Q&A: Steve Huffman says Reddit's API was “never designed to support third-party apps” and he didn't know how much the apps were “profiting off of our API”
Reddit is fighting for its soul. … Huffman has argued the changes are a business decision …
BlackRock files an SEC application to register its iShares Bitcoin Trust as a spot bitcoin ETF, using Coinbase Custody as its custodian
BlackRock (BLK.N), the world's biggest asset manager, on Thursday filed for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) that would allow investors to get exposure …
Alphabet plans to wind down Google Domains and sell its assets, including ~10M domains, to Squarespace in Q3 2023, a source says for ~$180M; SQSP jumps 9%+
Alphabet Inc. is winding down its Google Domains business and selling its assets to Squarespace Inc., according to a statement Thursday.
A “Reddit API Fact Sheet” says the company does not plan to “unilaterally” reopen subreddits; Reddit's rules may let the platform remove protesting moderators
“We are not shutting down discussions or unilaterally reopening communities,” reads a line from a …
France probes Binance for illegally providing digital asset services and poor money laundering checks; Binance quits Netherlands after failing to get a license
Binance is suspected of illegally providing digital asset services to local customers, and implementing poor money laundering checks …
Intel announces its first quantum processor, Tunnel Falls, a 12-qubit chip using electrons for storing data, available to select academic and research partners
But before quantum physics revolutionizes computing, Intel and rivals will have to learn how to make vastly more powerful machines.
NY AG documents: Tether once counted securities from Chinese companies among its reserves; Tether said in July 2022 that it held no Chinese commercial paper
Tether Holdings Ltd. once counted securities issued by Chinese companies among the reserves backing its USDT stablecoin …
How the “arms race” of SEO experts has left Google Search and the web drowning in garbage text, resulting in customers and businesses failing to find each other
The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.
In a meeting with Bill Gates, Xi Jinping says China is willing to engage in tech cooperation with the US; Xi is expected to meet Antony Blinken later this week
President Xi Jinping said China is willing to work with the world on technology innovation and global challenges including …
Reddit says 80% of its top subreddits are currently open; Reddark estimates that 5K+ subreddits are limiting access, down from almost 9K on June 12
Reddit Inc. said that most of the company's communities were operating as normal — four days after a protest that shut down thousands …
Hanan Elatr, the widow of Jamal Khashoggi, sues the NSO Group in Virginia, claiming Saudi Arabia used the Israeli company's Pegasus tool to track them both
In the lawsuit, Hanan Elatr says Saudi Arabia used NSO's Pegasus spyware to track her and her husband's whereabouts before he was murdered
In a cease-and-desist order, Texas' securities regulator says crypto lender Abra has been insolvent for months and accuses the company of securities fraud
State regulators say Abra held tens of millions of dollars' worth of assets on now bankrupt platforms.
Intel changes its chip naming scheme: drops the “i”, opts for a more straightforward Core 3, 5, and 7 structure, and puts its premium chips under an Ultra brand
Twitter suspends the accounts of public records database PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, who has tracked litigation against Tesla and Twitter
- Elon Musk-led Twitter on Tuesday suspended the Twitter accounts of PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, a prominent critic of Tesla and Musk.
CISA confirms “several” US federal government agencies “experienced intrusions” in the hack of Progress' MOVEit Transfer tool and is providing support to them
highlighting the need modernize our cybersecurity. I am working to bolster our cybersecurity defenses & ensure that the federal government's networks are secure from future attacks. https://www.nbcne...
The UK CMA clears Amazon's proposed $1.7B iRobot deal, saying acquiring the robot vacuum maker would have “no impact on competition in the UK”
So yeah, no competition impact indeed. Tweets: @cmagovuk : We have cleared Amazon's $1.7bn purchase of iRobot. Our full text decision on why we cleared the merger will be published in due course. Find...
Twitch launches a Partner Plus tier, offering a 70/30 revenue sharing split to creators who have 350+ recurring paid subscriptions for three consecutive months
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Amazon formally opens Metropolitan Park in Arlington, Virginia, marking the first phase of HQ2, where the company plans to bring 25K highly paid workers by 2030
Teo Armus / Washington Post :
Micron plans to invest $603M in a chip packaging facility in Xian, China; the country banned Micron's products from its critical infrastructure in May 2023
Meta shifts to a country-by-country approach for its COVID-19 misinfo rules, ending them in countries like the US where COVID is no longer a national emergency
Washington Post :
Meta unveils Voicebox generative text-to-speech model that could do to spoken word what ChatGPT did for text, but won't release an app citing misuse risks
But the company won't be sharing the app or its source code for the time being. — Today, we are one step closer …
Apple Vision Pro shows that current AR/VR devices, like Meta's Quest, aren't good enough to break out of the gaming market and need a step change in capability
The narrative for VR and AR has been pretty static for years. We have a dream of AR devices that look like a pair of glasses … LinkedIn: Benedict Evans and Gurdeep Pall Tweets: @twizzles7 , @bernardl...
Sources: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe have met News Corp, the NYT, and others to discuss copyright issues over LLMs and a possible subscription fee
Financial Times :
The White House says Live Nation and Ticketmaster plan to start showing consumers upfront all-in pricing in September 2023, as part of a “junk fees” crackdown
Intel plans to invest as much as $4.6B to build a semiconductor assembly and test facility in Wroclaw, Poland, as the EU seeks to boost chip production
Wojciech Moskwa / Bloomberg :
Digital assets platform Bakkt delists Solana, Polygon, and Cardano, taking proactive action until there is regulatory clarity on offering coins compliantly
Leo Schwartz / Fortune :
The US DOJ charges a Russian national in Arizona for allegedly deploying LockBit ransomware, the third LockBit affiliate the US has charged since November 2022
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Microsoft details Cadet Blizzard, a GRU hacking group behind the WhisperGate data-wiping attacks in Ukraine carried out a month before Russia's 2022 invasion
New Zealand sentences two men who ran the once wildly popular pirating website Megaupload to over two years in prison, ending an 11-year US extradition battle
Valve releases its Steam update announced in April 2023, offering a big UI makeover, unifying its Desktop, Big Picture Mode, and Steam Deck codebases, and more
Sean Hollister / The Verge :
Sources: Meta is working on ways to make the next version of LLaMA available for commercial use; the open-source LLM is currently only licensed for research use
Meta wants to make the next version of LLaMA — its open source LLM —available for commercial use. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... @SylviaVarnham @jon_victor_ [image] @rafat : This is big, definite...
The Senate Judiciary Committee advances the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which would help news outlets jointly negotiate with tech companies
Southeast Asian officials say the bloc is drafting AI governance and ethics guidelines to impose “guardrails”, expected to be completed by the end of 2023
Reuters : Tweets: @alondra and @robinwauters Tweets: Alondra Nelson / @alondra : Planning for an “ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics” is underway https://twitter.com/... @robinwauters : The word...
How Microsoft's bet on OpenAI due to transfer learning, an approach that wasn't yet commercialized, may help Microsoft leapfrog Google and corner the AI market
Bloomberg :
Adobe reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.82B, vs. $4.77B est., Digital Media revenue up 10% YoY to $3.51B, and Digital Experience revenue up 12% YoY to $1.22B
Jon Swartz / MarketWatch :
Meta expands Instagram's Broadcast Channels globally, letting users share public, one-to-many messages, images, and other content with their followers
Court filing: JPMorgan says Frank founder Charlie Javice allegedly told her team to inflate public user numbers to 4.25M, treating website visitors as users
Joshua Franklin / Financial Times :
Alibaba plans to launch its e-commerce site Tmall in Europe, already started with a pilot in Spain, a significant step in the company's international expansion
Invidious, an open-source “alternative front-end” for YouTube that removes tracking and ads, says YouTube sent a cease-and-desist letter over API violations
Kaiko: the average daily trading volume for the top 10 crypto tokens fell to $10B in Q2 2023, down from the $18B in Q1 2023, amid the US regulatory crackdown
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