Durov's Code

🕹 Mix & Match // Sony announced a new DualSense Edge wireless controller for the PlayStation 5 with an upgraded control pad with modular components that players can replace and customize. @kod_ae

📝 Yalla!Market Exclusively for Durov's Code // Founded a little more than a year ago, Yalla!Market already covers almost all living communities in Dubai and plans to expand into Abu Dhabi and other GCC cities. We talked to Leonid Dovbenko, CEO and founder of Yalla!Market, about why business environment in Dubai is different from the rest of the world, how to raise funds in the UAE and when to expect Yalla!Market's IPO. @kod_ae

📱 Mobile Apps in the UAE // Mobile app downloads in the UAE grew by 23 percent in the first half of 2022 with finance-related apps registering the highest surge in demand. @kod_ae

Wednesday! Here's the morning news: // Intel and Brookfield Asset Management will invest up to $30 billion to build new chip factories in the US. https://kod.ae/0112 // UAE-based neobank Zywa has raised $3 million in Seed round. https://kod.ae/0113 📊 TON: $1.47 | BTC: $21,3K

🇮🇳 New Home for New iPhones // Apple plans to begin manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India about two months after the product’s initial release in China. This may prove difficult since Apple has been always going to extreme lengths to keep new product details confidential. Imposing the same rigorous controls in a second country would prove difficult. @kod_ae

😱 "Extreme, egregious deficiencies by Twitter" // Twitter's former head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko alleges “extreme, egregious deficiencies by Twitter” related to privacy, security and content moderation, as he filed complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice. @kod_ae

Twitter whistleblower alleges execs misled board and public on spam, security https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/23/twitter-whistleblower-alleges-execs-misled-board-and-public-on-spam-security.html

🌴 New Megaprojects in Dubai // Nakheel has unveiled its masterplan for Dubai Islands. The islands, located along Dubai’s northern coastline, will feature 20 kilometres of beaches, two square kilometres of parks and open spaces. @kod_ae

⚡️ Yalla Market Coming to Every House in the UAE // In a conversation with Durov's Code, Leonid Dovbenko, CEO and founder of Yalla Market, said the company plans to cover the entire territory of the UAE with a network of darkstores, as well as start accepting Russian cards. @kod_ae

⚡️ Russia's Yandex to Change Domain Name // Durov's Code has learnt that Russian tech giant Yandex will change its main domain name from yandex.ru to ya.ru. @kod_ae x @d_code

Tuesday! Here's the morning news: // Ex-Apple engineer has admitted trading self-driving car secrets to a Chinese start-up. https://kod.ae/0110 // France increased subsidy for trading in gas-powered cars for e-bikes to €4,000 https://kod.ae/0111 📊 TON: $1.32 | BTC: $20,9K

🙅‍♂️ Misinformation // Kazakhstan authorities stated that they managed to reach an agreement with Telegram regarding the removal of illegal content. Telegram denies this information. @kod_ae

🙅‍♂️ Misinformation // Kazakhstan authorities stated that they managed to reach an agreement with Telegram regarding the removal of illegal content. Telegram denies this information. @kod_ae

🤩 More Weird-Looking Cars // DeLorean unveiled two new concept cars. The first one is a coupe 2024 Alpha5 Plasmatail, while the second and, perhaps, the most impressive one — the 2040 Omega, a futuristic baja-inspired concept envisioning the distant future of the brand. @kod_ae

😱 The Impressive Results of TON Auction // Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, said he is quite impressed by the results of the auction TON had recently conducted for the domain/wallet names. The most expensive domain Wallet.ton was sold for 215,250 Toncoin (~$260000) while casino.ton was sold for ~$244000. The same idea of selling domain names can be used in telegram to sell usernames, according to Durov. This would create a new platform where username holders could transfer them to interested parties in protected deals – with ownership secured on the blockchain via NFT-like smart-contracts, he explained. Durov also praised TON for its scalability and speed, as the platform has the best technology to host such decentralized sales. He went on saying that, his team is inclined to try out TON as the underlying blockchain for our future marketplace and will add "a little bit of Web 3.0" to Telegram in the coming weeks. @kod_ae

👽 A Very Noisy Google // A Dutch Programmer Bert Hubert created a tool, that tracks when computers send user data to Google, and published it on GitHub. Every time a computer sends data to Google, the programme makes some noise. Hubert made a short video, in which he showed the tool in action. When he started entering a request into the address bar, the programme began to constantly signal the transfer of data, with each character entered creating more noise. As for the website, the sound accompanied every click on links and active page elements. Some people believed this was due to the author's use of Google Chrome browser. In response to these comments, Hubert tweeted that the situation was not much different in other apps. @kod_ae

📈 FTX and its Global Expansion // FTX leaked internal documents reveal a 1842.85% increase in operating income, from $14 million to $272 million and a 1000% increase in revenue from $90 million in 2020 to $1.02 billion in 2020-2021 fiscal year. @kod_ae

🤖 Change or Die // Israeli spyware manufacturer NSO Group starts large-scale reorganisation in an attempt to improve company's reputation after years of negative publicity, blacklists and lawsuits. As part of reorganisation process, the company's CEO Shalev Hulio is leaving his position and 100 employees are being let go. @kod_ae

Monday! Here's the morning news: // MENA ranks second in data breach losses after the US, according to IBM report. https://kod.ae/0108 // WhatsApp for iOS is planning to add the ability to watch Status directly from WhatsApp’s chat list. https://kod.ae/0109 📊 TON: $1.15 | BTC: $21,5K

📱 News from Gurman // Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that Apple plans to unveil new devices on 7 September @kod_ae