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Reuters: Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderators on the app  —  Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly …

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: WazirX plans to start allowing limited Indian rupee withdrawals in two phases from August 26, after freezing them in the wake of a $230M exploit in July  —  Users of the Indian crypto exchange will be able to take out up to 66% of their rupee funds in two phases following a suspension instituted …

Connor Jones / The Register: The US DOJ sues Georgia Tech and an affiliate company, alleging failures since at least 2019 to meet the DOD's cybersecurity standards for contract awardees  —  Rap sheet spells out major no-nos after disgruntled staff blow whistle  —  The US is suing one of its leading research universities …

Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired: Some streamers say the Chinese game studio behind Black Myth: Wukong told them to avoid topics like “feminist propaganda” as part of an early access agreement  —  The Chinese studio granted early access on the condition that topics like “feminist propaganda” and “Covid-19” go unmentioned.

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Andrew Ng steps down as CEO of LandingAI, the computer vision startup he founded in 2017, and transitions to executive chairman; ex-COO Dan Maloney is named CEO  —  Andrew Ng is stepping down from his role as CEO at Landing AI, the computer vision platform he founded in 2017.

Shannon Bond / NPR: Meta says a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts linked to the Iran-backed hacking group APT42 targeted people affiliated with the Biden and Trump administrations  —  Meta says Iranian-linked hackers posed as tech support on the WhatsApp messaging app to target people affiliated with the administrations …

The Information: The French AI startup called H, formerly Holistic, says three of its five co-founders are leaving over “operational differences”, after raising $220M in May  —  Three of the five co-founders of buzzy French artificial intelligence startup H, formerly known as Holistic …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to unveil new iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches on September 10; developer logs: Apple has ramped up testing of four new M4 Mac models  —  - Company also ramps up testing of Mac models with M4 processors  —  Apple Inc. is planning to hold its biggest product launch event …

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Q&A with AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio on advocating for AI regulation, his support for California's AI safety bill, AI achieving human-level intelligence, and more  —  “Unfortunately, we may not have a decade to get this right.”  —  One of the most influential academics in the AI field worries …

Kylie Robison / The Verge: Email: Elon Musk says X plans to award stock options based on employees' anticipated impact, and tells them to submit a one-page summary of their contributions  —  Elon Musk sent an email to X staff overnight about their much-anticipated stock grants — but there's a catch.

The Information: Sources: Meta cancels a premium MR headset codenamed La Jolla, in development since November, that was meant to debut in 2027 to compete with Apple's Vision Pro  —  Meta Platforms has canceled plans for a premium mixed-reality headset intended to compete with Apple's Vision Pro, according to two Meta employees.

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft plans to hold an event on September 10 with CrowdStrike and other cybersecurity vendors to discuss how to prevent incidents like the July 19 outage  —  Microsoft said Friday it will hold a conference in September for cybersecurity firms to discuss ways the industry can evolve following …

Bloomberg: The US DOJ sues RealPage, alleging its software helps property managers collude to drive up rental prices on millions of units, violating antitrust law  —  - Prosecutors allege software drives up prices on rental units  — Company says rent software uses anonymous, aggregated data

Colin Kellaher / Wall Street Journal: US SEC filing: oilfield services company Halliburton says it has taken some systems offline after discovering that an unauthorized party had gained access  —  The company has taken some systems offline to help protect them  —  Oilfield-services company Halliburton has joined the growing ranks of firms hit by cyberattacks.

Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: SpaceX says Starlink satellite internet kits purchased in one of six regions and activated in another are subject to an “outside region fee” of $200 to $300  —  In an effort to stop resellers from buying dishes in one region — where the hardware is cheaper — and selling them in another …

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: Reddit is winning over advertisers using interest-based targeting via subreddits, instead of personal data; analysis: Reddit's ad revenue may pass $1.1B in 2024  —  Without as much personal information, Reddit lures marketers by touting interests and conversations

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Dealroom: AI coding assistant startups such as Anysphere and Augment have raised $433M so far in 2024 alone, bringing the total since January 2023 to $906M  —  Software engineering attracts investors but making money from generative artificial intelligence still eludes many

Reuters: Docs: state-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services from AWS or its rivals to access advanced US chips and AI models they cannot acquire otherwise  —  State-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services provided by Amazon (AMZN.O) or its rivals to access advanced U.S. chips …

Dallas Innovates: Dallas-based Siepe, which provides data management software and services to the private credit industry, raised a $30M Series B led by WestCap  —  “The new capital will help us continue our momentum in deploying integrated solutions and best-in-class service for fund managers in the private credit …

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: The NLRB's general counsel office determines a group of Amazon drivers were employees of Amazon and of the “delivery service partner” company that hired them  —  - Board's prosecutors say that company violated labor law  —  Amazon.com Inc. was legally the boss of a group …

Sarah Jeong / The Verge: The Pixel 9's AI features have made creating realistic and believable fake photos trivial, and Google's safeguards are astonishingly anemic  —  Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.  —  Photography by Chris Welch / The Verge; AI-altered images made with Google's Magic Editor.

Bloomberg: Shareholders approve upgrading Alibaba's Hong Kong listing, which expects to attract billions of dollars in Chinese investment, to primary status on August 28  —  - Its shares significantly underperformed Tencent's this year … Shareholders ratified the decision as expected to convert …

Sayan Sen / Neowin: Microsoft confirms the Windows Control Panel, which debuted in 1985 with Windows 1.0, is “in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app”  —  While Microsoft keeps testing and adding new features to Windows, it also keeps shedding stuff the company feels is no longer necessary.

Forbes: Silverbear, an investor named in Bolt's financial docs for a $450M raise, says it was “never in this deal”, as some investors consider legal action against Bolt  —  The former billionaire stunned investors with a plan to raise $450 million for his payments startup at a $14 billion valuation.