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A livestream of Google's #MadeByGoogle 2024 keynote, with updates on Google AI and Pixel devices, including the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro Fold — Watch now for updates on Google AI and the newest Pixel devices, including the #Pixel9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro Fold.
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| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Google announces the $799+ Google Pixel 9, with a Tensor G4 chip, a design with flat sides, a bigger 6.3" screen, AI features, more, on sale starting August 22 — The Pixel 9 is Google's new baseline flagship device, but it packs a serious punch backed by Google's AI suite at a reasonable $799 price tag.
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A source at X says the Donald Trump interview crash was not the result of a DDoS attack; another X employee said there was a “99 percent” chance Musk was lying — Elon Musk's “conversation” with former President Donald Trump got off to a rocky start.
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| Financial Times: |
A recap of Elon Musk's Donald Trump interview on X, which started 42 minutes late; X says it was at times heard by 1M+ people, while Musk had prepared for 8M — Tech billionaire praises ex-president in rambling conversation on X delayed by technical glitch
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| Alice Hancock / Financial Times: |
After Thierry Breton's letter to X before the Trump interview, the EU says the “timing and the wording of the letter were neither co-ordinated or agreed” upon — Internal market commissioner's warning to owner of social media site X was not approved| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
On August 6, hackers leaked almost 2.7B records of people in the US, such as names and SSNs, allegedly from National Public Data, which collects and sells data — Almost 2.7 billion records of personal information for people in the United States were leaked on a hacking forum, exposing names …
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| David Bauder / Associated Press: |
Politico, the NYT, the WaPo, and others say they received hacked Trump campaign materials, but gave few details, a marked contrast to Clinton's emails in 2016 — At least three news outlets were leaked confidential material from inside the Donald Trump campaign, including its report vetting JD Vance as a vice presidential candidate.
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| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
India's antitrust body orders an unusual recall of two reports on its Apple investigation; a source says Apple complained about confidential revenue disclosures — India's antitrust body has ordered an unusual recall of its investigation reports that found Apple in breach of competition laws …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI said “there's a new GPT-4o model out in ChatGPT since last week”, but gave few other details; some users claim new step-by-step or multi-step reasoning — OpenAI continues to push the envelope on generative AI. Yesterday, without much fanfare or warning …
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How Tether co-founder Brock Pierce's plan to use crypto to revitalize Puerto Rico's economy became mired in legal disputes and fights with his business partners — On sun-drenched days in 2022, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Brock Pierce liked to take his friends sailing to the island of Vieques …
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: about half of all job seekers are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini to assist them in writing CVs, cover letters, and completing assessments — About half of applicants are using tools such as ChatGPT to help write cover letters but without editing the language is ‘clunky’
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Twitch rolls out video stories, which can be up to 60 seconds long and set to expire after one, 12, 24, or 48 hours, to challenge Instagram and TikTok — After launching photo and text stories last year, Twitch is now introducing video stories. Streamers can now film 60-second videos …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Google debuts Gemini Live, a voice chat mode for Gemini Advanced users, initially available in English on Android, with more languages and an iOS version coming — Google says that conversations with Gemini Live can be “free-flowing,” so you can do things like interrupt an answer mid-sentence …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI, the UK's NCA, and others seize the servers and websites of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware operation; since August 2023, the gang targeted 43+ SMBs — The FBI announced on Monday that it seized the servers and websites of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware operation following a joint international investigation.
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Sources: after recent OpenAI shakeups, Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, post-training lead Barret Zoph, frontiers research lead Mark Chen, others gain prominence — OpenAI's upper management has been a bit of a revolving door lately. The last few months have seen a number of high-profile departures … Sponsor Posts
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