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July 15, 2024, 12:55 AM

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Kim Zetter / Wired:
AT&T appears to have paid a member of ShinyHunters $370K+ to delete call records stolen from AT&T's Snowflake account that exposed “nearly all” of its customers  —  A security researcher who assisted with the deal says he believes the only copy of the complete dataset …
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
X's trending topics surfaced conspiracy theories around Donald Trump's assassination attempt; YouTube and Facebook primarily directed users to news outlets  —  Conspiracy theories about the shooting at a Trump rally began surfacing on X shortly after the news broke this afternoon …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Apple approves the first PC emulator for iOS, UTM SE, weeks after initially rejecting and barring it from being notarized for third-party app stores in the EU  —  Apple has approved UTM SE, an app for emulating a computer to run classic software and games, weeks after the company rejected …
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
An interview with Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington on their startup Thrive AI Health to build an AI health coach, and why AI has become a technology of faith  —  An important thing to realize about the grandest conversations surrounding AI is that, most of the time, everyone is making things up.
Jason Parham / Wired:
Q&A with Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, on Elon Musk's lawsuit, election disinformation, social media harms, AI, and more  —  Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, is unsentimental about what's at stake if we don't curb the spread …
Washington Post:
Letter: OpenAI whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe OpenAI's allegedly restrictive NDAs barring staff from warning regulators about the risks its tech may pose  —  In a letter exclusively obtained by The Washington Post, whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe company's allegedly restrictive non-disclosure agreements
Matthew Connatser / The Register:
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction market with a focus on elections that has raised $70M+ and traded $350M+ in predictions on the US election  —  Prediction markets can provide a clear signal through even the most deafening noise.  That's why Americans are obsessively refreshing this one.
Lloyd Lee / Business Insider:
Tech leaders, including Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, and Mark Zuckerberg condemned the Trump assassination attempt that happened on July 13  —  - Shots were fired at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, killing at least two people.  — Tech CEOs and billionaires …
Anil Bhoyrul / Arabian Business:
In their first-ever interview, Shiba Inu leaders Shytoshi Kusama and Kaal Dhairya discuss remaining anonymous, Elon Musk, SHIB's origins, future plans, and more  —  The meme coin leaders have created the world's largest decentralised community but, somehow, they have remained completely anonymous.

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