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July 29, 2024, 12:10 PM

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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
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.
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 August 1  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (HPE.N) is expected to secure unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $14 billion acquisition …
Richard Nieva / Forbes:
NYC-based Altana, which develops AI logistics software to help companies manage their supply chains, raised a $200M Series C at a $1B valuation  —  The aim is to create a “Google Maps for the supply chain” for customers like Maersk, L.L. Bean and the Pentagon.
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Wall Street Journal:
Guracha Belachew Bersha, a now-freed Ethiopian man, details scamming hundreds while he was enslaved for 16 months 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, ad tracking, why regulation is not the best path to protecting online privacy, and more  —  The world of online advertising has changed dramatically since Ghostery first launched in 2009 to help people understand …
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.

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