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July 15, 2024, 4:10 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 …
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Lloyd Lee / Business Insider:
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 …
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.
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:
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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