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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:

The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a longer sale deadline as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, pressuring the Senate to vote on TikTok — The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it …

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New York Times:

How TikTok has influenced US culture and shaped Hollywood, privacy, fashion, shopping, news, music, trends, cooking, mental health, national security, and more — Has there ever been an app more American seeming than TikTok, with its messy democratic creativity, exhibitionism, utter lack of limits and vast variety of hustlers?

More: Politico and CNET

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Jameson Dow / Electrek:

Tesla cuts the price of its Full Self-Driving software to $8K from $12K in the US, following a price cut from $15K to $12K in September 2023 — Tesla has once again lowered the price of its Full Self-Driving software by $4,000, now costing $8,000, down from a previous price of $12,000 in the US.

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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:

President Biden signs the bill reauthorizing FISA's Section 702, extending the controversial warrantless surveillance program through 2026 — The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial program that allows warrantless spying …

More: TechCrunch, The White House, CNN, Associated Press, NBC News, New York Times, Engadget, Axios, The White House, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Washington Post, CyberScoop, The Record, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, New York Times, Fox News, Library of Congress, The Hill, The Record, New York Post, and Pixel Envy

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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:

A look at Block-funded Gridless, which operates bitcoin mines in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia, powered through solar power and wasted energy from a geothermal site — WATCH NOW — Jack Dorsey backed start-up taps into geothermal, hydro and solar power to run bitcoin mines across Africa

More: Cryptonews. X: @kenziesigalos, @cnbc, and @jeromebailly

Forums: r/UpliftingNews and Slashdot

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:

A look at Home Assistant, an open-source smart home platform with an estimated 1M users, as its creators announce a foundation to help it reach the mainstream — How Home Assistant plans to transition from an enthusiast platform to a mainstream consumer product.

Mastodon: @pee@mastodon.online, @oh_that_courtney@hachyderm.io, and @TechDesk@flipboard.social. X: @quinnypig

Forums: r/gadgets, r/technology, r/tech, r/homeautomation, and r/homeassistant

Washington Post:

Analysis: the 25 most-cited US news organizations lost 75% of their Facebook engagement and 58% of their Instagram interactions between Q1 2022 and Q1 2024 — Waves of layoffs and policy shifts are forcing campaigns to change tactics, potentially transforming the 2024 election

OatmealDome:

Open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is not coming to App Store as Apple doesn't allow JIT recompilers on iOS, possibly due to security considerations — Two weeks ago, Apple modified their App Store guidelines to allow retro game emulators in the App Store.

More: 9to5Mac and Tom's Guide

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X: @carnage4life, @provenanceapp, @eric_seufert, @webimer, @webimer, @jessebenisrael, and @webimer

Forums: Hacker News, r/iosgaming, and r/EmulationOniOS

John Koblin / New York Times:

Antenna: ~25% of subscribers to US streaming video services, or 29M+ users, canceled 3+ of them in the past 2 years, as they increasingly jump between services — Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry.

X: @sportstvratings and @dentuttle

LinkedIn: Cosmin Ene, Sowmyanarayan Sampath, and David Vogler. Forums: Hacker News

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Matthew Belloni / Puck:

Sources: David Ellison told execs he will move Paramount out of California if AG Rob Bonta doesn't negotiate a settlement of the WBD antitrust case by October 1

Wall Street Journal:

Ari Emanuel's Mari agrees to buy British theater group ATG Entertainment from PE firm Providence, sources say in a deal valuing ATG at ~£4.5B including debt

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RTL reports H1 revenue up 4% YoY to €2.9B and raises its FY revenue forecast to between €7.1B and €7.2B, accounting for the June acquisition of Sky Deutschland

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Thomas Claburn / The Register:

Researchers: when given 15 CVE descriptions, GPT-4 autonomously exploited 87% of the “one-day” vulnerabilities, compared to 0% for every other model tested

More: Dark Reading, arXiv, arXiv, Daniel Kang, and Tom's Hardware

Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @mttaggart@infosec.town

X: @soundboy and @daniel_d_kang

LinkedIn: Stanley Tsang, Michael Tchuindjang, Ben Hanson, Christopher Peacock, and Andrew Bandeira

Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:

PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down

X: @clareconley. LinkedIn: Jason James and Kyle Houser

Kate Rogers / CNBC:

A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed

Bluesky: @ndnickerson.bsky.social. X: @simonkp, @capolicylab, and @mmitchell_ai

Forums: r/technews and r/technology

David Cassel / The New Stack:

An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more

More: The Verge, PC Gamer, Cryptopolitan, and ZDNet

X: @arungupta, @arungupta, @arungupta, @arungupta, @arungupta, @dwaynephillips, @ron_brash, @joab_jackson, and @mdolan. LinkedIn: The Linux Foundation

Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:

Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's claim that the company has abandoned its altruistic principles is “revisionist history” and a bid to boost his AI company

More: The Decoder. X: @business

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:

Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits

More: Business Today. Mastodon: @jwildeboer@social …. X: @onlycliches, @pamelawatching, @carnage4life, @quinnypig, and @reuterslegal

Forums: Hacker News and r/technology

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Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:

National Bureau of Statistics: China's integrated circuit output rose 40% YoY to 98.1B units in Q1, a sign that the country is expanding legacy chip production

More: TrendForce Insights, ExtremeTech, TechNode, and Tom's Hardware

X: @kanthan2030 and @pstasiatech

Nikkei Asia:

SK Hynix partners with TSMC to develop next-gen HBM4 chips, which are critical for AI and slated for mass production in 2026, and advanced chip packaging tech

More: KED Global, DatacenterDynamics, SK hynix Newsroom, KED Global, TweakTown, DigiTimes, The Korea Herald, SamMobile, Wccftech, insideHPC, The Investor, and AnandTech

Bloomberg:

Filing: a group of FTX investors and customers agree to drop their claims against SBF if he cooperates in cases against celebrities and others who pushed FTX

More: Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, Crowdfund Insider, crypto.news, DL News, PYMNTS.com, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Block, Bitcoin Insider, CoinGape, and Cointelegraph

X: @chrisdolmetsch. LinkedIn: Kelvin Low

George Steer / Financial Times:

Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

More: MarketWatch, Nikkei Asia, Benzinga, Quartz, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg Television on YouTube, Agence France-Presse, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg

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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:

Nothing rolls out ChatGPT integration for Nothing Phone (2) and Nothing earbuds, including voice and text widgets for the phone

More: The Verge and 9to5Toys

X: @nothing, @raywongy, @nothing, and @nothing

Emma Roth / The Verge:

Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow “fast enough”

More: Post. and TechCrunch

Threads: @gaborcselle, @crumbler, @stop, @taylorlorenz, and @hellodavidryan

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