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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute — Elon Musk says X's — formerly Twitter's — block feature is on the chopping block …
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X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @alx, @chancehmiller, @kimdotcom, @monicalewinsky, @dylanmcd8, @dexerto, @teslaownerssv, @elonmusk, @williamlegate, @jack, @andylevy, @wallstreetsilv, @lindayax, @evacide, @pavelasamsonov, @philosophi_cat, @bzamayo, @panzer, @lexnfx, @jay_m_thomas, @stillgray, @auschwitzmuseum, @gwensnyderphl, @kyleclark, @davidkurten, @katienotopoulos, @shoe0nhead, @pt, @aridrennen, @cbucksrules, @daveleebbg, @atrupar, @junlper, @aqueelmiq, @atabarrok, @thedouggernaut, @mikedrucker, @cubeapril, @rmac18, @goldengateblond, @hassankhan, @mikedrucker, @jrs_rankings, @giagia, @mattyglesias, @steinkobbe, @film_girl, @ebboyd, @jamessurowiecki, @samsantala, @sargon_of_akkad, @dieworkwear, @mattwalshblog, @cassidoo, @oliverjia1014, @danprimack, @aqueelmiq, @teroterotero, @joshtpm, @katienotopoulos, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @mehdirhasan, @oneunderscore__, @normative, @nash076, @jessekellydc, @kattenbarge, @steinkobbe, @lessin, @normative, @zsk, @tomcoates, @jbarro, @amydiehl, @zoeschiffer, @stephenkb, @possumfan777, @brosandprose, @stealthygeek, @radiofreetom, @keiths, @film_girl, @dieworkwear, @abughazalehkat, @junlper, @dieworkwear, @film_girl, @abughazalehkat, @timsweeneyepic, @fed_speak, @brianmcc, @byyourlogic, @radleybalko, @alexstamos, @ditzkoff, @jesawyer, @alexstamos, @davidmweissman, @brendaneich, @brimalandro, @daveleebbg, @davidafrench, @karaswisher, @kelemencari, @radiofreetom, and @delafina777. LinkedIn: Rafael Brown
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| Pete Evans / CBC News: |
Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information — Meta notes government sources not blocked as northerners duck ban by sharing screenshots of information
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| David Ljunggren / Reuters: |
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Cruise is complying with a California DMV request to cut its fleet by 50% as the regulator probes “recent concerning incidents” involving Cruise robotaxis — Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following a crash Thursday night with a fire truck.
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| Bloomberg: |
Draft IPO filing: Arm's revenue fell 1% YoY to $2.68B in its fiscal year ended on March 31, 2023; sources: Arm plans to sell ~10% of its shares in its listing — - Decline in revenue is according to US accounting standards — Arm's parent SoftBank posted gains for unit under IFRS
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| Anirban Sen / Reuters: |
Sources: SoftBank acquired a 25% stake in Arm from its Vision Fund unit at a $64B valuation and plans to make the chip designer's IPO filing public on August 21 — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) has acquired the 25% stake in Arm Ltd it does not directly own from its Vision Fund unit in a deal …
More: SiliconANGLE, The Information, and Financial Times
| David Jeans / Forbes: |
Credit card processor Checkout.com cuts its Binance contract short over regulatory “actions and orders in relevant jurisdictions” and money laundering concerns — Checkout.com, the London-based credit card processing company that ballooned its business model by servicing billions …
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Forums: r/Buttcoin and Slashdot
| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams — The mysterious WhatsApp message arrived one night in August 2022, while I was out at a bar with a friend: “Hi David, I'm Vicky Ho don't you remember me?”
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Western Digital refused to answer questions about how its portable SanDisk Extreme SSDs might lose all the data; the company is being sued over data-loss claims — Eleven days ago, we sent these questions to Western Digital's head of PR and published them publicly on The Verge:
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X: @michaeltchong, @stewcelliott, and @verge
Forums: Slashdot and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
Email: Amazon offers some creators up to $12,500 for 500 videos, or $25 per video, for its TikTok-like shopping feed; creators typically charge $200+ per video — - Content creators typically charge more than $200 a pop — Amazon.com Inc., looking to amp up its TikTok-like shopping feed …
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| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
A district court judge upheld a US Copyright Office finding that artwork created by AI isn't eligible for copyright protection because it lacks human authorship — A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.
More: Cryptopolitan, The Wrap, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Patently-O, and Bloomberg Law
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X: @prestonjbyrne, @davidclinchnews, @franklingraves, @emily6560, and @robsforman. Forums: r/entertainment
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
OpenSea plans to make creator fees optional for new collections from August 31 and enforce creators' preferred fees on all secondary sales through February 2024 — - OpenSea has opted to make creator fees optional for new collections, starting in September.
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Mastodon: @fraying@xoxo.zone. X: @mcuban, @3orovik, @3antar_eth, @adion_17, @bitgod21, @heyjeremyhorn, @betty_nft, @icollectdigital, @nftpowerranking, @goblinmayn, and @kineticweb3
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta updates Threads with a Repost tab on users' profile pages and adds reposts to the reverse-chronological Following feed — Threads is adding reposts (aka retweets) to its reverse-chronological “Following” feed, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced in a Threads post on Thursday.
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Threads: @mosseri, @jaypetersplus, @joshuatopolsky, and @bobsmithreal123
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