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July 12, 2024, 12:00 PM

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
AT&T says it will begin notifying consumers about a data breach where cybercriminals stole phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline customers  —  Stolen data includes millions of AT&T customer phone numbers, calling and text records, and location-related data.
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Preliminary findings: the European Commission says X's paid blue checkmark deceives users and breaches the DSA; X could be fined up to 6% of its global revenue  —  Brussels regulators use new digital powers to threaten social media company with huge fines over transparency issues
Financial Times:
Some developers remain optimistic as Apple seeks a Vision Pro “killer app”; Appfigures: the number of new Vision Pro apps has fallen since January and February  —  Tech giant is struggling to attract content from developers for innovative device that goes on sale in Europe this week
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Financial Times:
SoftBank acquires struggling UK-based chipmaker Graphcore with US and UK approvals; sources: the deal is valued at $600M+ but below Graphcore's ~$700M funding  —  Deal will give Bristol-based company a resource boost while advancing the ‘next big bet’ of Masayoshi Son's group
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI creates five levels to track its progress toward AGI: Chatbots, Reasoners, Agents, Innovators, and Organizations, and says it's nearly at level two  —  The company believes its technology is approaching the second level of five on the path to artificial general intelligence
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Signal plans to roll out a beta version of its desktop apps that tightens the security of how it stores plain text encryption keys, after downplaying the issue  —  Signal is finally tightening its desktop client's security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
A May 2024 data breach at mobile spyware company mSpy leaked millions of customer support tickets, including personal data, its third known breach since 2010  —  Customer service emails dating back to 2014 exposed in May breach  —  A data breach at the phone surveillance operation mSpy …

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