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Researchers: 50 false or misleading claims about the US election posted on X in 2024 by Elon Musk have generated nearly 1.2B views and none had a Community Note — The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate said that Musk's debunked claims are spreading widely and do not appear … | Josh Self / Politics.co.uk: |
In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views — Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about …
More: Politico, The Guardian, Tech.eu, BBC, The Mirror, Times of India, The Independent, and The Daily Beast
| Financial Times: |
Similarweb: active UK Telegram users hit 3.1M on July 29 and 3.7M on July 30 after a stabbing, as rioters used chat apps, up from a ~2.7M average in early 2024 — Messaging service, known for ‘hands off’ approach to content moderation, faces pressure to tackle extremist groups
More: Wired, Bloomberg, The Independent, and Northumberland Gazette
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google and Meta ran a pilot program in the US in May 2024 to target Instagram ads to teenagers on YouTube, which prohibits targeting ads to under-18s — Campaign on YouTube to boost Instagram's appeal to young people skirted search group's rules for marketing to under-18s
More: The Information, The Verge, Benzinga, Engadget, MediaPost, Cybernews.com, Dexerto, Boing Boing, Android Headlines, Invezz, TipRanks Financial, More About Advertising, and NewsBytes
X: @matthewstoller, @joejerome, @riptari, and @ariellesgarcia
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/technology, r/technews, and Ars OpenForum
| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
The UK CMA opens a formal merger inquiry into Amazon's Anthropic investment after getting “sufficient information” about the deal; Amazon is “disappointed” — CMA to escalate matter to the first phase after seeking views on tech giant's investment in the AI start-up| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a Mac mini in 2024 with M4 and M4 Pro that is less than half the size of the current mini, its first major design change since 2010 — - It's the first major design change to Mac mini since Jobs era — Entire Mac line to get updated with AI-focused M4 processors| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A researcher details a Windows Update vulnerability that could be exploited to downgrade key components of Windows to older versions that contain known flaws — A researcher found a vulnerability that would let hackers strategically downgrade a target's Windows version to reexpose patched vulnerabilities.
More: SafeBreach, PCWorld, Metacurity, Washington Post, CSO, The Register, Ghacks, TechRadar, Help Net Security, The Register, Neowin, SecurityWeek, The Hacker News, WinBuzzer, TechSpot, Cybernews.com, BleepingComputer, Notebookcheck, and PCMag. Mastodon: @HoustonDog@mastodon.world
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Researchers: hackers have used an 18-year-old flaw in how Safari, Chrome, and Firefox on macOS handle queries to a 0.0.0.0 IP address to breach private networks — Weaknesses in Chrome, Firefox and Safari gave hackers a route into internal networks, even those protected by firewalls, security researchers warn.| Adam James / The Block: |
“Over the next few days”, Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to undo all trades following its July 18 withdrawal freeze, after hackers stole $230M+ in crypto — - WazirX announced plans to undo all trades following its withdrawal freeze on July 18.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
TikTok launches TikTok Spotlight, in-app hubs for movies and TV shows that add links to “applicable” videos with more info and where to watch, tested with Dune — TikTok will now create in-app hubs for movies and TV shows and place them directly on fan-made videos.
More: TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, Deadline, ChannelX, The Media Leader, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter
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Analysis: Truth Social is increasingly reliant on niche ad campaigns that target hard-core Trump fans and Christian conservatives, often with small ad budgets — Donald J. Trump's social network is increasingly relying on a niche of the ad market that caters to hard-core Trump fans and Christian conservatives for revenue.
X: @konrad_it, @mattgoldstein26, and @mattgoldstein26
| John Liu / New York Times: |
Interviews with 12 TSMC staff detail ongoing culture clashes in Arizona, as well as Japan and Germany; about 50% of the 2,200 Phoenix workers came from Taiwan — The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company facility in Phoenix.Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times
X: @mazmhussain, @whatthebit, @bigmeaninternet, @steveashleyplus, and @scottlincicome. LinkedIn: John Liu. Forums: r/neoliberal
| Tim Stevens / The Verge: |
YouTube channels focusing on cars, like Car Throttle and Donut, have seen an exodus of popular on-camera talent, often after investors acquired their channels — From Car Throttle to Donut, countless YouTube creators are fleeing. But is this a new trend or a tale as old as venture capital?| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google says it stopped making the Chromecast after intense competition, shifting to a premium device, and views the Nvidia Shield as something to strive towards — The Chromecast is going away after more than a decade in Google's hardware portfolio, with the company phasing it out to make room for the new Google TV Streamer.| Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central: |
Meta closes Ready at Dawn Studios, acquired in June 2020 and which produced VR games like Lone Echo and Echo VR, to meet Reality Labs' new budgetary ceiling — Echo VR developer Ready at Dawn Studios is now closed for business. — Updated 8/17 at 5:19pm ET: The information Android Central …
More: WinBuzzer, Gematsu, TechRaptor, Game Developer, AltChar, Metro.co.uk, Gameranx, TheSixthAxis, KitGuru, TechRadar, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamesIndustry.biz, NewsBytes, Press Start, IGN, PC Gamer, Road to VR, Phandroid, GamingBolt, Engadget, PlayStation LifeStyle, UploadVR, Digital Trends, VG Charts, Niche Gamer, TheGamer, MIXED Reality News, Neowin, Eurogamer.net, Video Games Chronicle, and Push Square
X: @ethangach, @edzitron, @lunayian, @tyrielwood, @chadverrall, @thomas_griebel, @nathievr, @jeffcannata, @hero_kvatch, @7egend, @shrives93, @gwanatu, @gwanatu, and @asychov
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/virtualreality, r/PS4, r/EchoArena, r/oculus, r/OculusQuest, r/Games, and r/PS5
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
A group of VCs, including Reid Hoffman and Ron Conway, hosted a “VCs for Kamala” Zoom call to support Harris' campaign with up to 600 attendees, raising $150K — It started with a “rage tweet.” — “Gonna start ‘VCs for Democracy,’” Leslie Feinzaig, founder and general partner at Graham & Walker, wrote on X in late July.
More: Benzinga, The Block, The Information, New York Times, GeekWire, and The Hollywood Reporter
Bluesky: @tylerking.bsky.social. X: @macconwell, @teddyschleifer, @eringriffith, @micsolana, @bizcarson, and @agarfinks
| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
A US judge orders Ripple to pay a $125M penalty for selling XRP to institutional investors, well below the almost $2B the SEC sought in the case; XRP jumps 20%+ — - Regulator had sought almost $2 billion in fines, penalties — Ripple token XRP surges on court ruling but is flat this year
More: Blockworks, CoinDesk, CryptoPotato, DL News, crypto.news, Coinspeaker, BNN Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, The Block, Web3 is Going Just Great, Cointelegraph, Proactive, Milk Road, The Crypto Basic, Crypto Briefing, CoinGeek, CryptoGlobe, Blockonomi, Unchained, Inside Bitcoins, Crypto Adventure, BanklessTimes, Reuters, Coinpedia Fintech News, ZyCrypto, PYMNTS.com, The Crypto Times, Watcher Guru, CryptoSlate, and Decrypt
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Flyr, which provides software to travel companies, raised $225M in equity and $70M in debt, source says at a $900M valuation, bringing its total raised to $500M — Investors valued the startup at $900 million in its latest funding round. … The deal, led by WestCap, values the startup at $900 million … | Axios: |
Anduril Industries raised a $1.5B Series F co-led by Founders Fund and Sands Capital at a $14B valuation, up from ~$8.5B after raising ~$1.5B in December 2022 — - Sands Capital and existing investor Founders Fund co-led the Series F round, which is at a 65% post-money premium to where Anduril last raised money in late 2022.
More: Quartz, Tech Startups, Wired, Anduril Industries, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and TechCrunch
X: @anduriltech and @ashleevance
| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Hugging Face buys XetHub, a collaboration platform started by ex-Apple employees that raised $7.5M to help developers work with and build large-scale models — Purchased for an undisclosed sum, XetHub is staffed by a number of former Apple employees. Hugging Face thinks … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ofcom publishes an open letter to social media platforms raising concerns about the use of their tools to incite violence, following days of rioting in the UK — The U.K.'s internet regulator, Ofcom, has published an open letter to social media platforms raising concerns about the use of their tools to incite violence.
More: Reuters, The Verge, Ofcom, ComputerWeekly.com, CNBC, BBC, and Bloomberg
X: @beverleyturner, @davidheniguk, @ofcom, @martinabettt, @sundersays, @plymouthcraig, @davidheniguk, @pjdunleavy, @shayna620, @mrmoosey1, and @wokenonsense. Forums: r/TSLA
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More: Wired, Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, SiliconANGLE, The Times, Politico, The Register, The Verge, PCMag, New York Times, Bloomberg, CNBC, Washington Post, BBC, The Guardian, Business Insider, Bloomberg, and NBC News
X: @josh_self_, @keir_starmer, @georgemonbiot, @albertonardelli, @davidfrum, @adam_grant_bell, @keir_starmer, @sangitamyska, @webdevlaw, @jamesrbuk, @elonmusk, @aaronbastani, @mrjamesob, @iandunt, @tomabacon, @marcowenjones, @jmpsimor, @netblocks, @adam_grant_bell, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @drjennings, @mrdenmore, @annasophiegross, @mij_europe, @johnobrennan2, @elonmusk, and @elonmusk
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/NewsAndPolitics, r/inthenews, and r/politics
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