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Federal prosecutors charge a man for allegedly using AI to create hundreds of thousands of songs by fake bands to get $10M in royalties from streaming services (Maia Coleman/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/nyregion/nc-man-charged-ai-fake-music.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240905/p16#a240905p16

Elon Musk, in an eventually deleted X post, promoted a Tucker Carlson interview with a Hitler apologist who downplayed the Holocaust and said Nazis were humane (Rhian Lubin/The Independent)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tucker-carlson-nazi-podcast-elon-musk-b2606800.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240904/p32#a240904p32

Nvidia stock fell 9.5% on Tuesday, losing $279B in market value, the biggest single-day drop for a US company, as investors soften their optimism about AI (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/markets/nvidia-chip-index-tumble-investors-pause-ai-rally-2024-09-03/
http://www.techmeme.com/240904/p7#a240904p7

Elon Musk boosts a post disparaging the abilities of "women and low T men", advocating for a "Republic of high status males", and mentioning a "Reich effect" (Ellsworth Toohey/Boing Boing)

https://boingboing.net/2024/09/02/musk-boosts-4chan-claim-that-women-are-incapable-of-critical-thinking.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240902/p12#a240902p12

Fidelity's latest valuation of X, 72% lower than when Musk took over, would mean top investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud is down $1.4B and Ellison $720M (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/01/musk-twitter-investors-underwater/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzI1MTYzMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzI2NTQ1NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjUxNjMyMDAsImp0aSI6IjQ1Y2NkMWI5LTNkZmUtNDM3OC1iNjFkLWU4YmFiZGE3NGU0NiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjQvMDkvMDEvbXVzay10d2l0dGVyLWludmVzdG9ycy11bmRlcndhdGVyLyJ9.r88ML3FI4pKvj91hBZUYiLfLuIwMcsXjEoP8xc2mxBI&itid=gfta
http://www.techmeme.com/240901/p9#a240901p9

How Brazil's experiment to fight fake news during the 2022 elections, giving a justice broad power to order social media content removal, led to the ban on X (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/world/americas/brazil-x-ban-free-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HE4.5QZx.Mh_pHIM0G_wG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
http://www.techmeme.com/240831/p11#a240831p11

Brazilian judge amends his order, no longer requiring Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app; those using a VPN to access X still face a ~$9K/day fine (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/world/americas/brazil-elon-musk-x-blocked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G04.O5te.d3h_9ENaaL8x
http://www.techmeme.com/240830/p20#a240830p20

AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep its website and articles live indefinitely (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell
http://www.techmeme.com/240830/p8#a240830p8

Sources: the EU is investigating if Telegram gave inaccurate user numbers to stay under the DSA's 45M threshold; Telegram reported 41M EU users in February 2024 (Financial Times)

https://t.co/4iMTfiWxxU
http://www.techmeme.com/240829/p8#a240829p8

French administrative document: alongside Pavel Durov, French authorities issued an arrest warrant for his Telegram co-founder brother Nikolai in March 2024 (Politico)

https://www.politico.eu/article/exclusive-telegram-ceo-brother-nikolai-durov-wanted-france-authorities-pavel-durov/
http://www.techmeme.com/240828/p9#a240828p9

The crypto industry, heavily reliant on Telegram, has been Pavel Durov's loudest defender after his arrest; the Telegram-linked TON coin has a $13.7B market cap (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/technology/telegram-crypto-industry-defender.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240827/p20#a240827p20

A look at Telegram's claims that it's a "secure messenger" despite lacking default end-to-end encrypted messages and any E2E encrypted option for group chats (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app/
http://www.techmeme.com/240825/p7#a240825p7

Reports: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, after being targeted by an arrest warrant in France (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-messaging-app-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france-tf1-tv-says-2024-08-24/
http://www.techmeme.com/240824/p7#a240824p7

Microsoft to hold an event on September 10 with CrowdStrike and other cybersecurity vendors to discuss how to prevent incidents similar to the July outage (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/23/microsoft-plans-september-cybersecurity-event-after-crowdstrike-outage.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240823/p11#a240823p11

Procreate CEO James Cuda says the iPad illustration app is "not going to be introducing any generative AI into our products", drawing praise from creatives (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/19/24223473/procreate-anti-generative-ai-pledge-digital-illustration-creatives
http://www.techmeme.com/240819/p7#a240819p7

Source: GM is cutting over 1,000 software engineers, including 600+ in Michigan, as the automaker moves to lean up its software and services organization (David Welch/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-19/gm-to-cut-more-than-1-000-software-engineers-mostly-in-the-us
http://www.techmeme.com/240819/p8#a240819p8

Google makes Imagen 3 available to all US users via ImageFX, after unveiling the text-to-image AI model in May; some users criticize its strict content filters (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-quietly-opens-imagen-3-access-to-all-u-s-users/
http://www.techmeme.com/240815/p28#a240815p28

Google says it will remove Showcase.apk from Pixel devices "out of an abundance of precaution", after iVerify said hackers could use the dormant app to spy (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/15/google-sold-android-phones-with-hidden-insecure-feature-companies-find/
http://www.techmeme.com/240815/p19#a240815p19

New Zealand signs an extradition order for Kim Dotcom to the US, where he faces criminal charges related to Megaupload; Dotcom has fought extradition since 2012 (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/kim-dotcom-be-extradited-new-zealand-after-12-year-fight-with-us-2024-08-15/
http://www.techmeme.com/240815/p9#a240815p9

Images generated by Grok, like Barack Obama doing cocaine and Donald Trump and Kamala Harris with guns, go viral on X, raising questions about Grok's guardrails (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220173/xai-grok-image-generator-misinformation-offensive-imges
http://www.techmeme.com/240814/p29#a240814p29