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UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying its Great 78 Project works as an “illegal record store” for songs — Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued … | Iain Thomson / The Register: |
Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow details Veilid, an open-source, P2P application framework, and debuts VeilidChat, a proof-of-concept Signal-like messaging app — 'It's like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing' — DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid … | Luc Cohen / Reuters: |
A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT — Sam Bankman-Fried's bail was revoked ahead of his October fraud trial, a U.S. judge said on Friday, after prosecutors accused … | Financial Times: |
Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month — Top studios turn screws on customers with price rises that rival expensive cable TV bundles — The era of cheap streaming is ending … | Jesse Levine / Bloomberg: |
After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months — - Musk hasn't agreed on a date for the fight, Meta CEO says — Meta's Threads launch helped fuel the Musk-Zuckerberg rivalry| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple's macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” easy to bypass by “any malware that is somewhat sophisticated” — The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine.| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
A look at Stanford's bootcamp to educate Congress on deepfakes, how AI can potentially reshape education and health care, and the use of AI in national security — The elite Silicon Valley university coaches Hill staffers on the benefits of artificial intelligence| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Poland arrests five people as Europol and the DOJ take down the Lolek “bulletproof” host for allegedly facilitating Netwalker ransomware and other attacks — Update 8/11/23: Updated with information from DOJ about alleged Netwalker Ransomware involvement.| Liz Lindqwister / The San Francisco Standard: |
Some Cruise riders say they've had sex in the driverless cars in San Francisco over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit users to eat, but not drink alcohol — An Illustration generated by the artificial intelligence program Midjourney depicts two people making out in an autonomous vehicle.| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
a16z crypto unveils Lasso and Jolt, a pair of new tools based on Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge, or SNARK, to help enable scalable ZK-rollups — - A division of Andreessen Horowitz, a16z crypto, has introduced two technologies, Lasso and Jolt, related to SNARKs.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Some iPhone 14 Pro users complain that the “maximum capacity” of their phone's batteries has already dropped to around 90% after less than a year — iPhone 14 Pro users are growing increasingly concerned about the state of their iPhone's battery health.| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
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