The EU's DSA goes into effect, forcing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to let users opt out of profiling-based content recommendations
Internet users in the European Union are logging on to a quiet revolution on mainstream social networks today: The ability to say ‘no thanks’ to being attention hacked by AI.
FTX, Genesis, and BlockFi customer data is compromised after a SIM swap against an employee of Kroll, which manages creditor claims for the bankrupt companies
A ‘cybersecurity incident’ affected Kroll, which gathers customer claim data on behalf of bankrupt companies. — Register Now
Cisco Talos: North Korea's Lazarus is using a new malware variant to target internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare entities in Europe and the US
A notorious hacking group working on behalf of the North Korean government is using a new strain of malware to attack healthcare entities …
Huawei and Ericsson renew a multiyear global patent cross-licensing deal for 5G and other technologies; Huawei owns 20% of global 5G patents
Agreement gives Chinese group a boost after being subject to bans in Europe and the US — Huawei has sealed a multiyear patent cross-licensing deal …
Sources: a company spending $800M+ to buy thousands of acres to build a new Bay Area city is backed by Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, and others
A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land.
X launches its job posting feature X Hiring in beta for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates”
Who goes to LinkedIn to look for a job? Nah, those days are over. X is the new place to find your next employer.
YouTube offers insights meant to guide Shorts creators, including how the Shorts algorithm differs from long-form YouTube's algorithm and what counts as a view
YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators' questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts.
AMD announces new Radeon RX 7000 series video cards, the $449 RX 7700 XT and the $499 7800 XT, based on its new Navi 32 GPU and aimed at the 1440p gaming market
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Despite cheating and misinformation fears, some US schools that once raced to block AI chatbot access are now encouraging teachers and students to use them
Some districts that once raced to block A.I. chatbots are now trying to embrace them. — For decades, Walla Walla High School …
Instacart files for a US IPO, reports 2022 revenue up 39% YoY to $2.55B, $428M net income, up from a $73M loss in 2021, and H1 2023 revenue up 31% YoY to $1.48B
Common Stock This is an initial public offering of shares of common stock … Bill Peters / MarketWatch : Instacart files for IPO, joining crowded field of gig-economy names as markets rebound Hayden Fi...
Mastercard and Binance plan to end their Latin America and Middle East card partnership on September 22; Visa stopped issuing Binance cards in Europe in July
Where does it go from here for Binance and I wonder what some of the jurisdictions …
How Meta and YouTube, battered by content moderation wars, are following X in retreating from policing political misinformation, raising US 2024 election fears
Following Elon Musk's lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation — Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential ele...
The US Treasury proposes new rules that would treat crypto exchanges more like stockbrokers, requiring them to report gross proceeds to the IRS starting in 2026
including DAOs and certain wallet providers—or to create them... Emily Wilkins / @emrwilkins : US Treasury and IRS out with a new proposed rule today on taxing crypto and digital assets. Would require...
Nansen: ~90% of PayPal's stablecoin is held in issuer Paxos Trust's wallets, suggesting a “lack of demand from crypto users for PYUSD” that launched on August 7
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Dropbox ends its unlimited option, capping its “all the space you need” storage plan to 5TB, after some abused the tier by pooling storage, reselling, and more
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E-commerce marketing company Klaviyo files for a US IPO and reports H1 2023 revenue of ~$321M, vs. ~$208M YoY, and $15.2M net income, vs. a $24.6M net loss YoY
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Emsisoft: the MOVEit Transfer breach has so far impacted 1,000+ known victim organizations, of which 83.9% are based in the US, and 60M+ individuals
At least 60 million individuals affected, though the true number is far higher — A mass-hack involving the MOVEit Transfer software …
A profile of New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, is valued at ~$2B, and has 700 clients, including Microsoft and Inflection AI
It's not just Nvidia. There is another big winner of the AI boom—and it's now competing with some of the world's most valuable companies. X: @wsjbusiness , @coreweave , and @minzengwsj X: @wsjbusines...
Microsoft says Flax Typhoon, a hacking group active since mid-2021 with suspected Beijing ties, is targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan, and elsewhere
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Sources: at TikTok, Oracle staff reviewing the app's source code sit at desks beneath TikTok-controlled cameras, a requirement directly from China's government
Under a draft agreement between ByteDance and CFIUS, Oracle would be TikTok's partner — and a government proctor. X: @zachweinberg , @forbes , @rickcarew , and @ebakerwhite X: @zachweinberg : Just ban...
A look at Smallville, a virtual village populated by AI chatbots, built by Stanford and Google researchers to create a society with “believable human behavior”
Giving digital agents ‘memory streams’ produced surprising results — John Lin is a small-town pharmacist who takes great pride in his work. Bluesky: @nitishpahwa.bsky.social . X: @wi_john Bluesky: N...
Sources: EvolutionaryScale, founded by members of Meta's recently axed protein-folding team to build LLMs for biology, raised a $40M+ seed at a $200M valuation
Forbes : X: @_iainmartin and @kenrickcai X: Iain Martin / @_iainmartin : Meta shuttered it's AI project focused on protein-folding in April. Now that team have raised $40m to build new biological LLM...
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