Meta updates Threads with a Repost tab on users' profile pages and adds reposts to the reverse-chronological “Following” feed
Threads is adding reposts (aka retweets) to its reverse-chronological “Following” feed, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced in a Threads post on Thursday.
Lyft and Uber threaten to leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill on August 23 that mandates at least $1.40/mile and $0.51/minute for drivers
New York CNN — — Lyft and Uber threatened to stop doing business in Minneapolis after the city council adopted a new rule Thursday …
OpenSea plans to make creator fees optional for new collections from August 31, and enforce creator fees on certain existing collections through February 2024
- OpenSea has opted to make creator fees optional for new collections, starting in September. — The platform will disable …
Microsoft plans to close its Xbox 360 Store and Xbox 360 Marketplace on July 29, 2024, meaning users will no longer be able to buy games, DLC, avatars, and more
Backwards Compatibility titles can still be purchased via Xbox One and Series. — https://news.xbox.com/... [image] X: Chris Scullion / @scully1888 : Yer man's been busy this afternoon: Here's your ...
PE firm EQT plans to take the German software company SUSE private at €16/share, below the €30 price of its 2021 IPO but above Thursday's closing price of €9.6
Buyout offer is at €16 per share, compared to €30 at its 2021 IPO — Linux-loving software house SUSE …
Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company's annual gross profit by €35M
An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform
Mandiant: the use of AI to conduct politically-motivated online influence campaigns has grown in recent years, but the impact of such campaigns has been limited
Google-owned U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant said on Thursday it had seen increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) …
Twitch plans to roll out a long-requested anti-harassment feature in the next few weeks, letting streamers block banned users from watching streams
Twitch's chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with.
Meta starts rolling out HD photo support globally in WhatsApp for Android, iOS, and the web, and says the company plans to add support for HD videos soon
now you can send in HD! [video] @apas : And yet: still waiting for a native iPad app. @johnwilson : There's likely a big market for a premium service that doesn't downgrade photos and videos. Not sure...
Sources: Meta is preparing to release “Code Llama”, a free code-generating AI model based on Llama 2, as soon as next week
Meta Platforms is preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate programming code, a challenge to proprietary software from OpenAI …
A book excerpt traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar that use forced labor to run pig butchering scams involving Tether
The mysterious WhatsApp message arrived one night in August 2022, while I was out at a bar with a friend: “Hi David, I'm Vicky Ho don't you remember me?” X: @bw , @bw , @joelwebershow , @yueqi_yang , ...
London-based credit card processor Checkout.com abruptly terminates its contract with Binance citing reports of regulatory actions and money laundering concerns
Checkout.com, the London-based credit card processing company that ballooned its business model by servicing billions …
Microsoft plans to hold a “special event” in NYC on September 21, 2023, likely to announce Surface hardware including the Go 4, Laptop Studio 2, and Laptop Go 3
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Email: Amazon is offering $12,500 to some creators for 500 videos, or $25 a video, for its TikTok-like shopping feed; creators typically charge $200+ per video
- Content creators typically charge more than $200 a pop — Amazon.com Inc., looking to amp up its TikTok-like shopping feed …
KPMG: Canadian fintech activity totaled $353.7M across 57 deals from January 2023 to June 2023, down from $834.1M across 109 deals for same time period in 2022
Investment in Canada's financial technology sector was reduced to less than half in the first six months of 2023 from last year …
Nonprofit Garbo plans to drop its background checking tool used by Match Group's apps on August 31, saying most tech companies “see trust and safety as good PR”
Tinder is shutting down its background check tool because it disagreed with the non-profit that built the tool on how the tool would be used on the site. … X: Danny Groner / @dannygroner : I have neve...
A group of crypto investors and developers loses its Coinbase-funded lawsuit arguing that the US Treasury overstepped its authority in sanctioning Tornado Cash
And of course, it lost the case. https://www.coindesk.com/...
ProjectDiscovery, a free vulnerability scanning service that monitors websites, apps, APIs, and cloud services for exploits, raised a $25M Series A led by CRV
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Sei launches its trading-focused blockchain and SEI hits $1.6B in trading volume in the first 24 hours, per CoinMarketCap; many users criticized SEI's airdrop
Sam Kessler / CoinDesk :
Netflix partners with Jio Platforms, India's largest telecom operator, to bundle its Netflix Basic streaming tier with two of the carrier's pay-as-you-go plans
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Arthur launches Arthur Bench, an open-source tool for comparing the performance of LLMs, like OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and Meta's Llama 2, for specific use cases
here's which is worst Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE : Arthur launches open-source tool to help companies make data-driven decisions about LLMs X: Ina Fried / @inafried : Startup @itsArthurAI's new tool ai...
Cofense discovers a phishing campaign that uses QR codes to mainly target a notable US energy company, the first known use of QR codes for phishing at scale
Filing: NYC-based AI startup Elemental Cognition raised nearly $60M; AI researcher David Ferrucci, who led the team behind IBM Watson, founded Elemental in 2015
Hayden Field / CNBC :
Llion Jones, who co-authored Google's transformer paper, and David Ha, the former head of Google's AI research arm in Japan, launch Sakana AI in Tokyo
The European Commission plans to make a regulatory assessment of Qualcomm's bid to acquire Israel-based fabless chipmaker Autotalks, first announced in May 2023
Microsoft plans to discontinue Azure Kinect Developer Kit, the depth-sensing camera the company released in 2019, in October 2023, or sooner if supplies run out
John Callaham / Neowin :
Google launches a new Transparency Center to let users report harmful content, make appeals, read transparency reports and product or service policies, and more
a central hub for you to learn more about our product policies. — https://lnkd.in/... …
Viome, which sells supplements to customers based on AI-based assessments of their microbiomes, raised an $86.5M Series C, bringing its total funding to $175M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
A deep dive into X's Community Notes, including how the algorithm works, whether the feature actually fights polarization, and its use in high-stakes situations
Shiba Inu's Ethereum Layer 2 network Shibarium goes live, joining 50+ other networks luring users via low fees to an ecosystem for financial services and gaming
Sources: Databricks had a total ~$900M loss in its past two fiscal years, including $380M in the year ending in January 2023, and is moving closer to break-even
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