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August 22, 2024, 11:05 AM

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Financial Times:
Italian officials: divers recover UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's body from the wreckage of superyacht Bayesian, which sank three days ago off Sicily's coast  —  Christopher Morvillo, Jonathan Bloomer and their wives died after vessel sank on Monday  —  The bodies of UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch …
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Trisha Thadani / Washington Post:
Court filing: the unsealed list of X Holdings shareholders names nearly 100 entities, such as 8VC, Italy-based UnipolSai, and a fund tied to Sean “Diddy” Combs  —  A court filing obtained by The Post lists which firms and individuals have a financial stake in the platform.
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says Recall will be available to Windows Insiders in October 2024, after delaying the AI feature's launch in June over security and privacy concerns  —  Microsoft says it's planning to allow Windows testers to try out its controversial Recall AI feature in October.
David Shepardson / Reuters:
The FCC says Lingo Telecom agreed to pay a $1M fine after the FCC said Lingo made fake robocalls imitating President Biden in New Hampshire to dissuade voting  —  Lingo Telecom agreed to pay a $1 million fine after the agency said it transmitted fake robocalls imitating President Joe Biden seeking …
Michael Gwilliam / Dexerto:
Twitch plans to raise its new Tier 1 sub and gift sub prices on mobile in 40+ countries on October 1; in an email, Twitch says Tier 1 will rise by $2 to $7.99  —  Twitch has announced yet another increase to the price of subs after already raising the cost earlier in the summer.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
LiteSpeed Cache, the top WordPress site acceleration plugin, had a critical flaw that left sites open to takeover attacks; 2M+ sites are likely still vulnerable  —  A critical vulnerability in the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin can let attackers take over millions of websites after creating rogue admin accounts.
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Meta confirms users can now cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads globally, after rolling out Instagram and Facebook cross-posting in 2021  —  Meta for months has been experimenting with letting people cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads, its social networking platform competing …
More: 9to5Mac
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple App Store VP Matt Fischer is leaving in October; the App Store group will split into two teams: for its own store and for alt app distribution  —  - Longtime App Store vice president Fischer to exit in October  — Company makes changes in response to regulatory environment
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Dublin, California-based Opkey, which provides AI-based ERP testing software, raised a $47M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital  —  Companies are experimenting with services like ChatGPT to help workers write memos, answer questions, and much more.  Yet, one of the clearest signs of how much traction AI …
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