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Elon Musk says X will fund the legal bills of people who have been “unfairly treated” by their employer “due to posting or liking something on this platform” — Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will fund the legal bills of people who have been treated unfairly …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
X delays its Ads Revenue Sharing program's payouts that were set for the week of July 31, saying the volume of people signing up “has exceeded our expectations” — In news that isn't very surprising given the recent history of Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack on Prospect Medical Holdings, which runs 16 hospitals and 166 outpatient clinics and centers in CA, CT, PA, and RI — A major hospital network with arms in multiple states is dealing with widespread network outages due to a cyberattack, which the FBI confirms is ransomware.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple acknowledges the US “smartphone market has been in a decline for the last couple of quarters”; sources: iPhone 15 sales will start around September 22 — On the cusp of the iPhone 15 debut, Apple has finally admitted what has long been clear: The industry is facing a smartphone slowdown.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Krakow-based Android phone monitoring app LetMeSpy plans to shut down by the end of August 2023 after a hacker breached and deleted its server data in June — Poland-based spyware LetMeSpy is no longer operational and said it will shut down after a June data breach wiped out its servers … | Misha Glenny / Financial Times: |
A profile of Clop, a Russian-speaking ransomware group responsible for the MOVEit hack and believed to be operating out of Russia and Ukraine — They hold global businesses to ransom and seem to act with impunity — but behind them lies a tangled geopolitical web
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
US lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in the name of kids' online safety, which could soon entangle every adult internet user — Today let's talk about a right we currently take for granted that may soon disappear: the ability to browse and post to most websites anonymously.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge rules former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky must face New York AG Letitia James' lawsuit accusing him of defrauding investors by hiding Celsius' risks — Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former chief of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, must face a lawsuit … | Meduza.io: |
Russian independent news outlet Meduza says Apple removed its flagship podcast from Apple Podcasts; source: Roskomnadzor asked Apple to remove the show — Meduza has received a notice from Apple, informing our media that our flagship podcast “What Happened” has been removed from the Apple Podcasts streaming platform.
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Nansen: payouts to NFT creators fell 98% from a peak of $269M in January 2022 to $4.3M in July 2023, as OpenSea and Blur cut royalty rates amid a bear market — - Payouts to NFT content creators sank 98% from a peak in 2022 — Exchanges for NFTs chopped royalty rates amid a bear market| Wall Street Journal: |
How Waymo and Cruise are struggling to win over San Francisco residents, showing the challenges they may face in expanding driverless cars across the US — Alphabet's Waymo and General Motors' Cruise are struggling to win over San Francisco residents and officials, a major hurdle in their nationwide expansion.| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Microsoft fixes an Azure flaw that could have let hackers access sensitive data, after criticism from the CEO of cybersecurity risk management company Tenable — Microsoft has resolved a vulnerability that allows threat actors to gain access to information managed by Azure AD …
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| Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone revenue fell 8% YoY and 15% QoQ to under $90B in Q2 2023; Apple had a record 45% share of global smartphone revenue and an 85% share of profit — - Apple led global smartphone revenues and operating profit with record June-quarter shares of 45% and 85% respectively.
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