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A US District judge grants a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that requires age verification to access porn sites (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

Dell reports Q2 revenue down 13% YoY to $22.9B, vs. $20.8B est., Client Solutions down 16% to $12.9B, Infrastructure Solutions down 11% to $8.5B; DELL jumps 7%+ (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

University of Zürich and Intel researchers reveal Swift, an autonomous drone trained via deep reinforcement learning to beat human champions in FPV drone racing (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Bumble updates its community guidelines to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxxing, and says it has blocked 8.2M+ accounts this year, mostly using AI (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Investigation: IBM signed a £54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, in July, despite a 2020 pledge to quit such work (Mark Wilding/The Verge)

Meta is showing a "For you on Threads" carousel on the Instagram app for some users, with a button to open the Threads app (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.6B, vs. $8.53B est., $1.27B net income, and forecasts Q3 and FY 2024 earnings above expectations; CRM jumps 5%+ (Wallace Witkowski/MarketWatch)

OpenAI files a motion to dismiss two similar lawsuits from book authors alleging copyright infringement, saying the authors "misconceive the scope of copyright" (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

A Saudi court sentences a man to death over his X posts and YouTube activity, part of a growing dissent crackdown; his brother is a well-known government critic (Jon Gambrell/Associated Press)

Sony will raise PlayStation Plus annual subscription prices in September; Essential will go from $60 to $80, Extra from $100 to $135, Premium from $120 to $160 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Meta Avatars finally have legs in Quest Home, with the v57 update on the Public Test Channel, after announcing they were coming in October 2022 (David Heaney/UploadVR)

The FBI led an effort to dismantle the Qakbot botnet, which ransomware gangs used as an infection vector for years, on August 25 after infiltrating its network (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and others are expected to attend Sen. Schumer's closed-door AI forum on September 13 (Rebecca Klar/The Hill)

Google announces several automation starters and actions for the Home app, plus new features for the Home script editor, which is available in Public Preview (Nathan Edwards/The Verge)

Sources: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and others are expected to attend Sen. Schumer's closed-door AI forum on Sept. 13 (Axios)

Yahoo Mail gets Shopping Saver, a tool to find gift cards, discount codes, and more in inboxes and draft messages to vendors to apply them to previous purchases (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

The US SEC charges Impact Theory, which sold NFTs, with offering unregistered securities, in a first; the LA-based entertainment firm agreed to pay a $6.1M fine (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

Sources: Intenseye, a workplace safety AI startup, is raising a $65M Series B led by Lightspeed at a ~$300M valuation, up from a ~$100M valuation in 2021 (Forbes)

A look at the US Air Force's efforts to build an AI-based air combat system, including drones for as little as $3M apiece that serve pilots as a "loyal wingman" (Eric Lipton/New York Times)

Didi says it has agreed to sell its smart car development arm to Xpeng, one of China's largest EV makers, for ~$744M (Bloomberg)

How LLMs are transforming computational humor, an AI subfield that uses computers to create jokes, as some artists begin using AI chatbots for improv comedy (Gillian Tett/Financial Times)

A look at the ethical and legal issues around generative AI, as it makes practical at a massive scale things that were previously only possible on a small scale (Benedict Evans)

Linus Tech Tips founder Linus Sebastian addresses errors and ethics but not sexual harassment claims, responding to accusations that prompted a production pause (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Hackers breached WebDetetive, an Android spyware app used mainly in Brazil, and deleted data on its victims; Poland-based LetMeSpy was similarly hacked in June (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Warframe is getting a mobile client, in-game time travel, and occult horror in newly announced updates

A look at the UK's new DARPA-inspired Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), which has a four-year £800M budget to invest in breakthrough tech like AI (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)