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- Designing Babies: How Technology Is Changing the Ways We Create Children
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- Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
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- effectively banned abortion
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- empower and help promote conservative agendas nationwide. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Trump reacted with approval to 'hang Mike Pence' chants from rioters on January 6
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- ENGLAND - MARCH 01: Next Gaming Rapid from Italy takes part in a qualifying match at the 2015 Call of Duty European Championships at The Royal Opera House on March 1
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- England. The event sees 28 teams from across Europe and the Middle East compete in order to qualify for the 2015 Call of Duty world finals in Los Angeles on 27 March
- enhanced monthly child tax credit
- Enlarged photographs have been made into memorials to the nineteen children and two teachers who died when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in a classroom at Robb Elementary School a week ago
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- epic flooding
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- essentially ending almost all abortions in the country.
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- Exclusive: How John Roberts killed the census citizenship question
- expand existing health care benefits
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- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs the Parental Rights in Education bill at Classical Preparatory school Monday
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando
- Florida. Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/AP Fact check: Emails show one of DeSantis' stories backing the rationale for so-called 'Don't Say Gay' law didn't happen as the governor says
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- formally denying any relationship
- former President Donald Trump
- former President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff for communications
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- Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the American Freedom Tour at the Austin Convention Center on May 14
- former Vice President Joe Biden. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) Jeff Swensen/Getty Images Opinion: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner go their own way on January 6
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- Grimes reveals she and Musk welcomed their second child together
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- gunned down 19 children and two teachers
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- has donated million to the online learning organization Khan Academy.
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- Hayden suffers a stroke
- Hayden tells CNN that Trump represents a “clear and present danger
- He resubmitted his application after he smoked marijuana during a live podcast interview in September 2018.
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- French startup Not So Dark, which offers tools for restaurants to run a delivery-only business alongside their usual operations, raised an M Series B (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
- Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Vodafone, and 12 other European telecoms argue that Meta, Google, Netflix, and other US giants should share network costs (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
- In a new paper, Meta researchers demonstrated a system that can reconstruct a user's plausible pose from only the Quest 2's sensors using reinforcement learning (David Heaney/UploadVR)
- the average selling price of iPhones could rise to 2 in Q3 and 4 in Q4, as buyers choose Pro models; the current record is 3 from Q4 2021 (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
- An interview with Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun on his critics and why today's most popular approaches to AI won't lead to human-level intelligence (Tiernan Ray/ZDNet)
- Using translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs, some Chinese creators are getting millions of views for TikTok videos summarizing Hollywood movies and shows (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
- A look at The Follower, an art project using open-source facial recognition software to match Instagram photos with EarthCam video footage of people taking them (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
- A look at Kyiv-based Respeecher, which uses performers' archival voice recordings and AI to create new dialogue, including for Darth Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi (Anthony Breznican/Vanity Fair)
- The US Treasury updates its guidance to let US tech companies expand their internet services in Iran, after the country took most of its ~83M citizens offline (Voice of America)
- Analysis finds 16 smartphone apps, used as alternatives to ankle monitors in the US, allow access to wide swaths of information and are frequently unreliable (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- A look at some of the challenges of zero-trust systems that can create friction for users and employees, as businesses increasingly adopt them to fight hackers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
- Governor Newsom vetoes a crypto regulation bill that required licenses to facilitate transactions; the bill was passed by the California Assembly last month (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
- Internal letter shows Twitch SVP of global creators Constance Knight resigned on the same day the company announced revenue sharing changes for top creators (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
- DARPA launches a review of cryptocurrencies to assess threats to national security and law enforcement posed by the rise of digital assets (Tory Newmyer/Washington Post)
- Google's Mandiant say it observed four instances of pro-Russian hacktivist groups publishing data within 24 hours of it being stolen by GRU using wiper malware (Wall Street Journal)
- Apple signs a multiyear NFL deal to have Apple Music replace Pepsi as the main sponsor for the Super Bowl halftime show; sources: the NFL wanted to charge ~M (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
- The CFTC has fined the blockchain protocol bZeroX team 0K and filed an action against its successor Ooki Dao for offering illegal off-exchange crypto trading (Nelson Wang/CoinDesk)
- Some civil rights groups say they have seen little action from Meta, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube to bolster election policies ahead of the 2022 US midterms (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
- Instagram, and increasingly TikTok, have fallen afoul of the Bootleg Ratio, offering mostly reposted, clout-chasing content that slowly turns viewers off (Russell Brandom/The Verge)
- Dubai's crypto regulator grants Binance a license to offer domestic bank accounts, an asset exchange, payments and custody services, and more (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)
- Switzerland-based GRNGrid, a Layer 1 DeFi blockchain that allows users to use nodes running on renewable energy for transactions, raised M from GEM Digital (Brandy Betz/CoinDesk)
- A Texas jury says Meta must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer an ongoing royalty and 4.5M+ in damages for violating patents with Facebook and Instagram Live (Bloomberg Law)
- Sources: Meta aims to cut costs by 10%+ within a few months and has quietly nudged out a significant number of employees including by reorganizing departments (Wall Street Journal)
- New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern announces an expansion of the Christchurch Call anti-online hate project, including investments by the US, Microsoft, and Twitter (Lucy Craymer/Reuters)
- Q&A with Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on building a supply chain software business, managing large customers, scaling the company, the shipping industry, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
- Meta is testing letting average users inform its speech policies, which started with a pilot from February-April 2022 on "problematic" climate info on Facebook (Casey Newton/Platformer)
- YouTube unveils Creator Music in beta, which lets creators browse a catalog and use songs by buying rights or sharing revenue, debuting in the US this fall (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Sardine, a fraud detection service for crypto and fintech clients, raised a .5M Series B led by a16z, after a .5M Series A in February 2022 (Anita Ramaswamy/TechCrunch)
- Mexico City-based used car marketplace Kavak, which is Latin America's biggest startup, raised 0M in debt financing, potentially rising to .2B in 2022 (Michael O'Boyle/Bloomberg)
- India-based DotPe, which helps businesses get online, raised a M Series B led by Temasek, and says it will introduce digital lending to merchants (Priyanka Iyer/Moneycontrol)
- OpenAI starts letting DALL-E 2 customers upload and edit people's faces, after initially banning the uploading of photos that may depict real people (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Seattle-based Swiftly, which offers branded apps and retail software to grocery stores, raised a 0M Series C at a B+ valuation after raising 0M in March (Tony Lystra/GeekWire)
- A profile of China-born, US-educated academic Li Zexiang, an angel investor in 60+ Chinese tech startups collectively worth almost B, including DJI (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)
- iPhone 14 Pro owners are reporting that the camera physically shakes when taking photos or video in apps including TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
- How Russia's IRA troll factories tweeted a torrent of fabricated narratives against the US Women's March and its leaders for 18 months, fracturing the movement (Ellen Barry/New York Times)
- Over 90 gameplay videos from Rockstar's GTA VI leak online; the uploader claims they were behind last week's Uber hack and have GTA V and VI source code (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- An in-depth look at a 2019 cyberstalking campaign by eBay employees against two critics who are now suing the company, its former CEO, and others for harassment (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
- Despite a talent shortage, startups in the Chinese chip sector are cutting back on hiring plans due to the deteriorating macro environment and a funding crunch (Qianer Liu/Financial Times)
- Singapore-based cloud HR management service Atlas Technology raised a Series B of up to 0M from Sixth Street Growth, after raising M in 2020 (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
- A profile of Figma founder Dylan Field, who will become the wealthiest person from the Thiel Fellowship by far, as PitchBook estimates his stake is worth B+ (Bloomberg)
- Shopify changes its compensation practices to let staff choose a mix of cash, restricted stock units, and stock options; Shopify stock is down 75% in 2022 (Stefanie Marotta/Bloomberg)
- Some experts say targeted ads on streaming services could be crucial in the 2022 US midterms, as others worry the ads evade federal regulation and oversight (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
- Adobe's B Figma deal is worth it because Figma's 0M ARR, independent of margin, was continuing to double and creating pricing pressure on Adobe (Hunter Walk)
- Filing: Starboard Value has built a 9% stake in Wix, which has been struggling with losses since Q4 2021 and has adopted a three-year cost-cutting program (Svea Herbst-Bayliss/Reuters)
- Uber says there is no evidence that sensitive user info, like trip histories, was accessed during the breach, and all of its products are currently operational (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
- The White House releases a "comprehensive framework" for crypto regulation, outlining the recommendations of various federal agencies after six months of study (Tim Hakki/Decrypt)
- Leaked audio: YouTube will lower the barriers to entry for its partner program and bring ads to Shorts, paying creators 45% of ad money vs. 55% for YouTube ads (Nico Grant/New York Times)
- COO Vanessa Pappas told senators that TikTok is working on a final deal with CFIUS that satisfies all US national security concerns, but didn't give a timeline (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
- California Governor Newsom signs into law an online safety bill that puts limits on the data companies collect on minors; the law goes into effect in July 2024 (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
- Snap makes Snapchat for Web available to all users globally, including support for video calls, releases iOS 16 lock screen widgets, and more (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
- A look at Shanghai's status as China's chip hub: SMIC and SMEE making 14nm and 90nm chips, ~.95B market size in 2021 or ~25% of China's total, and more (Jiaxing Li/South China Morning Post)
- Hone, which runs an online learning platform for executive training and is helmed by FanDuel co-founder Tom Griffiths, raised a M Series B led by 3L capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Users say a demo of ERNIE-ViLG, a text-to-image AI model from Baidu, labels certain political words as "sensitive" and blocks them from generating any result (Zeyi Yang/MIT Technology Review)
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs into law AB 587, which requires social networks to share moderation rules, despite concerns it may violate the 1st Amendment (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
- Apple iPhone 14 review: improved selfie camera and good battery life, but feels like an iPhone 13S with no ProMotion, and the eSIM transition could be painful (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
- South Korea's privacy regulator fines Google M and Meta M for failing to obtain users' consent when collecting behavioral information to show custom ads (Reuters)
- Microsoft releases 63 security fixes, including patches for two zero-day flaws, one of which is under active exploit, and five critical RCE vulnerabilities (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
- Sources: the Newport Wafer Fab's prior owner is orchestrating a bid to buy back the company, as the UK plans to tell Chinese-owned Nexperia to reduce its stake (Financial Times)
- Robert Iger, CEO of Walt Disney from 2005 to 2020, joins VC firm Thrive Capital, founded by Joshua Kushner, as a venture partner (Wall Street Journal)
- KKR partners with Securitize to tokenize an interest in a KKR health care fund on Avalanche, expanding individual investors' access to investment vehicles (Miriam Gottfried/Wall Street Journal)
- A look at Apple's Cooperative R&D Agreement with the TSA on digital IDs and how it could disadvantage Apple's rivals in developing mobile identity credentials (Jason Mikula/Fintech Business Weekly)
- Senate Judiciary Committee leaders send Parag Agrawal a letter asking over a dozen questions about Twitter's security practices, request responses by Sept. 26 (Brian Fung/CNN)
- The new Apple Watches' S8 chip appears to have the same CPU as the S6 and S7, which may explain why Apple has only used the S5 or earlier for comparisons lately (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
- In an interview, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan details the company's decision to rebrand Zoom Chat as Team Chat, seeking to better compete with Slack, Teams, and others (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
- Deere, which will roll out self-driving tractors this year, expects that by the end of the decade 10% of its revenue will come from software fees (Wall Street Journal)
- Sources: Biden admin plans more curbs on US shipments to China of chipmaking tools and chips for AI, affecting Lam Research, Applied Materials, KLA Corp, others (Reuters)
- A look at the increasing efforts of device manufacturers, telecom companies, and satellite operators to connect smartphones to satellites in remote locations (Wall Street Journal)
- Researchers discover a new strain of Linux malware called Shikitega that infects servers and IoT devices with stealth and sophistication, making detection tough (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- An overview of trends from YC's Demo Day for Summer 2022: enterprise made up the bulk at 39% of the 223 startups in the batch, followed by fintech and dev tools (Biz Carson/Protocol)
- At Code, CEOs and politicians voiced concerns about TikTok's power, rapid growth, and surveillance potential, with some calling for it to be banned altogether (Alexandra S. Levine/Forbes)
- Ubisoft says it is developing three mobile games for Netflix, including a new Assassin's Creed title (Hirun Cryer/GamesRadar)
- A look at the two-day Crypto Policy Symposium, the world's first conference for crypto skeptics, from policymakers and journalists to disillusioned programmers (Ben Munster/Decrypt)
- Tyler "Ninja" Blevins says he will be simultaneously streaming on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter (Nathan Grayson/Washington Post)
- Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to deter unauthorized data scraping (Matthew S. Burriesci/Meta)
- How Wikipedia's editors worked after Queen Elizabeth II's death, debating what pictures to use and what to call Charles, creating new articles, and more (Jody Serrano/Gizmodo)
- Sources: Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, is in talks to raise 0M; Coatue proposed a 0M valuation and Lightspeed offered a B valuation (Kenrick Cai/Forbes)
- Revolut launches a one-click payment feature, starting with Shopify, Prestashop, WH Smith, and others (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
- Streaming television is going through an existential crisis as users cancel services and creators fear having their show or movie deleted on an executive's whim (Travis M. Andrews/Washington Post)
- TigerEye, a sales tech company in stealth founded by Tracy Young who previously founded PlanGrid, raised a M Series A led by Initialized Capital and Next47 (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)
- The White House unveils its principles to enhance tech platform accountability and competition, including Section 230 reforms and robust data protections (Ben Brody/Protocol)
- Meta disbands its Responsible Innovation team set up to address concerns about its products' downsides, but says the company remains committed to the same goals (Jeff Horwitz/Wall Street Journal)
- In a closely watched trial, ex-Uber CSO Joe Sullivan's lawyers say the company scapegoated him over the 2016 breach after Travis Kalanick's turbulent exit (Cade Metz/New York Times)
- After India's TikTok ban, Meta and Google are battling for the lead in the country's short-video app economy that could generate up to B in sales by 2030 (Bloomberg)
- Former Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company found that "a substantial portion" of Twitter's users were "not real", when Disney considered buying Twitter in 2016 (Peter Kafka/Vox)
- UK Prime Minister Liz Truss confirms she wants to dilute the draft Online Safety Bill, focusing on protecting minors while making sure free speech is allowed (Financial Times)
- Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro review: longer battery life, looks nice, and improved bezel, but misleading specs, quite thick, and uncomfortable for petite users (Victoria Song/The Verge)
- Some experts warn that the EU's proposed AI Act would create a legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- ISPs drop their legal challenge to a Maine law requiring opt-in consent before using, disclosing, selling or providing access to customers' personal information (Patrick Whittle/Associated Press)
- Google confirms the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will run on a new "Tensor G2" SoC (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)
- Meta announces its Connect conference will be held virtually on October 11, when it is expected to debut its high-end Quest Pro standalone VR headset (Ian Hamilton/UploadVR)
- Tel Aviv-based Cymulate, which helps cybersecurity teams stress test their networks, raised a M Series D led by One Peak, sources say at a ~0M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- A look at YouTube's "coolhunters" who were tasked with finding and promoting talented YouTubers in the company's early years, before the algorithms took over (Mark Bergen/The Atlantic)
- The EU launched its new San Francisco office to liaise with US tech companies and promote EU standards and technologies, digital policies, and governance models (Vish Gain/Silicon Republic)
- Sources: Amazon plans to partner with small and medium-size pharmacies in Japan to launch an online prescription drug marketplace in the country in 2023 (Nikkei Asia)
- Ireland's DPC fines Instagram €405M for violating children's privacy under GDPR, the second highest fine under the law and the third for a Meta-owned company (Vincent Manancourt/Politico)
- The Iranian government plans to use facial recognition on public transport to identify women who are not complying with its strict new hijab laws (Weronika Strzyżyńska/The Gua ...)
- Q&A with Vitalik Buterin on proof of work vs. proof of stake, the recent crypto crash, crypto security, decentralized governance, "startup societies", and more (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
- In August 2022, Beijing's municipal government unveiled plans to regulate the "Digital Human Industry", which covers digital assistants and virtual influencers (Meaghan Tobin/Rest of World)
- What to expect from Apple's Far Out event: iPhone 14 lineup, including Pro models with a revamped notch, new AirPods Pro, a rugged Apple Watch Pro, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- An investor group led by Swiss Life and others agree to pay .5B for a 35% stake in DataBank, which owns 65+ data centers and 20 interconnection hubs in the US (David Seeley/Dallas Innovates)
- A look at the privacy concerns raised by OpenAI's GPT-3, Google's LaMDA, Meta's OPT-175B, and other large language models trained on troves of personal data (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review)
- US officials say sanctioned countries are increasingly manipulating the GPS-based automatic identification systems, or AIS, of ships to evade international law (Anatoly Kurmanaev/New York Times)
- A source details the behavior of iPhone 14 Pro's always-on display, including Widgets fading in and out to prevent OLED burn-in and customizable visual elements (MacRumors)
- India's Enforcement Directorate searched the offices of Paytm, Razorpay, and Cashfree on Friday as part of an investigation into fraudulent Chinese loan apps (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined (Jim Brunner/The Seattle Times)
- Filing: the FTC is investigating Amazon's .9B deal to buy One Medical (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)
- Sources: Biden considers EOs to limit US investments in China, collection of US citizens' data by Chinese companies, and selling of US tech to Chinese customers (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
- Google reinstates Parler to the Play Store after removing it following the January 6 Capitol attack, citing measures Parler has taken to moderate content (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- Sources: Netflix's ad-supported tier may debut on Nov. 1 in markets including Canada, France, Germany, UK, and US; the date was moved to beat Disney+'s Dec. 8 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
- Global PC shipments are expected to drop 12.8% to 305.3M in 2022 while tablet shipments will fall 6.8% to 156.8M; combined PC/tablet market to fall 2.6% in 2023 (IDC)
- In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, 35 House Republicans request communications between Facebook and the FBI in a probe relating to the NY Post's Hunter Biden story (Billy House/Bloomberg)
- Court filings: Apple settled with FlickType developer Kosta Eleftheriou; the lawsuit alleged Apple rejected his Watch app and then approved rip-offs of the app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Reddit acquires contextual advertising company Spiketrap to improve its ad quality scoring and boost prediction models for auto-bidding (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- In federal court, Google defends Jedi Blue, arguing the 2018 pact with Meta does not violate antitrust law as Meta can still use rival ad exchanges (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
- Landa, whose app lets users invest in rental properties for as little as via fractional ownership, emerges from stealth with an M seed and M Series A (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
- Internal memo: Meta is setting up a New Monetization Experiences division to identify and build "possible paid features" for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (Alex Heath/The Verge)
- Microsoft reveals a now-patched "high severity vulnerability" in TikTok for Android that could let attackers take over accounts that clicked on a malicious link (Corin Faife/The Verge)
- Twitter's Elon Musk takeover saga has only amplified its problems, which stem from a broken business model at odds with the platform's freewheeling nature (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
- Q&A with Facebook app head Tom Alison on the needs of young adults, changes to the Feed, TikTok's influence, recommendation systems, political content, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
- A look at 12M+ of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion reveals ~47% came from only 100 domains; the largest number or 8.5% originated from Pinterest (Andy Baio/Waxy.org)
- Sources: Snap is planning to lay off ~20% of its 6,400+ employees; the layoffs are set to begin on Wednesday (Alex Heath/The Verge)
- Sources: Twitter was working to monetize its adult content with OnlyFans-style subscriptions until a "red team" noted the prevalence of CSAM on Twitter (The Verge)
- A book excerpt details YouTube's efforts to remove Islamic extremist content and how the platform mostly failed to address other forms of political extremism (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
- Rakuten founder Hiroshi Mikitani, whose mobile business is bleeding cash, defends his reputation with investors ahead of a planned IPO of Rakuten's online bank (Financial Times)
- French tax authorities, using aerial photos and AI software developed by Google and Capgemini, identify 20K+ unregistered pools, leading to ~€10M more in taxes (Kim Willsher/The Guardian)
- FTC sues app analytics and data broker company Kochava, saying it sells data revealing "people's visits to reproductive health clinics, places of worship", more (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
- Reliance Jio, which has 421M subscribers, says it will spend B to launch a 5G service in October and plans to expand to "every town" in India by end of 2023 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- A look at the "Palantir Pack", a group of Palantir alumni who have founded companies and VC firms like Affirm, Anduril, OpenSea, Handshake, Ironclad, and 8VC (Biz Carson/Protocol)
- Trademark filings suggest Apple is considering calling its mixed reality headset "Reality One" or "Reality Pro" and its specialized chip "Reality Processor" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- Profile of Kim Choong-Ki, a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, who is revered as the godfather of South Korea's chip industry (Dong-Won Kim/IEEE Spectrum)
- Ampere: Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO Max, and Netflix will spend B+ in 2023 on original content, up 10% YoY and more than twice the spending of 2019 (Financial Times)
- Mobile commerce, one-click checkouts, and short-form video have enabled "drops" to spread beyond the fashion world, turning product launches into marquee events (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
- Dell says it ceased all Russian operations after closing its offices in mid-August; it had suspended sales in Russia, Belarus, and parts of Ukraine in February (Reuters)
- Tether, which has promised an audit since at least 2017, says one is "likely months" away; former SEC exec: it needs an audit "akin to a corporate colonoscopy" (Wall Street Journal)
- Peiter Zatko's whistleblowing report is framed as though it supports Musk's claims that Twitter is lying about spam, but the details actually show the opposite (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
- Gartner: global spending on tech, including cloud services, is expected to rise ~3% in 2022, well below the 10% annual growth in 2021 and the nearly 7% in 2020 (Aaron Tilley/Wall Street Journal)
- El Salvador appears to be heading deeper into an economic crisis with funding sources drying up, one year after it adopted bitcoin as legal tender (Daniel Alvarenga/Rolling Stone)
- Facebook agrees in principle to settle a lawsuit alleging it violated consumer privacy laws by sharing user data with 3rd parties, including Cambridge Analytica (Reuters)
- Google brings back the original Google Duo icon and name as a shortcut to Google Meet in Android's app launcher, in an attempt to mitigate user confusion (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- Dallas-based SmartMoving, which provides software to companies offering moving services, has raised .5M from private equity firm Mainsail Partners (Dallas Innovates)
- In a series of tweets, Jack Dorsey expresses regret that Twitter became a company, saying the service should be a "protocol", not owned by a state or company (Sheila Dang/Reuters)
- Twitter admits "mistakes" over the past week after adding misinformation labels to COVID-19 tweets from doctors and scientists as well as suspending accounts (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
- Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's next VR headset will debut in October with improved eye- and facial-tracking features to bolster users' feeling of "social presence" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
- Following Oversight Board feedback, Meta is building a customer service division to help users who have had posts or accounts removed unexpectedly (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
- Atlanta-based Bitcoin Depot, which operates over 7,000 bitcoin ATMs across North America, plans to go public via SPAC at a ~5M valuation (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
- A look at YouTube's Argos, its in-house designed custom chip for transcoding videos, now in its second generation and deployed to thousands of servers globally (Max A. Cherney/Protocol)
- Zilliz, which develops vector database management systems for AI applications, announces a M Series B extension and relocates to San Francisco (TechCrunch)
- Google plans to use video ads on tropes about migrants in Poland, Slovakia, and Czechia, as part of a years-long study on inoculation against misinformation (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)
- Fitbit announces the entry-level 0 Inspire 3, with claimed 10-day battery life, alongside the 0 Versa 4 and 0 Sense 2; none run Google's Wear OS 3 (Adrienne So/Wired)
- iPadOS 16.1 beta code indicates that iOS 16.1 could let users delete the Wallet app, following EU antitrust concerns over Apple Pay (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
- Capitol Music Group severs ties with FN Meka, a virtual "robot rapper" powered partly by AI with 10M+ TikTok followers, after backlash over racial stereotypes (Joe Coscarelli/New York Times)
- Yelp will add a note on crisis pregnancy center pages to distinguish them from clinics with abortion services, amid pressure on Google to clarify search results (Ina Fried/Axios)
- Celonis, which helps enterprises discover inefficiencies, raised B at nearly a B valuation, after raising B in June 2021 at an B valuation (Bloomberg)
- Estonia-based Ready Player Me, which helps build cross-world animated avatars, raised a M Series B led by a16z, following a M Series A in January 2022 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- A look at video streaming sites thriving on misinfo and hate speech like BitChute with 514M visits in 2021 and Odysee with 292M, according to Similarweb (Reuters)
- Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee accused of stealing Apple's car project trade secrets, pleads guilty and faces up to 10 years in prison and a 0K fine (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
- Elon Musk subpoenas former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, ahead of his trial with Twitter set to begin on October 17 in the Delaware Court of Chancery (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
- Ethereum's Merge will introduce new participants, called builders, who gather transactions to be sent for validation, potentially altering its power structure (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
- South Korean chipmakers, historically reluctant to takes sides in the US-China rivalry, are tilting toward the US due to their dependence on Western IP and tech (Financial Times)
- SoftBank's 2021 corporate income tax was zero despite a "SoftBank tax rule" debuting in 2020 and the group reporting record profits for a Japanese company (Nikkei Asia)
- The demand for AR beauty filters on Instagram remains high, despite evidence of harmful effects on users' mental health and Meta's efforts to ban some filters (Tate Ryan-Mosley/MIT Technology Review)
- A dad who sent Android photos of his baby's groin to a doctor says Google disabled his account and police probed him after Google flagged the photos as CSAM (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
- SoftBank CFO says the company sold a large part of its stake in Alibaba to "instantly show" investors its finances were solid after a B quarterly loss (Financial Times)
- An overview of electronic design automation software used for designing chips, as the US Commerce Department announces export controls on certain EDA tools (Zeyi Yang/MIT Technology Review)
- How Georgia State University and other schools are using apps and AI chatbots to help attract students, guide them through graduation, and launch their careers (Beth DeCarbo/Wall Street Journal)
- Leaked financials: FTX had revenue of .02B in 2021, up from M in 2020; operating income grew from M to 2M; US accounted for less than 5% of revenue (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
- A look at the challenges ahead for China's e-CNY, as total transaction volume reached .3B in May and ~4.6M merchants across China now accept the digital yuan (Nikkei Asia)
- Dealogic: July 2022 was the first month in five years that no new SPACs raised money, after SPAC IPOs peaked in March 2021 with over B raised (Wall Street Journal)
- The US House approved a budget amendment in July requiring the DoD to disclose smartphone or web browsing data purchases; Senate still needs to approve it (Dell Cameron/Gizmodo)
- Zuckerberg responds to the mockery of the Horizon Worlds selfie, saying it was taken quickly to celebrate a launch and promises major updates to avatar graphics (Patricia Hernandez/Kotaku)
- Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro review: comfortable with good sound quality and ANC, but they lack multipoint bluetooth and 24-bit audio is limited to Samsung phones (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- TechCrunch debuts a tool to check if an Android device is one of hundreds of thousands hacked by one of several spyware apps, after its probe into TheTruthSpy (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- Israel-based Agora, which helps real estate investment companies automate back-office processes, has raised a M Series A led by Insight Partners (Philip Russo/Commercial Observer)
- TikTok introduces "Shopping Ads", letting brands place shoppable videos on the For You page, promote catalog listings, and direct users to live shopping events (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
- Sources: Qualcomm is planning a return to the server processors market and is seeking customers, including AWS, for a chip stemming from its purchase of Nuvia (Ian King/Bloomberg)
- Tether partners with "top five" accountancy firm BDO Italia to issue monthly assurance and attestation reports of its reserves "very soon" (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
- A coalition of 70 TikTok stars, with a combined 51M+ followers, pledges to cease work with Amazon until the company meets the demands of the Amazon Labor Union (Washington Post)
- HiBob, which offers cloud-based HR tools, has raised a 0M Series D led by General Atlantic at a .45B valuation, up from .65B in October 2021 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
- Cisco beats estimates with Q4 revenue flat YoY at .1B, vs. .8B est., and a fiscal year 2023 guidance of 4% to 6% revenue growth YoY, vs. 2.3% est. (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
- World Bank's IFC partners with blockchain startup Chia and others to launch the Carbon Opportunities Fund, using M to buy and tokenize carbon credits (Reuters)
- Former Nintendo female contract testers in the US describe years of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and a lack of advancement opportunities for women (Sisi Jiang/Kotaku)
- Google says it is using its most powerful large language model PaLM to help robots from Alphabet X spinout Everyday Robots understand complex human commands (Will Knight/Wired)
- Top publicly-traded US bitcoin miners Core Scientific, Marathon Digital, and Riot Blockchain lost 2M, 2M, and 6M in Q2 respectively after impairments (David Pan/Bloomberg)
- Analysis: of the US exports to China that required a license in 2020, the Commerce Department approved 94%, or 2,652, applications for tech exports (Kate O'Keeffe/Wall Street Journal)
- Jump Crypto plans to build a new Solana validator client using C++, called Firedancer, in a bid to improve the network's frequent outages and slowdowns (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)
- Amazon has accused the FTC of harassing its top executives, including Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy, as part of its probe into Prime membership scheme (Dave Lee/Financial Times)
- Filing: Elliott Management sold all of its 10M shares in Twitter in Q2 amid Musk's takeover bid; the hedge fund had no common stock in Twitter as of June 30 (Antoine Gara/Financial Times)
- Walmart partners with Paramount to include the .99/month ad-supported tier of the Paramount+ streaming service as part of its Walmart+ subscription (Reuters)
- TikTok rolls out a text-to-image "AI greenscreen", letting users create a basic background for videos from a text prompt (James Vincent/The Verge)
- The US' .5B broadband budget for underserved areas is withheld until the FCC makes new service maps, which aren't expected by rural providers until late 2023 (Wall Street Journal)
- Ahead of US midterms, a look at TikTok's struggles to keep misinformation off of its platform during foreign elections, like in Australia and France this year (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
- Sources: Apple ads team lead Todd Teresi is now reporting directly to Eddy Cue and wants to increase the group's ad revenues from B a year to double digits (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- Big investment firms, including Abrdn, BlackRock, and Charles Schwab, are embracing digital assets despite the crypto crash, as consumer groups raise concerns (Financial Times)
- Analysis: Tencent and Alibaba, whose stocks have dropped 60% and 65% respectively since February 2021, have lost more market value than any other stock globally (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
- A profile of COO Javier Olivan, who has become Meta's "unofficial fixer" and has had a hand in all of the company's major competitive battles and acquisitions (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
- Uber will end its free loyalty program Uber Rewards on November 1, 2022, to focus on its new Uber One membership program (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- China's internet watchdog publishes a list of 30 algorithms used in popular apps, including Wechat, Taobao, and Douyin, with brief descriptions of their use (Reuters)
- Experts say Coinbase's decision to stop emailed price alerts during 2022's crypto crash likely contributed to retail investor losses and was potentially illegal (Ali Breland/Mother Jones)
- Amazon's new reality show Ring Nation featuring footage from its Ring home security cameras is the company's latest effort to normalize its surveillance network (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)
- Dutch authorities arrest a Tornado Cash developer suspected of involvement in concealing money laundering, two days after the US sanctioned the crypto mixer (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
- Sources: YouTube plans to launch a "channel store" for streaming services as early as this fall and is talking with partners about subscription revenue splits (Wall Street Journal)
- Sources detail Meta's challenges in building encrypted messaging products, including users' apathy toward encryption, which could change due to Roe's reversal (Casey Newton/Platformer)
- Memo: meditation app Calm lays of 20% of its staff; sources say Calm employed ~400 people and approximately 90 were laid off; Calm was valued at B in 2020 (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
- A California bill targeting social media companies for features that could addict minors dies in legislature, after Meta, Twitter, and Snap lobbied against it (Sarah Donaldson/Wall Street Journal)
- Google has agreed to pay M to settle a court case with Australia's ACCC over misleading some Android users about collection of personal location data (The Guardian)
- Google appears to be testing a feature to let users launch cloud games from Stadia, Amazon Luna, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia's GeForce Now from search results (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
- Researchers bought 5G IoT plans from 10 carriers and found security flaws exposing private SIM card data and, in some cases, large streams of other users' data (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
- Docs and sources detail how two men in Phoenix, Arizona ran one of the largest known YouTube music royalty scams, leading to a wire fraud indictment and more (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
- Hong Kong-based Insilico, which uses machine learning to identify potential drug targets, raised M from Prosperity7, bringing its total Series D to M (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
- Elliptic: cross-chain bridge RenBridge has been used to launder 0M in crime-related crypto cash since 2020; Conti ransomware group used it to launder M+ (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
- Microsoft makes its 1,538 3D emoji library available in open source on GitHub and Figma, allowing creators to remix and customize them for free (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- After suffering huge losses, SoftBank plans to reduce its Alibaba stake from 23.7% as of June 30 to 14.6%, raising around B in the current quarter (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal)
- Las Vegas-based Fortress Blockchain Technologies, which is building financial, regulatory, and tech B2B infrastructure for Web3 companies, raised a .5M seed (JD Alois/Crowdfund Insider)
- Biden adviser Tim Wu denies reports of him leaving the White House, saying "I'm not leaving anytime soon - still have lots of work to do" (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
- Sources: US DOJ is preparing to sue Google over its ad market business as soon as September, as the DOJ's antitrust division conducts interviews with publishers (Bloomberg)
- AppLovin offers to buy Unity for .85/share, an 18% premium to Unity's Monday closing price, in a .54B all-stock deal; AppLovin stock is down 9%+ (Eva Mathews/Reuters)
- GitHub partners with code-signing service Sigstore to add support for signing npm software packages, helping improve the security of open source projects (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
- Snapchat introduces parental controls through a new Family Center feature, letting parents see who teens are talking to but not view the content of the messages (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Crypto.com says it has secured registrations to operate as a virtual asset service provider in South Korea, acquires two local startups for undisclosed amounts (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
- Sources: DataRobot's CFO and several other execs have resigned after CEO Dan Wright's resignation last month, amid an uproar over execs' quiet stock sales (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
- Apptopia: Netflix's games have 23.3M total downloads and average 1.7M DAUs, less than 1% of its subscribers; Netflix plans to reach 50 games by the end of 2022 (Jack Stebbins/CNBC)
- SoftBank Vision Fund posts a ~.23B loss in the April-June quarter as the value of its tech portfolio, including SenseTime Group and Uber, fell (Sam Nussey/Reuters)
- Fitbit will end desktop syncing for PC and macOS in October, moving file transfers to its smartphone app, and local music and playlists to Deezer and Pandora (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- An examination of data collected by Tesla: what information its vehicles record, how Tesla uses this data to develop Autopilot, and who actually owns the data (Mark Harris/IEEE Spectrum)
- At least four top executives associated with a Chinese state-run semiconductor fund, which has invested B in total, have been arrested on corruption charges (Zeyi Yang/MIT Technology Review)
- Online crypto casinos like Stake are luring gamers, in some cases to the point of bankruptcy, by using celebrity endorsements and sponsored streams on Twitch (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
- UK-based Cera, whose app uses data analytics and AI to manage at-home health care, has raised 0M split equally between debt and equity led by Kairos HQ (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
- A look at Netflix scrambling to build an ad business and revive its subscriber growth; sources: Reed Hastings expects Netflix could charge ~ per 1,000 views (Wall Street Journal)
- [Thread] via iRobot, Amazon, one of the most powerful data collection companies on earth, will get another vast and intrusive set of data about people's homes (Ron Knox/@ronmknox)
- Analysis: Binance, Crypto.com, Coinbase, FTX, and other crypto companies have committed .4B+ to sports marketing in the past 18 months (Kim Bhasin/Bloomberg)
- A brief history of AI and why some AI researchers believe the technology they have built is sentient or conscious despite no evidence (Cade Metz/New York Times)
- The US DOJ says Alexander Vinnik, founder of BTC-e, a crypto exchange alleged to have laundered B+ in proceeds, was extradited from Greece to the US (Sean Lyngaas/CNN)
- A look at FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's increasing US political contributions, including M+ to back Biden in 2020, and uncertainty about his goals and leanings (Elena Schneider/Politico)
- Sources: former TikTok content moderators working for a third-party company say they were trained using CSAM from a shared document with wide internal access (Alexandra S. Levine/Forbes)
- Crypto bridge Nomad says anyone returning at least 90% of stolen tokens will be viewed as a white-hat hacker and the remaining 10% will become the reward (Joanna Ossinger/Bloomberg)
- YouTube is testing pinch to zoom with its Premium subscribers, allowing users to zoom into a video on-screen, even in landscape mode (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
- Cloudflare reports Q2 revenue up 54% YoY to 4.5M, vs. 7.3M est., a .5M net loss, and forecast for both Q3 and 2022 above estimates; stock is up 21%+ (Wallace Witkowski/MarketWatch)
- As Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, cyberattacks increased there, likely from China; some 7-11 store TVs displayed the words "Warmonger Pelosi, get out of Taiwan!" (Reuters)
- Analysis: B in crypto has been stolen from cross-chain bridges across 13 hacks in 2022 so far, accounting for 69% of total funds stolen (Chainalysis)
- Data.ai: users spend 4+ hours in mobile apps daily in 13 markets, including the US, the UK, Japan, and India, and 5+ hours in Indonesia, Singapore, and Brazil (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Filing: the SEC has been probing Robinhood's compliance with short selling rules since October 2021 and requested more information from the company in Q2 2022 (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
- Interviews with two dozen Triller creators and others show that the TikTok rival missed payments after promising Black creators K monthly, with half in equity (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
- Due to concerns over cloud computing costs, some companies are shifting their data and ML models to on-premises servers and investing in hybrid infrastructure (Kate Kaye/Protocol)
- US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets with TSMC chairman Mark Liu and others to discuss implementation of the Chips and Science Act during her Taiwan visit (Nikkei Asia)
- Source: Nick Clegg is partly relocating to London for personal reasons, splitting his time between California and the UK, as Meta embraces remote leadership (Financial Times)
- Sources: Nancy Pelosi is set to meet with TSMC's chairman Mark Liu to discuss implementation of the Chips and Science Act during her visit to Taiwan (Washington Post)
- SEC filing: e-commerce marketing automation service Klaviyo raised 0M from Shopify; Klaviyo has raised ~5M and was valued at .5B in May 2021 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Uber reports Q2 revenue rose 105% YoY to .1B, above .39B estimates, and a .6B net loss; mobility gross bookings rose 57% YoY to .4B; stock jumps 10%+ (Sofia Pitt/CNBC)
- Leaked Roblox documents show how the platform handles grooming, automatic image scanning, and mass shooting simulators; Roblox says it has over 2,600 moderators (Joseph Cox/VICE)
- Global Payments plans to acquire fintech peer EVO Payments for nearly B, a 24% premium on EVO's last closing price, and expects the deal to close by Q1 2023 (Niket Nishant/Reuters)
- Amazon says its 2021 carbon footprint rose 18% YoY and 40% from 2019 to ~71.54M metric tons of CO2 equivalent, despite its plans to be "net zero carbon" by 2040 (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
- India generates ~B from auctioning airwaves, including for 5G; Reliance Jio spent B+ on 24,740 megahertz, followed by Bharti Airtel and Vodafone (Bloomberg)
- Researchers say Meta is failing to moderate dangerous content in Kenya on Facebook, citing failures in AI, as well as linguistic and cultural expertise gaps (Neha Wadekar/Washington Post)
- In iOS 16 beta 4, Apple Pay finally works in non-Safari browsers like Chrome and Edge, a move that may be in response to the EU's Digital Markets Act (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- Inside China's B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day (Rest of World)
- How Tor is fighting Russia's efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges (Matt Burgess/Wired)
- A look at the supply chain resilience myth, as efforts to replicate the chipmaking process inside single countries or regions reveal and exacerbate bottlenecks (Nikkei Asia)
- Chasing TikTok's success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook (Cal Newport/New Yorker)
- The US and Japan plan to open an R&D center for 2nm chips in 2022 and start mass production in 2025, to establish secure supply chains amid tensions over Taiwan (Rieko Miki/Nikkei Asia)
- Dell XPS 13 Plus review: thin with a great OLED screen and a powerful P-series chip but expensive, gets very hot, mediocre battery life, and very few ports (Monica Chin/The Verge)
- How Modi's government is increasingly skirting India's own internet rules to crack down on free speech and dissent on social media, under a "fake news" pretext (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
- Some streamers on Twitch, a more intimate platform than others, endure threats and stalkers and say Twitch gives limited support when dangerous situations arise (New York Times)
- RPA Supervisor, which lets companies integrate and manage their robotic process automation tools, has raised a M Series A led by Dawn Capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Brazilian prosecutors ask WhatsApp to delay its Communities feature launch in Brazil until January to avoid spreading misinformation around the October election (Anthony Boadle/Reuters)
- Amazon will shut down Drive, its cloud storage service launched in 2011, at the end of 2023 to focus "on photos and video storage with Amazon Photos" (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- Sources: a Chinese government PR division asked to open a stealth account on TikTok, targeting Western audiences; TikTok declined the "sensitive" request (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
- Battle-royale game BGMI, with 16.5M MAUs in India, delisted from iOS and Android app stores after Indian government ban, two years after a ban of Krafton's PUBG (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- Apple expects a faster sales growth in Q4, citing easing parts shortages and strong iPhone demand; Tim Cook says Apple is also "being more deliberate" in hiring (Reuters)
- TikTok confirms it has quietly begun testing HTML5 minigames with new partners, including Vodoo and Nitro Games, after a test with Zynga in November 2021 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Sources: Meta begins telling its 50 US news partners that it will no longer pay for content to run on Facebook's News Tab, ending a three-year deal from 2019 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- A look at the recent rise of protestware, where developers deliberately sabotage their own software libraries as a means of protest for a cause they believe in (Ax Sharma/TechCrunch)
- Fantasy sports app Underdog has raised a M Series B at a 5M valuation, and plans to launch licensed sports betting in Ohio and Colorado next year (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)
- Meta CFO David Wehner will take on a new role as the company's first CSO, starting on November 1, 2022; Vice President of Finance Susan Li will take over as CFO (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
- Human Security, an enterprise bot mitigation and fraud prevention service, merges with PerimeterX, which helps protect web apps; terms were not disclosed (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
- Internal TikTok PR documents suggest responses to difficult questions, including downplaying AI, links to ByteDance, and "the China association" (Chris Stokel-Walker/Gizmodo)
- US CFPB Director Rohit Chopra says the agency should "take a very careful look" at Big Tech entering the buy now, pay later space, after Apple's BNPL debut (Stefania Palma/Financial Times)
- Four former ByteDance employees say the company promoted pro-China content to Americans in its now-defunct news app TopBuzz; ByteDance denies the claims (Emily Baker-White/BuzzFeed News)
- Meta plans to increase the prices of its Quest 2 headsets to 0 for 128GB and 0 for 256GB on August 1, and bundle Beat Saber for free through December 31 (Ian Hamilton/UploadVR)
- The Iran-Israel cyberwar, which has disrupted critical infrastructure and civilian life in both countries, has grown increasingly public in the past two years (Gil Baram/Washington Post)
- Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian post Stories sharing a petition to "Make Instagram Instagram Again" and "stop trying to be TikTok" that has 100K+ signatures (Travis Clark/Insider)
- Binance CEO sues Bloomberg Businessweek's Hong Kong publisher for defamation over a June 23 profile, claiming it depicted him as running a Ponzi scheme (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
- Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon join NIST in calling for an end of the leap second, which keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation but can cause glitches (Stephen Shankland/CNET)
- Internal docs from 2017 show Roblox's plan for China expansion: censorship compliance, expecting to be hacked and copied by partners like Tencent, and more (Joseph Cox/VICE)
- Google employees, kept in the dark about firm's sale of advanced AI tools to Israel, say it could bolster Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestine (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
- Filing: Voyager says the restructuring proposal by FTX and Alameda is "a low-ball bid dressed up as a white knight rescue" that disrupts the bankruptcy process (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)
- An in-depth look at the research collaboration between NASA and the FAA since 2017 to write new US airspace rules for safely accommodating millions of drones (Chris Feliciano Arnold/Bloomberg)
- How Apple, Amazon, and Google are trying to secure live sports streaming rights, working to convince leagues to switch from traditional TV and cable networks (New York Times)
- How China's mass collection of personal info and its new, unevenly enforced data security rules contribute to a thriving underground market for stolen data (Karen Hao/Wall Street Journal)
- How the nearly two-year-old chip shortage upended Detroit's car manufacturing, which a historian says may be the biggest disruption since the 1970s fuel crisis (Jeanne Whalen/Washington Post)
- A look at the bipartisan American Data Privacy and Protection Act, which privacy experts say might finally give the US a strong federal data protection law (Gilad Edelman/Wired)
- DoorDash and Uber Eats are moving beyond food, focusing on groceries and alcohol as users cut spending due to high inflation and a potential economic downturn (Preetika Rana/Wall Street Journal)
- Meta closed down 7%+ and Alphabet closed down 5%+ on Friday, as Snap's weak earnings, inflation, and other factors lead to worries about online advertising (Richard Waters/Financial Times)
- Sources: FBI determined around 2017 that Huawei gear in cell towers near US military bases in the Midwest was capable of capturing and disrupting DoD comms (Katie Bo Lillis/CNN)
- An interview with Matthew Ball on his new book about the metaverse, which he sees as the next phase of the internet, Meta's big pivot, AR hardware, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
- Senate votes 64-34 to advance a bill to provide ~B in US chip production subsidies, paving way for a larger package that would include additional R&D funding (Natalie Andrews/Wall Street Journal)
- Gordian Software, whose API enables airlines to sell flight add-ons like seat selection or additional baggage, has raised a M Series A at a 0M valuation (Ariyana Griffin/Forbes)
- Microsoft unveils Viva Engage, a social-community app launching in late August, that brings Stories and other image and video sharing tools to Teams (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)
- Zebedee, which focuses on adding Bitcoin and Lightning payment support in games, raises a M Series B led by Kingsway Capital with Square Enix among investors (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)
- US lawmakers release internal Amazon, Meta, and Google documents that they say show evidence of self-preferencing, as they call for tougher tech antitrust laws (Makena Kelly/The Verge)
- Netflix plans to launch its cheaper, ad-supported plan in "the early part of 2023", starting in "a handful of markets where advertising spend is significant" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
- Google finds Android spyware, distributed outside the Play Store, that Russians disguised as an app for Ukrainians to launch DDoS attacks against Russian sites (Corin Faife/The Verge)
- Sources: China will impose a B+ fine on Didi over its cybersecurity practices and ease restrictions, letting Didi restore its apps and pursue a Hong Kong IPO (Wall Street Journal)
- Crunchyroll drops prices in nearly 100 countries and territories, cutting the Mega Fan plan by 25% in the UK, nearly 50% in the UAE, and nearly 90% in India (Kris Holt/Engadget)
- A look at Netflix's franchise-building efforts, as it plans to build brands that traverse film, TV, games, and consumer products, to counter slowing growth (Reuters)
- Several historic sites in Nepal, where TikTok creators have reportedly trampled crops and even caused traffic jams while filming, have erected "No TikTok" signs (Abhaya Raj Joshi/Rest of World)
- Amazon files a lawsuit against the admins of 10K+ Facebook groups that offer cash or goods to people willing to post bogus product reviews on Amazon (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)
- Albania shuts down access to online public services and government websites due to a cyberattack, just a few months after launching an online services portal (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
- Amazon starts rolling out a Prime Video redesign for Android and connected TV devices, with a Netflix-like look, a top 10 list, a vertical navigation, and more (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- ByteDance says it is exploring designing its own chips for video platforms and entertainment apps because it can't find suppliers that can meet its requirements (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
- The US must grant more green cards to retain tech leaders; Turkish MIT and Caltech grad Erdal Arikan, whose work led to Huawei's early 5G lead, had to leave US (Foreign Policy)
- Slack to update its subscriptions on Sept. 1, with free plans getting access to the last 90 days of messages and Pro plans to cost a max .74/user per month (Greg Kumparak/TechCrunch)
- A private antitrust lawsuit, filed in California, accuses Apple of using its smartphone dominance to fend off competition to Apple Pay from rival payment apps (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)
- New York-based Meow, which offers corporate investors a compliant-first approach to cryptocurrency investing, raised a M Series A led by Tiger Global (PYMNTS.com)
- Netflix tests charging customers in five Latin American countries an extra fee if they use an account for more than two weeks outside of their primary residence (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
- IBM reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to .54B, vs .18B est., with its infrastructure unit, which includes mainframe computers, up almost 19% YoY to .24B (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
- Russia fines Google 8M for not censoring topics including the war with Ukraine, after Google's Russian subsidiary filed for bankruptcy earlier this year (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
- Uber settles DOJ lawsuit over "wait-time" fees it charged disabled people for taking too long to board vehicles, paying 65K+ passengers a total of about .24M (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)
- Sources: Apple plans to slow hiring and spending growth next year in some divisions to cope with a potential economic downturn; the move won't affect all teams (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- Analysis: the cumulative market cap of recently listed fintechs in the US had fallen 6B in 2022 through July 15, with shares falling an average of over 50% (Financial Times)
- Sources: several US chip makers are deliberating whether to oppose the Chips Act if its final language disproportionately benefits manufacturers like Intel (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
- A UK judge quashes the CMA's order that Meta must sell Giphy and refers the case back to the agency; CMA says it aims to complete the review within three months (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg)
- Andy Jassy has quietly put his own imprint on Amazon in his first year as CEO, making more changes than many expected, including a hands-on approach to lobbying (New York Times)
- After Apple notified Thai activists and human rights supporters in November they had been hacked, Citizen Lab confirms 30+ have been hacked by NSO's Pegasus (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
- Inside Project Galileo: How the MoonSwatch Was Made
- Tracxn: ~.5B in VC funding was raised by Indian education startups from 2014 to 2021, with about half of that in 2021 alone, as they vie for US marketshare (Nikkei Asia)
- Researchers say Alibaba's cloud platform that hosted Shanghai's now-leaked police database used outdated systems that didn't offer the ability to set a password (Karen Hao/Wall Street Journal)
- Chinese grocery delivery firm Missfresh, which had raised B+ in VC funding from Tiger, Goldman, others, falls in market cap on Nasdaq from B in 2021 to M (Financial Times)
- Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon and some other startups offering cryptocurrencies backed by carbon-offset credits have slowed product rollouts amid the crypto crash (Wall Street Journal)
- Sydney-based Hivery, whose software helps retailers select the right mix of products to stock on store shelves, has raised a M Series B led by Tiger Global (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- GameStop looks to diversify its meme money – TechCrunch
- Seattle-based Phaidra, which develops AI software to automate building controls for power plants and other industrial facilities, has raised a M Series A (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
- Despite China's scrutiny of online credit, smaller services have proliferated in China, as the penetration rate of online microlending reached 69.2% in 2021 (Yaling Jiang/South China Morning Post)
- The Best Turntables for Your Vinyl Collection
- 14 Xbox Game Pass Games Worth Playing
- A look at YouTube's strategy that began in 2019 of signing Twitch streamers who have a network of collaborators to try and build its own game streaming culture (Nathan Grayson/Washington Post)
- AI Art Is Challenging the Boundaries of Curation
- How to Make Sure You’re Getting the Best Streaming Quality
- How to Support People in States Where Abortion Is Under Threat
- An app for India's largest public employment program is jeopardizing the livelihood of millions in the country due to technical glitches and poor connectivity (Sabah Gurmat/Rest of World)
- MakeMyMove: at least 71 US cities and town are now offering cash grants and other perks to attract remote tech workers, up from 24 in October 2021 (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
- Oakland-based Mayvenn, which offers an e-commerce tool and a marketplace for salon services, has raised a M Series C led by Cleveland Ave (FinSMEs)
- The 2022 "crypto winter" differs from previous crashes, in part due to the macro environment, the TerraUSD collapse, excess leverage, and contagion via 3AC (CNBC)
- India escalates its crackdown on Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi, which control ~60% of its smartphone market, with claims of tax evasion and unlawful remittances (Financial Times)
- Online scam centers in Southeast Asia have perfected "pig butchering", a romance-meets-investment fraud, to lure victims into bogus investment schemes (Alastair McCready/VICE)
- New Gab accounts appear to be automatically following the GOP nominee for PA governor Doug Mastriano, after he paid Gab K in April for "campaign consulting" (Christopher Mathias/HuffPost)
- Interview with MetaMask founders who say "we can't stop people from making Ponzis on blockchains" and "putting your money in cryptocurrencies is gambling" (Maxwell Strachan/VICE)
- Report: in emails sent to three creators, Coinbase says it is "temporarily shutting down" its US affiliate program on July 19 and plans to relaunch it in 2023 (Moneycontrol)
- Many rapid delivery startups, which surged during the pandemic, have either retreated or shut down after struggling to make the economics work (Arielle Pardes/Wired)
- Peloton Will Stop Making Its Own Bikes and Treadmills
- ‘Blood Washing’ Is the Latest Dubious—and Pricey—Long-Covid Trend
- Experts say a ruling against Twitter in its lawsuit against content removal orders in India could let the government censor a wide swath of platforms and sites (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
- The Dangerous Chemicals Lurking Inside Shipping Containers
- The 17 Best Accessories for Your PlayStation 5
- The New MacBook Air Fits Some Upgrades in a Sleeker Package
- How to Take a Screenshot on Any Phone or Laptop
- As China builds up its vast surveillance and security apparatus, it is running up against growing public unease about data security and privacy in the country (New York Times)
- Experts say archiving content from TikTok is challenging and urge the platform to preserve and provide access to content for war crime investigations in Ukraine (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
- Study: as the war persists, Meta has responded fairly effectively to Russian propaganda flagged by Ukrainian officials, while YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn lag (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a national ban on using digital assets for payments, but allows investing in digital assets like bitcoin (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)
- Sources: Microsoft moves to a three-year release cycle for major versions of Windows, with new features to the current version shipping up to four times a year (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
- Boston-based Robin, which makes office reservation software, has raised a M Series C led by Tola Capital, bringing its total funding to more than M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- TikTok says its global CSO Roland Cloutier will step down in September to take an advisory role, and that the move is not related to security concerns in the US (Ryan Tracy/Wall Street Journal)
- SEC filing: Twitter's board invites shareholders to a special meeting to vote on Elon Musk's acquisition and unanimously recommends they approve the deal (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
- Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say Twitter is unfairly pushing for a "warp speed" four-day trial in September and ask for a court date in February 2023 or later (Jef Feeley/Bloomberg)
- A look at DARPA's SocialCyber, a project that combines sociology with AI to protect open-source communities and the code they create from malicious campaigns (Patrick Howell O'Neill/MIT Technology ...)
- FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel proposes a US broadband standard of 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up; the proposal requires a vote in the currently deadlocked FCC (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
- Disney plans to raise ESPN+'s monthly subscription from .99 to .99 and its annual price from .99 to .99, 43% increases, starting on August 23, 2022 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
- The Agony and Ecstasy of Playing Out Your School Years in Games
- Investment in VC-backed crypto companies fell to .3B in H1 2022, down from a record .5B invested during H1 2021; deal flow increased from 456 to 534 (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)
- SmartBank, which offers a prepaid card and finance app in Japan, has raised a M Series A, bringing its total funding to M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
- The Loneliness of Richard Matheson’s Sci-Fi
- How crypto broker Voyager, which generated interest on deposits by loaning crypto assets, collapsed after its largest borrower Three Arrows Capital defaulted (CoinDesk)
- Okendo, which provides customer review tools to e-commerce brands, has raised a M Series A led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to .5M (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)
- Celsius CEO said in a court filing that his company was owed 9M by a "private lending platform" that sources say is specialist finance company EquitiesFirst (Kadhim Shubber/Financial Times)
- The Emmy Nominations Prove No One Knows How to Watch TV Anymore
- The Best Sleep Gadgets and Apps
- Even Twitter Thinks Elon Musk's Tweets Are Out of Control
- Twitter is testing custom timelines built by developers that merge content around specific themes, starting with one about The Bachelorette in the US and Canada (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
- Texas’ Precarious Power Grid Exposes a Nasty Feedback Loop
- Celsius' Chapter 11 filing shows that its biggest creditor, to which it owes M, is little known fund Pharos, which has staff with links to Sam Bankman-Fried (Bloomberg)
- Amazon plans to create 4K+ jobs in the UK in 2022, including in software development and engineering, bringing its permanent workforce in the UK to 75K+ (Ryan Browne/CNBC)