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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
macOS 15 Sequoia appears to have broken security tools made by CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft, and others; CrowdStrike had to delay support for Sequoia — On Monday, Apple released its latest computer operating system update called macOS 15, or Sequoia.
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| Bloomberg: |
Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to reimpose a block or face a ~$920K daily fine after an update made X accessible; X says service restoration was “inadvertent” — - Judge orders $920,000 daily fine if site isn't blocked — Regulator says it got help from Cloudflare to restrict access
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Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google unveils Password Manager PIN to let Chrome users sync passkeys across Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, and Android devices, with iOS support coming soon — The search giant is introducing a Google Password Manager PIN that allows users to securely save and synchronize passkeys for use across Windows …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
A US FTC report on the data practices of Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six other companies finds “vast surveillance” of consumers to monetize their information — Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.
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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Disney plans to stop using Slack in most units by the end of 2024, after a hacking group leaked 1TB+ of its data, including 44M Slack messages, in July — The company said in a memo that most of its businesses would stop using the tool by the end of this year
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| Ethan Gach / Kotaku: |
Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Firewalk, the studio behind the PlayStation flop, is left in limbo, with some staffers expecting mass layoffs — Ryan Ellis was the hero shooter's game director at Firewalk Studios — It's been two weeks since Sony announced it was taking …
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Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/PS5, r/pcgaming, and r/Games
| Julia King / Fierce Network: |
Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into the radio access network and could allow telcos to run third-party AI apps at the network's edge — - Nvidia thinks that AI could be the answer to the very problems it is causing — AI-RAN will leverage billions of data points …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
A look at the two “specification proceedings” that the EU has opened on Apple under the DMA, instructing Apple on how to comply with interoperability provisions — The European Union has opened two “specification proceedings” on Apple under the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA) … | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
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Forums: r/LinusTechTips, r/technews, and r/worldnews
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches an AI-powered video generator, available for some US advertisers in beta, which turns a single product image into a few-second video showcase — Like its rival, Google, Amazon has launched an AI-powered video generator — but it's only for advertisers at the moment, and somewhat limited in what it can do.
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LinkedIn: Steve Ivie, Mary Beth Westmoreland, and Austin Fleisher
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI's $6.5B funding round, which nears completion as the company decides on backers, is oversubscribed with excess demand in the billions of dollars — - Thrive to lead round; Sequoia not involved in new financing — Oversubscribed deal for AI leader is nearing final stages
More: The Information. Bluesky: @carljanderson.bsky.social. X: @andrewcurran_ and @katie_roof. Forums: r/singularity
| Abeer Abu Omar / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia partners with Abu Dhabi-based G42 to create a climate tech lab and develop AI to improve weather forecasting accuracy using Nvidia's Earth-2 platform — - Companies will use Nvidia's Earth-2 system to predict weather — It's the chipmaker's first partnership with UAE's top AI firm
More: Gulf News
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Phoenix-based Virtuous, which offers a CRM and a marketing platform to help nonprofits increase donations, raised $100M from Susquehanna Growth Equity — I recently adopted a kitten from a local animal shelter. The modern, well-staffed three-story facility relies almost entirely on donations to operate.
More: Virtuous Software, Phoenix Business Journal, FinSMEs, and VC News Daily
| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Huawei's $2,800 Mate XT trifold phone goes on sale in China, amid analysts' supply concerns; IDC: preorders surpassed 6.5M, versus ~3.9M foldables shipped in Q2 — Huawei and Apple's latest smartphones go on sale in China on Friday, with the Chinese tech company's much-anticipated $2,800 …
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