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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple will get an observer role on OpenAI's board, with Phil Schiller chosen for the position, as part of their partnership announced last month  —  CDK Says ‘Substantially All’ Car Dealerships Restored After Hack  —  Northern Data May Be Testing Limits of AI Frenzy With Unit IPO
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Reddit users: Netflix is following through on its plan to phase out its cheapest $11.99/month ad-free tier, instead pushing its $6.99, $15.49, and $22.99 tiers  —  Netflix is following through on its plan to phase out its cheapest ad-free tier for existing subscribers.
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Figma disables its recently launched generative AI app design tool Make Design, after a user showed it copied Apple's Weather when asked to design a weather app  —  The design tool Figma has disabled a newly launched AI-powered app design tool after a user showed that it was clearly copying Apple's weather app.
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Blockchain platform Polkadot faces criticism from users after spending $36M+ on marketing and outreach in H1 2024, nearly half of its total spend of $87M  —  The blockchain spent $87 million in the first six months this year, with marketing activities accounting for the majority of expenses.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Meta shares its research on Meta 3D Gen, a system that creates high-quality 3D assets from text descriptions in less than a minute  —  Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, introduced Meta 3D Gen today, a new AI system that creates high-quality 3D assets from text descriptions in less than a minute.
Cynthia Brumfield / CSO:
SCOTUS' Chevron ruling could weaken federal cybersecurity regulations, as FCC data breach reporting requirements and other rules are likely to be challenged  —  The ruling could weaken almost all US federal cybersecurity regulations, including SEC incident reporting, FCC data breach reporting, and CISA cyber incident reporting rules.
Charles Gorrivan / Bloomberg:
CDK Global, a software provider to ~15K North American car dealerships, says “substantially all” of its dealers are back online, after two cyberattacks in June  —  - Software provider serves about 15,000 dealers in North America  — CDK suffered two cyberattacks that forced systems offline
Financial Times:
Google says its greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48% in the past five years due to the expansion of the data centers that underpin its AI efforts  —  Tech giant's ambition of reaching ‘net zero’ by 2030 under threat from power demands of artificial intelligence systems
Paula Arend Laier / Reuters:
Brazil's data regulator suspends the validity of Meta's new privacy policy for the use of personal data to train its generative AI systems in the country  —  Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has decided to suspend with immediate effect the validity of Meta's (META.O) …
Chris Kornelis / Wall Street Journal:
Bruce Bastian, who co-created the popular word processing software WordPerfect and was an LGBTQ activist, died on June 16 at age 76  —  While his company was producing the world's dominant word-processing software, he came out as gay to his wife, sons and Mormon community

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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump files a $10B defamation lawsuit against the BBC in a Florida court, alleging it deceptively doctored his January 6 speech in a Panorama documentary

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Howard Stern signs a new three-year deal with SiriusXM, after a report earlier this year suggested that his show was about to be canceled

Jacob Savage / Compact:
A writer argues that since 2014, DEI practices led to discrimination against white male millennials for entry-level and mid-level roles in Hollywood and media

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Koo, an Indian rival to X that had raised $60M+ from Tiger Global, Accel, and others, is shutting down after acquisition talks with Dailyhunt fell through
Wall Street Journal:
The owners of about a third of US nuclear power plants are in talks with tech companies to provide electricity to new data centers needed to meet AI demand
Reuters:
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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
A US judge temporarily blocked a new Mississippi law that would require age verification for all and parental consent for teens to join some social networks
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Meta says it will lift its ban on the word “shaheed”, or “martyr” in English, after its Oversight Board's year-long review found the approach to be “overbroad”
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
For ~10 years, millions of macOS and iOS apps using CocoaPods were vulnerable to a serious flaw in the dependency manager, which was patched in October 2023
Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority:
Source: Google plans AI features for the Pixel 9 under the Google AI brand, like Pixel Screenshots, which lets users search their screenshots using on-device AI
Lucian Constantin / CSO:
Qualys researchers say an OpenSSH flaw can let attackers remotely compromise servers and allow unauthenticated RCE as root; over 14M servers may be vulnerable
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