French administrative document: alongside Pavel Durov, French authorities issued an arrest warrant for his Telegram co-founder and brother Nikolai in March 2024
PARIS — French authorities issued arrest warrants for Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and his co-founder brother Nikolai in March …
Sources: Apple lays off ~100 people in its services group, impacting Apple Books, News, and other teams, a rare move as part of a shift in the unit's priorities
Apple Inc. took the rare step of cutting about 100 jobs in its services group, part of a shift in priorities for the critical division …
US-based child safety group NCMEC, Canada-based CCCP, and UK-based IWF say their outreach to Telegram to flag CSAM on the platform has largely been ignored
Telegram's CEO was arrested in relation to an investigation into an unnamed person involving claims of “complicity” in distributing child sexual abuse material.
Sources: Emmanuel Macron invited Pavel Durov to move Telegram to Paris in 2018; in 2017, a joint operation between French and UAE spies hacked Durov's iPhone
Pavel Durov had lunch with the French president six years ago. His phone was hacked the previous year by French and U.A.E. spies.
OpenSea says the US SEC sent it a Wells notice calling NFTs sold on the platform securities; CEO Devin Finzer says the company is “ready to stand up and fight”
OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer said in a post on X that the company is “ready to stand up and fight”
Experts say Pavel Durov's arrest is likely an outlier, as the legal bar is high in the US and Europe to prosecute tech executives for content on their platforms
printers— were held responsible for what came off their presses, then booksellers. Finally authors were responsible, which Foucault says was the birth of the author. I think we will go through a sim...
Super Micro delays filing its annual financial disclosures, a day after short-seller Hindenburg Research alleged “glaring accounting red flags”; SMCI drops 25%+
- Delay follows Hindenburg short alleging ‘accounting red flags’ — Shares of the server maker tumbled after trading opened
How Telegram CEO Pavel Durov miscalculated on moderation, saying earlier in 2024 that he did not expect “significant challenges” despite new laws targeting tech
Social media billionaire's decade-long effort to avoid government scrutiny has backfired with French arrest
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Chairman Jim Jordan and the House … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Mark Zuckerberg Ingratiates Himself With U.S. Republican Politicians Casey Newton / Platformer : Zuckerberg dra...
X updates Grok to direct users to Vote.gov for election queries, after a letter from five US secretaries of state warned of spreading election misinformation
The social media platform X has made a change to its AI chatbot after five secretaries of state warned it was spreading election misinformation.
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the app's 10th anniversary, its EU focus, being a nonprofit, Pavel Durov's arrest, X, the US election, and more
On its 10th anniversary, Signal's president wants to remind you that the world's most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. Mastodon: @KathyReid@aus.social and @baldur@toot.cafe X: @a_greenbe...
Shopify hires Mikhail Parakhin as its CTO; Parakhin joined Microsoft in September 2019 and had been CEO of Advertising and Web Services since September 2022
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Environmental and health advocates accuse xAI of adding to pollution in Memphis, TN, by using unauthorized gas burning turbines at its new data center
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is being accused by environmental and health advocates of adding to the pollution problem in Memphis …
Kenya-based Wasoko and Egypt-based MaxAB, two of Africa's largest B2B e-commerce platforms, merge in an all-stock deal; the companies raised over $240M combined
450K+ merchants across 5 markets —$180M payment volume in Egypt, surpassing commerce sales —disbursed $20M in merchant financing; <1% default. —4,000+ employees. https://techcrunch.com/... @frankelean...
Sources: China-linked hackers penetrated deep into two big US ISPs and several smaller ones in recent months, using a zero-day flaw in Versa Networks software
Joseph Menn / Washington Post :
Plaud unveils NotePin, a $169 AI wearable that transcribes, summarizes, and gets action items from daily interactions; extra AI features require a $79/year plan
After creating an impressive (not to mention somewhat TikTok famous) AI-powered voice recorder, Plaud is launching a more ambitious gadget …
MakerDAO rebrands as Sky and debuts a new USDS stablecoin, but users criticize USDS after noticing that the token lets the issuer remotely freeze the asset
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk :
Investigation: a hacking group linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has targeted former members of the Trump and Biden administrations since 2022
Cerebras launches the “world's fastest” AI inference service with “GPU-impossible performance”, with costs starting at $0.10 per million tokens, to rival Nvidia
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Google rolls out a Google Meet AI feature that automatically takes notes during meetings conducted in spoken English, available to select Workspace customers
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Some 100 Venezuelan journalists are using two AI avatars to host daily newscasts and avoid putting themselves at risk, amid President Maduro's media crackdown
“In the four weeks since Venezuela's disputed election, local journalists have come up with a distinctly 21st-century tactic … See also Mediagazer
How call centers in the Philippines' vast outsourcing industry are adopting AI tools to assist human operators, in an effort to stay competitive
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
Instagram now lets users add text to photos right from its post editor, rather than needing a separate app, and add more photos as stickers on top of a photo
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Snap launches new safety tools and resources for US educators, and says Snapchat has 20M+ US teen users; Pew says 51% of US teens used Snapchat daily in 2023
April Rubin / Axios :
Source: in 2023, Meta abandoned plans to build its own custom chips for its AR glasses, instead opting to rely on third-party chipmakers like Qualcomm
Kali Hays / Fortune :
Chinese meal delivery giant Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 21% YoY to ~$11.6B, above $11.3B est., as its core business expanded; its stock is up ~25% in 2024
Claire Che / Bloomberg :
Web browser startup Brave lays off 27 employees, after cutting 9% of its workforce in October 2023; PitchBook estimates that Brave has ~191 employees
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Former staff of video game payments company Xsolla say in lawsuits that CEO Aleksandr Agapitov leans heavily on company revenue for his new, flashier lifestyle
which would represent about 1/3 of Xsolla's revenue, according to the documents and interviews. He repaid most. He also spent millions more on an LA mansion, NFTs and a 7-ft Iron Man statue https://ww...
Sources: Zurich-based Swiss-Mile, which makes the autonomous Robotic Mule and Robotic Watchdog robots, is close to raising a ~$20M seed at a $100M+ valuation
Eyk Henning / Bloomberg :
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