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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
CrowdStrike says the problematic July 19 software update that brought down 8.5M Windows PCs was deployed into production due to “a bug in the Content Validator” — CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week.
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| Politico: |
Some in Silicon Valley hope Kamala Harris could provide a chance for a reset, after years of bipartisan criticism in Washington DC toward Big Tech companies — Would she bring continuity with Joe Biden's policies? A more centrist vibe? A sharper progressive bite?| Eva Roytburg / Fortune: |
Elon Musk says “I am not donating $45M a month to Trump”, and that he created America PAC to support Trump, without revealing precisely how much he is donating — Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created …
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| Giulio Piovaccari / Reuters: |
Ferrari plans to accept crypto payments for its cars at European dealers from the end of July, and internationally by the end of 2024, expanding on the US — Ferrari (RACE.MI) said on Wednesday it would extend its scheme to accept payments in cryptocurrency for its luxury sports cars … | Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $84.7B, net income up 29% YoY to $23.6B, Search revenue of $48.5B, up from $42.6B YoY, headcount down 1% to 179,582 — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2024 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2024.
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Meta says it will allow developers to use the outputs from Llama models, including Llama 3.1 405B, to improve other models for the first time — “Open source AI is the path forward,” says Mark Zuckerberg, misusing the term. — In the AI world, there's a buzz in the air …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google updates the Play Store on Android to add categorized “collections” to show installed app content, expands Play Pass, and adds curated comics in Japan — Google is bringing a handful of new features to its Google Play store on Android today.| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Copilot customers say the AI assistants are no plug-and-play offering and involve feeding Copilot data; the Copilots excel at distilling information — Early adopters say deploying the company's Copilot bots requires cleaning up corporate data and lots of employee training.| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Researchers suggest using “synthetic” data, created by AI systems to train AI systems, could lead to the rapid degradation of AI models and a collapse over time — Research suggests use of computer-made ‘synthetic data’ to train top AI models could lead to nonsensical results in future
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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Google's failed deal with Wiz, and with HubSpot before that, puts Google in an awkward spot to grow Cloud; Wiz staff are likely upset at missing a big payday — It's the second time in as many months that the tech giant has lost a deal to boost its lagging cloud business.| Bloomberg: |
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Twitch introduces new policy and moderation updates to curb sexual harassment, including making its policy “easier to understand” and adding moderation tools — Twitch has introduced new policy and moderation updates that aim to help curb sexual harassment.
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| Financial Times: |
The US NCSC warns US tech startups that “foreign threat actors”, including China, might use private investment to exploit them and threaten national security — Counter-intelligence centre says hostile states such as China could gain sensitive data and intellectual property| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Law enforcement officials and experts: criminal groups are shying away from large ransomware-as-a-service platforms after disruption operations and an exit scam — Veteran cybercriminals involved in ransomware attacks are increasingly shying away from large ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 review: very good battery life, easy multitasking, and seven years of updates, but narrow cover screen, bulky, heavy, and expensive — Samsung's flagship foldable is as good as ever, but it feels anything but fresh. … The Galaxy Z Fold 6 is like staying in a really fancy Airbnb.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
The Overture Maps Foundation, backed by Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, TomTom, and others, releases four global open maps datasets; Transportation remains in beta — It's not often you'll find Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta in the same room collaborating toward the same goals.| Keith Broni / Emojipedia: |
X reverts its water pistol emoji back to a firearm on the web, after Twitter originally switched the pistol emoji from a realistic-looking handgun in 2018 — X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion …
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Compliance startup Vanta raised a $150M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $2.45B valuation, up from $1.6B in 2022, to accelerate adding AI to its products — Sequoia Capital led the financing, which the company said it would use in part to accelerate work in artificial intelligence.
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| Bloomberg: |
US spot ether ETFs hit $1B+ in trading volume across nine funds, a strong debut but far from the $4.6B traded during the spot bitcoin ETFs debut in January 2024 — - Trading volume still trailed amount posted by Bitcoin ETFs — Debuts for two of the funds rank among some of the best ever
More: Decrypt, Wu Blockchain, Unchained, Protos, Cryptonews, The Crypto Times, Cryptopolitan, Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, and The Block
| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stability AI unveils Stable Video 4D, a model based on the existing Stable Video Diffusion model to take video input and generate videos from eight perspectives — Stability AI is expanding its growing roster of generative AI models, quite literally adding a new dimension with the debut of Stable Video 4D.| Jillian Ambrose / The Guardian: |
Irish government data: data centers in Ireland used 21% of its electricity in 2023, up 20% YoY, more than the 18% of electricity used by all urban homes — Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for data processing driven by AI could derail climate targets
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| New York Times: |
A profile of Blake Benthall, arrested in 2014 for running Silk Road 2.0, which had 1.7M users and $8M/month sales, as he promotes his crypto startup Fathom(x) — Today, Blake Benthall runs a start-up that aims to help track digital currency transactions.Gili Benita for The New York Times
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