Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism
RIP Twitter (2007-2023) — On Monday afternoon, a crane rolled up to Twitter's headquarters on Market Street.
Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com
it's just an X that someone tweeted at him Sean Hollister / The Verge : Twitter removed half its HQ sign — then the police arrived Jon Porter / The Verge : RIP Twitter's iconic bird logo Kyle Barr / G...
Elon Musk says Twitter “made sense when it was just 140 character messages” and the move “is not simply a company renaming itself, but doing the same thing”
- Billionaire to build fintech services atop social platform — Discarding the Twitter name reflects loftier goals, he says
A Google researcher finds a vulnerability in AMD's Zen 2 chips, giving access to secure information like encryption keys; AMD expects most patches to come in Q4
A huge Zen 2 leak requires a patch. … Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google Information Security, posted today …
In a two-day test across top Mastodon instances, researchers find 600+ pieces of known or suspected CSAM and ~2,000 posts with the top 20 CSAM-related hashtags
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The Worldcoin Foundation rolls out its Worldcoin token, received after using an eye-scanning “orb”, in 35 cities; Worldcoin plans to retain 20% of its tokens
More than three years ago we founded Worldcoin with the ambition … Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Sam Altman's Worldcoin eyeball-scanning crypto project launches Binance : Binance Will List Worldcoin (WL...
Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY to €3.2B, Premium subscribers grew 17% YoY to 220M, MAUs rose 27% YoY to 551M, and a €112M adjusted operating loss
Spotify Technology SA fell as much as 13% in New York trading after the audio streaming giant reported sales that came …
Spotify confirms raising US Premium to $10.99/month, up from $9.99, the first increase since its US launch in 2011; Duo rises by $2, Family and Student by $1
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Sam Altman's fission startup Oklo and life-extension startup Retro, alongside OpenAI and Worldcoin, may reshape society and will draw regulatory scrutiny
OpenAI chief says public sector has ‘lack of will’ to lead innovation — Sam Altman rolled out a new project to distinguish humans …
A Web Integrity API standard proposal from Google employees aims to help enforce IP rights, count ad views, and limit bots, but is a nightmare for the open web
It's just a “proposal,” but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now. — Google's newest proposed web standard is... DRM?
Apple faces a £785M class action lawsuit, claiming to represent over 1,500 app developers, over its App Store fees at the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal
Apple (AAPL.O) on Tuesday found itself the target of a 785-million-pound ($1 billion) class action lawsuit brought …
At schools across California, some Chromebook models are about to age out of software updates; 13 models hit their death date this summer and 51 will in 2024
At a lofty warehouse in East Oakland, a dozen students have spent their summer days tinkering with laptops.
Apple opens applications for Apple Vision Pro developer kits, offering developers a “loaner” to build apps alongside specialized hardware and software support
here's how you can get one Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : Apple opens up application portal for Vision Pro developer kits PYMNTS.com : Apple Opens Applications to Give Developers Head Start on...
Instagram rolls out creator subscriptions in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK, expanding on support in the US
Meta announced today that it's rolling out Instagram subscriptions to all eligible creators in Australia, Brazil, Canada …
The EU enacts the €43B Chips Act, part of ambitious plans to produce 20% of the world's chips by 2030, after final approval from ministers
The European Union's plan to bolster domestic semiconductor production will become law after ministers completed the final approval on Tuesday.
Netflix rolls out a My Netflix tab on iOS, superseding the Downloads tab to offer downloads, watch lists, reminders, and more; Android gets My Netflix in August
here's what's new GVS-Entertainment : Netflix Launches ‘My Netflix’ Tab on Mobile Apps: Consolidating Downloads, Watch List, Reminders, and More Chris Smith / Trusted Reviews : New My Netflix tab is t...
Threads adds an option for a chronological feed of posts from people the user follows
Meta's text-based social network Threads is rolling out one of the most requested features after its launch — a following feed. The company is also rolling out the ability to see posts you've liked i...
GlobalFoundries CEO Thomas Caulfield criticizes Germany's planned chip subsidies for TSMC, saying the company welcomes competition “on a level playing field”
Chief executive Thomas Caulfield warns that funds from Berlin will distort competition
As open web advocates raise concerns over the Web Environment Integrity proposal, a look at a similar Apple system shipped in 2022 to make Captchas unnecessary
Tim Perry / HTTP Toolkit : Twitter: @pimterry . Forums: Hacker News and r/programming Twitter: Tim Perry / @pimterry : Turns out that Web Environment Integrity proposal everybody is getting angry abo...
Sources: TikTok plans to launch an e-commerce business in the US in early August to sell made-in-China goods to consumers and rival Shein and Temu
TikTok wants to replicate the success of other popular China-founded shopping platforms Shein and Temu — TikTok is launching …
OpenAI shuts down its AI classifier for indicating AI-written text, citing “its low rate of accuracy”, and will research “more effective provenance techniques”
In January, artificial intelligence powerhouse OpenAI announced a tool that could save the world …
OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Android in the US, Bangladesh, and Brazil, and plans to launch in more countries next week
According to a company tweet, it's available first in the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with other countries set to follow later, mimicking the staged rollout we saw for the iOS version.
TikTok rolls out support for text posts, available via the app's Camera page and letting users add sounds, locations, stickers, and more
TikTok Users Can Now Make Text Posts Chris Dawson / ChannelX : TikTok introduces text only posts Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : TikTok challenges Twitter with new text posts feature Kresimir Bla...
Researchers find flaws, likely backdoors, in encryption algorithms from the TETRA standard used in radios commonly deployed by police and military orgs globally
5 New Vulnerabilities Exposed in Widely Used Radio Communication System Thomas Claburn / The Register : TETRA radio comms used by emergency heroes easily cracked, say experts Waqas / HackRead : From P...
An in-depth look at mainframe computers, their 50+ year history, and the IBM mainframe, a business mainstay that represents most of the estimated 10,000 in use
over and over — where me and my colleagues are advising leaders to let the mainframes be, amidst their grand “transformation” plans. Twitter: Peter Zaitsev / @peterzaitsev : In some sectors technology...
Driven by AI demand, TSMC plans to spend nearly $2.9B to build an advanced packaging facility in northern Taiwan and says current capacity is “very tight”
Filing: Binance, CZ, and its former Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim plan to file for the dismissal of a CFTC lawsuit; the CFTC sued the three in March 2023
What Chances Does the Exchange Have? Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk : Binance Says It Intends to File Motion to Dismiss CFTC Complaint Jai Hamid / Cryptopolitan : Binance fights back against CFTC complaint A...
Prosus says Indian edtech giant Byju's “disregarded advice” on “strategic, operational, legal, and corporate governance”, after cutting its valuation to $5.1B
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A US court jury says Google violated a software developer's patent rights related to streaming tech used in Chromecast devices and must pay $338.7M in damages
SIA and Oxford Economics: despite the US chip industry workforce growing to 460K by 2030, up from ~345K in 2023, there will still be a ~67K worker shortfall
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Paris-based defense electronics and cybersecurity company Thales agrees to buy US-based cybersecurity firm Imperva from Thoma Bravo in a deal worth $3.6B
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FTC Chair Lina Khan defends the agency's court record, saying “losing two is OK” and acknowledging difficulties in the Microsoft case due to “vertical mergers”
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Xiaomi plans to focus on 5G phones and reduce its range in India, trying to claw back market share lost to Samsung and other rivals in its second biggest market
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Q&A with Justine Bateman, a member of the DGA, the WGA, and SAG-AFTRA, on how AI may change the industry, the importance of the timing of the strike, and more
A look at government-run internet referral units, starting in 2010 to police content in the UK before spreading globally, as the EU DSA mandates transparency
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A look at the impact of AI on the $200B gaming industry as some executives push for AI adoption and say the changes, while painful, can empower smaller studios
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Sources: Adobe's $20B Figma deal faces an in-depth EU probe as Adobe won't offer remedies for potential competition concerns, after the UK began a similar probe
This is basically Adobe trying to buy their way out of competing with Figma. … Oliver Reichenstein / @reichenstein@mastodon.social : More good news from the EU: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Twitter: ...
The UK plans to force social media and ad platforms like Google Ads to stop scam ads including fake celebrity endorsements and pop-ups with malware
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