Josh Ye / Reuters: Documents: Tencent, Xiaomi, and others begin enforcing China’s new app store rules, which require regulatory disclosures; Apple has not yet begun checking apps — Mobile app stores in... Read more »
Alex Blake / Digital Trends: An interview with Apple executives Susan Prescott and Steve Sinclair on building apps for the Vision Pro and how Apple is trying to lure developers to make... Read more »
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: CCData: the stablecoin market contracted 0.4% to ~$125B in August, the 17th straight month of decline, reflecting low trading volumes and reduced DeFi activity — – Total stablecoin... Read more »
Financial Times: The London Stock Exchange plans to add a blockchain-based digital assets business after a year of testing, but is “not building anything around cryptoassets” — Exchange operator in talks with... Read more »
Zack Abrams / The Block: Gala Games CEO Eric Schiermeyer sues co-founder Wright Thurston, alleging he stole 8.6B GALA tokens, worth $130M, from the Web3 gaming startup; GALA drops 13% — –... Read more »
Emma Green / New Yorker: A look at Optima Academy Online, an all-virtual school launched in 2022 that lets US parents opt out of public school by putting their kid in a... Read more »
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How startups offering AI-powered cameras, tree-mounted sensors, water-dumping drones, satellite data, and more are helping prevent, detect, and fight wildfires — We can already detect fires... Read more »
Matt Binder / Mashable: After ADL’s CEO noted talking to X CEO Yaccarino last week, anti-Semitic X posts surged and #BanTheADL trended as Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts — ... Read more »
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: A look at the endless battle being waged by a group of internet sleuths, trans engineers, and activists to banish stalking forum Kiwi Farms from the internet ... Read more »
Mark Townsend / The Guardian: Emails: some UK Home Office officials lobbied the ICO to act “favorably” towards Facewatch, which is rolling out facial recognition tech across the country — Officials reflected... Read more »