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Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity companies let Chinese hackers exploit SharePoint flaws  —  A program to share information with cybersecurity companies may have exposed unpatched flaws in the company's SharePoint service.
Andrew Martin / Bloomberg:
The SharePoint hacks increase pressure on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company calls an ambitious effort expected to take years to complete  —  Three months ago, Microsoft Corp. issued a progress report on what it described as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history.
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies  —  A U.S. District Court judge sentenced an Arizona woman to eight and a half years in prison for running a laptop farm used …
Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg:
Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for aiding a North Korean remote IT worker scheme, details her time as a “laptop farmer”  —  Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un's rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon.
Ina Fried / Axios:
Mark Zuckerberg names Shengjia Zhao, the former OpenAI researcher who co-created ChatGPT, as chief scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs  —  Shengjia Zhao — formerly of OpenAI — will be chief scientist at Meta's new Superintelligence Lab, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Threads on Friday.
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR; a source says he will report to Alexandr Wang  —  Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc. from OpenAI in June …
NBC News:
Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs  —  The viral app requires new users to take selfies, which it says it deletes after review.  —  Hackers have breached the Tea app …
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Some 4chan users claim they breached Tea, the women's dating safety app that has topped the US App Store charts; Tea confirms the breach also impacted some DMs
Dylan Martin / CRN:
Intel plans to spin off its Network and Edge Group into a standalone company and says it will seek outside investment for the business unit  —  Intel on Thursday confirmed its plan to spin off its Network and Edge Group in a memo to customers and said it will seek outside investment for the business unit.
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Intel reports Q2 revenue flat YoY at $12.9B, vs. $11.9B est., a $2.9B loss due to restructuring and impairment charges, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates
Wired:
The UK starts enforcing new online child safety laws, requiring websites that host porn, self-harm, suicide, and eating disorder content to verify users' age  —  Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online.  Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content  —  India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers …
Morgan Sung / KQED:
Sen. Alex Padilla grants the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it a part of a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents  —  The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries …

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CBS News:
A US federal judge allows the Pentagon to fire three Stars and Stripes journalists, ruling the government likely did not violate their First Amendment rights

Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
SCOTUS rules via an emergency order that political parties are entitled to the same low-cost TV ad rates as candidates, giving an advantage to Republicans

New York Times:
Sources: the Pentagon has subjected roughly 50 military officers and civilian employees on the Joint Staff to polygraph tests over leaks to journalists

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Emma Haidar / Bloomberg:
Recent grads and PhDs are being recruited by AI companies like Handshake to provide specialized training data in fields like music and law for $30-$160 per hour

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Victoria Song / The Verge:
Core Devices CEO says the company has recovered the Pebble trademark, allowing it to rename its new smartwatches as Pebble 2 Duo and Pebble Time 2
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft previews Copilot Appearance, a virtual character with real-time expressions, voice, and conversational memory, for some users in the US, UK, Canada
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple expands its App Store age rating system; developers must disclose app content, such as violent themes, letting Apple calculate and assign age ratings
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Sources: GPT-5 shows improved performance in coding, particularly in practical software engineering tasks, outperforming prior OpenAI models and Claude Sonnet 4
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Starlink experienced a network outage for about 2.5 hours on Thursday; NetBlocks reports that connectivity dropped to “16% of ordinary levels”
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