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July 2, 2024, 5:00 AM

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Wise, Affirm, Mercury, and other companies say they're investigating how a recent ransomware attack by LockBit on Evolve Bank and Trust impacted their customers  —  The money transfer and fintech company Wise announced on Friday that some of its customers' personal data may have been stolen …
CBS News:
SCOTUS orders lower courts to take another look at Texas' and Florida's social media laws, saying neither lower court conducted proper analysis of 1A challenges  —  Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to take another look at a pair of laws from Florida and Texas …
Lucian Constantin / CSO:
Researchers from Qualys say a flaw in OpenSSH can allow attackers to remotely compromise servers; over 14M servers may be vulnerable  —  Researchers from Qualys say regreSSHion allows attackers to take over servers with 14 million potentially vulnerable OpenSSH instances identified.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Preliminary findings: the EU says Meta's pay or consent ad model breaches the DMA; Meta faces a fine of up to 10% of its global annual turnover if found guilty  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) was charged by EU antitrust regulators on Monday for failing to comply with landmark tech rules …
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Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
SEC charges parent company of crypto-friendly Silvergate Bank and execs with misleading investors about its AML compliance strength; Silvergate settles for $50M  —  Silvergate Bank, once a cornerstone of the crypto financial world until its collapse in early 2023, defrauded its investors …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: French antitrust regulators are preparing to charge Nvidia for allegedly anti-competitive practices, after raids in the GPU sector in September 2023  —  French antitrust regulators are preparing to charge Nvidia (NVDA.O) for allegedly anti-competitive practices …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta changes its “Made with AI” label to “AI info”, to indicate images were not necessarily created with AI but that AI editing tools may have been used  —  After Meta started tagging photos with a “Made with AI” label in May, photographers complained …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube rolled out a policy change that will let people request the takedown of AI-generated or other synthetic content that simulates their face or voice  —  Meta is not the only company grappling with the rise in AI-generated content and how it affects its platform.

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