Google tells Canada's government the company will remove Canadian news links from Search, News, and Discover and close News Showcase when Bill C-18 takes effect
President of Global Affairs, Google & Alphabet … The Government of Canada has enacted a new law called Bill C-18 …
Filing: Fidelity refiles for a spot bitcoin ETF with the US SEC, after similar applications from BlackRock, Invesco, WisdomTree, Valkyrie, Bitwise, and others
but Cathie Wood's Ark is first in line Zoltan Vardai / Forkast : Weekly Market Wrap: Bitcoin breaches US$31,195 following Fidelity's spot Bitcoin ETF application Tolu Ajiboye / Coinspeaker : Fidelity ...
Sources: SEC told Nasdaq and Cboe that their applications to launch spot bitcoin ETFs on behalf of BlackRock and others aren't clear and comprehensive enough
Regulator tells Nasdaq, Cboe that recent filings from BlackRock, Fidelity and others aren't clear and comprehensive
Hackers claim responsibility for an attack on Russian satellite service Dozor-Teleport; IODA project says the network has been offline since 10pm EST on June 28
A group of previously unknown hackers has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the Russian satellite communications …
YouTube is running a test globally that limits ad blocker users to three videos, giving them the option to turn off their tool or subscribe to YouTube Premium
YouTube is currently running what it describes as a “small experiment globally,” warning users to toggle off their ad blockers …
Meta plans to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads; a pilot is set to start with select Android app developers as soon as in 2023
Meta is planning to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads, setting the company up to eventually compete with Google and Apple's app stores.
The Netherlands publishes new export controls to restrict more ASML machines from export to China, starting September 1; ASML doesn't expect a “material impact”
The Netherlands published new export controls that will restrict more of ASML Holding NV's chipmaking machines from being sent to China.
The UK amends its Online Safety Bill, requiring higher age verification standards for porn sites and holding executives personally responsible for child safety
Britain said on Friday it had tightened protections in its Online Safety Bill that will prevent children from viewing pornography …
TSMC confirms it experienced a data breach after being listed as a victim by the LockBit ransomware gang, which is demanding $70M not to publish stolen data
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, has confirmed it's experienced a data breach …
Court documents: Satya Nadella said Azure's cloud server business had $34B in revenue in the year to June 2022; AWS generated $72B in revenue in the same period
For years Microsoft has kept a lid on details about the true size of its Azure cloud server rental business …
Executives from over 150 European companies sign an open letter saying the draft AI Act will jeopardize the EU's competitiveness without addressing challenges
Executives from 150 businesses, including Siemens and Heineken, highlight risks of tight regulation
Canada may think Bill C-18 still has more room for negotiation, based on Meta's 2021 deal with Australia, but tech platforms no longer view news as valuable
On June 22, the Canadian Parliament passed Bill C-18, also known as the Online News Act. The new law, according to a government news release …
Niantic lays off 230 employees, closes its Los Angeles studio, and moves away from in-house game development, saying its expenses grew faster than its revenue
Asus Zenfone 10 review: compact for a 5.9" display, powerful performance, and excellent battery life, but limited cameras and only two years of software updates
Richard Priday / Tom's Guide :
Ten years after Google killed Reader, the team that built the much-beloved app reflects on what went wrong and what could have been
Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been. Bluesky: @dogaker.bsky.social . Mastodon: @mihaip@hachyderm.i...
Some developers paying for Twitter's API, including the $42K/month Enterprise tier, say they are experiencing outages, bugs, and poor or no customer support
Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over. — Twitter's new API may now cost tens of thousands of dollars per month …
The UK CMA worries Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition “could stifle innovation and lead to higher costs” and gives Adobe five days for proposals to address concerns
Britain's competition regulator on Friday said Photoshop owner Adobe Inc's (ADBE.O) $20 billion buyout …
A US bankruptcy judge rules that Celsius “may sell or convert any non-BTC and non-ETH” crypto tokens or assets to Bitcoin or Ethereum starting on July 1, 2023
The sell-off precedes creditor distributions that will only be made in the two most popular cryptocurrencies.
US-based Silver Lake acquires 63%+ of Germany-based enterprise software developer Software AG for €2.4B and plans to delist the company as soon as possible
US-based private equity firm Silver Lake says it's secured a majority stake in Software AG and plans to delist the company as soon as possible.
Email: ad platform MediaMath, which had raised $600M and was reportedly valued at $1B+ in 2018, plans to file for bankruptcy, after acquisition talks fell apart
The house Joe Zawadzki built will be foreclosed. — AdExchanger has learned that the demand-side platform …
Following the collapse of TerraUSD and Luna, South Korea passes the Virtual Asset User Protection law, which defines digital assets, imposes penalties, and more
Hooyeon Kim / Bloomberg :
Meta publishes a deep dive into how AI recommends Facebook and Instagram content, including 22 “system cards” covering AI use in Feed, Stories, Reels, and more
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge :
Trade group NetChoice, whose members include Meta and Twitter, sues Arkansas over a law requiring parental permission for minors to open social media accounts
Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press :
In a letter from prison, South Korean chip executive Choi Jin-seok denies stealing sensitive information from Samsung to build a copycat chip factory in China
An Indian court dismisses Twitter's lawsuit against the government's content rules and fines the company ~$61K for failing to explain its delayed compliance
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Inflection AI, a startup led by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman that released its Pi chatbot in May 2023, raised $1.3B, a source says at a $4B valuation
Microsoft adds AI-powered shopping tools, including GPT-generated buying guides in the US, to its Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in Edge's sidebar
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Sources: Linda Yaccarino advocated for Twitter to rejoin the Tech Coalition, which fights CSAM, and approved $40K in dues; its membership lapsed in March 2023
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal :
Mixtape sites democratized releasing music in the CD era, but with the rise of streaming they face the challenge of archiving music that isn't necessarily legal
https://www.nytimes.com/... Twitter: Tim Larew / @timlarew : Was honored to speak to @Bklyn_Rock for this @nytimes piece about the mixtape + blog eras. This is critical storytelling about a generation...
A test of five AI-image detection tools finds they tend to struggle with altered and low-quality images and sometimes fail even when an image is obviously fake
Sources: TikTok is offering free listings, shipping, zero commissions, and warehousing to Chinese merchants, as it plans to debut its marketplace in the US
Bloomberg :
Ontario-based Passage, which is building a service that helps immigrants access financing to learn and work in Canada, raised a CA$40M seed led by Drive Capital
Josh Scott / BetaKit :
Paris-based Gleamer, which develops AI software for radiologists, including its FDA-cleared BoneView, raised a €27M Series B, taking its total funding to €36M
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
Police in San Francisco and other cities are obtaining warrants for Waymo and Cruise driverless car camera footage to help solve murders and other crimes
What is the difference between these cameras being used and police installing cameras? — This needs to be curtailed! Twitter: Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz : Fascinating story by @byJuliaLove about how ...
NYC-based Venn, which sells a Secure Enclave product that can be installed and controlled on remote employee laptops, raised a $29M Series A led by NewSpring
Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek :
Narwhal, MultiTab, and other third-party Reddit apps plan to keep operating after July 1, but will increase their subscription prices to cover the new API costs
Q&A with Marc Andreessen on “Public Intellectual Marc”, software and the physical world, his AI essay, COVID-19, Twitter, China, a16z, crypto bets, and more
Seoul-based Levit, which operates the shopping app Alwayz that uses social features and gamification to draw customers, raised a $46M Series B led by DST Global
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
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