Meet the BBC’s 'undercover voters' for the US midterms An investigation into what US voters see on social media in the run-up to the midterm elections. September 01, 2022 at 05:28AM

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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)

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Ticketing service SeatGeek raised a $238M Series E at a ~$1.2B valuation after terminating a SPAC deal with Forbes in early June (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

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Arm sues Qualcomm and its subsidiary Nuvia for using licenses without approval, asking Qualcomm to destroy designs developed under Nuvia's agreements with Arm (Reuters)

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Sony and Tencent's Sixjoy acquire a combined 30.34% of Elden Ring game company FromSoftware; FromSoftware's parent Kadokawa retains the remaining 69.66% (Chris Scullion/Video Games Chronicle)

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Snapchat to cut a fifth of jobs The social media platform is restructuring as advertisers worry about the economy. August 31, 2022 at 11:13PM

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Q&A with Chris McKillop, the former director of engineering for Google's Fuchsia project, on the past, present, and future of the OS, Nexus Q failures, and more (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

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Netflix hires two Snap executives to lead its ad-supported tier plan: Snap's Chief Business Officer Jeremi Gorman and VP of Sales for the Americas Peter Naylor (Alex Heath/The Verge)

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HPE reports Q3 revenue of $7B, up 1% YoY, Intelligent Edge revenue of $941M, up 8% YoY, HPC & AI rev. of $830M, up 12% YoY, and Compute rev. of $3B, down 3% YoY (Eric J. Savitz/Barron's Online)

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Kevin Rose's NFT startup Proof announces a $50M Series A led by a16z, upcoming NFT project Moonbirds Mythics, and a DAO to handle licensing of Moonbirds' name (MK Manoylov/The Block)

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In a first, both Comcast and Charter failed to grow internet subscribers last quarter, as T-Mobile and Verizon roll out cheaper 5G wireless home internet (Jared Newman/Fast Company)

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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)

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Android 13 review: a small update, but 2022's second after March's tablet-focused 12L update, finally brings a task manager, notification permissions, and more (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

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A researcher says a huge Chinese database with up to 800M records was exposed for months, storing images of faces, license plates, resident ID numbers, and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

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Undeclared pools in France uncovered by AI technology Millions in tax revenue has been collected after more than 20,000 undeclared pools were found. August 30, 2022 at 02:30AM

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StarTree, which offers an Apache Pinot database-powered real-time analytics service, raised a $47M Series B led by GGV Capital and plans to open an India office (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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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)

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DappRadar: OpenSea processed nearly $5M of NFT transactions on August 28, down ~99% from a $405.75M high on May 1; Bored Ape Yacht Club's floor price fell 53% (Yashu Gola/Cointelegraph)

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Apple says the number of Apple Podcast subscribers grew by 300%+ since June 2021 and 25%+ of the top 100 shows in its Top Shows chart now offer a subscription (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)

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Microsoft to revise its licensing terms in the EU on October 1 to make it cheaper to run its software on rival cloud providers, following EU antitrust scrutiny (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott)

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Musk will likely focus more on "Mudge" Zatko's claims about Twitter's security practices instead of bots, potentially a better way to fight the acquisition deal (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

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Sources: EU regulators will not appeal a court ruling scrapping a €997M fine against Qualcomm for allegedly paying Apple billions to use only Qualcomm chips (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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Meta partners with JioMart, an e-commerce venture between Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms, to launch a grocery shopping service on WhatsApp in India (TechCrunch)

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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)

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Unlike DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion is open source and can run on high-end consumer GPUs, while its CreativeML Open RAIL-M license "strives for" "responsible" use (Alberto Romero/The Algorithmic Bridge)

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Trademark filings suggest Apple is considering the names Reality One, Reality Pro for its mixed-reality headset, and Reality Processor for the chip in the set (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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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)

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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)

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Tribune Publishing says disabling Google's AMP led to very little impact on mobile search referrals, as year-long drops mostly aligned to broader search trends (Kurt Gessler)

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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)

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Ahead of launch of passkeys, which requires users to have two-factor authentication, Apple says 95%+ of active iCloud users have 2FA enabled on their accounts (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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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)

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Google launches Cross device SDK to let developers build experiences across Android phones and tablets, coming later to other Android and non-Android devices (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Some Google staff say they are getting a lot of COVID-19 exposure notifications after returning to office; unvaccinated staff ask Google to drop vaccine mandate (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

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IRCTC, which has a monopoly on online train ticket booking in India, scraps plans to monetize customer data following uproar when its plans were uncovered (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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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)

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Sources: the US DOJ is in the early stages of drafting a potential antitrust complaint against Apple but has not decided whether or when to sue the company (Josh Sisco/Politico)

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Nvidia says it is dealing with excess inventory of RTX 3000-series GPUs ahead of its next-gen RTX 4000 series release, signaling that the GPU shortage is over (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

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FTX Ventures absorbed the VC operations of Alameda Research, with the transition beginning in January, when FTX Ventures raised $2B (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)

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Twitter's VP of Engineering Sandeep Pandey is leaving after more than a decade, reportedly to join Meta and work on its AI and machine learning teams (Andrew Mendez/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Binance and FTX are among at least 22 investors trying to buy the assets of Voyager Digital; source: Coinbase evaluated a deal but withdrew (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

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Heroku plans to stop offering free plans and shut down free services on November 28 and begin deleting inactive accounts on October 26, due to "fraud and abuse" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Instagram defaults new users under 16 to its most restrictive content setting, will prompt existing teens to choose that setting, and adds a settings check-up (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Twitter is integrating podcasts into its redesigned Spaces Tab, starting with some English-speaking users globally, on iOS and Android (Twitter)

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Google will add clear labels to Search and Maps listings for facilities that provide abortions, after a group of US lawmakers urged it to fix abortion searches (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Snowflake reports Q2 revenue of $497M vs. $467M est., up 83% YoY, and anticipates product revenue to be between $500M and $505M in Q3; stock up 17%+ after hours (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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At an all-hands, Twitter's executives pushed back against Peiter Zatko's complaint, with CEO Parag Agrawal saying a "false narrative" has been created (CNN)

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Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 3% YoY to $6.7B vs. $8.1B est., gaming department revenue down 33% YoY to $2.04B, and Q3 revenue guidance of $5.9B, vs. $6.95B est. (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $7.72B vs. $7.69B est., net income of $68M, down from $535M YoY, and authorizes a $10B share buyback program (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Peiter Zatko will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 13 to examine his allegations of widespread security failures at Twitter (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

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