Reddit users: Netflix is phasing out its cheapest $11.99/month ad-free tier for existing subscribers as planned, pushing its $6.99, $15.49, and $22.99 tiers
Netflix is following through on its plan to phase out its cheapest ad-free tier for existing subscribers.
Sources: Apple will get an observer role on OpenAI's board, with Phil Schiller chosen for the position, as part of their ChatGPT partnership announced in June
CDK Says ‘Substantially All’ Car Dealerships Restored After Hack — Northern Data May Be Testing Limits of AI Frenzy With Unit IPO
Blockchain platform Polkadot faces criticism from users after spending $87M in H1 2024, doubling its H2 2023 spend, including $36M+ on marketing and outreach
The blockchain spent $87 million in the first six months this year, with marketing activities accounting for the majority of expenses.
Proton launches Docs in Proton Drive, a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs, after acquiring secure note-taking app Standard Notes in April 2024
Proton, the Swiss-based pro-privacy productivity app maker, has a new feather in its cap after bringing document creation …
Responding to criticism, Figma CTO Kris Rasmussen says Make Design is “powered by off-the-shelf models and a bespoke design system that we commissioned”
Figma says it didn't train the generative AI models it used and blames a ‘bespoke design system.’
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 175M+ MAUs, up from 150M in April, ahead of its one-year anniversary on July 5; source: Meta may turn on ads in Threads in 2025
A year and a half ago, Threads was but a twinkle in Mark Zuckerberg's eye. — Now, the rival to Elon Musk's X has reached …
SCOTUS' Chevron ruling could weaken US federal cybersecurity regulations, as FCC data breach reporting requirements and other rules are likely to be challenged
The ruling could weaken almost all US federal cybersecurity regulations, including SEC incident reporting, FCC data breach reporting …
Bruce Bastian, who co-created the popular word processing software WordPerfect and was an LGBTQ activist, died on June 16 at age 76
While his company was producing the world's dominant word-processing software, he came out as gay to his wife, sons and Mormon community
Figma disables its recently launched generative AI app design tool Make Design, after a user showed it copied Apple's Weather when asked to design a weather app
The design tool Figma has disabled a newly launched AI-powered app design tool … Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : AI Design Tool Axes Feature that Cloned Apple's Weather App John Gruber / Daring ...
Koo, an Indian rival to X that had raised $60M+ from Tiger Global, Accel, and others, shuts down after last-resort acquisition talks with Dailyhunt collapsed
The Indian social media platform Koo, which positioned itself as a competitor to Elon Musk's X, is ceasing operations …
Meta shares its research on Meta 3D Gen, a system that creates high-quality 3D assets from text descriptions in less than a minute
Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, introduced Meta 3D Gen today, a new AI system that creates high-quality 3D assets from text descriptions in less than a minute.
Brazil's data regulator suspends the validity of Meta's privacy policy for using personal data to train AI models in the country and sets a daily ~$8,800 fine
Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has decided to suspend with immediate effect the validity of Meta's (META.O) …
In 2024, 58.5% of Google searches in the US and 59.7% in EU result in zero clicks; for 1,000 searches, 374 clicks go to the open web in the EU and 360 in the US
Over the past decade, I've done several reports with multiple clickstream panels analyzing Google search behavior at scale.
Telegram rolls out the ability for creators to share paid content to channels using its Stars digital currency and for channels to convert Stars to Toncoin
Telegram launched a digital currency called Stars for in-app use last month. Now, the company is expanding its use cases to paid content.
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real-time content, the fediverse, and more
Programming note: With this post, we now go on a short summer break. See you back here July 15. — A year ago this week, Meta introduced Threads to the world. Threads: @mosseri , @drewharwell , @kur...
Sources: Magic, a US startup developing AI models for coding tasks, is in talks to raise $200M+ at a $1.5B valuation
Source: generative AI video startup Runway is in talks to raise $450M at about a $4B valuation, with General Atlantic in talks to lead the round
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information :
How an underground network of Chinese sellers is bypassing US export controls through supply-chain blind spots to smuggle Nvidia's advanced AI chips into China
An informal market circumvents U.S. export controls through supply-chain blind spots—and in one case, a student's luggage
Qualys researchers say an OpenSSH flaw can let attackers remotely compromise servers and allow unauthenticated RCE as root; over 14M servers may be vulnerable
Sources: Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law firms, now expects to raise ~$100M at a $1.5B valuation after reported talks to raise $600M at $2B+
One month ago, we broke the news that Harvey, a startup that sells AI-powered legal software, was looking to raise $600 million …
Google says its greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48% in the past five years due to the expansion of the data centers that underpin its AI efforts
About this report Google's 2024 Environmental Report provides … Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Google's emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand The Keyword : Our 2024 Environmenta...
UK-listed Keywords Studios, which provides game development, audio, and art services to clients such as Epic, agrees to a ~£2.1B takeover bid from PE firm EQT
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg :
For ~10 years, millions of macOS and iOS apps using CocoaPods were vulnerable to a serious flaw in the dependency manager, which was patched in October 2023
CDK Global, a software provider to ~15K North American car dealerships, says “substantially all” of its dealers are back online, after two cyberattacks in June
Charles Gorrivan / Bloomberg :
Alphabet winds down agriculture startup Mineral, which became an independent subsidiary in 2023, and is licensing some of its tech to berry producer Driscoll's
Julia Love / Bloomberg :
An investigation of US police and court documents finds 30 complaints citing 200+ explicit videos and images of minors on OnlyFans since December 2019
from toddlers to teens — had been uploaded to the porn-driven site. Some kids were left emotionally scarred https://www.reuters.com/... [image] @reuters : .@Reuters documented 30 complaints in US poli...
The owners of about a third of US nuclear power plants are in talks with tech companies to provide electricity to new data centers needed to meet AI demand
“The owners of roughly a third of US nuclear power plants are in talks … Brian Walsh : The demand and popularity for nuclear power is growing. There is real demand for it. It's now up to the industr...
WIPO: between 2014 and 2023, 54K generative AI patents were filed, 25% of which were filed in 2023; China leads with 38K+ patents, followed by the US with 6,276
Emma Farge / Reuters :
Meta says it will lift its ban on the word “shaheed”, or “martyr” in English, after its Oversight Board's year-long review found the approach to be “overbroad”
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters :
Sources: later in July, the EU will suggest scrapping the €150 threshold below which goods are exempt from customs duties, targeting Temu, AliExpress, and Shein
Financial Times :
As teachers embrace new AI grading tools, saying the programs let them give students faster feedback, critics say the tools can be glitchy or grade too harshly
Sara Randazzo / Wall Street Journal :
A US judge temporarily blocked a new Mississippi law that would require age verification for all and parental consent for teens to join some social networks
or access to it. “To give government that power,” warns the Supreme Court, “is to enable it to control the expression of ideas.” Thankfully, “that is what the First Amendment protects all of us from...
PitchBook: US startups raised $56B in Q2 2024, up 57% YoY and the highest three-month haul in two years; AI startups raised $27.1B, nearly half of the total
here's where investors are piling in Krystal Hu / Reuters : AI deals lift US venture capital funding to highest level in two years, data shows Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : First look at Q2 2024 vent...
How AI is helping investors and wealth managers simplify the due diligence process and streamline day-to-day tasks, as experts stress the need for human insight
Nicholas Fearn / Financial Times : X: @nicholasgfearn . LinkedIn: Romain FARAUT, CIWM … and Celestino Güemes Seoane X: Nicholas Fearn / @nicholasgfearn : It was sureal to have interviewed Morgan St...
Snapchat adds new features, including letting Snapchat+ subscribers design a personalized house on Snap Map and send Snaps that last less than 0.5 seconds
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
How Ukraine is using AI, code found online, and hobbyist computers to weaponize consumer tech and build low-cost weapons like autonomous drones and machine guns
New York Times : LinkedIn: Jeremy Kahn and Paul Mozur Forums: Hacker News , r/neoliberal , r/Futurology , r/technews , and r/ukraine LinkedIn: Jeremy Kahn : There are few risks from AI that terrify m...
Generative AI music service Suno launches its iOS app in the US, with plans for a global rollout and an Android app
A look at a US State Department program to train diplomats in cybersecurity, privacy, and other tech issues, to help them spot threats and advance US policy
Eric Geller / Wired : Mastodon: @ericgeller@mastodon.social . X: @ericgeller . Forums: r/cybersecurity Mastodon: Eric Geller / @ericgeller@mastodon.social : I got exclusive access to the State Depart...
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