Apple releases macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS updates to address two zero-day flaws that Citizen Lab says were used to deliver NSO Group's Pegasus spyware
Apple released software updates on Thursday to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that researchers said were used …
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast …
Former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame pleads guilty to US campaign finance and money transmitting charges and will forfeit $1.5B+ as part of the deal
Salame admitted to being a “straw donor” to secretly funnel millions of dollars to Republican political candidates while Bankman-Fried donated to Democrats.
The US and the UK sanction 11 more alleged Trickbot ransomware gang members, and the US DOJ unseals indictments against nine alleged Trickbot and Conti members
Authorities have sanctioned 11 alleged members of the cybercriminal groups, while the US Justice Department unsealed three federal indictments …
What to expect from Apple's “Wonderlust” event on September 12: four iPhone 15 models with USB-C, the Apple Watch Series 9 with a new chip and sensors, and more
Company will spotlight titanium iPhone 15 Pro and cameras, switch to USB-C chargers and faster smartwatches.
Q&A with Threads engineers Jesse Chen and Zahan Malkani on building the app with Instagram's tech stack, handling Threads' unexpectedly intense launch, and more
The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch?
The FBI says North Korea-linked Lazarus Group was responsible for stealing $41M in crypto from casino and sports betting website Stake around September 4, 2023
- The FBI said North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group was responsible for a $41 million theft this week from crypto-based sports betting platform Stake.com.
Huawei debuts the Mate 60 Pro+ and the Mate X5 foldable, both likely powered by Huawei's mysterious HiSilicon Kirin 9000S; sources say the phones are 5G devices
The Mate 60 Pro+ and Mate X5 are likely based on Huawei's locally-made chip. — Following Huawei's surprise launch …
Google plans to update Chrome in the coming weeks to incorporate the company's Material You design language, including refreshed icons and new color palettes
Chrome on the desktop is about to get a new look. Google's widely used browser is getting an update based on its Material …
Google releases its relevance and measurement APIs for Privacy Sandbox in general availability, making them available in Chrome without browser flags or trials
Today, we mark a major milestone for the Privacy Sandbox for the Web, reaching … Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay : Google rolls out a user-tracking ad platform baked directly into Chrome, ironically name...
The US Department of Commerce opens an official probe “to obtain more information” on a “purported 7nm chip” made by SMIC in China powering Huawei's Mate 60 Pro
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A look at Microsoft's device-agnostic game streaming model; sources say Microsoft prototyped a cloud-focused Xbox handheld, but its cloud gaming work has slowed
With Steam Deck competitors on the rise, Microsoft has been focused on phones for Xbox Cloud Gaming so far. Mastodon: @AAKL@noc.social . X: @tomwarren , @tomwarren , @joshthegamedev , @mattbdev , @zan...
Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits
Thodex was one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing.
Square says the company has resolved a day-long outage that has left some small business owners unable to access their accounts or process credit card payments
Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments.
X updates its TOS to ban scraping and crawling without “prior written consent”, effective September 29, likely to stop companies training AI models on its data
Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has updated its terms of service to prohibit scraping and crawling — likely to fend off any AI models training on its data.
The Senate votes 55 to 43 to approve Anna Gomez as the fifth FCC commissioner, breaking the deadlock at the agency and giving the FCC a 3-2 Democratic majority
so they can do the crucial work of expanding access to high speed internet, protecting consumers from junk fees, and more X: Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : 🚨 Breaking: Senate confirms Biden's FCC no...
Reliance's Jio Platforms partners with Nvidia to build AI cloud infrastructure and work on building an LLM trained on India's diverse languages
Reliance Industries's Jio Platforms has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained on India's diverse languages …
Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paying subscribers that offers up to 20 hours of content per month, as part of an audiobook push
Audio streamer to test program with listeners to learn about customer demand for audiobooks — Spotify plans to test …
TikTok's Shop marketplace goes live for some US users, presenting a feed of “recommended” random products, including cheap Chinese goods that appear counterfeit
The social app's Shop marketplace, key to its growth strategy, is so far hard to navigate.
Sources: Turkey-based grocery delivery startup Getir is raising $500M from Mubadala, Michael Moritz, and others at a $2.5B valuation, vs. $11.8B in March 2022
Istanbul-based grocery app company, which had been valued at nearly $12bn in early 2022, raises $500mn
Meta expands Threads' keyword search to “most” English- and Spanish-speaking countries, including the US and the UK, after a test in Australia and New Zealand
keyword search appears to be working: Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy : Threads says it is expanding its beta version of keyword search on mobile to the U.S., Mexico, Argentina, and India. It will start ...
Sources: China plans to expand its ban on iPhones in sensitive departments to government agencies and state companies, an unprecedented blockade; AAPL drops ~3%
Similarweb: ChatGPT's worldwide desktop and mobile website visits fell 3.2% MoM to 1.43B in August, following ~10% drops from each of the previous two months
Anna Tong / Reuters :
The ESA announces organizer ReedPop will not be working on future E3 events and informs the Los Angeles Convention Center that 2024's E3 will not be held there
Microsoft commits to defending customers of its AI Copilots from copyright infringement lawsuits, as long as they've “used the guardrails and content filters”
Dina Bass / Bloomberg :
BMW drops a controversial subscription that activates heated seats or other hardware already in its cars, limiting subscriptions to software-based functions
Alistair Charlton / Forbes :
Patreon adds Discord-like group chats to mobile, letting creators join up to four chats and restrict access based on subscriber tiers; desktop is coming later
Community chats and member profiles. … Natalie Stein : I joined Patreon 7 months ago specifically to bring community chats to market, and today, we get to share it with the world 🌎🥳! … Rory Brown : Hu...
An IMF and Financial Stability Board paper warns jurisdictions against blanket crypto bans, recommending targeted restrictions and sound monetary policy instead
Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk :
Anthropic debuts a paid tier of its Claude chatbot in the US for $20/month and the UK for £18/month, offering priority in busy times, early features, and more
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Source: encouraged by the Indian government, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance has held talks with foreign chipmakers to become potential partners in chip manufacturing
SAP acquires Germany-based startup LeanIX, which sells tools that map out companies' IT architecture, sources say for $1.2B+; LeanIX had raised almost $120M
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Inside Apple's impossible war on child exploitation, as the company scrapped its on-device CSAM scanning system and key team members behind the initiative left
often tens of millions—of tips on child sexual abuse material to law enforcement each year to help keep kids safe. Apple, the outlier, last year flagged 234. (Before that: 160.) @iblametom and I inves...
Imbue, formerly Generally Intelligent, which claims to have access to 10K Nvidia H100 GPUs to train its AI “agents”, raised a $200M Series B at a $1B valuation
X Head of Brand Safety Elyana Thierry left in June per her LinkedIn page, months after being elevated to the role after the previous head resigned in the summer
Erin Woo / The Information : Bluesky: @caseynewton.bsky.social . X: @erinkwoo , @adamkovac , @bendreyfuss , @aishacounts , @tomcoates , @taylorlorenz , @rothschildmd , @marmel , @rmac18 , and @rmac18...
Ant Group debuts ZAN, a blockchain service aimed at institutional clients and individual Web3 developers in overseas markets, including Hong Kong and Singapore
Timmy Shen / The Block :
The International Criminal Court's lead prosecutor says the Hague will now investigate and prosecute any hacking crimes that violate existing international law
Microsoft says Chinese state-affiliated hackers are using AI to generate content designed to “go viral across social networks in the US and other democracies”
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop :
Wyoming-based Brand Engagement Network, which sells conversational AI tech like chatbots to companies, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $358M valuation
Echo Wang / Reuters :
eBay rolls out an AI tool for sellers that can generate a product listing, including a title, description, category, and price, from one photo, initially on iOS
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Snapchat adds new safety features for minors, including making it harder for strangers to contact teens and removing accounts marketing inappropriate content
The co-founders of shuttered AV startup Argo AI launch autonomous trucking startup Stack AV, backed by $1B+ from SoftBank, per a Pittsburgh official's estimate
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