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July 28, 2024, 6:10 PM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to roll out Apple Intelligence by October, missing the planned Sept. launch of its OSes; devs get to test AI features as soon as this week  —  - Developers will get to test AI features as soon as this week  — Apple is betting on enhancements to help sell iPhone 16 line
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Musk reposts an edited Kamala Harris campaign video that mimics her voice, possibly with deepfake tech; it has 120M+ views and seemingly breaks X's own rules  —  The billionaire owner of the social media platform X reposted a video that mimics Vice President Kamala Harris's voice, without disclosing that it had been altered.
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.
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Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 mobile SoC review: the Zen 5 CPU architecture, RDNA 3.5 graphics, and the XDNA 2 NPU make this AMD's most compelling laptop CPU to date  —  During the opening keynote delivered by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su at Computex 2024, AMD finally lifted the lid on their highly-anticipated Zen 5 microarchitecture.
David Weston / Microsoft Security Blog:
Microsoft provides a technical overview of the CrowdStrike incident, explains why security products use Windows kernel drivers, and outlines future improvements  —  Windows is an open and flexible platform used by many of the world's top businesses for high availability use cases where security and availability are non-negotiable.
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.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian crypto exchange WazirX announces a controversial plan to “socialize” the ~$230M loss from its recent security breach among all its customers  —  Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX announced on Saturday a controversial plan to “socialize” the $230 million loss …
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Dune Analytics: ~1.7M new digital coins entered circulation in H1 2024, compared with 264K in H1 2023, as the crypto market revival fuels a surge in memecoins  —  Josh Bailey, a 26-year-old day trader in Austin, Texas, was scrolling through a cryptocurrency group chat last month when he encountered …

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