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Reddit community moderators made a bold move earlier this month that caused quite a stir online.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rocket Lab’s next Electron mission will include another marine recovery attempt of the rocket’s booster, the latest step by the company to advance its reusability program.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Companies are increasingly embracing generative AI.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Redpanda helps companies capture data in real time in a modern context, providing a new way to stream data while maintaining backwards compatibility with Kafka, the popular open source streaming project.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lucid Group, the U.S. automaker that produces the luxury all-electric Air sedan, will supply Aston Martin with powertrain components for future electric vehicle models, the companies said Monday.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Utu, a travel tech company that helps flyers get more out of their tax-free shopping, announced today it has raised a $35 million Series B led by SC Ventures.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FLOWN is a startup that took the idea of the sort of ‘virtual co-working’ some of us during the pandemic just have some company during lockdowns, and created a model of guided “deep work” sessions with actual coaches.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Time to get a jump on all of that spatial computing. Apple today announced that its visionOS software development kit is now available, allowing 3D parties to begin building content for the Vision Pro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twitch is rethinking the way it flags mature content, swapping its existing toggle for a more granular set of topic-specific labels. The company announced Tuesday that it would introduce a new set of content labels that require streamers to signal when their channels will contain sexual themes, graphic violence, “drugs, intoxication, or excessive tobacco use.   Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

Roblox is well aware that its young users are getting older, and the company is making every effort to grow up along with them. The platform, once synonymous with younger kids, announced Tuesday that it would allow creators to build mature content designed for users age 17 and up.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

European regulators are at a crossroads over how AI will be regulated — and ultimately used commercially and non-commercially — in the region, and today the EU’s largest consumer group, the BEUC, weighed in with its own position: stop dragging your feet, and “launch urgent investigations into the risks of generative AI” now, it said.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc...

Oracle is formally launching its “EU Sovereign cloud” for customers in the European Union (EU) today, nearly a year after firs revealing plans for the initiative. So-called “digital sovereignty” has emerged as a critical issue for companies operating across the EU. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mercedes owners in the U.S. will soon add a new luxury to their already luxurious vehicles: ChatGPT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From a team of ex-Twitter employees, the new social platform Spill launched in an invite-only beta on the App Store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Justice Department has arrested and charged a Russian national for his alleged role in multiple LockBit ransomware attacks against victims in the U.S. and around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has given the go-ahead to Amazon’s proposed billion-dollar iRobot acquisition, concluding that the deal “would not lead to competition concerns in the U.K.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Chinese electric vehicle brand that’s rarely spotted in the U.S. is quickly catching up to Tesla’s dominance of the global EV market. BYD, which started in Shenzhen 28 years ago, delivered 547,917 passenger EVs, including hybrids, a category it’s known for, in the first quarter of 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clop, the ransomware gang responsible for exploiting a critical security vulnerability in a popular corporate file transfer tool, has begun listing victims of the mass-hacks, including a number of U.S. banks and universities. The Russia-linked ransomware gang has been exploiting the security flaw in MOVEit Transfer, a tool used by corporations and enterprises to share. Learn more about your ad cho...

Uber has led a $20 million round into Everest Fleet, a Mumbai-based fleet management company that boasts over 10,000 vehicles running on rideshare platforms Uber and Ola throughout India. The company will use the funds to accelerate its transition to electric vehicles, with a goal of having 10,000 EVs in its fleet by 2026.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Toyota plans to introduce a high-performance lithium-ion battery to its next-generation electric vehicles by 2026, part of the automaker’s new technology roadmap revealed Tuesday. The batteries will deliver quicker charging and around 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) of range, which would put Toyota’s vehicles ahead of the competition. Toyota has historically trailed behind other major automakers. Lea...

MLOps, or DevOps for those working with machine learning models, has seen a boom of interest in the last year, and that should come as no surprise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A newly declassified government report confirms for the first time that U.S. intelligence and spy agencies purchase vast amounts of commercially available information on Americans, including data from connected vehicles, web browsing data, and smartphones.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

US VC giant Andreessen Horowitz — which has about $35bn in assets under management — is to open its first (yes, the first) international office in London, led by one of the firm’s general partners, Sriram Krishnan.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Barracuda Networks has told customers they must replace vulnerable email gateway appliances following the disclosure of a critical security flaw.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nasdaq today revealed that it’s doling out $10.5 billion to acquire Adenza, a company that develops risk-management and related regulatory software for the financial services market.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices