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Twitter went down for around 40 minutes on Thursday morning, the first major Twitter outage since a series of problems for the social network in February — Twitter went down for 40 minutes — Twitter went down for around 40 minutes this morning, in a major outage for the social network.
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Celsius files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, declaring assets and liabilities between $1B and $10B, plus $167M in cash on hand for operations — - Crypto company Celsius has started the process of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
MacBook Air M2 review: thinner with much-improved screen and webcam but gets warm and throttles aggressively under intense workloads, base model has slower SSD — New design, new display, new processor, new price — After 14 years, three revisions, and two different processor architectures …
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| Annabelle Dickson / Politico: |
Source: UK's Online Safety Bill is expected to be dropped from parliamentary schedule next week, delaying it until the fall, after Boris Johnson's resignation — LONDON — Progress on Britain's proposed new content regulation law is expected to be delayed until the fall …
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung says it has developed a new GDDR6 DRAM with a 24Gbps data transfer rate, 30% faster than its 18Gbps predecessor, built on its 10nm process using EUV — The new DRAM will allow premium graphics cards to support a data processing rate of up to 1.1TB, Samsung says.
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Tesla Senior Director of AI Andrej Karpathy says he is leaving the company after about five years; Karpathy led the computer vision team for Tesla Autopilot — - Tesla's AI leader Andrej Karpathy announced on Wednesday that he is leaving the company. — Karpathy worked … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud announces a preview of Tau T2A, its first ARM-based virtual machines powered by Ampere Altra, with up to 48 vCPUs, each with up to 4GB of memory — It's been a long time coming, but Google Cloud today announced its first Arm-based VMs, following AWS, with its Graviton instances …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Amazon gave police Ring camera footage 11 times in 2022 without a warrant or permission from Ring owners, saying it sometimes makes a “good-faith determination” — Ring, Amazon's perennially controversial and police-friendly surveillance subsidiary, has long defended …
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Netflix names Microsoft as its “global advertising technology and sales partner” for its upcoming ad-supported streaming tier, rumored to arrive later in 2022 — Microsoft will become Netflix's ‘global advertising technology and sales partner’ — Netflix is partnering …
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| Prarthana Prakash / Bloomberg: |
Over 500 women across the US sue Uber for sexual assault by some drivers, alleging the company knew about sexual misconduct on rides, including rape, since 2014 — Uber Technologies Inc. is being sued by more than 500 women across the US who claim to have been assaulted by drivers on the platform.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
UK-based stock trading app Lightyear has raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed and is launching in 19 European countries including Germany and France — - Lightyear, a stock trading app based in the U.K., has raised $25 million in fresh funding to expand its presence across Europe.
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Tech.eu, TechCrunch, Finextra, Silicon Republic, The Block, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Silicon Canals, Coinspeaker, AltFi, and ArcticStartup. Tweets: @thekishpatel. Thanks:@ryan_browne_
| Ed Shanahan / New York Times: |
A federal jury convicts Vault 7-leaker Joshua Schulte on nine counts, two years after a previous jury failed to agree on eight of the 10 charges he then faced — The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan said Joshua Schulte had engaged in “one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history.”| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
UnCaged Studios, a web3-focused gaming studio, has raised a $24M Series A, following a $4M token presale for its Solana-focused game MonkeyLeague — UnCaged Studios, a web3-focused gaming studio, has raised $24 million in a Series A equity funding round to continue growing the crypto gaming industry.
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TSMC beats Q2 estimates with a net profit of $7.94B, up 76.4% YoY, and total revenue of $18.16B, up 36.6% YoY — Taiwan's TSMC (2330.TW) posted a 76.4% surge in second-quarter profit on Thursday, the biggest jump in earnings in eight quarters that handily beat market estimates …
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Instagram adds more features to its creator subscription test, including the ability to publish feed posts that are only visible to subscribers — Pay up — or you won't see these exclusive photos or Reels — After getting off to a small start with paid subscriptions for creators earlier this year …
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European Commission says Amazon offered to limit its use of marketplace seller data and make changes to “Buy Box” rankings in a bid to settle antitrust concerns — Amazon has offered to limit its use of marketplace seller data and makes changes to ‘Buy Box’ rankings in a bid …
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| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
The inaugural report by the DHS Cyber Safety Review Board finds that Log4j has become an “endemic vulnerability” that will persist at least for the next decade — The flaw uncovered late last year in the widely-used Log4j Java library will remain a danger for many years to come …
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Meta releases its first human rights report, including due diligence in 2020 and 2021 and a summary of a controversial human rights impact assessment of India — Facebook-owner Meta (META.O) released its first annual human rights report on Thursday, following years of accusations that it turned …
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