Sony plans to raise PlayStation Plus annual subscription prices on September 6: Essential from $60 to $80, Extra from $100 to $135, Premium from $120 to $160
Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation Plus subscription next month. The service's annual Essential plan will go from $60 to $80 …
Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 across Europe from October 1, instead offering Teams to enterprise for €24 per year
- Company offers to unbundle Teams from other business software — EU investigating if Microsoft's bundling broke antitrust law
The NYC subway's OMNY contactless payments system has a privacy issue that lets anyone view a rider's seven-day trip history using just credit card details
In the mid-afternoon one Saturday earlier this month, the target got on the New York subway. I knew what station they entered the subway at and at what specific time.
X updates its privacy policy to include new biometric data, which the company plans to collect for safety and security, along with data on jobs and education
- In policy shift, X will use the data for safety, security — Employment, education history will be used to recommend jobs
Sources: Apple plans to eliminate social media support adviser roles across X, YouTube, and the Apple Support Community website starting later in 2023
Apple is planning to eliminate social media support advisor roles across Twitter, YouTube, and the Apple Support Community website starting later …
Elon Musk says X users will be able to make video and audio calls without a phone number, but offers no timeframe, as X “is the effective global address book”
Users of X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, will be able to make video and audio calls through …
Microsoft retires Visual Studio for Mac, saying the IDE will get “servicing updates for security issues and updated platforms from Apple” until August 31, 2024
Microsoft has announced plans to discontinue Visual Studio for Mac. The latest version of the company's IDE …
Activision partners with Modulate to begin testing ToxMod, an AI-based voice moderation tool for Modern Warfare 2 and other games, in North America
There's a new AI-powered sheriff in town, and its name is ToxMod. — Call of Duty is joining the growing number of online games combatting toxicity …
Binance plans to “gradually” end support for its BUSD stablecoin by February 2024, citing Paxos ceasing to mint new BUSD after an NYDFS order in February 2023
The move follows Paxos' decision to halt minting of new BUSD. — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it will …
Sources: Apple is testing 3D printing the stainless steel Apple Watch Series 9's chassis to speed up production, boost sustainability, and lower costs over time
- New approach will use less material and be more eco-friendly — Company is trying out the process with steel Apple Watches
The FCC rejects ISPs' requests to eliminate an upcoming requirement that they list all their monthly fees, saying “every consumer needs transparent information”
Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says “no.”
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new Elon Musk biography details Musk's decision to buy Twitter and how his moods fluctuated wildly before the official closing
In an exclusive excerpt from his new biography ‘Elon Musk,’ Walter Isaacson offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most surprising …
Google launches its Search Generative Experience in India and Japan via Search Labs opt-in, following the US launch of the AI search feature in May 2023
Following the May launch in the US, Google is giving the Search Generative Experience (SGE) an international launch in India and Japan …
The US Copyright Office seeks public input on AI and copyright issues, including the use of copyrighted works to train AI; written comments are due October 18
The US Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI and copyright issues beginning August 30th as the agency figures out how to approach the subject.
Australia abandons its plans to mandate age verification tech for porn sites, citing privacy and security concerns, and will instead focus on educating parents
The eSafety commissioner is to work with industry on a new code to educate parents about how to access filtering software and limit children's access
Meta lets users submit requests to access, alter, or delete some of their third-party information that the company uses for generative AI training
- Meta updated its help resource center with a form that gives users some control over what personal data is used to train generative artificial intelligence models.
Meta begins testing full-text search on Threads in Australia and New Zealand and plans a wider rollout to other English-speaking countries in the future
Threads launched one of the most anticipated features, a web version of the platform, last week. Now, Meta is testing another highly …
A monthslong investigation exposes the secrets of Russian ransomware gang Trickbot, which thrived despite global disruption efforts, and a key member's identity
A WIRED investigation into a cache of documents posted by an unknown figure lays bare the Trickbot ransomware gang's secrets, including the identity of a central member. Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec...
X plans to let paid users hide their Likes from other users and “from the X APIs”, reversing a longstanding feature; individual Likes will appear on posts
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : X: @xdaily . Forums: r/technology X: @xdaily : NEWS: The ability to hide the ‘Likes’ tab is now live across devices. You can access it if you are a Premium subscriber via Se...
Google partners with enterprise messaging interoperability provider Mio to enable messaging between Chat and platforms like Slack and Teams, available in beta
Besides the upcoming homescreen redesign and Duet AI, Google Chat is getting voice messages and interoperability with third-party messaging services.
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Uniswap, founder Hayden Adams, a16z, and others over scam token sales as software cannot be held accountable for losses
- Uniswap founder Hayden Adams hailed the court's comments as “based” after a class action lawsuit alleging liability for scam token sales was thrown out.
Google announces a hardware event on October 4 at 10am ET in New York City, where the company is expected to unveil the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, and Pixel Watch 2
Berlin-based Ivy, which offers an API to create a “network of networks” for open banking payments globally, raised a $20M Series A, after a $7.7M seed in July
Open banking — where traditional banks open their data up with APIs to build new financial services for their customers …
Philips Hue launches Secure, a DIY security system with E2EE, starting at $200 for a wired indoor/outdoor camera, and plans to add Matter support in September
Otto, formerly TeleVet, which makes software for veterinary clinics, raised a $43M Series B led by Mercury Fund, following a $5M Series A in December 2022,
Scheduling medical appointments is challenging enough for humans, so Otto, formerly TeleVet, wants to make it easy to, at the very least, care for our pets.
Source: Binance Asia-Pacific's head Leon Foong resigned from the exchange, the latest senior executive departure; Foong helped expand in South Korea and Japan
- Foong led Binance expansion into markets like Japan, Korea — Market share has declined after a global regulatory crackdown
Microsoft plans to address a Windows 11 “unintended behavior” that for months has caused malware-like notification pop-ups promoting Bing search to Chrome users
Amazon announces the Buy with Prime app for Shopify, which will let US-based Shopify merchants natively integrate Amazon's program into their Shopify stores
Todd Bishop / GeekWire :
Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes laid off 100+ employees as it prepares for a major restructuring to separate its consumer and corporate-facing business units
Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes this week laid off 100 employees as it prepares for a major restructuring that will see the business split into two, TechCrunch has learned. Mastodon: @lorenzofb@infos...
Sources: CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, explores a ~10% equity sale at a $5B-$8B valuation; source: CoreWeave projects $1.5B revenue in 2024
- Company counts Nvidia, Magnetar as existing equity investors — Startup raised $2.3 billion in debt from Blackstone, others
A look at cybercrime writing contests, which Russian-language cybercrime forums have hosted for over a decade, that offer the winners up to $80K in prize money
New analysis from Sophos, dives into these strange competitions. … X: @sophosxops : Some of the entries could definitely be of practical use to threat actors - we saw tutorials on hiding Cobalt Strike...
Swift and Web3 services startup Chainlink send tokenized value across private and public blockchains using Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol
Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk :
OpenAI files a motion to dismiss two similar lawsuits from book authors alleging copyright infringement, saying the authors “misconceive the scope of copyright”
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica :
Instagram is internally testing letting users create Reels up to 10 minutes long, after TikTok increased its maximum video length to 10 minutes in February 2022
A Saudi court sentences a man to death over his X posts and YouTube activity, part of a growing dissent crackdown; his brother is a well-known government critic
Chinese state media frames Huawei's new Mate 60 Pro, which speculation suggests has a Huawei-made Kirin 5G chip, as a repudiation of US efforts to contain China
Bloomberg :
Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which develops generative AI tools for text use cases, raised a $155M Series C at a $1.4B valuation, taking its total funding to $283M
Greylock tells investors Reid Hoffman won't be a GP for its next $1B fund, down from its $1.5B funds in 2020 and 2021; Hoffman made one deal in the 16th fund
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal :
Stockholm-based Klarna reports H1 2023 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$963M and adjusted operating loss down 68% YoY to ~$185M, as its use of AI tools keep costs low
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg :
Filing: Nvidia says the US expanded export restrictions of “a subset of A100 and H100” chips to regions beyond China, including some Middle Eastern countries
Sea-owned Garena plans to relaunch Free Fire in India on September 5, after the country banned the popular mobile game over security concerns in February 2022
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Robinhood Wallet adds support for bitcoin and dogecoin six months after public launch, and is rolling out in-app ethereum swaps to all users in the coming weeks
Ben Strack / Blockworks :
ASML says the company has licenses to ship restricted chipmaking machines to China until end of 2023, even as Dutch export control rules kick in on September 1
Bloomberg :
How open-source insulin delivery systems changed diabetes care, as advocates say the tech promises more personalization and automation than commercial versions
what's next? https://www.nature.com/... @bermaninstitute : A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care — what's next? A community of people with type 1 diabetes got a self-built device approved....
Vietnam faces a chronic shortage of engineers, presenting a major challenge for the growth of its chip industry; Biden plans to visit in September to talk chips
Francesco Guarascio / Reuters :
CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 37% YoY to $731.6M, vs. $724.2M est., ARR up 37% YoY to $2.93B, and forecasts Q3 and FY 2024 earnings above expectations
Doc: the UK plans to increase the police's use of AI-based facial recognition tech, potentially deploying new biometric systems over the next 12 to 18 months
Financial Times :
Lessons from the rapid grocery delivery boom: $10B+ of VC money used for ads and promos created the market from nothing, app downloads are down ~90%, and more
Bryce Elder / Financial Times :
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