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| Ken Bensinger / New York Times: |
Musk reposts an edited Kamala Harris campaign video that mimics her voice, possibly with deepfake tech; it has 120M+ views and seemingly breaks X's own rules — The billionaire owner of the social media platform X reposted a video that mimics Vice President Kamala Harris's voice, without disclosing that it had been altered.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Trump proposes a strategic national crypto stockpile; Bitcoin 2024 organizers say they were in talks to have Kamala Harris appear, but she ultimately declined — NASHVILLE — Former President Donald Trump said that if he were returned to the White House, he would ensure that the federal government never sells off its bitcoin holdings.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Kamala Harris' advisers have approached top crypto companies, including Coinbase, Circle, and Ripple Labs, to “reset” relations with the industry — Vice-president's team aims to improve relations after industry criticism of the Biden administration
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Sources detail how Elon Musk undermined CEO Linda Yaccarino's efforts to repair X's business over the past year; X's US revenue fell 53% YoY to $114M in Q2 — Linda Yaccarino, the C.E.O. of X, has worked hard to bring back advertisers and fix the platform's business.
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Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social, @self.agency, and @g026r.leftblank.org
| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 mobile SoC review: the Zen 5 CPU architecture, RDNA 3.5 graphics, and the XDNA 2 NPU make this AMD's most compelling laptop CPU to date — During the opening keynote delivered by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su at Computex 2024, AMD finally lifted the lid on their highly-anticipated Zen 5 microarchitecture.
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X: @anshelsag, @indes_yo, @ryansmithat, and @kylebrussell
Forums: r/Amd and r/hardware
| David Weston / Microsoft Security Blog: |
Microsoft provides a technical overview of the CrowdStrike incident, explains why security products use Windows kernel drivers, and outlines future improvements — Windows is an open and flexible platform used by many of the world's top businesses for high availability use cases where security and availability are non-negotiable.| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: the US DOJ says TikTok collected data about its users' views on gun control, abortion, and religion, and censored content at ByteDance's direction — Justice Department defends new law requiring the sale or ban of the popular app — TikTok collected data about its users' views …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian crypto exchange WazirX announces a controversial plan to “socialize” the ~$230M loss from its recent security breach among all its customers — Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX announced on Saturday a controversial plan to “socialize” the $230 million loss … | Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
A look at AIxCC, or AI Cyber Challenge, a competition launched in 2023 and run by DARPA to design an AI program that scans open source code for security flaws — Computer scientists brainstorm in Pentagon-backed competition to design an AI program that scans open-source code for flaws bad actors could exploit
Mastodon: @JosephMenn@infosec.exchange. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @washingtonpost and @josephmenn
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The US NIST re-releases Dioptra, an open-source web-based tool first unveiled in 2022 for benchmarking, testing, and assessing risks in AI models — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Commerce Department agency that develops and tests tech for the U.S. government … | New York Times: |
A dozen technologists and researchers at Chinese tech companies say open-source technologies were a key reason behind China narrowing the AI gap with the US — In recent weeks, Chinese tech companies have unveiled technologies that rival American systems — and they are already in the hands of consumers and software developers.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Google fixes a flaw after hackers bypassed email verification to create “a few thousand” Workspace accounts to access 3rd-party apps via Sign in with Google — Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent the email verification required …
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