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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 …
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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.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Apple approves the first PC emulator for iOS, UTM SE, weeks after rejecting and barring the app 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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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
An interview with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, who presides over the company's $17B content budget, on catering to different tastes and more — She presides over a $17bn budget and is looking for local hits with global potential — Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief hitmaker … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
IDC: ~350M people in India still use a feature phone, and 50% of them have a model that costs less than $18; the ASP of a smartphone is $255, up 54% from 2020 — Around 350 million people still use a feature phone — India, the world's second-largest smartphone market after China … | 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 … | 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.
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| 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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| 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.| Matthew Connatser / The Register: |
Intel has faced 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 — One game developer says it's …
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