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Filing: Elon Musk poured ~$75M into his pro-Trump America PAC, making seven donations between July 3 and September 5; Musk was the PAC's only donor — - Disclosure is first look into Musks' donations to Trump group — Super PAC spent $69 million to bolster Trump's ground game| Bloomberg: |
Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5M to pro-Trump super PAC Right For America; Andreessen also gave ~$844K to the GOP and Trump campaign — - Horowitz later said he would also donate to Democrat Harris — Apollo's Marc Rowan also contributed to pro-Trump super PAC
More: MarketWatch, Business Insider, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Insider, and New York Times
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
YouTube rolls out a new “captured with a camera” label, using the C2PA standard to detect if the video came from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound — YouTube is rolling out new labels that tell if uploaded videos come from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound.
More: Silicon Republic, Truepic on YouTube, The Indian Express, Truepic, and NewsBytes
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils an updated iPad mini with A17 Pro, Apple Intelligence, and the same 8.3" display, starting at $499 with 128GB of storage, available to pre-order — Apple today announced a significant update to the iPad mini, featuring the powerful A17 Pro chip and support for the company's new Apple Intelligence system.
More: Apple, The Verge, Six Colors, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, O'Grady's PowerPage, Six Colors, Business Standard, 9to5Mac, Press Start, GSMArena.com, Cult of Mac, mjtsai.com, 9to5Toys, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, TechEBlog, TechSpot, Small Business Trends, The Apple Post, Appleosophy, Cult of Mac, Spyglass, MacRumors, MusicRadar, CGMagazine, SlashGear, MacStories, Engadget, and TechCrunch
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X: @parkerortolani, @tgod34748, @snazzylabs, @mkbhd, @markgurman, @stevemoser, @stevemoser, @saranbyte, @brandonbutch, @applewpapers, @aaplparody, @aaronp613, @vnchocotaco, @parkerortolani, @maxwinebach, @mgsiegler, @aaronp613, @aaronp613, and @brandonbutch
Forums: r/apple, r/ipad, r/ipad, r/ipad, and MacRumors Forums
| CoinDesk: |
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial crypto project gets off to a bumpy start, as its website crashes and WLFI token sales fall far short of the $300M target — A blockchain wallet connected to the token holds nearly $4 million worth of ether (ETH), $1.2 million of tether (USDT) and around $250,000 USD Coin (USDC) tokens.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, setting benchmarks for when an AI model's abilities reach a point where additional safeguards are necessary — Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the popular Claude chatbot, today announced a sweeping update …
More: Anthropic and Platformer
Threads: @crumbler. X: @cfgeek, @david_kasten, @kimmonismus, @michael05156007, @adonis_singh, and @jasondclinton
Forums: Hacker News and r/ClaudeAI
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A teardown of Microsoft's diskless Xbox Series X, which was released today, shows a redesigned motherboard, a 6nm chip, and a new cooling system — Microsoft's discless Xbox Series X goes on sale today, and while it looks slightly different on the outside thanks to a white paint job and lack …
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X: @wario64, @tomwarren, and @fsapojake
Forums: r/hardware, r/xbox, r/gadgets, and r/Games
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Android 15 to Pixel devices, adding privacy features like a “private space” for apps, security tools, and foldable and tablet improvements — Android 15 is now rolling out to Pixel devices, bringing them new privacy features, security tools, and improvements for foldables and tablets.
More: The Keyword, Android Police, ASUS, Android Authority, Business Standard, Android Faithful, Cybernews.com, Android Faithful, Android Authority, GSMArena.com, Android Authority, Benzinga, RM Update News, Forbes, nextpit, AndroidGuys, Liliputing, Redmond Pie, NewsBytes, Sammy Fans, Neowin, Android Headlines, Phone Scoop, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Faithful, Thurrott, Android Faithful, SlashGear, PCMag, The Shortcut, 9to5Google, How-To Geek, HotHardware, Engadget, 9to5Google, and TechCrunch
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out “activity status” to Threads that shows a green dot next to a user's profile picture to show the user is online, if they have the feature enabled — Meta is adding an “activity status” to Threads so that you can see who's actively online as you're scrolling your feed.
More: TechCrunch, TechIssuesToday.com, PhoneArena, NewsBytes, Protechbro, 9to5Mac, and Social Media Today
Threads: @mosseri, @esqueer_, @mergesort, @tomwarrenuk, @tomgara, @crumbler, @digiphile, @quillmatiq, @dansaffer, @theanthonymark, @guillecummings, @goldengateblond, @jonathangarelick, @parkerortolani, and @chris
X: @markgurman and @gateklons
| Wired: |
A review of Character.AI finds several instances of AI personas being created without a person's consent, seemingly violating the company's terms of service — Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.
Threads: @kylie.robison, @cwarzel, and @laurengoode
| Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg: |
Filing: US prosecutors ask a judge to sentence Ilya Lichtenstein, mastermind of the 2016 Bitfinex hack, to five years in prison; sentencing is due in November — - Ilya Lichtenstein pled guilty to 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack — He and rapper-wife Razzlekhan conspired to launder proceeds
More: crypto.news, Coinspeaker, CoinGape, and Cryptonews
| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 68% of US adults support a ban on middle and high school students using phones during class and 24% oppose it; 53% oppose a ban lasting full school days — As lawmakers and educators crack down on cellphone use in schools, most Americans back bans on using phones in classrooms but are less supportive of full-day restrictions.| Bloomberg: |
ASML's stock falls the most since 1998 after projecting sluggish sales, erasing €50B from its market cap and causing Nvidia and other chip stocks to fall — - Magnitude of ASML's forecast cut was a surprise, Citi says — Peer Tokyo Electron among worst hit stocks in Asia, down 10%| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel and AMD forge an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture moving forward, amid competition from Arm and RISC-V — Cats and dogs, living together! — In a rare public-facing display of cooperation between two of the industry's fiercest rivals …
More: AMD, Forbes, Business Standard, Wall Street Journal, Proactive, The Stack, KitGuru, Guru3D, MySmartPrice, Lowyat.NET, The Register, Runtime, TechPowerUp, Techstrong.ai, TrendForce News, The Next Platform, DatacenterDynamics, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, Phoronix, The Verge, Engadget, Computerworld, Benzinga, PCMag, Reuters, Techaeris, Nikkei Asia, Capital Brief, Neowin, CRN, Digital Trends, OC3D, PC Gamer, NewsBytes, HotHardware, Wccftech, How-To Geek, PCWorld, Notebookcheck, TechTechPotato on YouTube, VideoCardz.com, ServeTheHome, and GamingOnLinux
X: @lisasu, @pgelsinger, @pgelsinger, @dylanonchips, @markrussinovich, @tobias_writes, @caro_milanesi, @iancutress, @bgurley, @rajaxg, @mattkimball_mis, @patrickmoorhead, @patrickmoorhead, @patrickmoorhead, @redhat, @intel, @caro_milanesi, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @benbajarin, @broadcom, @intelbusiness, @joshdwalrath, @delltech, @doener_tech, @aschilling, @anshelsag, @intelnews, @benbajarin, @joshdwalrath, @firstadopter, @anshelsag, @paulyalcorn, @thesixfivemedia, @christianklass, and @amd
Forums: r/intel, r/Amd, r/linux, and r/AMD_Stock
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Q&A with Kevin Rose on Digg, what Reddit got right, the rise of news feeds, Techmeme being the place “to just see globally what's happening in tech”, and more — a couple of years, there was nothing on the internet so simultaneously thrilling and terrifying as having your website hit the front page of Digg.| The Citizen Lab: |
An analysis of WeChat's network protocol MMTLS finds that it is a modified version of TLS 1.3 and WeChat developers' changes to its cryptography add weaknesses — Key contributions — We performed the first public analysis of the security and privacy properties of MMTLS …
X: @citizenlab, @thegrugq, @jsrailton, and @citizenlab
| Chris Kay / Financial Times: |
Elon Musk appears to have won a contest with Indian telecom tycoons Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal over the awarding of satellite spectrum in India — Starlink head in spat with owners of Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel mobile networks who call for space bandwidth auctions| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Los Angeles-based Ghost, a B2B marketplace for surplus inventory with more than 6,000 members, raised a $40M Series C led by L Catterton — Ghost cofounders Josh Kaplan and Dee Murthy. — MATT CLERKIN AT CLERK CREATIVE — At Ghost, all product development groups are named after, well, ghosts.
More: PR Newswire, PYMNTS.com, and FinSMEs
X: @rick_zullo and @ashleymayer
LinkedIn: Eric Donado and Brian Schwarzbach
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of Palantir, joins OpenAI as its CISO and will serve alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight — Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of analytics firm Palantir, has joined OpenAI as its newest CISO, serving alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight.| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Chrome begins disabling uBlock Origin as part of Google's plan to phase out Manifest V2 extensions; uBlock Origin has 39M+ downloads on the Chrome Web Store — The browser is doing so as part of Google's plan to phase out older Manifest V2 extensions to bolster Chrome's security.
More: The Verge, TechIssuesToday.com, XDA Developers, Android Police, Ghacks, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, WinBuzzer, and PCWorld
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
UK filings: Google DeepMind's 2023 operating profit rose 91% YoY to £136M, after the Google Brain merger; Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs loss rose 3x+ YoY to £60.4M — Operating profit at Google's AI research unit, DeepMind, increased 91% last year to 136 million pounds …
More: Financial Times, Sifted, and Observer
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