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July 19, 2024, 8:30 AM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:
CrowdStrike reports widespread “BSODs on Windows hosts”, impacting thousands of PCs and taking banks, airlines, and more offline; Microsoft is aware  —  Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks, airlines …
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George Kurtz / @george_kurtz:
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says “the issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed”, and CrowdStrike is working with impacted customers  —  CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 16.8% YoY to $9.56B, vs. $9.53B est., paid memberships up 16.5% YoY to 277.65M, vs. 274.4M est., net income up 44% YoY to $2.15B  —  Netflix reported earnings after the bell.  Here are the results.  — Earnings per share: $4.88 vs $4.74 per share expected by LSEG
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
GPT-4o mini costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, prices lower than those of Claude 3 Haiku and Gemini 1.5 Flash  —  GPT-4o mini.  I've been complaining about how under-powered GPT 3.5 is for the price for a while now (I made fun of it in a keynote a few weeks ago).
Hayden Field / CNBC:
OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, a smaller, cheaper offshoot of GPT-4o, replacing GPT-3.5 Turbo, with support for all multimodal inputs and outputs coming soon  —  OpenAI on Thursday launched a new AI model, “GPT-4o mini,” the artificial intelligence startup's latest effort to expand use of its popular chatbot.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Cellebrite gave the FBI unreleased tech to access the Trump shooter's phone, a “newer Samsung model”, after the FBI's first attempt to crack it failed  —  - Initial attempt to access newer Samsung model didn't work  — Cellebrite sent FBI technical support, unreleased software
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Microsoft says it fixed a configuration issue causing Microsoft 365 apps and services outage and restored several services; some services remain degraded  —  Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble  —  UPDATED Microsoft's 365 subscription services are down for some users …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says its goo.gl URL shortener links will stop working after August 25, 2025; the company stopped generating new goo.gl URLs in March 2019  —  After Google stopped generating new goo.gl URLs in March of 2019, those links will stop working on August 25, 2025.
Shashank Pathak / Entrackr:
Google cuts Maps API pricing for Indian developers by ~70% and starts accepting payments in rupee, after Ola offered one-year free developer access to Ola Maps  —  Google has slashed the pricing of Google Maps platform for developers in India by as much as 70% from August 1 as the company …
The Information:
Sources: OpenAI has talked to chip designers including Broadcom about developing an AI server chip and hired former members of a Google unit that produces TPUs  —  Last year, as the world's top artificial intelligence developers were racing to speed up their work using ever-bigger clusters of computers …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Xbox says an outage affecting Xbox Store and subscriptions is now resolved; the outage lasted for about five hours  —  A widespread Xbox Live outage lasting several hours has now been resolved.  The issue prevented players from signing into their accounts and downloading or playing online games.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, and others form the Coalition for Secure AI to share best practices and open-source methodologies for secure AI deployment  —  Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, and other big names in AI are coming together to form the Coalition for Secure AI …
Daryna Antoniuk / The Record:
Bangladesh orders a nationwide shutdown of its mobile internet amid student protests that killed dozens of people to “ensure the security of citizens”  —  Authorities in Bangladesh have reportedly ordered a nationwide shutdown of mobile internet networks amid student protests …
New York Times:
A profile of Carlos Espina, who has 9.4M TikTok followers, posts in Spanish about immigration and politics, and whom the White House treats as a broadcaster  —  Carlos Espina is among a new kind of social media personalities whom politicians, especially those in the Biden White House, view as modern-day broadcasters.
Nick Baker / CoinDesk:
Messari CEO Ryan Selkis says he ran “too hot” with X posts this week calling for war and sending immigrants back, after Messari leadership told him to cool it  —  “I ran too hot this week, and will address that in full soon.”  —  Ryan Selkis, founder and CEO of crypto data platform Messari …

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