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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to roll out Apple Intelligence by October, missing the planned Sept. launch of its OSes; devs 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
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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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| CoinDesk: |
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| Financial Times: |
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| 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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| 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.
More: Neowin and Thurrott
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @k8em0, @aiddya, @dwizzzlemsft, and @swiftonsecurity. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.
More: Australian Financial Review, CoinGape, and Werd I/O
Threads: @elistuy, @lessin, @documentingmeta, @pkafka, @firerock31, @riskofruinpodcast, @benedictevans, @moskov, @karaswisher, @renee.diresta, @crumbler, @hunterwalk, and @mac_ryan_. Mastodon: @amydiehl@mstdn.social
Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social, @self.agency, and @g026r.leftblank.org
| 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 … | David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
Dune Analytics: ~1.7M new digital coins entered circulation in H1 2024, compared with 264K in H1 2023, as the crypto market revival fuels a surge in memecoins — Josh Bailey, a 26-year-old day trader in Austin, Texas, was scrolling through a cryptocurrency group chat last month when he encountered … | 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 … | 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
| Financial Times: |
Analysis: the shipping industry faced 64+ cyber attacks in 2023, up from ~20 in 2022, as geopolitical disputes prompt state-linked hackers to target trade flows — State-backed hackers present a fresh threat to an industry that has long faced security concerns| James Warrington / The Telegraph: |
Sources: Apple met with UK TV ratings body Barb to discuss options for tracking ads on Apple TV+, in another sign that it plans to introduce ads on the service — Apple has held talks with the UK's TV ratings body in the latest sign that the tech giant is planning to introduce adverts on its streaming service.
More: AppleInsider and iPhone in Canada Blog
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