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On Wednesday, Substack announced a Home experience redesign for its mobile app to improve discovery and engagement. A new top-of-screen reading queue makes it easier to swipe right between posts in the app. The queue lets you quickly share posts in a note or on other social media platforms. The …

For paid users, X, formerly Twitter, has implemented government ID-based account verification to prevent impersonation and provide “prioritized support.” Social media partner Au10tix provides identity verification solutions from Israel. The ID verification pop-up says the Au10tix can store this data for 30 days. X’s verification support page says ID verification …

The much-anticipated iOS 17 update for iPhones arrives today with new and improved security features. Much of the new features protect iPhone owners at higher risk of cyberattacks and spyware, like journalists, activists, and human rights defenders. iOS 17’s anti-web tracking, password storage, and easy sharing of new phishing-resistant passkeys …

While publishing a storage bucket of open-source training data on GitHub, Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords. Cloud security startup Wiz told it found Microsoft’s AI research division’s GitHub repository while investigating accidental cloud data exposure. Open source code and …

An X challenger named itself T2 at launch to compete with Twitter, but that name is no longer used. The company announced on its platform that the X competitor will be called “Pebble.” Pebble users received a brief explanation for the name change: “A pebble is something small and unassuming. …

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 …

Generation Investment Management, a sustainability-focused public and private equity firm co-founded by former U.S. vice president Al Gore, has published a sustainability trends report every year for seven years with the goal of becoming the climate tech industry’s bible, like Mary Meeker’s “internet trends” reports were to dot-com entrepreneurs. Reading …

It’s Wednesday, and Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have had a terrible week. The SEC charged the Hollywood power couple’s NFT-based web series, “Stoner Cats,” with unregistered securities. The SEC states, “Stoner Cats is an adult animated television show about house cats that become sentient after being exposed to their …

The EU plans to let startups train AI models on its HPC supercomputers. Startups seeking access to the EU’s high-power compute resource, which includes pre-exascale and petascale supercomputers, must join its AI governance program. In May, the EU announced a plan for a stop-gap set of voluntary rules or standards …

OpenAI will open its first EU office and make several strategic hires to prepare for regulatory headwinds. After opening offices in San Francisco and London in June, ChatGPT plans to open its third office in Ireland, which has become a second home for many U.S. tech companies seeking to connect …