Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: Antenna: MLS Season Pass had 110K US signups on July 21, the day of Messi’s first MLS match, up from 6,143 on July 20; July was... Read more »

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Dutch chipmaker NXP alerts customers to a breach involving their personal data, discovered on July 14; NXP declines to say how many customers had been impacted  —  Dutch... Read more »

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Meta plans to eliminate the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December 2023 and won’t sign new deals for news content in those... Read more »

New York Times: Analysis: lawyers, accountants, consultants, and more have charged $700M+ in fees since 2022 in the bankruptcies of FTX, Celsius, Voyager, BlockFi, and Genesis  —  Bankruptcy lawyers and other corporate... Read more »

Globes Online: Israeli payments company ThetaRay, which uses AI to monitor financial transactions, raised $57M led by Portage, taking its total funding to $148M  —  The investment will allow ThetaRay to capitalize... Read more »

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Indian telecoms giants Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone-Idea ask regulators to consider forcing internet companies to pay for network usage, echoing efforts globally  —  Telecom operators in India, the... Read more »

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Reddit hastily replacing some of its long-time mods raises questions about the company prioritizing reopening protesting subreddits over finding the best people  —  Concerns of Redditor safety,... Read more »

Kate Knibbs / Wired: Copyright activists are working to wipe Books3 from the internet, which may only benefit the big companies that have already been using the AI training dataset  —  Copyright... Read more »

Reuters: Malaysia says it is in discussions with Google, Meta and others over a regulatory framework to compensate news outlets for their content on online platforms  —  Malaysia said on Tuesday it... Read more »