Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
X says it's closing its operations in Brazil, claiming a judge threatened arrest if X didn't comply with “censorship orders”; the service remains available — X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said today that it's ending operations in Brazil …
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Saturday, August 17, 2024
X says it's closing its operations in Brazil, claiming a judge threatened arrest if X didn't comply with "censorship orders"; the service remains available (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Nancy Pelosi issues a statement in opposition to California's AI safety bill, saying it's "well-intentioned but ill-informed" and "more harmful than helpful" (Representative Nancy Pelosi)
Representative Nancy Pelosi:
Nancy Pelosi issues a statement in opposition to California's AI safety bill, saying it's “well-intentioned but ill-informed” and “more harmful than helpful” — San Francisco - Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement in opposition to California Senate Bill 1047:
A profile of Anthony Tan, the solo developer of Way to the Woods, a game that received Epic Games funding and remains unreleased nine years after its conception (Jackson Ryan/New York Times)
Jackson Ryan / New York Times:
A profile of Anthony Tan, the solo developer of Way to the Woods, a game that received Epic Games funding and remains unreleased nine years after its conception — Anthony Tan was 16 when his idea for a video game about a deer caught the industry's eye. Nine years later, he's still working on it.
Friday, August 16, 2024
The Biden administration approves $1.6B in Chips Act grants and $3B in loans for Texas Instruments, to support its one chip factory in Utah and two in Texas (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
The Biden administration approves $1.6B in Chips Act grants and $3B in loans for Texas Instruments, to support its one chip factory in Utah and two in Texas — - Funding will support $18 billion in spending in Texas, Utah — Biden administration almost finished allocating chips grants
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Quantum Circuits, which aims to make error correction more efficient in quantum computers to help commercialization, raised $60M from the US' In-Q-Tel and more (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg:
Quantum Circuits, which aims to make error correction more efficient in quantum computers to help commercialization, raised $60M from the US' In-Q-Tel and more — - Sequoia's sole quantum computing bet raised over $60 million — Policymakers fear security impact of falling behind in quantum
Unit 42: open-source projects from Google, Microsoft, AWS, and others leaked GitHub auth tokens via GitHub Actions; GitHub decided not to address the risk (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Unit 42: open-source projects from Google, Microsoft, AWS, and others leaked GitHub auth tokens via GitHub Actions; GitHub decided not to address the risk — Multiple high-profile open-source projects, including those from Google, Microsoft, AWS, and Red Hat, were found …
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Australia's market regulator sues the country's ASX stock exchange over its botched blockchain upgrade, abandoned in November 2022 after seven years of work (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)
Nic Fildes / Financial Times:
Australia's market regulator sues the country's ASX stock exchange over its botched blockchain upgrade, abandoned in November 2022 after seven years of work — Corporate watchdog said ASX made ‘misleading’ statements about its clearing and settlement system
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
How Tether co-founder Brock Pierce's plan to use crypto to revitalize Puerto Rico's economy became mired in legal disputes and fights with his business partners (New York Times)
New York Times:
How Tether co-founder Brock Pierce's plan to use crypto to revitalize Puerto Rico's economy became mired in legal disputes and fights with his business partners — On sun-drenched days in 2022, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Brock Pierce liked to take his friends sailing to the island of Vieques …
India's antitrust body orders an unusual recall of a report on its Apple investigation; a source says Apple complained about confidential revenue disclosures (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
India's antitrust body orders an unusual recall of a report on its Apple investigation; a source says Apple complained about confidential revenue disclosures — India's antitrust body has ordered an unusual recall of its investigation reports that found Apple in breach of competition laws …
Monday, August 12, 2024
TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users, including a weeks-old disaster warning; TikTok removed some of the notifications (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users, including a weeks-old disaster warning; TikTok removed some of the notifications — False claims about Taylor Swift among outdated and misleading information in news-style notifications from video-sharing app
A researcher finds 15K+ hardcoded secrets and 66K vulnerable websites, including details on accessing Stanford's Slack, by searching overlooked data sources (Matt Burgess/Wired)
Matt Burgess / Wired:
A researcher finds 15K+ hardcoded secrets and 66K vulnerable websites, including details on accessing Stanford's Slack, by searching overlooked data sources — Security researcher Bill Demirkapi found more than 15,000 hardcoded secrets and 66,000 vulnerable websites—all by searching overlooked data sources.
Google Pixel Fold one year later: far from the perfect gadget but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold may solve its issues (Chris Welch/The Verge)
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google Pixel Fold one year later: far from the perfect gadget but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold may solve its issues — Using the Fold can feel special, but Google needs to make some obvious upgrades for the follow-up.
Sunday, August 11, 2024
AMD releases updates to mitigate the "Sinkclose" vulnerability but has no plans to update older Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 or Threadripper 1000 and 2000 CPUs (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)
Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware:
AMD releases updates to mitigate the “Sinkclose” vulnerability but has no plans to update older Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 or Threadripper 1000 and 2000 CPUs — AMD says some chips fall outside of the software support window. — AMD processors dating back to 2006 reportedly suffer …
A look at Front Porch Forum, which counts nearly half of Vermont's adults as active members and prioritizes careful moderation and civility over engagement (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
Will Oremus / Washington Post:
A look at Front Porch Forum, which counts nearly half of Vermont's adults as active members and prioritizes careful moderation and civility over engagement — On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is strictly prohibited. — Imagine an online community where substantive debates …
Celsius sued Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back ~40K bitcoins, now worth ~$2.4B, that Celsius claims Tether sold improperly at the bottom of the market (Zack Abrams/The Block)
Zack Abrams / The Block:
Celsius sued Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back ~40K bitcoins, now worth ~$2.4B, that Celsius claims Tether sold improperly at the bottom of the market — - Celsius filed a lawsuit against Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back Bitcoin worth $2.4 billion that the company …
Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions (Gleb Bryanski/Reuters)
Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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