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August 12, 2024, 7:45 AM

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Michael McWhertor / Polygon:
PUBG publisher Krafton acquires former Xbox game studio Tango Gameworks and its Hi-Fi Rush IP; Microsoft had planned to shut down Tango Gameworks in May 2024  —  Tango Gameworks will live on, thanks to Krafton  —  Krafton, the publisher behind PUBG: Battlegrounds and The Callisto Protocol …
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
After Kamala Harris held a rally in Detroit with thousands in attendance, Donald Trump falsely claimed the crowd was “fake” and a picture of it was AI-generated  —  The former president has also falsely accused his opponents of paying people to attend their rallies
Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware:
AMD releases updates to mitigate the “Sinkclose” vulnerability but has no plans to update older Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 or Threadripper 1000 and 2000 CPUs  —  AMD says some chips fall outside of the software support window.  —  AMD processors dating back to 2006 reportedly suffer …
Zack Abrams / The Block:
Celsius sued Tether on August 9 to try to claw back ~40K bitcoin, now worth ~$2.4B, that Celsius claims Tether sold improperly at the bottom of the market  —  - Celsius filed a lawsuit against Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back Bitcoin worth $2.4 billion that the company …
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
A Kamala Harris fundraiser in San Francisco on Sunday drew ~700 people and raised $13M, as Harris returns to the city for the first time since her nomination  —  A Sunday fund-raiser offered Vice President Kamala Harris a chance to turn the page on a sometimes frosty relationship between President Biden and Silicon Valley.
Charlie Wells / Bloomberg:
Some longtime users of LinkedIn lament the barrage of performative content from hustle-culture influencers and AI-generated “thought leadership” on the site  —  Longtime users irked by personal content lament that the job-hunting website has become more like Facebook.
Joanna Nelius / The Verge:
Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge review: nice design, display, quiet keys, and 14 hours of battery, but outperformed by Snapdragon rivals and Arm limits compatibility  —  Samsung's first Copilot Plus PC is everything a thin and light laptop should be — but its performance is limited.
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users, including a weeks-old disaster warning; TikTok removed some of the notifications  —  False claims about Taylor Swift among outdated and misleading information in news-style notifications from video-sharing app

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