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June 26, 2024, 7:45 PM

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Jessica Lyons / The Register:
Researchers: polyfill.io, which offers JavaScript polyfills, is being used to infect 100K+ websites with malware, after a Chinese CDN bought the domain in 2024  —  Scripts turn malicious, infect webpages after Chinese CDN swallows domain  —  The polyfill.io domain is being used to infect …
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
SCOTUS declines to impose limits on the way the Biden administration may communicate with social media platforms, overturning a lower court's 2023 decision  —  The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to impose limits on the way President Joe Biden's administration may communicate …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple touts its device longevity in a white paper and says True Tone and battery health data will be available for third-party replacement parts later in 2024  —  Apple's putting renewed focus on its repairability efforts today. … But perhaps more interesting is the fact that Apple …
Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:
Apple expands its diagnostics tool for self-service repairs from the US to 32 European countries, including the UK, and plans to launch in Canada in 2025  —  Apple Diagnostics for Self Service Repair is now available in 32 European countries, the company announced today.
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg:
Amazon reaches a $2T market valuation for the first time; its shares have whipsawed since the company's Q1 earnings and gained 27% so far this year  —  - Megacap joins Alphabet, Nvidia and more above key level  — Company's cloud unit posted biggest sales growth in a year
The Information:
Slides shown to Chinese sellers: Amazon plans to launch a Temu-like section featuring cheap items that ship directly from China to overseas consumers  —  Amazon plans to launch a section on its shopping site featuring cheap items that ship directly to overseas consumers from warehouses in China …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Researchers in Rabbit R1's jailbreaking community say Rabbit left critical API keys hardcoded in its code, which would let hackers use Rabbit's internal systems  —  Members of a community focused on jailbreaking and reverse engineering the Rabbit R1 AI assistant device say that Rabbit left …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Sources: AU10TIX, an ID verification service that handles ID photos and is used by TikTok, Uber, X, and others, exposed admin credentials online for over a year  —  A company that verifies the identities of TikTok, Uber, and X users, sometimes by processing photographs of their faces …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
NBCU says an AI-generated voice of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on its streamer Peacock  —  Legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on Peacock — well, an AI-generated Al Michaels voice will.
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
A look at YouTube's growing dominance as Nielsen says it had ~10% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the US in May, ahead of Netflix's 7.6%  —  WATCH NOW  —  It's been almost 20 years since the founding of Alphabet's YouTube, and Hollywood still doesn't really know what to do with it.
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Hands-on with Ray-Ban Meta's new AI translation feature, which is too rudimentary and buggy to be anything more than a novelty  —  WIRED took Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses to French-speaking Canada to trial its AI smarts.  Quelle catastrophe!  —  Imagine you've just arrived in another country …
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Micron reports Q3 revenue up 82% YoY to $6.81B, vs. $6.67B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue in line with estimates; MU drops 7%+ after hours  —  Micron shares fell almost 8% in extended trading on Wednesday as investors looked past better-than-expected results and focused instead on a revenue forecast that was inline with estimates.
Zak Butler / The Keyword:
An overview of China's Dragonbridge multiyear disinfo campaign that uses AI-generated content and spans several social networks to target geopolitical rivals  —  The most prolific PRC-linked influence operator continues to lean into US social wedge issues, Taiwan and major news events …
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Meta says “an error” is causing Instagram and Threads to turn on a setting that limits political content from people who users don't follow, upon every app open  —  After Democratic strategist Keith Edwards urged Threads users to check the Instagram setting limiting political content …
Benjamin Taubman / Bloomberg:
Kaiko: spot bitcoin ETFs' launch in the US helped Bybit double its market share to 16% in March, crossing Coinbase to become the world's second-largest exchange  —  - Bitcoin ETFs helped Bybit's market share rise, Kaiko says  — Binance remains biggest exchange even after losing share

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