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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 …
Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central:
X activates a setting, on by default, that gives it permission to train Grok on user's posts; the setting can be turned off on the web but not in the mobile app  —  X's new experience is automatically set to opt-in and uses your data to train its Grok AI model.
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
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
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 …
Kate Conger / New York Times:
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.
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
Jorja Siemons / Bloomberg Law:
The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is using real-time AI-based video surveillance tech to detect and predict threats, raising concerns over mass surveillance  —  The Paris Summer Olympics that begin Friday include among the most public and controversial rollouts ever of algorithmic video surveillance …
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Freelancer.com, iFixit, and others say Anthropic's crawler has aggressively scraped their websites, potentially breaching their terms of service  —  Web publishers say developer is swarming their sites, collecting content to train models and ignoring orders to stop

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Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
President Trump says Fox News “bears responsibility” for the GOP's losses after “constantly and consistently putting on the Dumocrat opposition, and worse”

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
As Democrats take the House and the Senate, David Ellison and other media executives are likely to face inquiries and hearings over their deals and Trump ties

The New York Times Company:
NYT reports Q3 revenue up 9.7% YoY to $768.5M, digital-only subscription revenue up 14.6% to $421.3M, and operating profit up 16.4% to $121.9M; NYT jumps 4%+

More News

Clare Duffy / CNN:
Kamala Harris, who began her career in the Bay Area and was involved in Biden's pro-tech actions like the CHIPS Act, sees a surge of support from tech donors
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Binarly: UEFI Secure Boot is completely compromised on 200+ device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro due to a cryptographic key leak

Earlier Picks

Associated Press:
The US DOJ indicts a North Korean hacker, still at large, for his alleged role in the Andariel group's cyberattacks on US hospitals, NASA, and military bases
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
A decade-old drama between David Sacks and Parker Conrad blew up into a fight on X over VC behavior, drawing in Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names
G.S Vasan / 91mobiles:
Leaked promo materials reveal Pixel 9 series specs: all four phones get the Tensor G4, the Pixel 9 Pro comes in 6.3" and 6.8" models with 16GB of RAM, and more
Sarah Parvini / Associated Press:
SAG-AFTRA announces a strike starting on Friday against major video game studios, including EA, after talks for a new contract broke down over AI protections
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