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Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sue Palworld developer Pocketpair, accusing it of infringing on “multiple patent rights”; Palworld sold 5M+ copies in January — Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, which makes the game Palworld.
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU Commission says Apple must step into line with strict new DMA laws on making OSes fully functional with other tech, and gives Apple six months to comply — - EU announces efforts to pull Apple into compliance with rules — Apple previously said it would hold back future tech from EU
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
X says a change in network providers resulted in an “inadvertent” service restoration to Brazilian users; regulators expect to restore the block soon — Elon Musk's social network used a technical maneuver to restore service for many Brazilians after a court blocked it.
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Sources: Google tried to end an EU antitrust probe by offering to sell its ad marketplace AdX, or Ad Exchange, but European publishers rejected the proposal — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google took a major step this year to end an EU antitrust investigation with an offer to sell … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced KOSA and COPPA 2.0 on a voice vote despite discontent from some lawmakers over last-minute changes — The proposed laws passed on a voice vote despite discontent over last-minute changes to KOSA, in particular, that were aimed at quelling persistent criticism.
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| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
The FBI, ODNI, and CISA say Iranian hackers emailed stolen, non-public Trump campaign info to Biden campaign associates; there's no sign the recipients replied — - “There is currently no information indicating those recipients” responded to these incidents in late June and early July, the agencies added.
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| Reuters: |
Alibaba releases 100+ open-source models from its Qwen 2.5 family, its LLM released in May 2024, ranging from 0.5B to 72B parameters, and text-to-video AI tech — Chinese technology company Alibaba (9988.HK) released on Thursday new open-source artificial intelligence models and text-to-video AI technology …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
YouTube says it has “widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers” after a “strong advertiser and strong viewer response”; YouTube piloted Pause ads in 2023 — It's been nearly six years since we warned you that ads were coming for your pause button …
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Analysis: Elon Musk, apparently unaware of Tenet Media's alleged Russian funding, replied to or reposted content from accounts tied to Tenet at least 60 times — Musk, apparently unaware of the company's Russia funding source, engaged with content from Tenet Media and its creators at least 60 times.
More: CNBC, Mother Jones, and emptywheel
| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
The FBI says it disrupted a botnet of “hundreds of thousands” of devices worldwide last week that was operated by the China-linked hacking group Flax Typhoon — The FBI led an operation last week to disrupt a global botnet with connections to the Chinese government …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
The US FTC releases a four-year study of how Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six others collected and used data, finding “vast surveillance” of consumers — Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.
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| Georgina Rannard / BBC: |
Study: unintended electromagnetic radiation from second-gen Starlink satellites is stronger than first-gen, causing 32x more interference with radio telescopes — Radio waves from Elon Musk's growing network of satellites are blocking scientists' ability to peer into the universe, according to researchers in the Netherlands.
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| Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: |
In an open letter coordinated by Meta, more than 24 companies warned that the EU might reap fewer rewards of AI because of the bloc's tech regulations — Facebook parent, other companies warn in open letter that the bloc's regulations risk hampering innovation and economic growth| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
A UN advisory body makes seven recommendations for governing AI, including establishing a panel to provide impartial and reliable scientific knowledge about AI — An artificial-intelligence advisory body at the United Nations on Thursday released its final report proposing seven recommendations … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
YouTube adds an Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio app that lets creators use AI to generate video concepts, create titles and thumbnails, and write scripts — Artificial intelligence is running rampant across Google's entire product portfolio, and YouTube is adopting some of the company's newest tech …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
SocialAI, a new iOS app that looks like a microblogging social network, is filled with bots and lets users populate their network with up to 32 types of bots — Are we at peak social media yet? It's an interesting question to ponder after the launch of an iOS app offering a social media experience just for one.
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Layoffs.fyi: tech companies have laid off ~137,000 people since January 2024; Indeed.com: software development job postings are down 30%+ since February 2020 — Employment for software engineers has cooled as resources shift toward developing artificial intelligence| Sarah Emerson / Forbes: |
Court filings: X has moved its official headquarters to Bastrop, Texas, a small town just outside of Austin that's also home to SpaceX and The Boring Company — The billionaire CEO of X announced the company would be moving its headquarters out of California earlier this year.| CNBC: |
Amazon launches Amelia, an AI tool to help third-party sellers resolve account issues and fetch sales and inventory data, in beta for select US sellers — Amazon is rolling out an artificial intelligence tool designed to help third-party sellers quickly resolve issues with their accounts and fetch sales and inventory data.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Picus Security, which helps fix inconsistencies in code and network activity, raised a $45M Series C, bringing its total funding to $80M, and has 500+ clients — For as long as programming has existed, we have had a plethora of methods to ensure the code works as intended.
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