France charges Pavel Durov for complicity in the spread of CSAM and other crimes on Telegram; Durov posted a €5M bail and prosecutors banned him from traveling
- Pavel Durov isn't responsible for crimes on app, lawyer says — Durov out of detention on €5 million bail; can't leave France
Sources: the EU is investigating if Telegram gave inaccurate user numbers to stay under the DSA's 45M threshold; Telegram reported 41M EU users in February 2024
Brussels probing possible failure by messaging platform to provide accurate data under new regulations
Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 122% YoY to $30B, above $28.7B est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est., and approves an additional $50B in share buybacks
Nvidia reported earnings after the bell that beat Wall Street expectations for earnings and guidance, and provided stronger-than-expected guidance for the current quarter.
Yelp sues Google, alleging Google used its dominance in general search to gain an unfair advantage in local search services and local search advertising markets
Yelp complained for more than a decade that Google tilted the search market in its favor. After its rival's landmark legal loss, it finally decided to sue.
Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group
Google says it has evidence that Russian government hackers are using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” …
Kuo: in the 2025 iPhone lineup, only the iPhone 17 Pro Max will have 12GB of DRAM, instead of 8GB, and a cooling system with vapor chambers and graphite sheets
Just a day after a noted leaker on Chinese microblogging site Weibo suggested the iPhone 17 lineup in 2025 could see an upgrade …
In his upcoming book, Trump says Mark Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and he'd “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he did it again
The Meta CEO earlier this week asserted that Biden administration tried to “pressure” the company to downplay content about Covid.
California's State Assembly passes the AI safety bill SB 1047, which now goes back to the Senate for a process vote before requiring Governor Newsom's signature
California lawmakers passed a hotly contested artificial-intelligence safety bill on Wednesday, after which it will need …
Threads now lets users see and like fediverse replies on other posts besides their own, and will syndicate posts submitted via the Threads API to the fediverse
Threads is deepening its ties to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which powers services like X alternative Mastodon …
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's new Blackwell chips will have “lots and lots of supply”, and the company expects them to generate billions of dollars in Q4 revenue
Jensen Huang Confirms Mask Change Completion And ‘Incredible’ Customer Anticipation Fox Business : Nvidia's cycle of Blackwell chips will be ‘absolutely enormous’: Angelo Zino Emma Cosgrove / Business...
Automattic plans to shift Tumblr's backend to WordPress in a bid to make sharing work across the platforms easier, after acquiring Tumblr for $3M in August 2019
Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale …
Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, the FT, The Atlantic, Vox Media, USA Today, Condé Nast, and more block Apple's Applebot-Extended AI crawler
This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data.
Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise funding at a $100B+ valuation; Thrive Capital is leading the round, set to invest ~$1B, and Microsoft is expected to invest
Thrive Capital and Microsoft are among investors putting several billion dollars into ChatGPT maker
French media: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's lawyer says it is “absurd to say that a platform or its boss are responsible for any abuse” carried out on the platform
Sources: Bungie fired Chris Barrett, a former top executive, in March 2024 after he was accused by several female employees of inappropriate behavior
Veteran developer who worked on hit video game franchises Halo and Destiny was directing the next major title, Marathon.
Documents and sources detail OpenSea's chaotic work environment, ever-shifting priorities, and regulatory issues, as the SEC and FTC make inquiries
The rise and fall of NFTs made and unmade OpenSea — the largest marketplace for the crypto asset. But insider accounts of the company reveal …
Russians, from Kremlin officials to Putin's harshest critics, see Telegram as the best source of uncensored info, including on Ukraine, and problematic content
Bloomberg :
Meta says its Llama models were downloaded ~350M times, are used by AT&T and other companies, and usage via cloud providers more than doubled from May to July
Meta's (META.O) Llama artificial intelligence models are being used by companies including Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and AT&T …
The US says OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to let the US AI Safety Institute have early access to major new AI models to evaluate their capabilities and risks
The US government announced agreements with leading artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Anthropic to help test and evaluate their upcoming technologies for safety.
As Chinese EV manufacturers consolidate and close, EV owners say they're losing access to smartphone app updates and features that rely on cloud services
As Chinese EV makers close, drivers of “smartphones on wheels” say software updates and maintenance are in jeopardy.
Analysis: 16 of the biggest so-called undress and “nudify” websites have used sign-in infrastructure from Google, Apple, Discord, X, Patreon, or Line for months
Single sign-on systems from several Big Tech companies are being incorporated into deepfake generators, WIRED found.
ESPN launches a Where to Watch feature on its website and app, which aims to be a universal guide for streaming sports with data from 250+ streaming services
Feels sort of like a response to Apple's new sports app — Shows fans where to watch a game (on their network or elsewhere) — Lets them personalize by teams, leagues, etc [image] Forums: r/cordcutters ...
A US court rules TikTok must face a lawsuit over a 10-year-old's death and the “blackout challenge”, saying algorithmic curation isn't protected by Section 230
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/ 21... Daphne Keller / @daphnek.bsky.social : Now the 3rd Circuit is engaging in the absurd pretense that the Court actually decided this issue in Moody v. NetChoice, be...
Google rolls out Imagen 3 to all Gemini users and Gems, which allows the creation of custom Gemini chatbots, to Gemini Advanced, Business, and Enterprise users
You can customize Gems to act as an expert on topics or refine them toward your specific goals. …
Anti-piracy group ACE says it worked with Hanoi police to shutter Hanoi-based Fmovies and its affiliates, “the largest pirate streaming operation in the world”
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter :
Sources: Meta plans to release a new MR device codenamed Puffin in 2027, resembling a bulky pair of glasses with a second unit for battery and computing power
Report Scott Hayden / Road to VR : Meta Reportedly Considering Smaller Mixed Reality “Glasses” for Release in 2027 Sarah Fields / Game Rant : Meta is Reportedly Working on a Super-Light Mixed Reality ...
Interviews with 14 Chinese VCs and entrepreneurs show many are setting up Silicon Valley firms only to find that any investment with Chinese ties is a hard sell
Silicon Valley, strictly speaking, does not exist. Trishla Ostwal / Adweek : 5 Adtech VCs Reveal What They're Looking For and What They Avoid Faith Omoniyi / TechCabal : Ventures Platform returns capi...
Sources: the Netherlands PM Dick Schoof will likely not renew some ASML licenses to service and provide spare parts in China when they expire at the end of 2024
Bloomberg :
Meta's 2024 Sustainability Report shows its market-based emissions are nearly half of its location-based emissions, highlighting the issue of tracking emissions
In early 2024, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the launch … Dan Rabb / Bisnow : Meta's Geothermal Data Center Deal Marks Milestone For Emerging Green Energy Source Tech Xplore : How low can we g...
CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $963.9M, vs. $958.6M est., and cuts its FY 2025 revenue and profit forecasts, after July's Windows outage
but unsurprisingly, it's not going to last Jessica Lyons / The Register : CrowdStrike's meltdown didn't dent its market dominance ... yet Jenn Brice / Fortune : CrowdStrike CEO celebrates ‘resilient’ ...
Huawei reports Q2 revenue up 33.7% YoY to ~$33.6B, rising for the sixth straight quarter, and net profit down 18.6% YoY to ~$5B, ahead of the Mate 70's launch
Bloomberg :
HP reports Q3 revenue up 2.4% YoY to $13.5B, vs. $13.4B est., Printing revenue down 3% to $4.14B, and increases its share repurchase authorization to $10B
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
Chinese state media: a Chinese official says the government has invested $6.12B+ in a nationwide project to build computing data centers over the past years
Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $9.33B, vs. $9.23B est., net income of $1.43B, up from to $1.27B in Q2 2023, and says CFO Amy Weaver will step down
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research :
Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 48% YoY to $659.2M, vs. $604M est., and says it expects to generate an operating profit by Q4 2025; AFRM jumps 14%+
Ciara Linnane / MarketWatch :
A look at Coin Master, a coin looter game that passed $6B in gross revenue, scaling from $0 in global monthly customer spend in 2015 to $113M in May 2020
Samuel Aune / Sensor Tower :
A look at the AI-safety community's loss of prominence and lessons learned, such as not to trust AI companies' promises to cooperate with regulators
Ross Andersen / The Atlantic :
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