WhatsApp now lets users delete a private or group chat message up to 2.5 days after sending it; before, users had one hour, eight minutes, and 16 seconds
While iMessage is getting the option to “unsend” messages for the first time with iOS 16 beta, WhatsApp already provides a similar feature.
The US Treasury sanctions crypto mixing service Tornado Cash and 44 related ETH and USDC wallets, citing their use in high-profile hacks, such as by North Korea
- The Treasury is sanctioning DeFi mixing service, Tornado Cash. — The move is the agency's second sanction of a mixing service. Source: U.S. Department … .
WhatsApp rolls out privacy features to let users leave Groups silently, choose who can see when they are online, and block screenshots of View Once messages
Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry — WhatsApp is building new ways to increase user privacy and security in order to improve their experience while using the app. Source: Mark Zuckerberg .
Meta's BlenderBot 3 chatbot, released in the US on August 5, repeats antisemitic stereotypes, claims Donald Trump is the current US president, and more
- Meta's new machine-learning chatbot, BlenderBot 3, is the company's most advanced AI chatbot to date.
President Biden signs the CHIPS and Science Act into law, including $52B+ for US companies making semiconductors, as well as billions more in tax credits
- President Joe Biden signed into law a bipartisan bill that aims to boost U.S. competitiveness with China.
Micron plans to spend $40B by 2030 to expand US chip manufacturing capacity, aided by government grants and credits, and expects to begin production after 2025
Prarthana Prakash / Bloomberg :
iOS 16 beta 5 adds an option to show the battery percentage in the status bar on some iPhones, after Apple removed it for notched models at the iPhone X's debut
what took them so long? Amy Sarkar / Huawei Central : Once scared of notch, Apple brings Battery Percentage feature in iOS 16 Victoria Song / The Verge : Battery percentage finally returns to iOS 16 a...
A breakdown of the $7.6B+ in ETH that Tornado Cash received since 2019 shows 49.6% was from DeFi, 17.7% was from sanctioned entities, and 10.5% was stolen funds
Chainalysis :
AppLovin offers to buy Unity for $58.85/share, an 18% premium to Unity's Monday closing price, in a $17.54B all-stock deal; AppLovin stock is down 9%+
Gaming software company AppLovin Corp (APP.O) made an offer on Tuesday to buy its peer Unity Software Inc (U.N) in a $17.54 billion all-stock deal …
ByteDance acquired Amcare Healthcare, one of China's largest private hospital chains, source says for about $1.5B, deepening its foray into health care
ByteDance Ltd. has acquired one of China's largest private hospital chains for about $1.5 billion, deepening a foray into health care via …
Reddit partners with Ethereum Layer 2 platform Arbitrum to bring its Community Points system onto the Arbitrum Nova blockchain; FTX and others will advise
- Arbitrum announced that Reddit's Community Points will be built on the Arbitrum Nova chain. — The deployment on Nova will open …
The DOJ says BitMEX's head of business development, Gregory Dwyer, pleaded guilty to violating US federal anti-money laundering rules and will pay a $150K fine
A federal court in New York previously sentenced the firm's co-founders to probation time and fines. Source: U.S. Department of Justice .
Influencers on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are documenting trips to Syria, helping burnish the regime's image, often sponsored by brands, such as Surfshark
Sophie Fullerton is a political scientist and human rights researcher based in New York. — Last November, around the same … Tweets: @florida_sophia , @philklay , @neilcybart , @doylech , @florida_so...
An anonymous Tornado Cash user sends high-profile crypto users, such as Jimmy Fallon and Brian Armstrong, ETH from a sanctioned address, likely to troll them
Russia has been rerouting internet traffic in occupied Ukrainian territories through domestic networks since June, blocking uncensored information and services
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A look at potential Ethereum forks, led by some miners, who face grim prospects after the Merge to a proof-of-stake model that's expected as early as September
what they don't seem to realize is that so far there is no plan to change the chain ID for replay protection (EIP-155). That means anything you do on one chain can be replayed by anyone on the other r...
Twilio discloses “unauthorized access” on August 4 by a “sophisticated” unknown actor using an SMS-based phishing attack on staff to gain info on some accounts
Leaks Private Data via Phishing Jose Montes de Oca / Newslit Daily : 🗞 Axios to Sell to Cox Enterprises for $525MM Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : Twilio discloses data breach that impacted cu...
Shopic, which offers an AI-powered shopping cart clip-on device to identify items, raised a $35M Series B led by Qualcomm, bringing its total funding to $56M
The smart shopping cart startup Shopic Technologies Ltd. said today it has raised $35 million in funding to get closer to fulfilling …
SoftBank reports a ~$17.23B loss for Vision Fund in Q1 2022, as the value of its tech portfolio fell, including SenseTime and Uber, after a record Q4 2021 loss
South Korea's telecoms regulator plans an investigation into Apple, Google, and One Store over suspected violations of the country's in-app payment law
Crypto.com says it secured registrations to operate as a virtual asset service provider in South Korea, and acquires two local startups for undisclosed amounts
https://crypto.com/ now holds both EFTA and VASP registrations in 🇰🇷 Onwards! https://twitter.com/...
GitHub partners with code-signing service Sigstore to add support for signing npm software packages, helping improve the security of open source projects
most people just don't believe you or are terrified.” Dramatic supply chain updates from @lorenc_dan @jhutchings0 @npmjs @projectsigstore https://www.wired.com/... @npmjs : Today we opened an RFC with...
Sources: Beijing has grown frustrated with a years-long failure to develop semiconductors that can replace US chips, capped by anti-graft probes into top execs
China's top leadership has grown increasingly frustrated with a years-long failure to develop semiconductors that can replace US circuitry … Tweets: @pelstrom and @tommackenzietv Tweets: Peter Elstrom...
Snapchat rolls out parental controls through a new Family Center feature, letting parents see who teens are talking to, but not view the content of the messages
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Oppo and OnePlus halt sales in Germany after a court found in July 2022 the two companies used 5G technology without paying for the appropriate Nokia patents
Andrew Romero / 9to5Google :
Amazon's registries for weddings, birthdays, new babies, and more are publicly visible by default, a sensitive personal data one-stop shop for identity thieves
a byproduct of very weak default privacy settings on their parenting registry products. Good find by the @theintercept: https://theintercept.com/... @theintercept : Imagine if a budding identity thief...
Despite YouTube suspending hundreds of Kremlin-linked channels, Russia has yet to ban the service, some argue because the Kremlin views it as too big to block
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @mhbergen , @rachaelmyrow , and @samschech See also Mediagazer Tweets: Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : “Some banks are too big to fail, and some apps are too big to be blocked...
Amazon's planned acquisitions of iRobot and One Medical are emblematic of Andy Jassy's hunt for a so-called fourth “pillar”, beyond AWS, Prime, and Marketplace
Amazon has snapped up robotic vacuum maker iRobot, undaunted by antitrust concerns. But first:
Report: Samsung plans to make an additional $3.3B investment in Vietnam in 2022 to produce semiconductor components by July 2023 and open an R&D center in Hanoi
Che Pan / South China Morning Post :
Filing: Alibaba reduced its workforce by 9,241 employees in the three months to June, for just over 245,000 total, after letting 4,375 go in January-March 2022
Coco Liu / Bloomberg :
Sources: DataRobot's CFO and several other executives have resigned after CEO Dan Wright's resignation in July 2022 amid an uproar over execs' quiet stock sales
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