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SpaceX received its first U.S. Space Force contract for Starshield, its defense-focused Starlink satellite internet service. The one-year contract can reach $70 million, a U.S. Air Force representative told Bloomberg. “The contract provides for Starshield end-to-end service via the Starlink constellation, user terminals, ancillary equipment, network management and other related …

On Wednesday, Reddit announced it was updating its privacy settings in an effort to standardize ad personalization and account visibility controls. Specifically, it’s doing away with the option to disable ad personalization based on users’ Reddit behavior. Unnamed “select countries” will still have the option to opt out, the company …

On Wednesday, Adobe released Photoshop for the web to everyone subscribed to a paid Adobe Creative Cloud plan. Firefly-powered AI tools like generative fill and generative expand are now available in the web beta after almost two years of development. The firm claimed that the web-based toolbar’s tools are organized …

On Wednesday morning, an account on X (formerly Twitter) was hacked. The account falsely reported his father, former president Donald Trump, had died. The post read, “I’m sad to announce, my father Donald Trump has passed away.” “I will run for president in 2024.” In an X post, Trump spokesperson …

Arm EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Will Abbey told me this morning, minutes before the chip designer’s stock started trading on Nasdaq, that “AI, I believe, is the growth of Arm.” You may not think of AI when you hear about Arm, but Abbey immediately thought of it when I …

One of the most popular post-Twitter apps reached a milestone on Tuesday. Bluesky strategy and operations manager Rose Wang posted a screenshot on X, formerly Twitter. The X competitor famously only allowed app access through a waitlist and user invitations, keeping the platform’s population small as it scaled. https://x.com/iamrosewang/status/1701735196679356887?s=20 Bluesky …

Dance, a German startup that rents electric bikes and mopeds, has two interesting developments. First, the company added a few investors to its €12 million funding round. Second, Dance has 10,000 paying members. Dance says little about funding. The company isn’t disclosing the second tranche’s amount, which usually means it’s …

Spotify’s daylist, a mood-changing playlist, is its latest personalized playlist. The new playlist will live alongside Discovery Weekly, On Repeat, your genre mixes, and other personalized playlists, offering a constantly refreshed playlist for “every version of you,” the company says. Using your Spotify app history, the playlist will update multiple …

After media reports, including one in TechCrunch, cited customer emails, Coinbase clarified Monday that it disabled new user sign-up on its exchange product in India in June but remains committed to the country, where its operations have been in limbo for over a year. The U.S. crypto exchange operator said …

Elon Musk said he canceled a Ukrainian military strike on Russia by refusing to use Starlink. The billionaire claims the decision was made to avoid being “complicit in a major act of war,” but it raises serious questions about oligarchs’ military roles. CNN reported it, citing Walter Isaacson’s upcoming Musk …