After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months
- Musk hasn't agreed on a date for the fight, Meta CEO says — Meta's Threads launch helped fuel the Musk-Zuckerberg rivalry
A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT
Sam Bankman-Fried's bail was revoked ahead of his October fraud trial, a U.S. judge said on Friday, after prosecutors accused …
Poland arrests five people as Europol and the DOJ take down the Lolek “bulletproof” host for allegedly facilitating Netwalker ransomware and other attacks
Update 8/11/23: Updated with information from DOJ about alleged Netwalker Ransomware involvement.
Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow details Veilid, an open-source, P2P application framework, and unveils VeilidChat, a Signal-like instant messaging app
'It's like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing' — DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid …
a16z crypto unveils Lasso and Jolt, a pair of new tools based on Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge, or SNARK, to help enable scalable ZK-rollups
- A division of Andreessen Horowitz, a16z crypto, has introduced two technologies, Lasso and Jolt, related to SNARKs.
Amazon is removing or reducing packaging to speed up deliveries, cut costs, and meet climate goals, amid concerns that visible products could lead to issues
The retail giant is reducing packaging on millions of deliveries — Millions of Amazon orders are arriving on doorsteps across the U.S. without any extra packaging.
Some Cruise car riders say they've had sex in the driverless vehicles in SF over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit eating in their cars but not drinking
An Illustration generated by the artificial intelligence program Midjourney depicts two people making out in an autonomous vehicle.
UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying the “Great 78 Project” is an “illegal record store” for songs
Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued …
After a contentious public hearing, the California Public Utilities Commission allows Waymo and Cruise to operate driverless cabs 24/7 throughout San Francisco
prompting a vow from angry residents to continue staging traffic cone protests Nadia Bidarian / CNN : Regulators give green light to driverless taxis in San Francisco Shannon Connellan / Mashable : Ro...
The Hollywood Professional Association, which includes Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, urges the AMPTP, the WGA, and SAG-AFTRA to find a strike resolution soon
“Organizations indispensable to the creation of media are cutting staff... and in some cases, even risk closing,” the Hollywood Professional Association writes
Illinois passes the US' first law protecting child influencers, entitling influencers under age 16 and featured kids of influencers to a percentage of earnings
Illinois has officially passed the nation's first legislation aimed at protecting child influencers, in a move advocates … Threads: @phil.lewis . X: @ellepolloloca , @fortesalatifi , @fortesalatifi , ...
SEC filing: NYC-based digital lender Better.com plans to go public via a SPAC merger, raising $750M, after announcing plans in May 2021 for a $7.7B SPAC merger
Shareholders at SPAC partner Aurora Acquisitions voted in favor of the merger proposal — New York-based digital lender Better.com …
How SCOTUS overturning the sports betting ban in 2018 transformed the sector into a high-growth tech business; many fear a surge in gambling addiction is coming
Americans have bet $245bn on sporting events since restrictions were loosened in 2018. But many fear a surge in gambling addiction is coming
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
Agrees to Pay $24 Million Rick Morgan / Seattle Business Journal : Seattle crypto exchange Bittrex reaches $24M settlement with SEC Dimitar Dzhondzhorov / CryptoPotato : Embattled Crypto Exchange to P...
A look at friend.tech, a decentralized social app built on Base that has driven 4,400 ETH in trading volume since launching its invite-only beta on Thursday
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Zoom updates its terms of service and a recent blog post to explicitly say that the company won't use “communications-like customer content” to train AI models
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A look at Stanford University's efforts to educate Congress on AI, including a boot camp covering AI's potential to reshape education and a primer on deepfakes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... X: Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : D.C. aides get wined and dined at Stanford AI event, @nitashatiku reports https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Steven Overly / @s...
X lowers its eligibility threshold for ad revenue sharing from 15M to 5M impressions in the past three months; Musk: “only views from verified handles count”
eventually Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : X Significantly Reduces the Requirements of Its Creator Ad Revenue Share Program X: Elon Musk / @elonmusk : This essentially means that X Premium (f...
How yesteryear's screenless fitness bands were largely replaced by either more powerful and cheaper smartwatches or wearables with pricey monthly subscriptions
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Chindata Group plans to go private in a $3.16B deal with Bain Capital, ending months of uncertainty on the future of the Chinese data center operator
Manya Saini / Reuters :
Sources: Modular, which offers AI development tools and a programming language, is discussing a Series A at a ~$600M valuation, after a $30M seed in June 2022
Kate Clark / The Information : X: @lauramandaro X: Laura Mandaro / @lauramandaro : New: Startups are aiming to loosen Nvidia's stranglehold on the market for AI chips. Modular, co-founded by the crea...
ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B
US VC and PE firms are assessing how Biden's executive order on Chinese tech impacts their holdings and are weighing strategies to comply or exit China
Biden signed an executive order to block US VCs & PE firms investing in quantum computing, advanced chips and artificial intelligence in an effort to stop China's military from accessing American fund...
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