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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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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23B; Wiz raised $1B at a $12B valuation in May 2024 — Deal would be tech giant's largest acquisition ever.
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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 …
More: Bloomberg, The Atlantic, Wired, BNN Bloomberg, Forbes, Washington Post, Mashable, NPR, and NBC Bay Area
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| 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 …
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| 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.
X: @johnreynlds, @evanmcmurry, @theatlantic, @theatlantic, @cwarzel, and @ahcastor. Forums: Hacker News
| 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
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/OpenAI, r/news, and r/technology
| Matthew Connatser / The Register: |
Intel has been facing mounting pressure to fix Raptor Lake CPU stability issues since February 2024; a game studio accuses Intel of selling “defective” CPUs — High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD
More: Alderon Games, The Verge, TweakTown, Tom's Hardware, HotHardware, Wccftech, Digital Trends, PCGamesN, PCMag, PC Guide, XDA Developers, PC Guide, PC Gamer, and TechSpot
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| Andy Mukherjee / Bloomberg: |
A look at Nexus, a Bank for International Settlements-backed project aiming to link domestic smartphone-based payment systems for instant cross-border payments — A protocol to move money across borders quickly at a low fee will be the best thing to happen to instant payments — until the next best thing comes along.| 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.
More: Polymarket, Bitcoin Insider, Polymarket, Polymarket, Polymarket, Polymarket, CoinDesk, The Crypto Times, CoinDesk, Cryptopolitan, and Bitcoin News
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| 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 …
More: Business Today, Semafor, Washington Post, Benzinga, The Information, Newsmax, VentureBeat, Times of India, Quartz, 9to5Mac, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, and GeekWire
X: @elonmusk, @sundarpichai, @satyanadella, @jeffbezos, @justinsuntron, @ajassy, @reidhoffman, @sama, @cristianoamon, @jessicalessin, @mcuban, and @benioff
Forums: r/ConservativeKiwi and r/thedavidpakmanshow
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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