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Sources: OpenAI overhauled its security, adding biometric checks in its offices and isolating sensitive info, to protect IP such as model weights from espionage — Artificial intelligence group has added fingerprint scans and hired military experts to protect important data
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: an impostor used AI to mimic Marco Rubio's voice and writing style and contacted foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress — The unknown individual contacted at least five government officials, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department cable.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications, letting users get push notifications about new posts and replies from specific accounts, as it doubles down on sports — A new update has also added much more control over which notifications users will see, and who can trigger them.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest US teachers' union, says it will open an AI training hub with $23M from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic — The American Federation of Teachers said it would use the $23 million, including $500,000 from the A.I. start-up Anthropic, to create a national training center.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ruoming Pang, the head of Apple's foundation models team, is leaving to join Meta, which offered a package worth tens of millions of dollars per year — Ruoming Pang, a distinguished engineer and manager in charge of the company's Apple foundation models team, is departing, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Financial Times: |
Italy arrests Chinese citizen Xu Zewei; a source says Xu is linked to hacking group Hafnium that breached Microsoft in 2021 to steal COVID-19 vaccine secrets — Xu Zewei suspected of links to Beijing-backed group accused by Washington of stealing Covid-19 vaccine secrets
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| Laura Onita / Financial Times: |
M&S Chair Archie Norman tells UK parliament that M&S used the FBI and UK agencies to combat the May cyberattack and says M&S believes DragonForce was behind it — Chair Archie Norman tells parliamentarians retailer believes Dragon Force was criminal gang behind attack
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| Swati Gupta / Bloomberg: |
X says India ordered it to block 2,355 accounts, including two from Reuters, on July 3, but then told X to unblock the Reuters accounts after a “public outcry” — X raised serious concerns about India's media laws after the government ordered it to block thousands of accounts …
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| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
ReserveOne, a cryptocurrency holding company with bitcoin, ethereum, and Solana, plans to list on the Nasdaq through a SPAC deal expected to raise $1B+ — ReserveOne, a new cryptocurrency holding company with ties to industry veterans and a former U.S. commerce secretary …
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X: @reserveone_, @jaimeleverton, and @belisarius2020
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
IBM unveils Power11, its first major update to the chips since 2020, available from July 25, and says they can detect and respond to ransomware within a minute — International Business Machines (IBM.N) on Tuesday announced a new line of data center chips and servers that it says will be more power-efficient …
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| Jack Ryan / Bloomberg: |
El Salvador-based Tether says it holds nearly 80 tons of gold, worth ~$8B, in a vault in Switzerland; precious metals made up nearly 5% of its reserves in March — Tether Holdings SA, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin, has its own vault in Switzerland to hold an $8 billion stockpile of gold …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
As Amazon Prime Day begins, some merchants say they can't afford to offer discounts due to Trump's tariffs; Adobe expects $23.8B in sales across the four days — Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Day is slamming into President Donald Trump's trade war, with ever-shifting tariffs prompting some brands … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
OnePlus launches five products: the midrange €449 Nord 5 smartphone, the €349 Nord CE 5, a smaller €299 Watch 3, the €119 Buds 4, and the €229 Pad Lite tablet — The Nord 5 and Nord CE 5 phones, and the Pad Lite tablet, are all headed to Europe.
More: PCMag, T3, Business Standard, Android Central, Digit, Fortune India, TalkAndroid.com, AndroidGuys, Android Authority, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, and GSMArena.com. Forums: r/Android
| Alexander Sazonov / Bloomberg: |
Dubai-based Xpanceo, which is developing smart contact lenses with night vision, health monitoring, and more, raised a $250M Series A at a $1.35B valuation — A Dubai-based startup founded by a Russian and a Ukrainian raised $250 million to develop smart contact lenses that provide night vision … Sponsor Posts
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