The Brutalist Report

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• More ex-military officials are becoming VCs as defense tech investment reached $35 billion [611d]
• FTC study finds ‘dark patterns’ used by a majority of subscription apps and websites [611d]
• Elon Musk does not owe ex-Twitter staffers $500 million in severance, court rules [611d]
• Meta will soon let kids aged 10 to 12 interact with others in VR with their parents’ approval [611d]
• AWS App Studio promises to generate enterprise apps from a written prompt [611d]
• TechCrunch Minute: The FTC bans anonymous social app NGL from serving minors [611d]
• Microsoft emails that warned customers of Russian hacks criticized for looking like spam and phishing [611d]
• Marc Andreessen, Sequoia again back Kearny Jackson, this time in $65M Fund III [611d]
• Spotify is no longer just a streaming app, it’s a social network [611d]
• Microsoft settles with European cloud trade body over antitrust complaints [611d]
• From Facebook to the face of crypto: Inside Anthony Pompliano’s wild career [611d]
• While TikTok chases YouTube, Instagram vows to focus on short-form content [611d]
• Elevate your startup with the ScaleUp Program at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 [611d]
• Samsung unveils Galaxy Buds 3 Pro and Buds 3, available for preorder now and shipping July 24 [611d]
• Samsung’s Galaxy Ring, its first smart ring, arrives July 24 for $399 [611d]
• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip 6 arrive with Galaxy AI and Google Gemini [611d]
• Vimeo joins YouTube and TikTok in launching new AI content labels [611d]
• Google brings new Gemini features and WearOS 5 to Samsung devices [611d]