Meta rolls out the ability to let users verify their Threads profile on other social media platforms, like Mastodon, using “rel=me” links
To be clear, this isn't a free way to get a blue checkmark next to your Threads name; you'll probably need to pay Meta to get one of those.
Disney plans to raise US prices of Disney+ Premium, Hulu without ads, and ESPN+, and to expand Disney+ ad-supported plans to Canada and nine European countries
Ad-supported Disney+ tier to expand to Canada, U.K. and eight other European countries this fall
Biden signs an executive order banning US investments in some Chinese companies developing advanced semiconductors and quantum computers, starting in 2024
Biden's order will also require U.S. private-equity and venture-capital firms to disclose certain investments
Google, American Airlines, and Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy partner to create more sustainable flight routes by avoiding those that create contrails
Google has been working with American Airlines and Bill Gates' climate investment fund, Breakthrough Energy, to chart more sustainable flight routes.
X unveils Sensitivity Settings and Enhanced Blocklist to boost brand safety and control for advertisers, rolling out over the next few weeks in the Ads Manager
The new tools give marketers more say over ad placement. — X, formerly known as Twitter, has launched two new features …
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads plans to add several features this week: share posts to Instagram DMs, a mention button, and a way to add custom alt-text for media
or the point is to pair them Jessica / @jessicaexploring : That share to your IG DMs is the prayer I didn't even know I needed to have answered Frank Gilroy / @beingrealfrank : Hmmm... curious. None ...
A closer look at the UK Electoral Commission hack, disclosed nine months after discovery, which likely relied on a now-patched Microsoft Exchange Server flaw
Evidence appears to show a critical 0-day tracked as ProxyNotShell was exploited. — It's looking more and more likely …
Bob Iger says Disney is “actively exploring ways” to crack down on password sharing and “will roll out tactics to drive monetization sometime in 2024”
here's why David Satin / The Streamable : Iger Says Disney Is Ready to Employ Measures to Stop Password Sharing Starting in 2024 Michael Grothaus / Fast Company : Disney knows you're sharing that stre...
X CEO Linda Yaccarino reinstates the company's “client council”, an invite-only group of marketing and ad executives whose members have not yet been decided
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times :
Y00ts, once among the top Solana-based NFT projects and that moved to Polygon in 2022, plans to migrate to Ethereum and will return its $3M grant from Polygon
The popular project, which started out on Solana and migrated to Polygon earlier this year, said it would return 100% of the grant money it received.
Filing: the US SEC plans to appeal a court ruling in July that Ripple's programmatic sales of XRP to retail investors on exchanges didn't violate securities law
A federal judge ruled that while Ripple's direct sales of XRP to institutional investors violated securities law …
Fireblocks discloses BitForge, a set of zero-day flaws affecting widely-used crypto wallet providers; Coinbase, Binance, and Zengo have patched BitForge flaws
Fireblocks said the vulnerabilities affecting Coinbase, Binance and Zengo have since been fixed and has reached out to more than 12 others still at risk.
In an interview, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says she has “autonomy” under Elon Musk, X plans to add video calls, is “close” to break-even as brands return, and more
Twitter CEO Elon Musk, left, speaks with Linda Yaccarino on April 18, 2023.
Some TikTok content creators are using AI to recreate the likeness of deceased or missing children, giving them “voices” to narrate what happened to them
These are some of the world's most high-profile criminal cases involving children. These are stories of abuse, abduction …
Sources: Amazon cuts dozens of in-house brands in clothing, furniture, and more to placate regulators and grow profits; Amazon says Basics will remain a focus
Company's cuts include all but three of its 30 clothing labels, such as Goodthreads and Lark & Ro
The EU did not immediately follow Biden's EO banning Chinese tech investment outright and instead plans to release its own proposals by year-end
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Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$32.2B, beating analyst estimates of ~$31.1B, and a ~$4.7B net income, as its core e-commerce arm returned to growth
- Core e-commerce returned to growth for first time in a year — Alibaba is trying to revive its business in a volatile economy
Filing: Twitter was fined $350K for not giving Trump's account data after special counsel Jack Smith got a warrant in January 2023; Twitter ultimately complied
Remember when Donald Trump tweeted? Of course you do! James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : X Corp. hit with fine for not turning over data on Donald Trump Ryan Ozawa / Decrypt : Did Special Counsel Jack Sm...
Researchers: since 2014, Belarus-linked hackers, dubbed MoustachedBouncer, have targeted foreign diplomats in the country by intercepting ISP connections
Hackers with apparent links to the Belarusian government have been targeting foreign diplomats in the country for nearly 10 years, according to security researchers.
Check Point buys rival cybersecurity company Perimeter 81 for $490M in a “cash free, debt free” deal; Perimeter 81 raised $100M at a $1B valuation in June 2022
There is yet more M&A coming out of the security industry. In the latest development, Check Point …
Filing: autonomous sidewalk delivery company Serve Robotics, which was spun out from Uber-owned Postmates and raised $56M, to go public via a SPAC merger
Serve Robotics, the autonomous sidewalk delivery robot startup that spun out of Uber's acquisition of Postmates, is going public via a reverse merger with a blank check company.
Lyft begins serving in-app ads to riders as they wait for rides, when they match with a driver, and during their trips, and plans to add video ads by year-end
The ride-sharing company and its larger rival, Uber, are racing to build significant ad operations
SCOTUS lets Apple keep its App Store payment rules for now, rejecting an Epic request that would have let developers start directing users to cheaper options
For Now Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac : Supreme Court refuses to speed up major App Store change PYMNTS.com : Apple Wins, for Now, With Supreme Court in Epic Games Fight Jon Swartz / MarketWatch : Supreme Co...
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 review: powerful multitasking, new hinge folds flat, and good support, but still pricey, heavy, and clunky, with unknown durability
save up to $1,000 today Mike Lowe / T3 : Best foldable phones 2023: the top folding phones to buy and why Sumit Adhikari / Android Headlines : Samsung video shows Galaxy Z Fold 5, Flip 5 assembly & la...
Slack unveils its biggest redesign yet, adding a Home section, a left sidebar, a DMs section similar to the one in Teams, and “a unified inbox” Activity window
The US debuts a DARPA contest to build AI systems that can proactively identify and fix software flaws, with help from Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI
a competition to automatically find/fix software vulnerabilities. Details: https://www.darpa.mil/... [image] Charley Snyder / @charley_snyder_ : Can AI help secure open source software projects? We'll...
Researchers at Black Hat detail a months-long investigation into Deckmate, the most widely used casino shuffling machine, finding a flaw to give “full control”
Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler to learn the exact deck order—and the hand of every player at a poker table. Mastodon: @agreenberg@infosec.exchange . Bl...
Yandex co-founder and former CEO Arkady Volozh says “Russia's invasion of Ukraine is barbaric”, as Yandex plans a Russian spin off from its Dutch parent company
Alexander Marrow / Reuters :
Coinbase's Base mainnet opens to the public featuring 100+ dApps and service providers as part of the ecosystem, after a developer-specific release in July 2023
@BuildOnBase mainnet is here. Time to bring the next billion users onchain. Mint “Base Day One” and watch the NFT evolve as more people come onchain. https://onchainsummer.xyz/base [image] @santiagoro...
Lagos-based Moove, which offers car financing to ride-hailing drivers in Africa, the UK, India, and the UAE, raises $76M in equity and debt at a $550M valuation
Will Louch / Financial Times :
Aptos Labs partners with Microsoft to build a ChatGPT-powered Aptos Assistant and plans to host validator nodes on Azure; GitHub will add Aptos' Move to Copilot
A profile of James Manyika, Google's SVP of Research, Technology, & Society, who signed a statement warning that AI poses a “risk of extinction” to humanity
But At What Cost? Bluesky: Chris G / @hypervisible.bsky.social : If you put something into the world and disaster ensues, bad things didn't “happen.” You caused the “bad things.” A huge part of anth...
The US Federal Reserve launches a program to oversee banks' crypto activity and further explains how banks need pre-approvals for engaging with stablecoins
Q&A with MIT economics professor David Autor on how AI can be used to make some people's skills more valuable, the risks AI poses to emerging markets, and more
Delphine Strauss / Financial Times :
OpenAI expands custom instructions, the details that ChatGPT needs to remember, to all users, after launching them in July 2023 in beta
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
SMIC reports Q2 revenue down 18% YoY to $1.9B and net income dropped 21.7% YoY to $402.76M, weighed down by US sanctions and slow global chip supply demand
Sheila Chiang / CNBC :
Filing: FTX criticizes “unrestricted” traders and market makers on its creditor panel, accusing them of seeking control of assets and “unprofessional conduct”
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg :
Private equity firm Symphony Technology Group plans to acquire media editing software maker Avid Technology for ~$1.4B and expects the deal to close in Q4 2023
CISA releases a report detailing Lapsus$'s key techniques and calls on the FTC and FCC for stricter SIM swapping rules and a transition to a passwordless future
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Berlin-based Deepset, which helps companies build “complex LLM applications” and add NLP to apps, raised $30M led by Balderton, taking its total funding to $46M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Analysis: Tencent's Sogou Input Method, the top Chinese character inputting tool in China with 450M+ MAUs, had since-fixed data-leaking flaws in its encryption
Sources: Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba ordered $5B in Nvidia chips each, for delivery in 2023, as some worry the US may soon clamp down on their export
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