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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.

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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

More: SecurityWeek, Reuters, Engadget, PaymentSecurity.io, iTech Post, Silicon Republic, Neowin, SC Media, PCMag, Cyber Daily, and Cybernews.com. Forums: r/cybersecurity

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.

More: The Verge, NBC News on YouTube, Search Engine Land, OSnews, Benzinga, The Register, Android Authority, Stack Diary, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, XDA Developers, Neowin, and TechCrunch

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Mastodon: @matthewkeys@mastodon.social and @Linux4Everyone@fosstodon.org

LinkedIn: Lisa Gus, Aleksandr Tiulkanov, and Sylvester Massey

Forums: r/technology and r/law

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.

More: CNBC, Adept, Bloomberg, The Information, Reuters, Maginative, and TechCrunch

Threads: @carnage4life and @vishvanands

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 …

More: Hugging Face, Hugging Face, WinBuzzer, VentureBeat, MarkTechPost, MarkTechPost, The Information, Analytics India Magazine, and South China Morning Post

X: @clementdelangue, @leeleepenkman, @kevinsxu, @spamueldooley, @equitybrian, and @basedbeffjezos. Forums: Slashdot

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.

More: Decrypt. X: @rossreelachart, @404mediaco, @emanuelmaiberg, and @jason_koebler. Forums: Beehaw

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 …

More: Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department …, CryptoSlate, DL News, Forbes, The Crypto Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, Wall Street Journal, Cointelegraph, CoinGape, and CoinDesk

X: @btcdragonlord, @lawrencezlatkin, @valkenburgh, and @valkenburgh

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 …

More: The Register, Associated Press, The Record, Reuters, Jakarta Globe, The Jakarta Post, GovInsider, The Jakarta Post, The Jakarta Post, CIO News, South China Morning Post, CNA on YouTube, DatacenterDynamics, ZDNet, and Help Net Security

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.

More: Metacurity, Bloomberg, and The Daily Hodl

X: @talbeerysec, @archerships, @sethforprivacy, @a_greenberg, @seppuku_you, and @jgrantindc. LinkedIn: Kyle Armstrong

Forums: Hacker News, r/CryptoCurrency, and r/Bitcoin

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.

More: United States District Court, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, The Crypto Times, Cryptopolitan, and Coinpedia Fintech News

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.

More: Windows Central, PCWorld, PCMag, Techopedia, TechNewsWorld, XDA Developers, MakeUseOf, The Verge, Spyglass, Laptop Mag, Laptop Mag, TechIssuesToday.com, Engadget, and Thurrott

Threads: @jmsmlk, @mattontech, @reckless1280, and @chriswelch. Mastodon: @bradlinder@fosstodon.org

X: @richgel999, @jonfingas, @tomwarren, @pcworld, @pcmag, @tomwarren, @zacbowden, @windowscentral, and @mikemuch. LinkedIn: Brett Ostrum. Forums: Hacker News

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 …

More: The Register, Android Headlines, Anadolu Ajansı …, Tech Xplore, Thurrott, Politico, and Reuters. X: @samuelstolton

Financial Times:

The EU explores an antitrust probe into Microsoft's OpenAI deal, after the EC dropped a merger review due to a lack of evidence that Microsoft controls OpenAI

More: Bloomberg, Associated Press, SiliconANGLE, Cryptopolitan, and PYMNTS.com

X: @samuelstolton and @florian4gamers

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.

X: @aerocles, @carnage4life, and @timmarchman

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

60 Minutes' CECOT segment, pulled by Bari Weiss, was mistakenly aired in Canada via an app owned by Global Television, which airs 60 Minutes in the country

Ali Watkins / New York Times:

Channel 4 says Jimmy Kimmel will share a message on Christmas Day as part of its Alternative Christmas Message show, emphasizing the importance of free speech

Reuters:

Israel's cabinet votes to shut down popular national radio station Army Radio, saying it has become a platform for views that “attack” its armed forces

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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:

Q&A with Center for AI Safety's Dan Hendrycks about his work on California's AI safety bill, the backlash against the bill, advising xAI on safety, and more

X: @shiringhaffary, @drtechlash, and @anjneymidha

Financial Times:

Sources: Lambda, which rents out servers powered by Nvidia's AI chips, is in talks to raise $800M, after a $320M Series C at a $1.5B valuation in February

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Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:

Infosys McCamish Systems, which provides consulting, IT, and outsourcing services, says LockBit stole sensitive info of 6M+ people in a 2023 ransomware attack

More: DataBreachToday.com and Comparitech. Forums: r/cybersecurity

Dan Primack / Axios:

ZeroEyes, a gun detection video analytics and alert service, raised a $53M Series B led by Sorenson Capital, and says it has ~400 clients in 42 US states

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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:

The White House will host the first-ever White House Creator Economy Conference in August to “emphasize the Administration's commitment to creators”

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Katie Roof / Bloomberg:

Kleiner Perkins has raised more than $2B for two new funds: $825M for a fund targeting young startups and $1.2B for a later-stage fund

More: Kleiner Perkins, TechCrunch, and PitchBook

X: @lm_braswell, @msuster, @ilyaf, @ajnelsonx, @harrystebbings, and @mamoonha

LinkedIn: Henry Schuck, Katie Roof, and Joubin Mirzadegan

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:

TeamViewer warns that its corporate environment was breached on June 26 and attributes the cyberattack to the Russian hacking group APT29, aka Midnight Blizzard

More: TeamViewer, BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, Dark Reading, Hackread, The Record, The Register, SC Media, Cyber Daily, CSO, PCMag, Metacurity, Reuters, Cybernews.com, SecurityWeek, ITPro, TechRadar, Stack Diary, The Hacker News, and Born's Tech and Windows World

X: @hackinglz, @kimzetter, @shashj, @campuscodi, @rik_ferguson, @cyb3rops, @lawrenceabrams, and @bushidotoken. LinkedIn: Rafael Narezzi. Forums: r/cybersecurity

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:

Apple launches the Vision Pro in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, the first time the device has been officially available outside of the US

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X: @aaronp613, @tim_cook, @safaricheung, @globaltimesnews, @scobleizer, and @bryanbma

Forums: r/VisionPro, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums

Eliza Gkritsi / Euractiv:

Margrethe Vestager says Apple's decision not to launch its AI features in the EU is a “stunning, open declaration” of the company's anticompetitive behavior

Will Knight / Wired:

OpenAI details CriticGPT, a GPT-4 model fine-tuned to catch errors in ChatGPT's code output, assisting human trainers tasked with assessing and spotting errors