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Sources: in early 2023, a hacker breached OpenAI's internal messaging systems and accessed product details; OpenAI told its staff, but not the public or the FBI — A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI's systems.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU plans to issue a final warning to X over its failure to combat dangerous content under the DSA; X faces fines of 6% of its global revenue — - EU poised to issue preliminary findings over dangerous content — Digital Services Act breaches risk penalties of 6% of revenue
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Evan Blass leaks Samsung's entire spec sheets and marketing materials for the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, expected at its Unpacked event on July 10 — We're only one week away from Samsung's next Unpacked event on July 10th, where we're expecting the company's Galaxy Z Fold 6 …
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| Michael Kozlowski / Good e-Reader: |
Amazon Kindle users are unable to download new and previously purchased books to their Kindles; Amazon says the outage could last at least 48 hours — Amazon is having an outage with its Kindle e-reader ebook system. New books purchased from the Kindle Store will not download locally … | Ben Westcott / Bloomberg: |
AWS partners with the Australian government to build a cloud data system to handle top secret information; the government plans to invest ~$1.3B over 10 years — - US company to operate three data centers in Australia — Australia says new infrastructure will improve cybersecurity
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
A global law enforcement operation takes down 593 servers hosting unlicensed versions of Cobalt Strike, a penetration testing tool abused by cybercriminals — Europol coordinated a joint law enforcement action known as Operation Morpheus, which led to the takedown of almost 600 Cobalt Strike servers used … | Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: |
ElevenLabs will use AI-generated voices of dead actors like Judy Garland and Burt Reynolds in its Reader app, after striking deals with the actors' estates — Actress Judy Garland never recorded her voice to read an audiobook of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but you'll soon be able to hear …
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| Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: |
Canada authorizes the implementation of a 3% levy on revenue from large tech companies that provide digital services to, or sell data of, Canadian users — A 3% levy will apply to revenue from companies that provide digital services to Canadian users, or sell Canadian user data
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Meta releases pre-trained models that use a novel multi-token prediction approach, available on Hugging Face under a non-commercial research license — Meta has thrown down the gauntlet in the race for more efficient artificial intelligence. The tech giant released pre-trained models … | Financial Times: |
SemiAnalysis: Nvidia is set to sell $12B worth of H20 chips in China in 2024, or 1M+ units; Huawei expects to sell ~550,000 units of Ascend 910B chips in 2024 — Chipmaker set to surpass China sales by local rival Huawei by selling product designed to fall outside of export restrictions| Bloomberg: |
A look at the inaugural Esports World Cup, a multi-genre tournament in Riyadh funded by Saudi Arabia, featuring 1,500+ gamers and a record $60M+ prize pool — - Esports World Cup has record prize pool of $60 million — Crown Prince MBS wants to build esports capital in Riyadh
More: USA Today and The Streamable
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
A look at a16z's Crypto Startup Accelerator, a Y Combinator-style program that provides $500K in funding and 10 weeks of coaching, most recently in London — Andreessen Horowitz is betting the house on crypto. (Yes, really.) This spring, the VC firm schooled a new batch of founders …
X: @redique
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