The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems  —  The European Union's top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta's data retention policies.

Robinhood plans to debut margin trading in UK in the coming weeks; it is exploring offering retirement products and letting British users invest in UK stocks (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Robinhood plans to debut margin trading in UK in the coming weeks; it is exploring offering retirement products and letting British users invest in UK stocks  —  - Company plans to debut margin trading in UK in coming weeks  — Robinhood has been expanding overseas as it hunts for growth

Google is "running a small experiment" showing blue verified checkmarks beside business links in its search results that indicate the company is genuine (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google is “running a small experiment” showing blue verified checkmarks beside business links in its search results that indicate the company is genuine  —  Google is experimenting with a new verification feature in search that should make it easier for users to avoid clicking on fake or fraudulent website links.

Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, ~8.4% of staff, accepted a generous buyout package offered to those who disagreed with his direction of WordPress (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, ~8.4% of staff, accepted a generous buyout package offered to those who disagreed with his direction of WordPress  —  Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package …

How chips made by US companies like Analog Devices, Germany's Infineon, and others helped power a Russian missile used in Ukraine, despite US export controls (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
How chips made by US companies like Analog Devices, Germany's Infineon, and others helped power a Russian missile used in Ukraine, despite US export controls  —  On the morning of Aug. 19, 2023, Olha Holynska boarded a train in Kyiv with her 6-year-old daughter, Sofiya, to travel to Chernihiv, an ancient city in northern Ukraine.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says his previous post on ToS updates "may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works" but "little has changed" (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)

Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says his previous post on ToS updates “may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works” but “little has changed”  —  - Pavel Durov announced changes to terms of service last week  — He faces charges in France for crimes committed on his app

Philippine President Marcos Jr. signs a law imposing a 12% value-added tax on non-resident digital service providers, including Netflix, HBO, and Disney (Andreo Calonzo/Bloomberg)

Andreo Calonzo / Bloomberg:
Philippine President Marcos Jr. signs a law imposing a 12% value-added tax on non-resident digital service providers, including Netflix, HBO, and Disney  —  Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday signed a law imposing a 12% value-added tax on non-resident digital service providers including Netflix, HBO and Disney.

How streamers on Twitch and other services are moving further into talking politics, making the livestreaming platforms a focus for both presidential campaigns (New York Times)

New York Times:
How streamers on Twitch and other services are moving further into talking politics, making the livestreaming platforms a focus for both presidential campaigns  —  As more streamers discuss politics, including major events like Tuesday's debate, they have become the focus of intense interest for both presidential campaigns.

Raspberry Pi AI Camera review: the new $70 kit has a smart camera with performance that will cover 99% of basic user projects, and works as a standard Pi camera (Les Pounder/Tom's Hardware)

Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware:
Raspberry Pi AI Camera review: the new $70 kit has a smart camera with performance that will cover 99% of basic user projects, and works as a standard Pi camera  —  Smarter Pi  —  Tom's Hardware Verdict … It may not come as a big surprise.  After all, the $70 Raspberry Pi AI Camera …

Google's lawyers wrapped up their defense of the company in the US DOJ ad tech antitrust trial last week; a judge's ruling is expected in the coming months (New York Times)

New York Times:
Google's lawyers wrapped up their defense of the company in the US DOJ ad tech antitrust trial last week; a judge's ruling is expected in the coming months  —  The tech giant, which wrapped up its arguments in the federal monopoly trial, simply says it has the best product.

California passes a law that includes "neural data" under personal sensitive information, aiming to protect people's brain data from being misused by companies (Jonathan Moens/New York Times)

Jonathan Moens / New York Times:
California passes a law that includes “neural data” under personal sensitive information, aiming to protect people's brain data from being misused by companies  —  The state extended its current personal privacy law to include the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.

Sources: Apple considers options for its headsets, including moving compute to iPhone, and is working on homeOS; new Masimo CEO could enable a deal with Apple (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple considers options for its headsets, including moving compute to iPhone, and is working on homeOS; new Masimo CEO could enable a deal with Apple  —  Meta's latest AR glasses and cheaper mixed-reality headset add pressure on Apple to make its Vision push work.

A look at challenges to OpenAI becoming a for-profit company, including the complexity of splitting assets with the nonprofit arm, which will continue to exist (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
A look at challenges to OpenAI becoming a for-profit company, including the complexity of splitting assets with the nonprofit arm, which will continue to exist  —  Converting from a nonprofit happens rarely, especially for organizations this wealthy.  OpenAI has two years to do so.

NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot that is trained on his equity valuation work that is in the public domain, why AI will empower generalists, and more (Aswath Damodaran/Financial Times)

Aswath Damodaran / Financial Times:
NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot that is trained on his equity valuation work that is in the public domain, why AI will empower generalists, and more  —  Whether the risks to jobs is real or not, it behoves us all to act like it is given how consequential the costs could be

Sources: TSMC's execs took to calling Sam Altman a "podcasting bro" after he said it would take $7T and many years to build 36 chip plants to fulfill his vision (New York Times)

New York Times:
Sources: TSMC's execs took to calling Sam Altman a “podcasting bro” after he said it would take $7T and many years to build 36 chip plants to fulfill his vision  —  Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, is talking to the United Arab Emirates, Asian chipmakers and U.S. officials …