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19  avril     22h40
Pornhub, Stripchat, and XVideos will have to comply with additional obligations, such as submitting risk assessment reports, under the EU DSA starting next week (Foo Yun Chee Reuters)
   Foo Yun Chee Reuters: Pornhub, Stripchat, and XVideos will have to comply with additional obligations, such as submitting risk assessment reports, under the EU DSA starting next week Adult content companies Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos will have to do risk assessment reports and take...
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Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than 200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets (George Steer Financial Times)
   George Steer Financial Times: Nvidia closed down on Friday, falling the most since March and losing more than B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets US stock markets suffer their worst run since October as investors pull back from AI bets Nvidia’s...
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Nothing rolls out ChatGPT integration for Nothing Phone (2) and Nothing earbuds, including voice and text widgets for the phone (Ben Schoon 9to5Google)
   Ben Schoon to Google: Nothing rolls out ChatGPT integration for Nothing Phone and Nothing earbuds, including voice and text widgets for the phone Following the launch of Nothing Ear and Ear a this week, Nothing is also rolling out a new update for Nothing Phone which delivers quite...
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Telegram partners with Tether to let the messaging app’s 900M users send USDT to each other through The Open Network blockchain (Ryan Browne CNBC)
   Ryan Browne CNBC: Telegram partners with Tether to let the messaging app’s M users send USDT to each other through The Open Network blockchain Stablecoin Tether and Circle’s USDC dominate the market. Telegram users can now start making stablecoin USDT payments to each other through...
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Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow fast enough (Emma Roth The Verge)
   Emma Roth The Verge: Post.News, the news focused social platform launched in that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow fast enough Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down.
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Midas, which lets users in Turkey invest in US and Turkish equities, raised a 45M Series A, after a 11M seed in 2022, and plans crypto trading and more (Mike Butcher TechCrunch)
   Mike Butcher TechCrunch: Midas, which lets users in Turkey invest in US and Turkish equities, raised a M Series A, after a M seed in , and plans crypto trading and more Midas, a fintech startup that allows people in Turkey to invest in U.S. and Turkish equities, says it has raised ...
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Sources: EU may accept Apple’s proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines (Foo Yun Chee Reuters)
   Foo Yun Chee Reuters: Sources: EU may accept Apple’s proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines Apple’s AAPL.O offer to open its tap and go mobile payments system to rivals is set to be approved by EU antitrust...
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Hacking group GhostR claims it stole 5.3M records from World-Check screening database, used for KYC checks for sanctions and financial crime links, in March (Zack Whittaker TechCrunch)
   Zack Whittaker TechCrunch: Hacking group GhostR claims it stole . M records from World Check screening database, used for KYC checks for sanctions and financial crime links, in March The stolen database contains . million records A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it...
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Sources describe Nigeria’s detention of two Binance officials, including US compliance officer Tigran Gambaryan, on charges of tax evasion and money laundering (New York Times)
   New York Times: Sources describe Nigeria’s detention of two Binance officials, including US compliance officer Tigran Gambaryan, on charges of tax evasion and money laundering Tigran Gambaryan, an American compliance official for the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance, flew to Nigeria in...
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Web design and hosting platform Webflow acquires Intellimize, which had raised 50M and uses AI to personalize websites, a source says for eight figures (Kyle Wiggers TechCrunch)
   Kyle Wiggers TechCrunch: Web design and hosting platform Webflow acquires Intellimize, which had raised M and uses AI to personalize websites, a source says for eight figures Webflow, a web design and hosting platform that’s raised over million at a billion valuation, is...
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Meta is restricting certain election-related keywords for Meta AI in India due to the ongoing elections; Meta started testing its AI chatbot in India last week (Ivan Mehta TechCrunch)
   Ivan Mehta TechCrunch: Meta is restricting certain election related keywords for Meta AI in India due to the ongoing elections; Meta started testing its AI chatbot in India last week Last week, Meta started testing its AI chatbot in India across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
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Sources: Mistral is in talks to raise as much as €500M at a €5B valuation from VCs and wealth funds, after raising €400M at a €2B valuation in December 2023 (Financial Times)
   Financial Times: Sources: Mistral is in talks to raise as much as euro; M at a euro; B valuation from VCs and wealth funds, after raising euro; M at a euro; B valuation in December One year old French start up approached by multiple investors who view it as Europe’s answer to...
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A look at Salad, which pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their GPUs remotely to AI companies, including those making AI-generated porn (Emanuel Maiberg 404 Media)
   Emanuel Maiberg Media: A look at Salad, which pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their GPUs remotely to AI companies, including those making AI generated porn Salad, a company that pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their idle GPUs...
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Sophos researchers find crude ransomware starter kits sold on the dark web from 20 to 13K, enabling inexperienced freelancers to easily launch attacks (James Reddick The Record)
   James Reddick The Record: Sophos researchers find crude ransomware starter kits sold on the dark web from to K, enabling inexperienced freelancers to easily launch attacks Cheap ransomware is being sold for one time use on dark web forums, allowing inexperienced freelancers to get...
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UK ICO internal draft: Google’s Privacy Sandbox must do more and leaves gaps that can be exploited to undermine the privacy of users who should remain anonymous (Wall Street Journal)
   Wall Street Journal: UK ICO internal draft: Google’s Privacy Sandbox must do more and leaves gaps that can be exploited to undermine the privacy of users who should remain anonymous The Information Commissioner’s Office said in a draft report that Google’s proposed replacements for cookies have...