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Ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who was acquitted on US fraud charges in June 2024, is among six missing after a yacht sank off Sicily, per Italian authorities — A luxury superyacht carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off the Italian island of Sicily in bad weather early Monday.
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Stephen Chamberlain, who faced the same charges as Mike Lynch over Autonomy's sale, died after a road accident, per his lawyer, days before Lynch went missing — Stephen Chamberlain, once Mike Lynch's co-defendant in the U.S. fraud trial over the sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard …
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| Connor Jones / The Register: |
Cisco Talos: eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's macOS apps could be abused by attackers to record video and sound from a device, log user input, and more — Windows giant tells Cisco Talos it isn't fixing them — Cisco Talos says eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's macOS apps …
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| Perry Stein / Washington Post: |
The FBI, ODNI, and CISA say they are “confident” that Iran was responsible for the recent attempted hacks of the Trump, Biden, and Harris campaigns — In a joint statement with intelligence agencies, the bureau said the attempted hacks also were directed at the Democratic campaign.
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| Bloomberg: |
Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese-made, Tencent-backed game, became Steam's most popular title ever within hours of its launch, hitting 1.8M+ concurrent players — - The made-in-China blockbuster surpasses Cyberpunk play record — Monkey King epic on track to set records for concurrent gamers
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| Wall Street Journal: |
PitchBook: seven banks' ~$13B loans to Elon Musk to buy X have been “hung” for two years, weighing on balance sheets, the worst buyout for banks since 2008-09 — Loans of around $13 billion have remained ‘hung’ for nearly two years, bringing in interest payments but weighing on banks' balance sheets| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to make the most expensive iPhone models in India for the first time, as Foxconn rushes to produce iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max in India — - Plan shows Apple making further progress with India assembly — Company is shifting output to India to diversify beyond China
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| Daniel Tencer / Music Business Worldwide: |
The AGs of 10 states join the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster; 39 states, plus DC, are now part of the lawsuit — The attorneys general of 10 states have joined the US Department of Justice (DoJ)'s antitrust lawsuit seeking to break off Live Nation from its ticketing subsidiary, Ticketmaster.| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
Updated antitrust complaint: the DOJ says Ticketmaster's push for nontransferable SafeTix tickets, rolled out in 2019, aimed to make using rival services harder — The real intent of Ticketmaster's push for nontransferable tickets was to make it harder for fans to use rival platforms …
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| Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian: |
Donald Trump shared AI-generated images on Truth Social that show Taylor Swift and her fans vowing their support for his campaign; Swift hasn't endorsed Trump — Presidential nominee shares AI-generated images, contributing to spread of online election disinformation
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| Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: |
Business groups, including the Asia Internet Coalition, backed by Amazon, Google, and Meta, criticize Hong Kong's new cyber rules, calling them “unprecedented” — - Business groups call proposal too broad in flurry of letters — Comes months after city censored politically sensitive videos
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| Kamil Kowalcze / Bloomberg: |
TSMC breaks ground on its €10B chip fab in Dresden, Germany, its first European plant; the EU approves Germany's ~€5B subsidy for the project — - Taiwanese firm begins work on its first European chip plant — German subsidies will cover about half of the fab's costsSponsor Posts
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