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| The Verge: |
A source at X says there wasn't actually a DDoS attack that crashed the Trump interview; another X employee said there was a “99 percent” chance Musk was lying — Elon Musk's “conversation” with former President Donald Trump got off to a rocky start.
More: New York Times, Moneycontrol, CoinDesk, Semafor, The Guardian, TechIssuesToday.com, Associated Press, The San Francisco Standard, The Information, Benzinga, NBC News, Deadline, TweakTown, Wall Street Journal, The Crypto Times, Bloomberg, TMZ.com, Wired, Cryptonews, Business Insider, and NPR
Threads: @danseifert, @reckless1280, @brianstelter, @fredericl, @technicallymims, @reckless1280, @crumbler, @karissabe, @reckless1280, and @technicallymims
Bluesky: @anidealhusbando.bsky.social and @howelloneill.bsky.social
Forums: r/politics, r/inthenews, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC: |
Elon Musk's Donald Trump X Spaces interview was quickly derailed by technical glitches at the scheduled start time; Musk blamed it on “a massive DDoS attack” — Elon Musk's much-hyped interview of former President Donald Trump on the social media platform X was quickly derailed …
More: The Register, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Reuters, Livemint, Business Today, New York Times, New York Post, Cointelegraph, Washington Post, Politico, Benzinga, Reuters, Gizmodo, Associated Press, Telegraph, ABC, Business Insider, Forbes, BBC, USA Today, CNN, The Wrap, New York Post, Cybernews.com, The Hill, TweakTown, Newsweek, The Dark Side, Semafor, NBC News, Engadget, and Bitcoin Insider
Threads: @snazzyq, @moskov, @matthewfacciani, @mattnavarra, @mac_ryan_, @reckless1280, and @seancolarossi
X: @elonmusk, @levynews, @rmac18, @u_n_l_0_c_k_e_d, and @u_n_l_0_c_k_e_d
Forums: r/USNewsHub, r/CyberStuck, r/NewsAndPolitics, r/uspolitics, r/politics, r/inthenews, and r/democrats
| Financial Times: |
More: Decrypt, Associated Press, The Atlantic, Politico, The Guardian, New York Times, and CryptoPotato
Bluesky: @chickenpuppet.bsky.social. X: @elonmusk, @carnage4life, and @danieldimartino. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
After Apple's threats, Patreon memberships via its iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% fee from November 2024; creators must switch to subscription billing — Apple has threatened to remove crowdfunding app Patreon from the App Store if creators continue to use unsupported third-party billing options …
More: Patreon, Eshu Marneedi, The Verge, Pixel Envy, MacRumors, Engadget, On Substack, Digital Music News, NewsBytes, Macworld, BGR, Birchtree, Fast Company, Daring Fireball, MacStories, iPhone in Canada Blog, Daring Fireball, OSnews, The Information, The Beat, Geek News Central Podcast, Daring Fireball, mjtsai.com, The Register, PYMNTS.com, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, Wccftech, Pixel Envy, 9to5Mac, and The Mac Observer
Threads: @quillmatiq. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @stroughtonsmith …, @stroughtonsmith …, @stroughtonsmith …, @thomholwerda@exquisite.social, @caseyliss@mastodon.social, @stroughtonsmith …, @marioguzman@mastodon.social, @matt@isfeeling.social, @janl@narrativ.es, @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, @jsnell@zeppelin.flights, @mathowie@xoxo.zone, @robnich@mastodon.social, @stroughtonsmith …, @viticci@mastodon …, @khaost@mastodon.tz.is, @viticci@mastodon …, @dalias@hachyderm.io, @jsq@mastodon.social, @stroughtonsmith …, @stroughtonsmith …, @ambulephabus@mastodon.social, @chockenberry@mastodon.social, @rene@social.fouquet.me, @iKyle@mastodon.social, @quillmatiq@mastodon.social, @stroughtonsmith …, @stroughtonsmith …, and @ThePlant@mastodon.social
X: @timsweeneyepic, @kenneynl, @balancecrafting, @mattmcmuscles, @patrickwardle, @kylebrussell, @jonlamart, @timsweeneyepic, @darlingstrawbie, @t3dotgg, @iriscompietart, @zachhazard, @florian4gamers, @drbarnard, @austen, @taylor_titmouse, @paulg, @samaaron, @gaijingoombah, @_daddydisco, and @galoogamelady
LinkedIn: Patrick Wardle and Sarah Perez
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, and r/technology
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
On August 6, hackers leaked ~2.7B data records of people in the US containing SSNs and names, allegedly from National Public Data, which collects and sells data — Almost 2.7 billion records of personal information for people in the United States were leaked on a hacking forum, exposing names …
More: Mashable, Hackread, Tom's Hardware, ITPro, Malwarebytes, Yahoo News, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, Tech Monitor, Digital Trends, SC Media, Dave's Newsletter, Android Headlines, BGR, PCMag, and Biometric Update
Mastodon: @paul@oldfriends.live and @BleepingComputer …
| Washington Post: |
The FBI is investigating an alleged Trump campaign hack; sources: it's probing suspected hacking attempts by Iran targeting the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns — Since June, agents have been pursuing evidence Iran has targeted advisers to the two presidential campaigns.
More: CNN, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Reuters, TIME, Associated Press, The Record, Vox, Politico, The Guardian, Metacurity, The Verge, The Stack, New York Post, NBC News, SiliconANGLE, DigiTimes, and Financial Times
X: @dnvolz, @mattyglesias, @zcohencnn, @jackmjenkins, @nakashimae, @dfriedman33, @kendilaniannbc, @zcohencnn, and @bretbaier. Forums: r/politics
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok adds group chats, with support for up to 32 people, available to all users over 15 years old, and adds safety measures specifically to protect teens — TikTok looks to be taking on popular messaging services like Meta's WhatsApp and Apple's Messages, as the company announced on Monday …
More: TikTok, TechRadar, 9to5Mac, Social Media Today, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, PCMag, Neowin, and Engadget
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Tally, a fintech that helped users manage and pay off credit card debt, is shutting down; it had raised $172M and, per PitchBook, was last valued at $855M — Tally, a nine-year-old fintech that helped consumers manage and pay off their credit card debt, has shut down, according to the company.| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
CrowdStrike's president appeared at DEF CON to accept the “Most Epic Fail” Pwnie Award, saying “we got this horribly wrong” and “it's super important to own it” — CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas appears at DEF CON's annual Pwnie Awards to accept … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
The US SEC sues crypto company NovaTech and its co-founders, saying they fraudulently raised $650M+ from 200K+ investors globally, following the NY AG's lawsuit — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday sued the cryptocurrency company NovaTech and its married co-founders …
More: US Securities …, The Block, The Cyber Express, Cryptonews, Decrypt, Cryptopolitan, CoinDesk, Crowdfund Insider, Cybernews.com, TechCrunch, CryptoSlate, PYMNTS.com, crypto.news, Quartz, Coinpedia Fintech News, and CoinGape
Forums: r/news, r/Buttcoin, and r/Economics
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous cars with no safety driver on freeways in the Bay Area this week, after getting regulatory approval in March — Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous vehicles with no human safety driver on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this week.
More: Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, New York Post, PCMag, Benzinga, and Business Insider
X: @suzkp, @venturetwins, @brianwilt, @waymo, @daviscmitchell, and @collision
Forums: Hacker News and r/technews
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Inside Worldcoin's Orb factory in Germany and a profile of Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania; 6M+ people have gotten a World ID and WLD's market cap is $550M+ — The startup, co-founded by Sam Altman, is determined to verify every human on Earth, one iris at a time.| Erik Ofgang / New York Times: |
A look at Fragmentarium, a project to use AI to piece together digitized tablet fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a 3,000-year-old Mesopotamian poem — Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world's oldest literary texts.Sponsor Posts
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