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A leaked internal Google database tracking thousands of privacy and security issues from 2013 to 2018 details a myriad of data management mistakes Google made — Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram confirms it is testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling — Instagram confirmed it's testing unskippable ads after screenshots of the feature began circulating across social media. These new ad breaks will display a countdown timer …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel unveils Lunar Lake, with a new SoC design, up to 14% faster CPU and 50% more graphics performance than Meteor Lake, and 40+ TOPS of AI performance — Last year, Intel boasted that its Meteor Lake processors, dubbed Core Ultra, represented the company's biggest architectural shift in 40 years.
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it has donated another $25M to the pro-crypto Fairshake SuperPAC; Fairshake has raised ~$161M for 2024's US election from a16z, Ripple, and others — Coinbase followed Ripple and a16z in each giving a new $25 million to their political action committee, Fairshake …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
In a joint statement, Snowflake, CrowdStrike, and Mandiant say they have not found evidence suggesting Snowflake's platform was breached to hack Ticketmaster — CrowdStrike and Mandiant joined in a statement saying data breaches for Ticketmaster and Santander appear to be ‘targeted attacks.’
More: Snowflake, The Register, Fierce Network, Infosecurity, The Stack, and Cyber Daily
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Sony unveils a $60 PC adapter for the PlayStation VR2, adding PC support to the PS5-exclusive headset, launching on August 7 with support for all Steam VR games — The PlayStation VR2's PC adapter is now official. Just a few days after a certification revealed that Sony was working on the adapter …
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| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Sources: Microsoft is laying off hundreds of employees in Azure; one source estimated the Azure for Operators team cuts involved as many as 1,500 staffers — - Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs from the Azure business, sources say. — The layoffs impact Azure for Operators and Mission Engineering teams.
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| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Qualcomm claims Snapdragon chips will come to “all PC form factors” including desktops, and Snapdragon X Elite has 2.6x the performance per watt vs. Apple's M3 — The PC Reborn — Qualcomm CEO Christiano Amon has taken the stage at Computex Taipei and detailed the company's AI advances … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
ByteDance hires a new global general counsel, John Rogovin, who spent 12 years as Warner Bros.' top lawyer and worked in the US FCC and DOJ — - Former Warner Bros. lawyer John Rogovin takes top legal job — TikTok sued the US in May over law to require sale or ban| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung sues Oura, seeking a declaratory judgment that the Galaxy Ring, expected to launch in the US “in or around August”, doesn't infringe on Oura's patents — Samsung isn't waiting around for Oura to file any patent claims over its forthcoming smart ring.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X changes its adult content policies, formally letting users post consensual NSFW and AI content “provided it's properly labeled and not prominently displayed” — The internet has been home to all kinds of content for a long time, so it was no surprise to anyone when people started tweeting porn at each other.
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X: @safety, @allenholub, and @iaponomarenko
Forums: Hacker News and r/Destiny
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Amazon details Project PI, which is active in several warehouses and uses computer vision to detect if products are damaged or don't meet buyers' criteria — Amazon's Project PI, or “Private Investigator,” setup combines generative AI and computer vision to “see” damage on products or determine …
More: About Amazon, SiliconANGLE, Amazon Science, Chain Store Age, Maginative, TechSpot, and Cord Cutters News
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Antenna: Spotify users are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services in the US, with a ~2% monthly churn rate, similar to Netflix — Its customers are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services. — Good afternoon from Chicago … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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X: @radnorcapital and @tidal
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/Piracy
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