After a contentious public hearing, the California Public Utilities Commission will let Waymo and Cruise operate driverless cabs 24/7 throughout San Francisco
Waymo and Cruise were approved to operate their robotaxi services 24/7 in San Francisco after a contentious six-hour public hearing …
An interview with X CEO Linda Yaccarino on having “autonomy” under Elon Musk, planning to add video calls, payments between users, brands returning, and more
- X CEO Linda Yaccarino explained to CNBC on Thursday why the company decided to get rid of its Twitter branding.
Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association to foster RHEL-based distributions development, after Red Hat limited RHEL source code access
The fallout from Red Hat's recent decision to make it harder to access to the source code of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution continues.
Researchers deployed exposed Windows servers as honeypots for hackers, recording 190M events and 100 hours of video of their actions, like installing malware
Imagine being able to sit behind a hacker and observe them take control of a computer and play around with it.
Filing: Bittrex agrees to pay $24M to settle US SEC claims that the crypto exchange failed to register with the agency; Bittrex doesn't admit to the allegations
Bittrex has agreed to pay $24 million to settle claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the cryptocurrency exchange failed …
Biden's Chinese tech EO leaves US VCs and private equity firms trying to work out the impact on their holdings and weighing up strategies to comply or exit
Private equity and venture capital funds targeted in Biden administration's crackdown — After President Joe Biden announced a ban …
Sources: the US Cyber Safety Review Board, created by Biden, plans to investigate cloud computing risks, including Microsoft's recent government email breach
- Cyber Safety Review Board to examine targeting of cloud — Senator Wyden had called for investigations of Microsoft
X unveils Sensitivity Settings and Enhanced Blocklist to boost brand safety and control for advertisers, rolling out over the next few weeks in X Ads Manager
Teens replicated a 2008 hack of Boston's subway fare system and were invited to present their work, a contrast to the transit authority's response 15 years ago
In 2008, Boston's transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Mastodon: @jennifer@defcon.social . X: @kurtopsahl and @a_...
Circle has $1B+ in cash and had $779M in revenue in H1 2023, compared to $772M for all of 2022; USDC in circulation has fallen to ~$26B from ~$45B in January
Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg :
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to add Threads features this week: share posts to Instagram DMs, a mention button, and a way to add custom alt text for media
Jay Peters / The Verge :
How yesteryear's screenless fitness bands were largely replaced by either more powerful and cheaper smartwatches or wearables with pricey monthly subscriptions
Smartwatches are the default wearable option these days, but why is it so hard to find simple yet affordable alternatives like the fitness bands of yesteryear?
Y00ts, once a top Solana-based NFT project and that moved to Polygon in December 2022, plans to migrate to Ethereum and to return its $3M grant from Polygon
this time to Ethereum Vineet / NFT Evening : DeGods Leave Polygon, Move y00ts to Ethereum, and Return $3 Million Grant! Rony Roy / crypto.news : Y00ts shifts from Polygon to Ethereum, returns $3m gran...
At an Australian Parliament hearing, an X executive defended restoring an account that shared CSAM as an example of sharing “out of outrage to raise awareness”
At Australian parliamentary hearing, company points to content being shared ‘out of outrage to raise awareness of an issue’
Google, American Airlines, and Bill Gates' fund Breakthrough Energy partner to use AI to chart more sustainable flights by avoiding routes that create contrails
Justine Calma / The Verge :
X lowers eligibility threshold for ads revenue sharing from 15M to 5M impressions within the past 3 months; Musk says only views from “verified handles” count
Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, said late Thursday that it is lowering requirements for its creator payout program.
CISA releases a report detailing Lapsus$'s key techniques, calls for passwordless logins, and asks the FTC and the FCC for stricter SIM swapping protections
> Homeland Security report details how teen hackers exploited security weaknesses in some of the world's biggest companies. “We are seeing a rise in juvenile cybercrime,” @SecMayorkas told CNN. https:...
Sources and docs detail Worldcoin's struggle to define its purpose, the orb not scanning Asian people, a flaw allowing multiple signups per person, and more
Is it a crypto company? A biometric authentication platform? A “human economic system”? Inside Worldcoin's struggle to find itself.
Skydio shuts down its consumer drone business and plans to expand its enterprise offerings, after raising a $230M Series E at a $2.2B valuation in February 2023
its consumer drones are dead X: @btd75 : No surprises here if you know anything about the drone industry. Note of caution though sales cycles in the enterprise and public sector space can be long and ...
Fireblocks discloses BitForge, a set of zero-day flaws affecting widely used crypto wallets; Coinbase, Binance, and Zengo have patched their BitForge flaws
Tom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph :
DCG and Barry Silbert file a motion to dismiss Gemini's fraud lawsuit, claiming Gemini fails to properly claim fraud and engages in “character assassination”
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg :
To fight spam, YouTube plans to deactivate links in Shorts descriptions, comments, and the vertical feed from August 31 and make social media icons unclickable
ION Group, which develops trading, analytics, and other software for financial markets, to buy Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B
U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group …
Hosting provider Uberspace takes down youtube-dl's website, which linked to YouTube ripping software, while appealing a German court order forcing the takedown
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Sources: Meta plans to build only ~1,000 units of its first-gen AR glasses, due in 2024, which use silicon carbide in the lenses, requiring assembly in the US
Sources: the Kremlin's fear of a serious tech brain drain is the main factor preventing Moscow from nationalizing the Nasdaq-listed Yandex, which has 20K+ staff
California-based Virtualitics, which provides data visualizations that can be viewed in AR and VR, raised a $37M Series C, bringing its total funding to $67M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Filing: the US SEC plans to appeal a July 2023 court ruling that Ripple's programmatic XRP sales to retail investors on exchanges didn't violate securities law
OpenAI expands “custom instructions”, the user's details that ChatGPT should remember, to all users, after launching the ChatGPT Plus beta feature in July 2023
Sources: ByteDance's China revenue grew 25% YoY in 2022 to $69B, down from 68% YoY growth in 2021; overseas revenue grew from $6.5B in 2021 to $16B in 2022
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