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September 5, 2024, 10:05 AM

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The US DOJ seizes 32 domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian efforts to influence the 2024 US presidential election  —  The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence …
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Kantar: 26% of marketers plan to cut back X ad spending in 2025 and 14% plan to pull budgets in 2024, over concerns about content and trust in disseminated info  —  Annual survey highlights growing concern about platform content and trust in information disseminated
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
The Internet Archive loses its appeal of a US district court ruling that favored publishers in a copyright dispute over the nonprofit's ebook lending program  —  The legal battle was spurred by book publishers objecting to the archive's digital lending library.
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
Intel cancels plans to use its Intel 20A process node for its consumer Arrow Lake processors and instead plans to use external nodes, likely from TSMC  —  Out with the Intel node, in with TSMC.  —  In a surprise move, Intel announced today that it no longer plans to use its own ‘Intel 20A’ process node …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bloomberg:
Nvidia says it has inquired with the US DOJ and hasn't been subpoenaed, following a report that it had received a subpoena from the DOJ over antitrust concerns  —  - Bloomberg reported on the antitrust investigation Tuesday  — Nvidia says it has been in contact with the Justice Department
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google releases Android 15, making its source code available on the Android Open Source Project; supported Pixel devices will get the new OS in the coming weeks  —  Google announced on Tuesday it's releasing Android 15 and making its source code available ahead of the coming consumer launch …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Shares of Truth Social's parent TMTG continue to slide, as the expiration date nears for a lockup agreement preventing Trump and others from selling their stock  —  Trump Media shares on Wednesday closed below where they stood at the end of 2023, as the Truth Social maker's stock continued …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to cultivate AI technologists “equipped with deep philosophical thinking”, with plans for an AI lab, a VC arm, and more  —  The Cosmos Institute, a nonprofit whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark …
Steve Dent / Engadget:
DJI unveils Neo, a $200 drone aimed at content creators and casual users with features like palm takeoff, voice control, ActiveTrack, smartphone control, more  —  It's simple to use but offers advanced features like smartphone and voice control.  —  DJI has just unveiled the Neo …
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
A San Francisco federal judge rules that X must face a class action age bias suit by around 150 older workers who were laid off by the company in 2022  —  A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that roughly 150 older workers who were laid off by social media platform X when Elon Musk acquired …
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal:
Applied Digital, which leases out data-center space and has started an AI cloud-computing service with Nvidia chips, raised $160M from Nvidia and others  —  Capital is expected to help data-center and AI cloud company grow  —  Artificial-intelligence chip giant Nvidia is joining other investors …

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