleph Alpha, which raised $500M+ in 2023, is pivoting to focus on helping clients use AI tools, instead of trying to outperform OpenAI and others — - For years, Aleph Alpha was hailed as Europe's rival to OpenAI — Then it opted to stop relying on costly large-language models
X: @mvbeust
| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
Meta's Oversight Board rules that users should be allowed to post “aspirational” statements for Venezuelan state-supported paramilitary groups to be killed — Meta should allow users to post “aspirational” statements for Venezuelan paramilitary groups to be killed …
More: Engadget and Oversight Board
| Bloomberg: |
India and Singapore sign a series of deals to ramp up collaboration in semiconductors and digital technologies, including cybersecurity, 5G, AI, and more — - Countries seek bigger role in global tech supply chains — Southern Asia trying to capitalize on US-China tensions
More: Nikkei Asia, The Straits Times, SG Press Centre, Reuters, The Economic Times, Business Today, Prime Minister of India, and The Indian Express. Forums: r/singapore
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
An adviser to CJEU sides with Italy's antitrust authority that Google's refusal to provide third-party access to Android Auto may breach EU competition rules — An adviser to Europe's top court on Thursday sided with Italy's antitrust authority, saying Alphabet (GOOGL.O) …
More: Deccan Herald
| The Economic Times: |
Indian bike taxi startup Rapido raised $200M at a $1.1B valuation led by WestBridge and plans to expand its newly launched cab-hailing service — Aravind Sanka, the company's CEO, told ET that the funds will be used to expand Rapido's newly launched four-wheeler taxi service, which competes with Ola and Uber.
More: Entrackr, DealStreetAsia, VCCircle, and Inc42 Media
| New York Times: |
Inside Amazon Zoox's command center in Foster City, California, which holds about 36 human technicians who oversee and provide remote assistance to robot taxis — In places like San Francisco, Phoenix and Las Vegas, robot taxis are navigating city streets, each without a driver behind the steering wheel.| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
Elon Musk's attacks on Kamala Harris, including AI-generated images that lack scrutiny from Community Notes, show how he has turned X into a pro-Trump machine — Elon Musk's disdain for the Democratic Party was never subtle, but in recent weeks his commentary on the upcoming US presidential election … | Rhian Lubin / The Independent: |
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Bluesky: @legalminimum.bsky.social, @brokentoys.social, @katzonearth.bsky.social, and @osullyville.bsky.social
X: @privacymatters, @rpsagainsttrump, @rmac18, @3yearletterman, @jason_kint, @sethdillon, @noahpinion, @p_kallioniemi, @realcarrickryan, @morten, @elonmusk, @carlquintanilla, @joelpollak, @mcuban, @liz_cheney, and @tuckercarlson
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