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AT&T says it will begin notifying consumers about a data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal phone records of “nearly all” of its customers — Stolen data includes millions of AT&T customer phone numbers, calling and text records, and location-related data.
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Preliminary findings: the EU says X's paid blue checkmark deceives users and breaches the DSA; X faces a fine of up to 6% of its global revenue if found guilty — Brussels regulators use new digital powers to threaten social media company with huge fines over transparency issues
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A May 2024 data breach at mobile spyware company mSpy leaked millions of customer support tickets, including personal data, its third known breach since 2010 — Customer service emails dating back to 2014 exposed in May breach — A data breach at the phone surveillance operation mSpy … | Financial Times: |
Some devs remain optimistic as Apple seeks a “killer app” for Vision Pro; Appfigures: the number of new Vision Pro apps has fallen since January and February — Tech giant is struggling to attract content from developers for innovative device that goes on sale in Europe this week
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple launches Vision Pro in the UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Australia after launching in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore on June 28 — Apple's Vision Pro spatial computing headset today arrived at Apple Store locations in the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, and Australia.
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| Financial Times: |
SoftBank buys struggling UK-based chipmaker Graphcore with regulatory approval; sources: the deal is valued at ~$600M, less than the ~$700M Graphcore had raised — Deal will give Bristol-based company a resource boost while advancing the ‘next big bet’ of Masayoshi Son's group
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Signal plans to roll out a beta version of its desktop apps that tightens the security of how it stores plain text encryption keys, after downplaying the issue — Signal is finally tightening its desktop client's security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI creates five levels to track its progress toward AGI: Chatbots, Reasoners, Agents, Innovators, and Organizations, and says it's nearly at level two — The company believes its technology is approaching the second level of five on the path to artificial general intelligence
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Forums: r/artificial and r/singularity
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Arm unveils Accuracy Super Resolution, an upscaler for mobile games based on AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 2, available under the MIT open-source license — Arm “Accuracy Super Resolution” is optimized for power use and integrated GPUs. — Some of the best Arm processors come …
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| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
In a June report, India's antitrust body CCI found that Apple exploited its dominant position in iOS Apps Store and engaged “in abusive conduct and practices” — An investigation by India's antitrust body has found that Apple exploited its dominant position in the market …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
After X announced shows with star talent like Paris Hilton and Tucker Carlson, the efforts have fizzled, a source says due to a lack of advertiser interest — X is having a tough time cracking into the TV business, but first... Promises, promises — Six months ago, executives … | Washington Post: |
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