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A look at the possible impact of SCOTUS overturning Chevron deference and curbing federal agencies' power on net neutrality, Big Tech regulation, and more — Since the New Deal era, the bulk of the functioning US government is the administrative state — think the acronym soup of agencies like the EPA, FCC, FTC, FDA, and so on.| Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
Source: Microsoft told over a dozen Texas agencies and public universities that their emails were exposed in the Russian hack of Microsoft, disclosed in January — - Company initially disclosed the cyberattack in January — Some agencies say exposed emails related to routine matters| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says content on the open web is “freeware” that anyone can copy or use to reproduce, due to the fair use “social contract” — Microsoft's CEO of AI said that content on the open web can be copied and used to create new content.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon hires the CEO and co-founders of Adept, which builds AI agents that automate enterprise workflows, to join its AGI team and will use some of Adept's tech — Amazon is amping up its AI efforts by hiring executives from Adept, a San Francisco-based startup building “agents” that automate enterprise workflows.| Dallin Grimm / Tom's Hardware: |
Hugging Face unveils Open LLM Leaderboard v2 that tests models across six benchmarks; Chinese models dominate the top 10 with Alibaba's Qwen taking the top spot — Optimizing LLMs to be good at specific tests backfires on Meta, Stability. — Hugging Face has released its second LLM leaderboard … | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
A look at the disastrous launch of Stable Diffusion 3, which struggles to generate correct human anatomy, and concerns over the tool's new and different license — Stability AI botched the launch of its latest model, proving the Stable Diffusion community doesn't need the company that brought it to the world.| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
The US Treasury finalizes a rule requiring cryptocurrency brokers to report new information on users' sales and exchanges of digital assets to the IRS — The U.S. Treasury Department finalized a rule on Friday requiring cryptocurrency brokers, including exchanges and payment processors … | Chandra Asmara / Bloomberg: |
Indonesia's government declines to pay the $8M demanded by LockBit 3.0 for the ransomware attack that affected hundreds of ministries and public institutions — - The recovery will only be completed in mid-August: minister — Indonesia's parliament called the government to task … | Wired: |
Filings and DOJ officials describe how a gang threatened, assaulted, and tortured 11 victims in likely the worst crypto-focused serial extortion case in the US — More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
A US judge rules the SEC has plausibly alleged Binance, Binance.US, and Changpeng Zhao violated federal securities laws, but dismisses secondary sales charges — A federal judge ruled the SEC had plausibly alleged Binance, Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao violated federal securities laws.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition review: great native app performance but emulated apps can be more battery intensive, and AI features feel gimmicky — Microsoft and Qualcomm finally deliver the hardware Windows on Arm needed. … The new Surface Laptop isn't just a refresh.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Margrethe Vestager says the EU is seeking information “to better understand” Google's deal with Samsung to pre-install Gemini Nano on certain Samsung devices — Microsoft's (MSFT.O) partnership with OpenAI could face an EU antitrust investigation as regulators singled … | Tim Marchman / Wired: |
Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic — WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Poe's Assistant bot.
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Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control — Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
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