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July 13, 2024, 5:40 AM

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta says it will soon roll back restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure parity among candidates ahead of the 2024 election  —  - While those penalties were designed to limit any public figure's accounts during civil unrest, Donald Trump's accounts …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Sources: John Binns, a US citizen who has been incarcerated in Turkey and indicted for allegedly hacking T-Mobile in 2021, is linked to the AT&T data breach  —  John Binns, a U.S. citizen who has been incarcerated in Turkey, is linked to the massive data breach of metadata belonging …
Bloomberg:
Snowflake confirms that the data breach at AT&T is connected to the hack that has affected other customers, including Ticketmaster and LendingTree  —  - Fallout from attack disclosed in May is still spreading  — Ticketmaster, LendingTree among recent victims in crime spree
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
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Reuters:
An internal document and source detail OpenAI's Strawberry, formerly known as Q*, which aims to improve its AI models' reasoning capabilities dramatically  —  ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on a novel approach to its artificial intelligence models in a project code-named “Strawberry,” …
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Arkham: the German government appears to have sold its last bitcoin on July 12, after authorities seized ~50K bitcoin, worth $2B+, in January 2024 from suspects  —  - The German government had received 50,000 Bitcoin in January  — Bitcoin's price has been choppy in recent weeks on worries
Muyao Shen / Bloomberg:
Hashed: 1M+ memecoins have been created on Pump.fun, a platform based on the Solana and Blast blockchains, generating $50M+ in revenue since its January launch  —  - Pump.fun is one of the most profitable memecoin projects  — Platform has been at the center of crypto's memecoin craze
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
A look at the rise and fall of Jump Crypto and former President Kanav Kariya, and Jump's involvement in some of crypto's biggest scandals, like FTX's collapse  —  The Zoom meeting at Jump Crypto was always running.  And in May 2021, a scrum of employees was on the screen, discussing a mounting crisis.
Financial Times:
A profile of Shein's executive chair Donald Tang, who has become the public face of the company as he leads its expansion overseas and prepares for a London IPO  —  Executive whose rise on Wall Street won fame in his native China faces tough task at fashion group planning London IPO
Kosuke Shimizu / Nikkei Asia:
China accounts for 40%+ of sales at Applied Materials and Lam Research, as they boost shipments of legacy chipmaking equipment not targeted by US export curbs  —  Applied Materials, Lam Research ship legacy products not targeted by export curbs  —  PALO ALTO, California …

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