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June 29, 2024, 9:05 AM

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The Verge:
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.
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.

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