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Sources detail how Elon Musk undermined CEO Linda Yaccarino's efforts to repair X's business over the past year; X's US revenue fell 53% YoY to $114M in Q2 — Linda Yaccarino, the C.E.O. of X, has worked hard to bring back advertisers and fix the platform's business.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: the US DOJ says TikTok collected data about its users' views on gun control, abortion, and religion, and censored content at ByteDance's direction — Justice Department defends new law requiring the sale or ban of the popular app — TikTok collected data about its users' views …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Kamala Harris' advisers have approached top crypto companies, including Coinbase, Circle, and Ripple Labs, to “reset” relations with the industry — Vice-president's team aims to improve relations after industry criticism of the Biden administration
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Trump proposes a strategic national crypto stockpile; Bitcoin 2024 organizers say they were in talks to have Kamala Harris appear, but she ultimately declined — NASHVILLE — Former President Donald Trump said that if he were returned to the White House, he would ensure that the federal government never sells off its bitcoin holdings.| CoinDesk: |
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| Jacob Knutson / Axios: |
How Win With Black Women and other groups are using Zoom calls to organize and fundraise for Kamala Harris; virtual rallies for Harris raised $10M+ this week — - “What we're seeing now at the moment is a beautiful intersection of concerned citizens utilizing digital media and virtual technology …
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| James Warrington / The Telegraph: |
Sources: Apple met with UK TV ratings body Barb to discuss options for tracking ads on Apple TV+, in another sign that it plans to introduce ads on the service — Apple has held talks with the UK's TV ratings body in the latest sign that the tech giant is planning to introduce adverts on its streaming service.| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
The International Association of Machinists says Apple reached a three-year tentative labor agreement with retail workers at a Towson, Maryland store, a first — - Three-year deal will increase pay by an average of 10% — Union aims to build on the success; Apple declines to comment
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| Financial Times: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it is surprised and is “seeking clarity” about X's move to automatically allow user data to train Grok — Social media company's move to automatically allow user data to train chatbot could breach European privacy rules
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| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Talkie, which lets users chat with AI personas of celebrities and was one of most downloaded AI apps in the US in H1, is owned by China-based MiniMax — Chatbot in Talkie uses AI to allow users to converse with famous people or a virtual romantic partner| Parker Hall / Wired: |
Samsung Galaxy Buds3 review: auto-pause works well, but expensive, copy Apple's dated design with plastic tips, shoddy ANC, and AI tools are mostly useless — Samsung's third-generation earbuds copy Apple's dated plastic-tipped design, cost more, and have shoddy noise canceling. — Rating:
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Google fixes a flaw after hackers bypassed email verification to create “a few thousand” Workspace accounts to access 3rd-party apps via Sign in with Google — Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent the email verification required … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US-based security vendor KnowBe4 says it unwittingly hired a North Korean hacker who then unsuccessfully attempted to load malware into the company's network — KnowBe4, which provides security awareness training, was fooled by stolen ID. — KnowBe4, a US-based security vendor …
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