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Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sue Palworld developer Pocketpair, accusing it of infringing on “multiple patent rights”; Palworld sold 5M+ copies in January — Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, which makes the game Palworld.
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Sources: Google tried to end an EU antitrust probe by offering to sell its ad marketplace AdX, or Ad Exchange, but European publishers rejected the proposal — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google took a major step this year to end an EU antitrust investigation with an offer to sell … | Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
X says a change in network providers resulted in an “inadvertent” service restoration to Brazilian users; regulators expect to restore the block soon — Elon Musk's social network used a technical maneuver to restore service for many Brazilians after a court blocked it.
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YouTube adds an Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio app that lets creators use AI to generate video concepts, create titles and thumbnails, and write scripts — Artificial intelligence is running rampant across Google's entire product portfolio, and YouTube is adopting some of the company's newest tech … | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced KOSA and COPPA 2.0 on a voice vote despite discontent from some lawmakers over last-minute changes — The proposed laws passed on a voice vote despite discontent over last-minute changes to KOSA, in particular, that were aimed at quelling persistent criticism.| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
The FBI says it disrupted a botnet of “hundreds of thousands” of devices worldwide last week that was operated by the China-linked hacking group Flax Typhoon — The FBI led an operation last week to disrupt a global botnet with connections to the Chinese government …
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Analysis: Elon Musk, apparently unaware of Tenet Media's alleged Russian funding, replied to or reposted content from accounts tied to Tenet at least 60 times — Musk, apparently unaware of the company's Russia funding source, engaged with content from Tenet Media and its creators at least 60 times.| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Source: EU regulators are set to announce that Apple must step into line with strict new rules on making OSes fully functional with other tech under the DMA — EU watchdogs are due to announce under the bloc's new Digital Markets Act that the Cupertino, California-based firm must step … | Georgina Rannard / BBC: |
Study: unintended electromagnetic radiation from second-gen Starlink satellites is stronger than first-gen, causing 32x more interference with radio telescopes — Radio waves from Elon Musk's growing network of satellites are blocking scientists' ability to peer into the universe, according to researchers in the Netherlands.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
SocialAI, a new iOS app that looks like a microblogging social network, is filled with bots and lets users populate their network with up to 32 types of bots — Are we at peak social media yet? It's an interesting question to ponder after the launch of an iOS app offering a social media experience just for one.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max review: a very incremental upgrade with new tone control in camera and a useful but a little fiddly Camera Control button — I'm not saying you should buy a new phone for a single camera setting... but I'm not not saying that, either.
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Court filings: X has moved its official headquarters to Bastrop, Texas, a small town just outside of Austin that's also home to SpaceX and The Boring Company — The billionaire CEO of X announced the company would be moving its headquarters out of California earlier this year.| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
The FBI, ODNI, and CISA say Iranian hackers emailed stolen, non-public Trump campaign info to Biden campaign associates; there's no sign the recipients replied — - “There is currently no information indicating those recipients” responded to these incidents in late June and early July, the agencies added.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
LinkedIn confirms it's training its AI models on user data by default, and says it is “making sure that those who have specific privacy preferences” can opt out — LinkedIn is using its users' data for improving the social network's generative AI products, but has not yet updated …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU regulators say Microsoft's acquihire of Inflection's team will not be scrutinized under EU merger rules, after seven EU countries dropped their requests — Microsoft's (MSFT.O) hiring of artificial intelligence startup Inflection's staff including its co-founders will not be scrutinised …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Mercor, a jobs marketplace that uses AI to vet and interview candidates, raised a $32M Series A led by Benchmark at a $250M valuation and says it is profitable — Led by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, Mercor has raised $32 million from Benchmark, Peter Thiel and others for its AI-powered jobs marketplace.Sponsor Posts
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