Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of encrypted messaging app Telegram, has been arrested in France, according to local reports.
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Britain’s Bill Gates Mike Lynch Dies at 59
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Obituary: Mike Lynch became a global tech name after selling his company Autonomy to HP for $11.7 billion. Over a decade on – after the sale soured, HP sued for fraud, and Lynch won the case – the man once known as "Britain's Bill Gates" has died aged 59.
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Lynch catalysed UK deep tech entrepreneurship revolution
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Lord John Browne, the former CEO of BP, says Lynch "should be remembered as the person who catalysed a breed of deep tech entrepreneurs in the UK."
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Microsoft Recall Feature Raises Privacy Concerns for Windows Users
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Microsoft will release its controversial Recall feature – which takes screenshots of your activity every few seconds to help you find stuff you forgot about – to Windows testers in October. The feature caused some rather… obvious privacy concerns.
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Blockchain Startup Valued $2B Fights AI Copyright Theft
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Startup using blockchain to prevent copyright theft by AI is valued over $2 billion after fresh funding
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X Closes Brazil Operations Over Government Censorship Demands
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Elon Musk's X says it has closed operations in Brazil, "effective immediately," after the government threatened to arrest its legal representative for no compliance with censorship orders.
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Klarna Expands Banking Services with Deposit Accounts Across US and EU
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Klarna is making one of its biggest challenges to the banks in years: a personal account you can deposit money into. Many don't know Klarna operates as a retail bank in Germany. Now, the fintech giant will start taking deposits across US and EU.
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Airwallex Hits $500M ARR, Eyes IPO and $1B Revenue by 2027
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Exclusive: Airwallex, the Tencent-backed digital payments startup, just hit $500 million of ARR and is seeking to get IPO-ready by 2026, CEO @awxjack told me. Zhang said he wants the company to reach $1 billion of ARR by 2026 or 2027: "That is the goal."
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Musk’s New AI Tool Requires Premium+ X Subscription Access
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you have to be a premium ("premium+") X user to play with Musk' new AI toy…
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Government delays Online Safety Act review until spring 2025
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One source tells the government may not actually do a review of the Online Safety Act until it is in force – as in, spring 2025. That is a long, long way away. “I think this is a way of sounding tough but putting off a difficult decision,” I'm told…