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August 22, 2024, 10:10 AM

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Financial Times:
Italian officials: divers recover UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's body from the wreckage of superyacht Bayesian, which sank three days ago off Sicily's coast  —  Fifth body recovered from sunken vessel on Thursday morning, with one person still missing  —  The body of UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch …
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Trisha Thadani / Washington Post:
Court filing: the unsealed list of X Holdings shareholders names nearly 100 entities, such as 8VC, Italy-based UnipolSai, and a fund tied to Sean “Diddy” Combs  —  A court filing obtained by The Post lists which firms and individuals have a financial stake in the platform.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says Recall will be available to Windows Insiders in October 2024, after delaying the launch of the AI feature in June over security concerns  —  Microsoft says it's planning to allow Windows testers to try out its controversial Recall AI feature in October.
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:
David Shepardson / Reuters:
The FCC says Lingo Telecom agreed to pay a $1M fine after the agency said Lingo transmitted fake robocalls imitating President Joe Biden in New Hampshire  —  Lingo Telecom agreed to pay a $1 million fine after the agency said it transmitted fake robocalls imitating President Joe Biden seeking …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple App Store VP Matt Fischer is leaving in October; App Store group will split into two teams, one for its own store, one for alt app distribution  —  - Longtime App Store vice president Fischer to exit in October  — Company makes changes in response to regulatory environment
Michael Gwilliam / Dexerto:
Twitch plans to raise its new Tier 1 sub and gift sub prices on mobile in 40+ countries on October 1; in an email, Twitch says Tier 1 will rise by $2 to $7.99  —  Twitch has announced yet another increase to the price of subs after already raising the cost earlier in the summer.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
LiteSpeed Cache, the top WordPress site acceleration plugin, had a critical flaw that left sites open to takeover attacks; 2M+ sites are likely still vulnerable  —  A critical vulnerability in the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin can let attackers take over millions of websites after creating rogue admin accounts.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Meta confirms users can now cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads globally, after rolling out Instagram and Facebook cross-posting in 2021  —  Meta for months has been experimenting with letting people cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads, its social networking platform competing …
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL review: great build quality, brighter screens, and faster fingerprint sensors, but the AI features are inconsistent  —  The AI is inconsistent, but the hardware is oh so good. … Google finally got the hardware right.

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