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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans a Mac mini in 2024 with M4 and M4 Pro options that is less than half the size of the current mini, its first major design change since 2010  —  - It's the first major design change to Mac mini since Jobs era  — Entire Mac line to get updated with AI-focused M4 processors
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Email: the World Federation of Advertisers discontinues activities of its nonprofit, GARM, following X's antitrust lawsuit, but intends to contest X's claims  —  - The World Federation of Advertisers is ‘discontinuing’ the activities of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media.
Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times:
The UK CMA opens a formal merger inquiry into Amazon's Anthropic investment after getting “sufficient information” about the deal; Amazon is “disappointed”  —  CMA to escalate matter to the first phase after seeking views on tech giant's investment in the AI start-up
Josh Self / Politics.co.uk:
In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views  —  Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about …
David Ingram / NBC News:
Researchers: 50 false or misleading claims about the US election posted on X in 2024 by Elon Musk have generated nearly 1.2B views and none had a Community Note  —  The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate said that Musk's debunked claims are spreading widely and do not appear …
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple debuts new rules and fees for apps in the EU that link to the web for purchases, including allowing links to any website, and removes other restrictions  —  Following the EU ruling in June that said Apple's App Store anti-steering policies are officially in breach of the Digital Markets Act, Apple is announcing changes.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify says Apple's new “unacceptable” plan “disregards the fundamental requirements” of EU's DMA; Tim Sweeney calls it “malicious compliance” with “junk fees”  —  Count Spotify and Epic Games among the Apple critics who are not happy …
Wired:
OpenAI reveals details of GPT-4o's safety testing, including concerns that its anthropomorphic voice may make some users emotionally attached to their chatbot  —  The company has revealed details of AI model safety testing—including concerns about its new anthropomorphic interface.
Financial Times:
Sources: Google and Meta ran a pilot program in the US in May 2024 to target Instagram ads to teenagers on YouTube, which prohibits targeting ads to under-18s  —  Campaign on YouTube to boost Instagram's appeal to young people skirted search group's rules for marketing to under-18s
Bloomberg:
Microsoft and Palantir partner to sell government cloud and AI tools, such as GPT-4, to US defense and intel agencies; Palantir plans to add its tools to Azure  —  Microsoft Corp. and Palantir Technologies Inc. are combining their government cloud-computing and artificial intelligence tools …
Richard Nieva / Forbes:
Hugging Face acquires XetHub, a collaboration platform started by ex-Apple employees who raised $7.5M to help developers work with and build large-scale models  —  Purchased for an undisclosed sum, XetHub is staffed by a number of former Apple employees.  Hugging Face thinks …
Adam James / The Block:
“Over the next few days”, Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to undo all trades following its July 18 withdrawal freeze, after hackers stole $230M+ in crypto  —  - WazirX announced plans to undo all trades following its withdrawal freeze on July 18.
TASS:
Putin signs a law legalizing cryptocurrency mining in Russia; only Russian legal entities and individuals included in a register will have the right to mine  —  Only Russian legal entities and individual entrepreneurs included in a register will have the right to mine
Milana Vinn / Reuters:
Sources: Japanese cybersecurity company Trend Micro, which has a market value of about $6.5B, is exploring a sale after attracting buyout interest  —  Trend Micro (4704.T), a Japanese cybersecurity firm with a market value of about 950 billion yen ($6.5 billion), is exploring a sale …
More: Bloomberg
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
A researcher details a Windows Update vulnerability that could be exploited to downgrade key components of Windows to older versions that contain known flaws  —  A researcher found a vulnerability that would let hackers strategically downgrade a target's Windows version to reexpose patched vulnerabilities.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
TikTok launches TikTok Spotlight, in-app hubs for movies and TV shows that add links to “applicable” videos with more info and where to watch, tested with Dune  —  TikTok will now create in-app hubs for movies and TV shows and place them directly on fan-made videos.
Financial Times:
Similarweb: active UK Telegram users hit 3.1M on July 29 and 3.7M on July 30 after a stabbing, as rioters used chat apps, up from a ~2.7M average in early 2024  —  Messaging service, known for ‘hands off’ approach to content moderation, faces pressure to tackle extremist groups

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Rob Wile / NBC News:
President Trump's 2025 financial disclosures show $80M in income from settlements tied to his lawsuits against ABC, CBS, Meta, YouTube, and other companies

Reuters:
The UK says it is leaning towards intervening in Paramount's $110B WBD takeover, citing concerns over media freedom and the provision of on-demand programming

Kelly McBride / NPR:
NPR's Nina Totenberg misheard a statement about retirements and told editor Krishnadev Calamur that Alito was retiring; Calamur then posted a prewritten story

More News

Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google says it stopped making the Chromecast due to intense competition, pivoting to a premium device, and views the Nvidia Shield as something to strive toward
John Liu / New York Times:
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
A look at AI age scanners, which websites use to verify a person's age by analyzing their facial patterns and contours via webcam to help safeguard kids online
Axios:
Anduril Industries raised a $1.5B Series F co-led by Founders Fund and Sands Capital at a $14B valuation, up from ~$8.5B after raising ~$1.5B in December 2022
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
A group of VCs, including Reid Hoffman and Ron Conway, hosted a “VCs for Kamala” Zoom call to support Harris' campaign with up to 600 attendees, raising $150K
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Researchers: hackers have used an 18-year-old flaw in how Safari, Chrome, and Firefox on macOS handle queries to a 0.0.0.0 IP address to breach private networks
RTÉ:
Ireland's DPC launches High Court proceedings against X over concerns about how the company processes EU and EEA user data to train AI systems, including Grok
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