The firms hoping to cut down on wasted cosmetics By tailoring cosmetics to the individual some firms are hoping to cut waste in the cosmetics industry. September 01, 2023 at 04:42AM

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Anonymous Sudan hacks X to put pressure on Elon Musk over Starlink Prolific hackers accused of being a front for Russian cyber-operation shares counter evidence with the BBC. August 31, 2023 at 02:15PM

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Pass AI law soon or risk falling behind, MPs warn The commons technology committee urges new legislation for the UK to take lead on AI regulation. August 31, 2023 at 05:56AM

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Netflix: Streamers expansion into gaming is 'natural extension' Streaming hits such as the Queen's Gambit are being adapted as games as the streamer looks to expand. August 30, 2023 at 06:13AM

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Google tests watermark to identify AI images The tech giant's artificial intelligence firm DeepMind unveils measures to counter disinformation. August 29, 2023 at 05:47PM

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How long until a robot is doing your dishes? Advances in AI are accelerating the development of humanoid robots. August 29, 2023 at 05:07AM

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Toronto-based Ideogram raised a $16.5M seed led by a16z and Index Ventures and launches a public beta of its generative AI-based text-to-image product (Charlize Alcaraz/BetaKit)

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EU safety laws start to bite for TikTok, Instagram and others Nineteen large platforms have to start complying with new rules as soon as Friday or risk big fines. August 25, 2023 at 04:30AM

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Mastercard and Binance plan to end their card partnership in Latin America and Middle East on September 22; Visa stopped issuing Binance cards in Europe in July (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Amazon has had early talks with Disney about working on a streaming version of ESPN, perhaps helping with distribution and taking a minority stake (Sahil Patel/The Information)

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A US judge dismissed an RNC lawsuit alleging Google's spam filters illegally suppressed their emails, saying the RNC hadn't shown that Google acted in bad faith (Cristiano Lima/Washington Post)

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US government sues Elon Musk's SpaceX over hiring policy The US Department of Justice says rocket firm discriminated against refugees and asylum seekers. August 24, 2023 at 10:24PM

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Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $446M, vs. $406M est., net loss up 11% YoY to $206M, and GMV up 25% YoY to $5.5B, vs. $5.3B est.; AFRM jumps 5%+ (Emily Bary/MarketWatch)

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Shein acquires ~33% of Forever 21 parent company Sparc and Sparc takes a Shein minority stake, letting Shein sell Forever 21 items and operate inside its stores (Suzanne Kapner/Wall Street Journal)

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Google announces new security features for Workspace, including zero-trust, data loss prevention, and digital sovereignty controls, rolling out in 2023 and 2024 (David Gewirtz/ZDNet)

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Apple says it supports California's Right to Repair Act, which passed a Senate vote in May and is awaiting approval before going to a full assembly vote (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

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Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 101% YoY to $13.51B, vs. $11.22B est., Data Center revenue up 171% YoY to $10.32B, and authorizes a $25B buyback; NVDA jumps 6%+ (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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Sources: Microsoft is experimenting with new AI capabilities in Windows 11 apps, including generating a canvas from text in Paint and OCR in Snipping Tool (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Qualcomm updates its lineup of processors for gaming handhelds, adding the G1 and G2 chips for cheaper devices and unveiling its flagship Snapdragon G3x Gen 2 (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

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Sources: Salesforce is leading a ~$200M funding round in Hugging Face at a $4B+ valuation, more than doubling its share price and private valuation (The Information)

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Meta says it remains committed to rolling out default E2EE for Messenger, which has opt-in E2EE, by the end of 2023, and shortly afterwards for Instagram DMs (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

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Nvidia and VMware extend partnership to help companies iterate on open models like Llama 2 for their AI apps, using Nvidia's NeMo framework on VMware's cloud (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat)

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Sources: Thoma Bravo will close its $2.3B acquisition of identity software provider ForgeRock this week after the US DOJ declined to challenge the deal (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

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A summer 2022 draft agreement between the US and ByteDance to avoid a TikTok ban would give US agencies power to block app policy changes, veto hirings, more (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)

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The US announces $667M in new grants and loans for 37 new recipients to expand rural broadband infrastructure, after allocating $771.4M in April and June 2023 (Kavish Harjai/Associated Press)

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PeckShield: a wallet tied to the ~$600M Binance Coin hack in October 2022 had $63M liquidated on lending platform Venus Protocol, after using BNB as collateral (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

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A look at Music: Not Impossible's haptic suit, consisting of a backpack and ankle and wrist bands, which lets people feel music as vibrations on their bodies (New York Times)

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Pioneering wind-powered cargo ship sets sail Inventors hope maiden voyage will help usher in new era of greener shipping. August 21, 2023 at 10:50AM

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Sources: Meta plans to launch a web version of Threads early this week (Wall Street Journal)

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Some clinicians think unrealistic depictions of dissociative identity disorder on TikTok are influencing young people to self-diagnose or imitate the disorder (Jessica Lucas/The Verge)

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A look at the potential impact of EU's DSA and DMA on Big Tech, as some say the impact may be as profound as Great Depression-era laws that reined in US banks (Wall Street Journal)

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Q&A with TikTok Head of Music Ole Obermann on launching TikTok Music in Indonesia and Brazil before the US and helping artists from discovery to distribution (Louise Matsakis/Semafor)

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As Big Tech companies compel employees back to the office, some companies, like Atlassian, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Twilio, remain steadfast backers of remote work (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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X appears to have deleted all images posted directly on the website between 2011 and 2014; links that used Twitter's native shortening service are also broken (Matt Novak/Forbes)

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Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from Stephen King and other authors (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)

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Sleep streams: How Kai Cenat and others make money filming themselves sleep One streamer tells us he has stopped making sleep videos after it affected his mental health. August 20, 2023 at 04:44AM

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Analysis: daily trading volumes surge on Coinbase International, an offshore derivatives exchange Coinbase launched in May 2023, reaching $287M on August 18 (Frank Chaparro/The Block)

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Amazon restarts Amazon Shipping, its UPS and FedEx competitor that handles packages from other websites, after pausing the US service earlier in the pandemic (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

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Source: in H1 2023, Instacart's revenue grew 30%+ YoY to ~$1.4B but gross transaction volume grew ~5% YoY; Instacart reportedly plans to go public in September (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

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Cruise is complying with a California DMV request to cut its fleet by 50% as the regulator probes "recent concerning incidents" involving Cruise robotaxis (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

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A district court judge upheld a US Copyright Office finding that artwork created by AI isn't eligible for copyright protection because it lacks human authorship (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge demands that Meta lift its "reckless" news ban on Facebook and Instagram for the safety of people fleeing wildfires (David Ljunggren/Reuters)

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Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information (Pete Evans/CBC News)

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Draft IPO filing: Arm's revenue fell 1% YoY to $2.68B in its fiscal year ended on March 31, 2023; sources: Arm plans to sell ~10% of its shares in its listing (Bloomberg)

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Twitter, now X, to remove blocking feature Elon Musk says the feature "makes no sense", but users are concerned about protection from abuse. August 19, 2023 at 01:16AM

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Sources: SoftBank has acquired a 25% stake in Arm from its Vision Fund unit at a $64B valuation and will make the chip designer's IPO filing public on Monday (Anirban Sen/Reuters)

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Sources: Meta is preparing to release "Code Llama", a free code-generating AI model based on Llama 2, as soon as next week (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

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Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to "talk" content, which would boost the company's annual gross profit by €35M (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

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Microsoft plans to discontinue Azure Kinect Developer Kit, the depth-sensing camera the company released in 2019, in October 2023, or sooner if supplies run out (John Callaham/Neowin)

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Microsoft plans to hold a "special event" in New York City on September 21, 2023, likely to announce Surface hardware, including Laptop Studio 2 and Laptop Go 3 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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