Telegram has turned 11! 🎂
Today is Telegram's 11th anniversary, and a new update has been released, introducing features to enhance user experience and support content creators:
Star Reactions:
• Users can support channels by sending Telegram Stars, which can be converted into cryptocurrency or used for ads
• Posts with Star Reactions show a leaderboard of top senders, but users can opt out for privacy.
• We've enabled it for our channel as well, you might want to try it out 😂👍
Star Subnoscriptions:
• Creators can offer exclusive channel access for a monthly payment in Telegram Stars.
• Here's our useless "Exclusive Channel" for just 2 stars per month: Join now!
Paid Media for Bots:
Bots can now post paid media, allowing channel owners to monetize their content.
Super Channels:
Admins can now post as their profiles or other channels, making channels more interactive.
Document Viewer on iOS:
Documents open in separate tabs in Telegram's browser for easy navigation.
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Today is Telegram's 11th anniversary, and a new update has been released, introducing features to enhance user experience and support content creators:
Star Reactions:
• Users can support channels by sending Telegram Stars, which can be converted into cryptocurrency or used for ads
• Posts with Star Reactions show a leaderboard of top senders, but users can opt out for privacy.
• We've enabled it for our channel as well, you might want to try it out 😂👍
Star Subnoscriptions:
• Creators can offer exclusive channel access for a monthly payment in Telegram Stars.
• Here's our useless "Exclusive Channel" for just 2 stars per month: Join now!
Paid Media for Bots:
Bots can now post paid media, allowing channel owners to monetize their content.
Super Channels:
Admins can now post as their profiles or other channels, making channels more interactive.
Document Viewer on iOS:
Documents open in separate tabs in Telegram's browser for easy navigation.
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Proton VPN Opens Browser Extensions to Free Users
Proton has announced that free users can now access its VPN browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox, previously limited to paying customers. The browser extension provides VPN protection solely for the browser, without needing the Proton VPN app, and may still work in regions where VPN apps are blocked.
The free version doesn't allow server selection and lacks advanced features, but it doesn't limit bandwidth or show ads. This update enhances Proton VPN's free offerings, giving users more flexibility in protecting their online privacy.
🌐 Install Extension: Chrome | Firefox
🔗 ghacks | Proton Blog
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Proton has announced that free users can now access its VPN browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox, previously limited to paying customers. The browser extension provides VPN protection solely for the browser, without needing the Proton VPN app, and may still work in regions where VPN apps are blocked.
The free version doesn't allow server selection and lacks advanced features, but it doesn't limit bandwidth or show ads. This update enhances Proton VPN's free offerings, giving users more flexibility in protecting their online privacy.
🌐 Install Extension: Chrome | Firefox
🔗 ghacks | Proton Blog
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X's new AI image generator will make anything
xAI’s Grok chatbot now lets X Premium subscribers create images from text prompts, leading to content like Barack Obama doing cocaine, Donald Trump with a pregnant woman resembling Kamala, etc. However, Grok refused to generate a single request: an image of a naked woman.
Grok will tell you it has guardrails if you ask, which probably aren't real rules, as responses vary when asked multiple times, with different policies each time.
Unlike OpenAI, which restricts prompts for real people and harmful content, Grok’s approach aligns with Musk’s disregard for standard AI safety norms amid ongoing investigation from the European Commission.
🔗 The Verge
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xAI’s Grok chatbot now lets X Premium subscribers create images from text prompts, leading to content like Barack Obama doing cocaine, Donald Trump with a pregnant woman resembling Kamala, etc. However, Grok refused to generate a single request: an image of a naked woman.
Grok will tell you it has guardrails if you ask, which probably aren't real rules, as responses vary when asked multiple times, with different policies each time.
Unlike OpenAI, which restricts prompts for real people and harmful content, Grok’s approach aligns with Musk’s disregard for standard AI safety norms amid ongoing investigation from the European Commission.
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US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google
The Justice Department is considering breaking up Alphabet's Google following a landmark court ruling that found the company monopolized the online search market. Less severe options include forcing Google to share more data with the competitors and preventing unfair advantages in AI products.
Alphabet shares were down 3.8% at 10:13 a.m. in New York, the most since Aug. 5, when a federal judge ruled the company has an illegal monopoly in the search market. The US government is likely to seek a ban on exclusive contracts in its case against Google, with the most likely divestment units being the Android operating system and Google's Chrome browser. Officials are also considering forcing the sale of AdWords, the platform used for text advertising.
🔗 Bloomberg
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The Justice Department is considering breaking up Alphabet's Google following a landmark court ruling that found the company monopolized the online search market. Less severe options include forcing Google to share more data with the competitors and preventing unfair advantages in AI products.
Alphabet shares were down 3.8% at 10:13 a.m. in New York, the most since Aug. 5, when a federal judge ruled the company has an illegal monopoly in the search market. The US government is likely to seek a ban on exclusive contracts in its case against Google, with the most likely divestment units being the Android operating system and Google's Chrome browser. Officials are also considering forcing the sale of AdWords, the platform used for text advertising.
🔗 Bloomberg
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Linktree acquires social media scheduler tool Plann
Linktree has acquired social media scheduling tool Plann, planning to integrate its features, including social media planning and auto-posting, into the Linktree platform in the coming months. Plann users will eventually transition to Linktree, and Plann's team, including founder Christy Laurence, will join Linktree.
This acquisition marks Linktree's fourth and aims to simplify content distribution for its 50 million users. The cost of the new scheduling tool has not been disclosed.
🔗 TechCrunch
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Linktree has acquired social media scheduling tool Plann, planning to integrate its features, including social media planning and auto-posting, into the Linktree platform in the coming months. Plann users will eventually transition to Linktree, and Plann's team, including founder Christy Laurence, will join Linktree.
This acquisition marks Linktree's fourth and aims to simplify content distribution for its 50 million users. The cost of the new scheduling tool has not been disclosed.
🔗 TechCrunch
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Primate Labs has introduced Geekbench AI, a cross-platform AI benchmarking app which will show you how fast your device can handle real-world machine-learning tasks. It evaluates CPU, GPU, and NPU performance in machine learning.
• Each test delivers three scores—single precision, half-precision, and quantized—plus accuracy and efficiency metrics.
• It supports frameworks like CoreML, OpenVINO, QNN, and Android-specific tools.
• Each workload is tested multiple times for peak performance.
• The results are integrated with the Geekbench browser allowing cross-device comparisons.
💻 Install: Windows | macOS | Linux
📱 Install: Android | iOS
🔗 Geekbench Blog
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• Each test delivers three scores—single precision, half-precision, and quantized—plus accuracy and efficiency metrics.
• It supports frameworks like CoreML, OpenVINO, QNN, and Android-specific tools.
• Each workload is tested multiple times for peak performance.
• The results are integrated with the Geekbench browser allowing cross-device comparisons.
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Microsoft removes FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11
Microsoft has removed the 32GB FAT32 partition limit, now allowing up to 2TB partitions when formatting via the command line. Windows 11 users will be able to use the format command from a command line prompt to create up to 2TB partitions. However, the GUI-based disk formatting tool still retains the 32GB limit.
The update also introduces the Windows Sandbox Client Preview with new features and optimizations for battery life and diagnostic network tests, available in Insider Preview Build 27686 for Canary Channel users.
🔗 BleepingComputer
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Microsoft has removed the 32GB FAT32 partition limit, now allowing up to 2TB partitions when formatting via the command line. Windows 11 users will be able to use the format command from a command line prompt to create up to 2TB partitions. However, the GUI-based disk formatting tool still retains the 32GB limit.
The update also introduces the Windows Sandbox Client Preview with new features and optimizations for battery life and diagnostic network tests, available in Insider Preview Build 27686 for Canary Channel users.
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T-Mobile fined $60M for unauthorized access to data
Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) fined T-Mobile $60 million, its largest penalty ever, for failing to prevent and report unauthorized access to sensitive data during its post-merger integration with Sprint. The fine was imposed due to T-Mobile's violation of a mitigation agreement tied to its $23 billion acquisition of Sprint in 2020.
The breaches occurred in 2020 and 2021, affecting data from a small number of law enforcement requests.
🔗 Reuters
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Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) fined T-Mobile $60 million, its largest penalty ever, for failing to prevent and report unauthorized access to sensitive data during its post-merger integration with Sprint. The fine was imposed due to T-Mobile's violation of a mitigation agreement tied to its $23 billion acquisition of Sprint in 2020.
The breaches occurred in 2020 and 2021, affecting data from a small number of law enforcement requests.
The $60 million penalty announcement highlights the committee's commitment to ramping up CFIUS enforcement by holding companies accountable when they fail to comply with their obligations.
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Krutrim AI Cloud is Free for Everyone Till Diwali
At the Ola Sankalp 2024 event, Bhavish Aggarwal, CEO of Ola and Krutrim, announced that Krutrim Cloud would be free for developers until Diwali, which would offer no-code and low-code platforms for Indian use cases, along with GPU-as-a-service and model-as-a-service. Additionally, it includes Krutrim H100 tiny on AI pods at 1/25th of the price, utilizing GPU slicing for resource efficiency.
In six months, Krutrim Cloud introduced over 50 new services, including virtual machines, cloud storage, data protection, and AI-focused features like affordable GPU access, an AI studio, and a model catalog.
🌐 Krutim Cloud
🔗 Analytics India Magazine
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At the Ola Sankalp 2024 event, Bhavish Aggarwal, CEO of Ola and Krutrim, announced that Krutrim Cloud would be free for developers until Diwali, which would offer no-code and low-code platforms for Indian use cases, along with GPU-as-a-service and model-as-a-service. Additionally, it includes Krutrim H100 tiny on AI pods at 1/25th of the price, utilizing GPU slicing for resource efficiency.
In six months, Krutrim Cloud introduced over 50 new services, including virtual machines, cloud storage, data protection, and AI-focused features like affordable GPU access, an AI studio, and a model catalog.
🌐 Krutim Cloud
🔗 Analytics India Magazine
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India Unveils Its First AI Chip, The Bodhi 1 From Ola, Also Unveils Next-Gen Ojas “Edge AI”, Sarv 1 “Cloud Native” & Bodhi 2 For 2028
Ola, an Indian automotive manufacturer, plans to design, build, and launch India's first in-house AI chips by 2026 using ARM architecture. The chips are aimed at enhancing AI applications in autonomous vehicles, edge AI, and cloud computing.
The lineup includes the Bodhi series for large-scale AI workloads, the Ojas chip for edge AI in electric vehicles, and the Sarv-1 cloud-native chip. Ola's CEO, Bhavish Aggarwal, emphasizes the importance of domestic innovation in AI. The chips are expected to be produced by a global foundry like TSMC or Samsung.
🔗 Wccftech
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Ola, an Indian automotive manufacturer, plans to design, build, and launch India's first in-house AI chips by 2026 using ARM architecture. The chips are aimed at enhancing AI applications in autonomous vehicles, edge AI, and cloud computing.
The lineup includes the Bodhi series for large-scale AI workloads, the Ojas chip for edge AI in electric vehicles, and the Sarv-1 cloud-native chip. Ola's CEO, Bhavish Aggarwal, emphasizes the importance of domestic innovation in AI. The chips are expected to be produced by a global foundry like TSMC or Samsung.
🔗 Wccftech
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