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July 29, 2024, 11:05 AM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to debut Apple Intelligence by October, weeks after iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 releases; developers get to test AI features as soon as this week  —  - Developers will get to test AI features as soon as this week  — Apple is betting on enhancements to help sell iPhone 16 line
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Elon Musk reposts an edited Kamala Harris campaign video that mimics her voice, possibly with deepfake tech; it has 129M+ views and seemingly breaks X's 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.
David Weston / Microsoft Security Blog:
Microsoft shares a technical overview of the CrowdStrike incident, explains why security products use Windows kernel drivers, and outlines planned 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.
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Podcasting is becoming an industry of megastars with huge deals and the biggest audiences; Edison: the top 25 podcasts reach nearly 50% of US weekly listeners  —  The top shows are adding video, merchandise and live tours and signing megadeals with Spotify, Sirius and Amazon.
Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SoC review: the Zen 5 CPU architecture, RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture, and XDNA 2 NPU make this AMD's most compelling laptop chip 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.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: HPE is expected to secure unconditional EU approval for its $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks; the EC is scheduled to decide on the deal by Aug. 1  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (HPE.N) is expected to secure unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $14 billion acquisition …
Wall Street Journal:
A now freed Ethiopian man named Guracha Belachew Bersha details how he scammed hundreds online after he was enslaved in a pig butchering scam center in Myanmar  —  A multibillion-dollar cyberfraud industry operating out of Southeast Asia relies on forced labor and torture
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Q&A with Ghostery CEO Jean-Paul Schmetz about the service turning 15, the state of ad tracking, why regulation is not the best path to protecting online privacy  —  The world of online advertising has changed dramatically since Ghostery first launched in 2009 to help people understand …
Stefano De Marzo / EU-Startups:
Germany-based osapiens, which develops ESG compliance tech, raised a $120M Series B led by Growth Equity, bringing its total funding to $145M  —  osapiens, a leading ESG Platform and provider of compliance and sustainability reporting solutions, announced the completion of a €110.7 …
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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