Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country
SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil …
Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 protections is in jeopardy after a US court ruled TikTok's algorithmic curation is not protected by Section 230
“TikTok reads 230 of the Communications Decency Act to permit casual indifference to the death of a ten-year-old girl.” - Judge Paul Matey
The City of Columbus, OH, sues security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of sharing data stolen by a ransomware gang with media
The City of Columbus, Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf …
A Texas federal judge who held Tesla stock denies a motion to dismiss X's lawsuit accusing Media Matters of misrepresenting the amount of extremist content on X
Judge says Musk critic “targeted” advertisers in Texas, denies motion to dismiss. — A federal judge in Texas yesterday ruled …
Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a now-patched zero-day in a Chromium core engine to steal crypto from organizations
A North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a previously unknown bug in Chrome to target organizations with the goal …
Brazilian judge amends his order, no longer requiring Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app; those using a VPN to access X still face a ~$9K/day fine
The social network will go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be said online.
Sources: OpenAI is in discussions about changing its corporate structure to become more investor-friendly, including removing a cap on profits for investors
Discussions come as Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft consider funding round that would value start-up at more than $100bn
AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep AnandTech's website and articles live indefinitely
Ryan Smith, with some very sad news: — It is with great sadness … Shawn Knight / TechSpot : AnandTech ends its 27-year run in online tech publishing John Callaham / Neowin : The well regarded PC har...
Telegram's 2023 financials: $342.5M revenue, 40% of which came from crypto-related line items, and $108M operating loss; it had holdings of ~$400M in Toncoin
Pavel Durov's company has been coining it in — Pavel Durov's arrest in France for allegedly failing to control criminal content on Telegram …
LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims has been “thoroughly cleaned” of CSAM
LAION, the German research org that created the data used to train Stable Diffusion, among other generative AI models …
Google says Search AI Overviews, Gemini image generation, and other AI products will not respond to election-related topics ahead of the US elections
Google is gearing up for the upcoming U.S. presidential election by rolling out safeguards for more of its generative AI products.
Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot maker Covariant and ~25% of its staff, and signs a non-exclusive license to Covariant's robotic foundation models
Amazon is hiring three of the founders from Covariant, a Bay Area startup that develops AI for advanced warehouse robotics systems.
Sources: Amazon's revamped “Remarkable” Alexa, due for release in October 2024, will be powered primarily by Anthropic's Claude, and cost $5 to $10 per month
the path to scale will still be tough Brad Linder / Liliputing : Lilbits: Amazon's AI-powered subscription voice assistant could launch in October Omar Gallaga / CNET : Amazon's Alexa Revamp Could Be ...
Sources: the cryptology part of France's charges against Pavel Durov raises concerns at US tech companies with E2EE messaging apps, like Signal, Apple, and Meta
but France's prosecution of Pavel Durov could break encryption and make the internet less free. I'm worried: https://www.platformer.news/ ... [image] X: Rat King / @mikeisaac : @jake__coffee did it ...
A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk and Tesla pumped up Dogecoin into a “pyramid scheme”, finding that Musk's statements were “aspirational”
Federal Judge Dismisses Class Action Lawsuit Accusing Tesla, Musk of Market Manipulation Involving Dogecoin Anan Ashraf / Benzinga : Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wants To Bring Back Dogecoin As A Payment Optio...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has over 185M weekly active users and over 400M MAUs and it's “growing quickly” even without a rollout “in UK, Brazil, or EU yet”
usage of Meta AI across all of our surfaces is growing FAST! 🚀 Bluesky: @ndnickerson.bsky.social : okay this is just a hunch but after listening to @zitron.bsky.social 's podcast i'm like “so FB's ab...
A reporter tries fixing his reputation with AI chatbots, including by adding a “strategic text sequence” to data sources, and via an AI optimization startup
When I set out to improve my tainted reputation with chatbots, I discovered a new world of A.I. manipulation.
An analysis of 6,599 keywords shows Google is offering AI Overviews for 17% of queries in the UK and US, but rarely for searches about current events
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette :
Huione Guarantee, a Cambodia-based online marketplace that facilitates pig butchering and other scams, has processed $49B+ in crypto transactions since 2021
Chainalysis :
It's time for audio services like Spotify to deal with AI by using labels and banning or downweighting music made with AI tools that don't license training data
AI music certainly has positive use-cases for musicians. … See also Mediagazer
How the Israeli army's Unit 8200 became an incubator for cybersecurity startups, with its alumni starting Wiz, Palo Alto Networks, and other companies
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Once hesitant to openly comment on politics, German tech leaders voice their opposition to the far right AfD party before September 1's elections in two states
J.D. Capelouto / Semafor :
Investor note: 360 One valued Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs popular news aggregator Dailyhunt, at $2.9B in June 2024, down from its ~$5B valuation in 2022
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
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