Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information
Meta notes government sources not blocked as northerners duck ban by sharing screenshots of information
Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute
Elon Musk says X's — formerly Twitter's — block feature is on the chopping block …
Western Digital refused to answer questions about how its portable SanDisk Extreme SSDs might lose all the data; the company is being sued over data-loss issues
Eleven days ago, we sent these questions to Western Digital's head of PR and published them publicly on The Verge:
Cruise is complying with a California DMV request to cut its fleet by 50% as the regulator probes “recent concerning incidents” involving Cruise robotaxis
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following a crash Thursday night with a fire truck.
A district court judge upheld a US Copyright Office finding that artwork created by AI isn't eligible for copyright protection because it lacks human authorship
A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.
US intelligence agencies warn China and Russia are targeting private US space companies and preparing cyberattacks that could disable satellites in a conflict
U.S. officials say Chinese and Russian spy agencies are trying to steal technology from private American space companies …
Draft IPO filing: Arm's revenue fell 1% YoY to $2.68B in its fiscal year ended on March 31, 2023; sources: Arm plans to sell ~10% of its shares in its listing
- Decline in revenue is according to US accounting standards — Arm's parent SoftBank posted gains for unit under IFRS
Credit card processor Checkout.com cuts its Binance contract short over regulatory “actions and orders in relevant jurisdictions” and money laundering concerns
Checkout.com, the London-based credit card processing company that ballooned its business model by servicing billions …
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge demands that Meta lift its “reckless” news ban on Facebook and Instagram for the safety of people fleeing wildfires
The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta (META.O) lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms …
Sources: SoftBank acquired a 25% stake in Arm from its Vision Fund unit at a $64B valuation and plans to make the chip designer's IPO filing public on August 21
Anirban Sen / Reuters :
OpenSea plans to make creator fees optional for new collections from August 31 and enforce creators' preferred fees on all secondary sales through February 2024
MK Manoylov / The Block :
Email: Amazon offers some creators up to $12,500 for 500 videos, or $25 per video, for its TikTok-like shopping feed; creators typically charge $200+ per video
for $25 each Mastodon: Jenn Schiffer / @jenn@pixel.kitchen : @Techmeme amazon would absolutely think influencers cost as much as a banana ($10), lmao bozos X: @kyndhalugc : Amazon is offering creators...
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams
of human trafficking. Thousands of people across Southeast Asia are lured with the promise of good jobs, then trapped and forced to scam. Zeke Faux / @zekefaux : It turns out people really do lose mil...
Nestlé, Unilever, and other big advertisers are experimenting with using generative AI ads, but many remain wary of the security, copyright, and data bias risks
Some of the world's biggest advertisers, from food giant Nestle (NESN.S) to consumer goods multinational Unilever (ULVR.L) …
PE firm Ethical Capital Partners, which acquired MindGeek in March 2023, rebrands the Pornhub owner as Aylo, seeking a “fresh start” after a series of scandals
Pornhub's shadowy parent company MindGeek said it is changing its name as its new owners seek a “fresh start” for the scandal-ridden smut empire.
A profile of and interview with Max Tegmark, co-founder of Elon Musk-backed Future of Life Institute, who warns AI could pose an existential threat to humanity
Long optimistic about the possibilities of artificial intelligence, the MIT physicist now says companies and governments must work together … X: @sharongoldman , @danakst , @wsj , and @emilybobrow X: ...
Private equity firm EQT plans to take German software company SUSE private at €16/share, below its 2021 IPO's €30 price but above August 17's €9.6 closing price
Simon Sharwood / The Register :
Twitch plans to roll out a long-requested anti-harassment feature within weeks that automatically blocks a streamer's banned users from watching their streams
your voices helped this happen 💜 @camillapanda : @LowcoTV I hope they go the Instagram route and ANY account tied with the email or phone number is preemptively banned too. See also Mediagazer
Meta updates Threads with a Repost tab on users' profile pages and adds reposts to the reverse-chronological Following feed
I think the reposts tab could be pretty useful. https://www.theverge.com/... Joshua Topolsky / @joshuatopolsky : Had a REVEALING conversation with former @threads editor-in-chief @katienotopoulos. Sh...
How robots equipped with cameras, sensors, AI, and lasers are helping spot and repair problems with bridges, ships, and other critical infrastructure in the US
Robots fly, walk, swim and crawl with new sensors and artificial intelligence to spot—and sometimes fix—problems. Mastodon: @mimsical@mastodon.social Mastodon: Christopher Mims / @mimsical@mastodon.so...
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 :
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 :
KPMG: Canadian fintech investments, including VC, private equity, and M&A, totaled $353.7M across 57 deals in H1 2023, vs. $834.1M across 109 deals in H1 2022
Manya Saini / Reuters :
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