KY Technado

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James Mason and Derrick Miles talk tech.
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Volkswagen rolls out its ChatGPT-integrated Plus Speech voice assistant in the US, starting with the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI; a subscription is required (Wes Davis/The Verge) https://t.co/QjTCp2sA6m

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DOJ says it won't pressure social media companies to remove content about foreign threats to national security or elections, after claims platforms were coerced (Chris Strohm/Bloomberg) https://t.co/DjwCA8SETU

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South Korea's media regulator says Telegram has complied with its request to remove 25 pieces of sexual exploitation material (Kim Na-young/Yonhap News Agency) https://t.co/DPDItOoJat

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Sources: the DOJ sent subpoenas to Nvidia and others, as it seeks evidence that Nvidia violated antitrust laws by making it harder to switch suppliers and more (Bloomberg) https://t.co/lUAYGTKvlk

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Starlink says it's now complying with an order from a Brazilian Supreme Court justice to block access to X in Brazil, after the country froze some of its assets (Juby Babu/Reuters) https://t.co/qqH3w7JHnh

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Semiconductor stocks fell on Tuesday, led by Nvidia, which dropped 9.53%; Intel fell 8.8%, Marvell 8.16%, AMD 7.82%, Qualcomm 6.88%, and Broadcom 6.16% (Kif Leswing/CNBC) https://t.co/ITEku48psV

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The US FTC says that the money lost to Bitcoin ATM scams increased from $12M in 2020 to $114M in 2023, and $65M has already been lost in the first half of 2024 (Emma Roth/The Verge) https://t.co/MqWZnRLc3x

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SEMI data: China spent a record $25B on chip tools in H1 2024, more than South Korea, Taiwan, and the US combined, and total spending could hit $50B in 2024 (Nikkei Asia) https://t.co/a4Z6cFYmpc

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Bluesky says that, as of September 2, it had added over 2M new users in the past week, in the wake of Brazil's ban on X (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) https://t.co/uEc0OKtIe9

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Pixel 9 Pro Fold impressions: a great upgrade from the Pixel Fold, better hinge and display crease, but it's heavy and apps struggle to fit new aspect ratio (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) https://t.co/kGcJWnOpQT

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Instagram adds a comment feature for Stories; by default, only followers you follow back can leave comments (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) https://t.co/laWuAxzfzh

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Dutch regulator fines Clearview AI €30.5M, following fines from the UK, France, Australia, and Italy, but Clearview says it is not subject to GDPR (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) https://t.co/sVohxRHwT5

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Intel debuts Core Ultra 200V chips, touting AI performance, to ship in laptops from September 24 and rival Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and AMD's Strix Point (Sean Hollister/The Verge) https://t.co/jvr6VNnqfY

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A deepfake porn crisis has hit 500+ South Korean schools, as police investigate crime rings targeting two major universities and consider a probe into Telegram (Jean Mackenzie/BBC) https://t.co/Kg4KKEJ80D

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Elon Musk said xAI brought its "Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online" over the weekend, which will "double in size to 200k (50k H200s) in a few months" (Christiaan Hetzner/Fortune) https://t.co/wU9RjFcgJm

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Spotter debuts a set of AI tools called Spotter Studio, to help creators brainstorm video ideas by analyzing 2B+ top YouTube videos and more, for $49/month (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) https://t.co/GH3ZcPneXX

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Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, and their super PACs haven't donated to Trump or Harris, instead pursuing a strategy of targeted donations to congressional campaigns (Bloomberg) https://t.co/75uTh9DIro

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Some Big Tech critics worry that Kamala Harris' deep ties to tech companies could prompt her to abandon Democrats' recent aggressive stance toward the sector (Washington Post) https://t.co/lAXCfOXN0C

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Canva announces price raises, including hikes of 300% for some users, citing its new generative AI features, as it prepares for a US IPO (Denham Sadler/Information Age) https://t.co/9kxPLGn0zy

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SAP CTO Juergen Mueller says he will leave the company by the end of September because of inappropriate conduct at a past company event (Sonja Wind/Bloomberg) https://t.co/isfZo5DOO3