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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack on Prospect Medical Holdings, which runs 16 hospitals and 166 outpatient clinics and centers in CA, CT, PA, and RI — A major hospital network with arms in multiple states is dealing with widespread network outages due to a cyberattack, which the FBI confirms is ransomware.
More: Associated Press, The Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Times, Forbes, Cybernews.com, NBC News, The Verge, The Guardian, Washington Post, CBS News, CNN, Delaware County Times, PaymentSecurity.io, and Tech Xplore
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| Reuters: |
Elon Musk claims X will fund the legal bills of people who have been “unfairly treated” by their employer “due to posting or liking something on this platform” — Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will fund the legal bills of people who have been treated unfairly …
More: The Verge, The Irish Times, NPR, Reuters, Forbes, Newser, Cryptopolitan, Insider, Fortune, Livemint, The Economic Times, TechSpot, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, BBC, DL News, and International Business Times
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
X delays its Ads Revenue Sharing program's payouts that were set for the week of July 31, saying the volume of people signing up “has exceeded our expectations” — In news that isn't very surprising given the recent history of Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X …
More: PCMag, Fast Company, Bitcoin News, Insider, Daring Fireball, and TheGamer
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Forums: r/Twitter, r/technology, r/RealTesla, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and Beehaw
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple acknowledges the US “smartphone market has been in a decline for the last couple of quarters”; sources: the iPhone 15 will go on sale around September 22 — On the cusp of the iPhone 15 debut, Apple has finally admitted what has long been clear: The industry is facing a smartphone slowdown.
More: PCMag, MacRumors, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, iClarified, The Apple Post, Supercharged, The Verge, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Laptop Mag, and New York Post
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| Misha Glenny / Financial Times: |
A profile of Clop, a Russian-speaking hacking group specializing in ransomware, responsible for the MOVEit hack, and likely operating out of Russia and Ukraine — They hold global businesses to ransom and seem to act with impunity — but behind them lies a tangled geopolitical web
More: BleepingComputer and Metacurity
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Krakow-based Android phone monitoring app LetMeSpy plans to shut down by the end of August 2023 after a hacker breached and deleted its server data in June — Poland-based spyware LetMeSpy is no longer operational and said it will shut down after a June data breach wiped out its servers …
More: Daring Fireball. Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social. Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, and r/technology
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
US lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in the name of kids' online safety, which could soon entangle every adult internet user — Today let's talk about a right we currently take for granted that may soon disappear: the ability to browse and post to most websites anonymously.
Mastodon: @ernie@writing.exchange, @drewharwell@mastodon.social, @charliejane@wandering.shop, and @metacurity@infosec.exchange. Bluesky: @charliejane.bsky.social
X: @mumbly_joe, @adamkovac, @ataykozlovski, @platformer, @senatorshoshana, @caseynewton, and @evan_greer. Forums: Beehaw
| Meduza.io: |
Russian independent news outlet Meduza says that Apple Podcasts removed its flagship podcast What Happened; source: Roskomnadzor asked Apple to remove the show — Meduza has received a notice from Apple, informing our media that our flagship podcast “What Happened” has been removed from the Apple Podcasts streaming platform.
More: The Verge. Mastodon: @kevinrothrock@infosec … and @Marielle_W@mastodon.social
X: @timsweeneyepic, @arictoler, @abarbashin, @marielle_w_, @eric_hontz, @abarbashin, @arictoler, @kmartynov, @sambreazeale2, @meduza_en, @kevinrothrock, and @y_molodtsov
Forums: r/europe, r/anime_titties, and Beehaw
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Nansen: payouts to NFT creators fell 98% from a peak of $269M in January 2022 to $4.3M in July 2023, as OpenSea and Blur cut royalty rates amid a bear market — - Payouts to NFT content creators sank 98% from a peak in 2022 — Exchanges for NFTs chopped royalty rates amid a bear market
More: Cryptopolitan and Cryptonews
| New York Times: |
Indiana is converting 10K acres of corn and bean fields into an innovation park, aiming to transform the state into a microchip manufacturing and research hub — The state has little experience with semiconductors, but the Biden administration has promised to unleash opportunity in … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge rules former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky must face New York AG Letitia James' lawsuit accusing him of defrauding investors by hiding Celsius' risks — Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former chief of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, must face a lawsuit … | Wall Street Journal: |
Alphabet's Waymo and GM's Cruise are struggling to win over San Francisco residents, showing the potential challenges in expanding driverless cars across the US — Alphabet's Waymo and General Motors' Cruise are struggling to win over San Francisco residents and officials, a major hurdle in their nationwide expansion.
More: NBC News, Slate, Big Technology, and Brad Ideas
| Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone revenue fell 8% YoY and 15% QoQ to under $90B in Q2 2023; Apple had a record 45% share of global smartphone revenue and an 85% share of profit — - Apple led global smartphone revenues and operating profit with record June-quarter shares of 45% and 85% respectively.
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