France shooting: Policeman charged over teen's traffic stop death

France is bracing for a third night of violence after 17-year-old Nahel M was shot dead by police.

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Meta plans to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads; a pilot is set to start as soon as this year with select Android app developers (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta plans to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads; a pilot is set to start as soon as this year with select Android app developers  —  Meta is planning to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads, setting the company up to eventually compete with Google and Apple's app stores.

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Police in San Francisco and other cities are obtaining warrants for Waymo and Cruise driverless car camera footage to help solve murders and other crimes (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

Julia Love / Bloomberg:
Police in San Francisco and other cities are obtaining warrants for Waymo and Cruise driverless car camera footage to help solve murders and other crimes  —  In December 2021, San Francisco police were working to solve the murder of an Uber driver.  As detectives reviewed local surveillance footage …

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Inside Virgin Atlantic's rocket plane to space

The 90-minute mission had paying passengers - from the Italian Air Force - for the first time.

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Filing: Fidelity refiles for a spot bitcoin ETF with the US SEC following similar applications from BlackRock Invesco WisdomTree Valkyrie and others (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Filing: Fidelity refiles for a spot bitcoin ETF with the US SEC, following similar applications from BlackRock, Invesco, WisdomTree, Valkyrie, and others  —  Fidelity Investments is the latest financial services heavyweight to throw its name into the race to offer the first US exchange-traded fund investing in Bitcoin.

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Autonomous trucking company TuSimple aims to sell its US business; CEO Cheng Lu says the plan is not the result of pressure due to CFIUS' review of the company (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)

Alan Ohnsman / Forbes:
Autonomous trucking company TuSimple aims to sell its US business; CEO Cheng Lu says the plan is not the result of pressure due to CFIUS' review of the company  —  The company's CEO says there's no firm buyer lined up and that the plan to separate U.S. operations doesn't arise from pressure related to a CFIUS review.

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Visa agrees to acquire Brazilian payments infrastructure startup Pismo for $1B in cash by the end of 2023; Pismo had raised a total of $118M until October 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Visa agrees to acquire Brazilian payments infrastructure startup Pismo for $1B in cash by the end of 2023; Pismo had raised a total of $118M until October 2021  —  Want more fintech news in your inbox?  Sign up here.  —  Credit card giant Visa is acquiring Brazilian payments infrastructure startup Pismo …

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Databricks announces LakehouseIQ which lets companies use natural language to search and query their data new tools for its Lakehouse AI platform and more (Andrew Brust/The New Stack)

Andrew Brust / The New Stack:
Databricks announces LakehouseIQ, which lets companies use natural language to search and query their data, new tools for its Lakehouse AI platform, and more  —  We review Databricks' announcements at Data and AI Summit, and how they counter yesterday's Snowflake Summit reveals.

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French HR murders: Gabriel Fortin sentenced to life in prison

Garbriel Fortin will spend up to 22 years in prison for the murder of three employment managers.

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New York-based Slang.ai which offers an AI-powered phone answering service for restaurants and retailers raised a $20M Series A led by Homebrew (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
New York-based Slang.ai, which offers an AI-powered phone answering service for restaurants and retailers, raised a $20M Series A led by Homebrew  —  Slang.ai, an AI-powered phone answering product for the restaurant industry founded by two former Spotify data scientists …

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Watch: Remains of Titan sub brought ashore

Parts of the tourist sub that imploded on a dive to the Titanic have been lifted out of the water at St John's.

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Kramatorsk: Russian missile strike hits Ukrainian restaurants

At least two people have been killed and 22 injured after a missile strike on Ukraine's city Kramatorsk.

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TikTok launches the TikTok Creative Challenge which lets US-based creators with 50K followers submit video ads for brands and make money based on performance (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches the TikTok Creative Challenge, which lets US-based creators with 50K+ followers submit video ads for brands and make money based on performance  —  TikTok is introducing a new way for creators to earn money on its platform.  The company announced on Tuesday that it's launching the …

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Unity's shares jump 14% after it announces its Asset Store will sell third-party "AI solutions" that can generate game dialogue graphics and more (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Unity's shares jump 14%+ after it announces its Asset Store will sell third-party “AI solutions” that can generate game dialogue, graphics, and more  —  - Unity shares rose 12% on Tuesday after the gaming tool maker announced a marketplace for AI software that positions …

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Decentralized social media app Damus says Apple rejected an app update and asked it to either remove its tipping feature or use Apple's in-app purchase system (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Decentralized social media app Damus says Apple rejected an app update and asked it to either remove its tipping feature or use Apple's in-app purchase system  —  Damus, a decentralized social networking app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, will be removed from the App Store due to Apple's strict payment rules.

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Cyclone-hit areas reel after Myanmar army blocks aid

The BBC speaks to families trying to rebuild their lives in one of the country's poorest regions.

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Vladimir Putin says Wagner mutiny leaders will be 'brought to justice'

The Russian president said decisions were made during the rebellion to avoid bloodshed.

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Analysis: in May and June 2023 141 major brands ran programmatic Google ads on 55 low-quality sites each producing 1200 AI-generated articles/day on average (NewsGuard)

NewsGuard:
Analysis: in May and June 2023, 141 major brands ran programmatic Google ads on 55 low-quality sites, each producing 1,200+ AI-generated articles/day on average  —  NewsGuard identified 141 brands that are feeding programmatic ad dollars to low-quality AI-generated news and information sites operating with little to no human oversight

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A last-minute amendment to an Irish bill would allow the Data Protection Commission to declare some info in privacy complaints confidential causing an uproar (David Meyer/Fortune)

David Meyer / Fortune:
A last-minute amendment to an Irish bill would allow the Data Protection Commission to declare some info in privacy complaints confidential, causing an uproar  —  European privacy advocates are hopping mad at what they see as an attempt by the Irish government to draw a veil over the activities …

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John Goodenough: World's oldest Nobel Prize winner dies at 100

John Goodenough won the Nobel Prize in chemistry at the age of 97 for his revolutionary work.

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FTX bankruptcy team says the exchange owed customers $8.7B after commingling and misusing their deposits and $7B in liquid assets have been recovered so far (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
FTX bankruptcy team says the exchange owed customers ~$8.7B after commingling and misusing their deposits, and ~$7B in liquid assets have been recovered so far  —  Commingling and misuse of customer and corporate funds occurred from the inception of FTX, says current CEO John J. Ray III.

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Cheers! Can AI help drinkers buy a better bottle of wine?

Wine recommendation apps are now using AI to help better match people with a bottle they will like.

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As the use of AI-generated ads in political campaigns increases lawmakers political consultants and election researchers push for creating new guardrails (New York Times)

New York Times:
As the use of AI-generated ads in political campaigns increases, lawmakers, political consultants, and election researchers push for creating new guardrails  —  Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology.

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Steve Rosenberg: Instability ratchets up pressure on Putin

Vladimir Putin's mixed messages on the Wagner mutiny have been raising eyebrows and changing perceptions of him.

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Ros Atkins on... five impacts of the Wagner mutiny

The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at what the consequences are of the failed Wagner mutiny.

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Fentanyl: More people injecting drugs worldwide says UN

Nearly 40 million people now suffer from drug-related disorders, says a report on the illegal trade.

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Q&A with AWS Product VP Matt Wood on the generative AI boom the escalating AI battle between tech giants curating the best models for AWS and more (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Q&A with AWS Product VP Matt Wood on the generative AI boom, the escalating AI battle between tech giants, curating the best models for AWS, and more  —  Matt Wood, vice president of product for Amazon Web Services, is at the tip of the spear of Amazon's response in the escalating AI battle between the tech giants.

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Myanmar Insein: A rare glimpse inside a barbaric prison

The BBC speaks to prisoners, including an artist whose smuggled sketches record horror inside Myanmar's Insein jail.

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Wagner chief's 24 hours of chaos in Russia

Wagner's mercenary boss threatened an armed rebellion but pulled back from marching on Moscow.

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The EFJ and media experts condemn the latest European Media Freedom Act draft that would let national security agencies place spyware on journalists' phones (Lisa O'Carroll/The Guardian)

Lisa O'Carroll / The Guardian:
The EFJ and media experts condemn the latest European Media Freedom Act draft that would let national security agencies place spyware on journalists' phones  —  Move to allow spyware to be placed on reporters' phones would have a ‘chilling effect’, say media experts

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The Ashes 2023: England's Tammy Beaumont hits record 208 but Australia build lead in one-off Test

Australia take control of the one-off Ashes Test at Trent Bridge despite Tammy Beaumont's record-breaking 208 for England.

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Glastonbury kicks off the weekend... in 90 seconds

Festival-goers party in the sun as Foo Fighters, Texas and more fill Worthy Farm with Friday fun.

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A profile of Alibaba co-founder Eddie Wu set to become CEO in the fall who has a close relationship with mentor Jack Ma and will manage the company's breakup (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
A profile of Alibaba co-founder Eddie Wu, set to become CEO in the fall, who has a close relationship with mentor Jack Ma and will manage the company's breakup  —  Tech group co-founder to take reins and preside over its break-up  —  When Alibaba co-founder Eddie Yongming Wu struck …

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Russia accuses Wagner chief of urging 'armed mutiny'

Moscow opens an investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin, in an astonishing escalation of infighting.

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Source: Jacob Devlin who quit Google to join OpenAI in January 2023 after complaining Bard was being trained on ChatGPT data has returned to Google (Jon Victor/The Information)

Jon Victor / The Information:
Source: Jacob Devlin, who quit Google to join OpenAI in January 2023 after complaining Bard was being trained on ChatGPT data, has returned to Google  —  Jacob Devlin, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher who left Google for rival OpenAI in January after complaining internally …

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A profile of Michael Kives a Hollywood agent turned investor as FTX's bankruptcy lawyers sue his VC firm K5 Global to recover $700M that SBF had invested (New York Times)

New York Times:
A profile of Michael Kives, a Hollywood agent turned investor, as FTX's bankruptcy lawyers sue his VC firm K5 Global to recover ~$700M that SBF had invested  —  Michael Kives, a former Hollywood agent, connected FTX's founder to Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Bill Clinton and others.

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Greece ignored offer to monitor migrant boat says EU border agency

Officials are said to have ignored an offer to send a plane to monitor the boat that later sank.

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US Coast Guard confirms Titan sub pressure loss

The US Coast Guard says condolences have been sent to the families of the passengers.

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Filing: Microsoft says Xbox "lost the console wars" with a 16% share of console sales in 2021 behind Nintendo and PlayStation and a 21% installed base share (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)

Rebekah Valentine / IGN:
Filing: Microsoft says Xbox “lost the console wars”, with a 16% share of console sales in 2021, behind Nintendo and PlayStation, and a 21% installed base share  —  Xbox “in third place” behind PlayStation and Nintendo, with a sales market share of 16%.

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What sub debris has been found and what does it mean?

The BBC's Jonathan Amos evaluates reports that parts of the Titan submersible have been found deep at sea.

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TikTok says COO Vanessa Pappas has quit "to refocus on their entrepreneurial passions" (Sara Fischer/@sarafischer)

Sara Fischer / @sarafischer:
TikTok says COO Vanessa Pappas has quit “to refocus on their entrepreneurial passions”  —  🚨🚨: @TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas “has decided to step down to refocus on their entrepreneurial passions” CEO Shou Chew said in a statement. 🚨🚨Disney vet Zenia Mucha will join the company “in the new role of TikTok's Chief Brand and Communications Officer.”

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Apple releases visionOS SDK and says the company will open developer labs and applications for Apple Vision Pro developer kits next month (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases visionOS SDK, and says the company will open developer labs and applications for Apple Vision Pro developer kits next month  —  When Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC, the company promised to make a robust set of tools available for developers.

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Sources: Twitter resumed paying Google Cloud for its services; the companies are negotiating a partnership that could include ads and Google using Twitter's API (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

Julia Love / Bloomberg:
Sources: Twitter resumed paying Google Cloud for its services; the companies are negotiating a partnership that could include ads and Google using Twitter's API  —  Twitter has resumed paying Google Cloud for its services, patching up a relationship that became strained after Elon Musk acquired …

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Titanic sub: Safety concerns raised about missing submersible

A former employee warned of potential safety problems with the OceanGate vessel in 2018.

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Microsoft increases the prices of Xbox Series X and for the first time Xbox Game Pass in most markets; Xbox Series X pricing will remain the same in the US (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft increases the prices of Xbox Series X and, for the first time, Xbox Game Pass in most markets; Xbox Series X pricing will remain the same in the US  —  Microsoft is increasing its Xbox Series X prices in most countries in August apart from the US, Japan, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia.

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Paris building in flames after huge explosion

Police say a number of people are in a critical condition after the incident in the French capital.

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Seattle-based DexCare whose tools help health systems manage capacity and patient appointments raised a $75M Series C bringing its total funding to $146M (Nate Bek/GeekWire)

Nate Bek / GeekWire:
Seattle-based DexCare, whose tools help health systems manage capacity and patient appointments, raised a $75M Series C, bringing its total funding to $146M  —  Seattle health-tech startup DexCare announced Wednesday that it raised $75 million in fresh cash to boost the development of its healthcare patient demand and access platform.

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