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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Bluesky open sources its collaborative moderation tool Ozone and plans to let users run their own independent moderation services later this week  —  Decentralized Twitter/X rival Bluesky announced today that it’s open sourcing Ozone, a tool… Read More »Bluesky open sources its collaborative moderation tool Ozone and plans to let users run their own independent moderation services later this week (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Tor releases WebTunnel, a new type of Tor bridge that mimics HTTPS traffic to help users bypass censorship by hiding connections in plain sight  —  The Tor Project officially introduced WebTunnel, a new bridge type specifically… Read More »Tor releases WebTunnel, a new type of Tor bridge that mimics HTTPS traffic to help users bypass censorship by hiding connections in plain sight (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Bloomberg: Sources: the Pentagon abandoned its plan to spend as much as $2.5B on a chip grant to Intel, putting the onus on the Commerce Dept. to make up for the shortfall  —  – Move forces Commerce Department to make… Read More »Sources: the Pentagon abandoned its plan to spend as much as $2.5B on a chip grant to Intel, putting the onus on the Commerce Dept. to make up for the shortfall (Bloomberg)

Wall Street Journal: As TikTok faces a divestment bill in the US, a look at how lawmakers and the Biden administration quietly planned the legislation and caught TikTok by surprise  —  Executives of the video-messaging app thought they had fended… Read More »As TikTok faces a divestment bill in the US, a look at how lawmakers and the Biden administration quietly planned the legislation and caught TikTok by surprise (Wall Street Journal)

Financial Times: Docs: Nigeria, which has held two Binance execs since February amid a crypto exchange crackdown, is pushing Binance for info on its top 100 local users and more  —  Authorities hold senior company executives for two weeks after… Read More »Docs: Nigeria, which has held two Binance execs since February amid a crypto exchange crackdown, is pushing Binance for info on its top 100 local users and more (Financial Times)

Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: Source: Physical Intelligence, a startup making an AI model for “any robot or physical device”, has raised $70M from Thrive, Khosla, Lux, OpenAI, Sequoia, more  —  Physical Intelligence is building software intended to power robots that… Read More »Source: Physical Intelligence, a startup making an AI model for “any robot or physical device”, has raised $70M from Thrive, Khosla, Lux, OpenAI, Sequoia, more (Ashlee Vance/Bloomberg)

Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics: Meta details its two new data center scale clusters, both containing 24,576 Nvidia H100 GPUs that the company is using for AI workloads like training Llama 3  —  Have been built to support AI research and… Read More »Meta details its two new data center scale clusters, both containing 24,576 Nvidia H100 GPUs that the company is using for AI workloads like training Llama 3 (Charlotte Trueman/DatacenterDynamics)

J. Edward Moreno / New York Times: Match and Bumble have lost $40B+ in market value since 2021, as they struggle to grow their $4.2B in 2023 subscription revenue and young users balk at paying  —  The apps have changed… Read More »Match and Bumble have lost $40B+ in market value since 2021, as they struggle to grow their $4.2B in 2023 subscription revenue and young users balk at paying (J. Edward Moreno/New York Times)

Morgan Meaker / Wired: The EU Council confirms lifting sanctions on Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh and two others; Volozh was sanctioned in June 2023 and then stepped down as CEO  —  In June 2023, the cofounder of “Russia’s Google” landed… Read More »The EU Council confirms lifting sanctions on Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh and two others; Volozh was sanctioned in June 2023 and then stepped down as CEO (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google updates Google Play game listings, including AI-powered FAQs and new ad formats, adds support for listing PC games, and says Play Points hit 220M members  —  Google announced a bunch of new features for Google… Read More »Google updates Google Play game listings, including AI-powered FAQs and new ad formats, adds support for listing PC games, and says Play Points hit 220M members (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)