Elon Musk's lawyers have subpoenaed Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko to appear on September 9 for a deposition; Zatko's lawyers say he will comply
Musk's lawyers also requested documentation about his complaint to federal regulators about the company's security holes
AMD unveils its Ryzen 7000 CPU lineup, from the $299 six-core 7600X to the $699 16-core 7950X, launching on September 27 alongside AM5 motherboards
AMD's “together we advance_PCs"l ivestream presentation just wrapped up moments ago, where AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su set the stage for the release …
Sony plans to acquire Savage Game Studios and creates a new PlayStation Studios Mobile Division, operating independently from console game development
Sony is acquiring mobile game developer Savage Game Studios, the company announced on Monday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
In an SEC filing, Elon Musk adds Peiter Zatko's allegations as a reason to terminate the $44B takeover bid, saying Twitter is in “material noncompliance”
Giles Turner / Bloomberg :
Sony updates the PS5 in Australia ahead of a broader rollout, reducing the disc model's weight by 300g and digital model's by 200g compared to the 2021 versions
Earlier today it was revealed by Japanese retailers that a brand new PS5 model dubbed the CFI-1200 model was releasing on September 15th …
Elon Musk will likely focus on Peiter Zatko's claims about Twitter's security practices instead of bots, a potentially better argument against the acquisition
Matt Levine / Bloomberg :
Cloudflare is facing growing pressure for providing services to Kiwi Farms, a forum with a long history of harassment; Cloudflare remains silent on the matter
Hello, and welcome to Protocol Enterprise! Today: why Cloudflare finds itself yet again under fire for doing business with communities of hate …
Twitter begins rolling out Circle on iOS, Android, and web, letting users tweet to smaller, selected groups of up to 150 people
Twitter is launching its Circle feature — which lets you post a tweet to a select set of people — globally. The company started testing this Instagram …
YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl plans to leave in early 2023 after 12+ years as a senior executive; Google veteran Mary Ellen Coe will replace him
Robert Kyncl will exit YouTube in early 2023 after more than 12 years as a senior exec at video giant.
Meta plans to shutter the Facebook Gaming app on iOS and Android on October 28, 2022, transferring some functionality to the main Facebook app
MUCH OF THE FUNCTIONALITY WILL BE MIGRATED TO THE MAIN FACEBOOK APP — Facebook will end support for its Facebook Gaming app in October, it's announced.
California's State Senate passes an online safety bill for under 18s, requiring services to increase protection for children; Gov. Newsom must approve the bill
The new rules, which would require many online services to increase protections for children, could change how popular social media and game platforms treat minors.
Mental health content creators on TikTok and Instagram are increasingly filling a health care gap, which critics fear could lead to harmful self-diagnoses
Issey Moloney signed up for therapy through Britain's National Health Service when she was just 12 years old. She was on a waiting list for four years.
Google announces a bug bounty program for open source software, offering pay outs of up to $31,337, one of the first open source-specific vulnerability programs
Google announced on Tuesday that it is launching an open source software vulnerability bug bounty program …
TSMC CEO C. C. Wei says an endemic shortage of low-end chips costing $0.50 to $10 is holding up production in key segments of the global supply chain
An endemic shortage of chips costing anywhere from 50 cents to $10 is slowing down swathes of the $600 billion semiconductor industry …
Sources: delivery startup Gopuff seeks to borrow up to $300M after burning ~$400M from January to March 2022; Gopuff raised $2B+ at a $15B valuation in 2021
Instant-delivery startup is negotiating a credit line of up to $300 million after delayed IPO — Gopuff is seeking to borrow …
Sources: Twitter was working to monetize its adult content with OnlyFans-style subscriptions until a “red team” noted the prevalence of CSAM on the platform
Internal documents and Twitter employees reveal the need for massive investment to remove illegal content — but executives haven't listened
Google says it has yet to approve Truth Social's app for the Play Store due to insufficient content moderation; CEO Nunes said the decision was “up to Google”
Google hasn't yet approved Truth Social's Android app for distribution via its Play Store because of insufficient content moderation …
How scientists are using ML to decode communication between fruit bats, crows, whales, and naked mole rats, eventually planning to converse with marine animals
Scientists are using machine learning to eavesdrop on naked mole rats, fruit bats, crows and whales — and to communicate back. Tweets: @dodaistewart , @nickkristof , @natalieben , @jcalpickard , @just...
Starlink users in the US, the UK, New Zealand, Mexico, and elsewhere complained of a multi-hour outage; the Starlink app reports “Degraded Service”
Thomas Ricker / The Verge :
Using aerial photos and AI software developed by Google and Capgemini, French tax authorities identify 20,356 unregistered pools, leading to ~€10M more in taxes
and tax them Katyanna Quach / The Register : AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France, netting €10m France 24 : France taxman deploys AI spy to spot hidden swimming pools Tweets: @goo...
The FBI responds to Mark Zuckerberg's claims about Hunter Biden's laptop on Joe Rogan's show, saying it routinely notifies US companies of potential threats
Y Combinator names Garry Tan as its next president, replacing Geoff Ralston in January 2023; Tan will step away from his role at his firm Initialized Capital
YC gave me my start, and I'm deeply grateful to the community. https://www.forbes.com/... @initialized : News alert: Congratulations to @jenhwolf & @brettdg, our new managing partners. Jen & Brett joi...
Snap adds a Dual Camera feature to Snapchat for iOS, letting users capture photos and videos using their phone's front-facing and rear cameras simultaneously
Karissa Bell / Engadget :
In a first, school districts in Texas, New York, and California are creating permanent, full-time virtual schools, seeking to help vulnerable children
Districts in Texas, California and New York are creating full-time remote learning this fall for the first time Tweets: @cprattmedia and @chapmanreports Tweets: Chastity / @cprattmedia : Permanent vir...
FTC sues app analytics and data broker Kochava for selling data revealing visits to reproductive health clinics, places of worship, homeless shelters, and more
Crypto coin AVAX fell 10%+ after a self-described whistleblower said Avalanche weaponized litigation against rivals; CEO calls it “conspiracy theory nonsense”
Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk :
Social media “war rooms” that are set up to fight misinformation and reported on by the media ahead of the US midterms are nothing more than theater
and ones that speak the same language they post in — you're probably not going to make much of a dent in this stuff” https://www.garbageday.email/ ... Ryan Broderick / @broderick : “Our platform may h...
Microsoft plans to amend its licensing terms in the EU on October 1 to make it cheaper to run its software on rival cloud platforms, after EU antitrust scrutiny
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott :
Baidu reports Q2 revenue dropped 5% YoY to ~$4.3B but net income reached ~$543M, beating estimates despite faltering Chinese consumer demand amid lockdowns
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Meta partners with JioMart, an e-commerce venture between Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms, to launch a grocery shopping service on WhatsApp in India
Indian buy now, pay later startup EarlySalary raised a $110M Series D led by TPG's The Rise Fund and Norwest at a $300M valuation
Moneycontrol :
As Ericsson and Nokia announce plans to exit Russia, the country's mobile operators will become more dependent on Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE
StarTree, which offers an Apache Pinot database-powered real-time analytics service, raised a $47M Series B led by GGV Capital and plans to open an India office
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Apple says the number of Apple Podcast subscribers grew by 300%+ since June 2021 and 25%+ of the top 100 shows in its Top Shows chart now offer a subscription
Sara Guaglione / Digiday :
DappRadar: OpenSea processed nearly $5M of NFT transactions on August 28, down ~99% from a $405.75M high on May 1; Bored Ape Yacht Club's floor price fell 53%
Yashu Gola / Cointelegraph :
A book excerpt details YouTube's efforts to remove Islamic extremist content and how the platform mostly failed to address other forms of political extremism
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg :
Rakuten founder Hiroshi Mikitani, whose mobile business is bleeding cash, defends his reputation with investors ahead of a planned IPO of Rakuten's online bank
Financial Times : Tweets: @leemakiyama , @gearoidreidy , @ugalani , @sugiuraeri , @leemakiyama , and @gearoidreidy Tweets: Hosuk Lee-Makiyama / @leemakiyama : Rather excessive takedown by FT on Rakut...
A look at China's vision for semiconductor self-reliance, which has faced a series of issues after heavy investment, resulting in several investigations
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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