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Sources: Cisco plans a second round of layoffs in 2024, affecting at least as many as the 4,000 laid off in February, to be announced as soon as August 14 — Cisco (CSCO.O) will cut thousands of jobs in a second round of layoffs this year as the U.S. networking equipment maker shifts focus …
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Intel delays its Innovation event, slated for September and expected to include details about new CPUs, until 2025, citing its financial results and H2 outlook — The chipmaker is delaying one of its biggest events, which was slated for September and expected to include more details about upcoming processors.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blocks X in the country for 10 days, accusing Elon Musk of using X to incite hate after Venezuela's disputed election — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday took tensions with social media platform X and its owner Elon Musk to new heights … | The Guardian: |
UK PM Keir Starmer says ministers will review the Online Safety Act, after London mayor Sadiq Khan said it was “not fit for purpose” following far-right riots — Move comes after London mayor Sadiq Khan said role of misinformation in unrest showed law was unfit for purpose
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Interfax: Roskomnadzor blocked Signal in Russia for allegedly violating laws linked to anti-terrorist operations; Venezuela reportedly blocked Signal too — Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
A researcher shows five proof-of-concept ways that Copilot can be manipulated by attackers, including turning it into an automatic spear-phishing machine — Attacks on Microsoft's Copilot AI allow for answers to be manipulated, data extracted, and security protections bypassed, new research shows.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
IOActive researchers detail “Sinkclose”, a vulnerability in almost all AMD chips dating back to 2006 that allows attackers to run code in System Management Mode — Researchers warn that a bug in AMD's chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Instagram is testing a Snap Maps-like feature that lets users post text and video updates to a map that can be shared with friends — Instagram has starting testing a new feature that looks a whole lot like Snap Maps. — This allows Instagram users to post text and video updates to a map based on where they were taken.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Former Twitter board member Omid Kordestani, who helped oversee the sale of the company to Elon Musk, sues X for failing to cash out $20M+ worth of stock — After purchasing Twitter, Mr. Musk failed to cash out Omid Kordestani's stock, according to allegations in a new lawsuit.
More: The Verge
| Financial Times: |
Since the OpenAI board dispute, Microsoft diversified AI investments and partnerships, built its own models, and hired aggressively for its consumer AI efforts — The tech giant has worked to execute an AI strategy independent of Sam Altman's start-up following a leadership crisis last year
X: @hetanshah, @hkanji, and @rwang07
| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1 — X will pause training its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok with some European users' posts, according to Europe's chief privacy watchdog.
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Intel details a microcode patch, available through BIOS updates, to address the elevated voltage issues that can damage some Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs — You need to install a BIOS update to ensure that your Raptor Lake CPU is not frying itself. — For the first time …
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