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Tom Warren / The Verge:
BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware  —  Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …
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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 its 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
New York Times:
Experts say CrowdStrike's fix requires deleting a specific file and that cannot be automated at scale, meaning outages could persist for longer than expected  —  There have been two issues affecting Microsoft systems in quick succession, adding to the confusion over a global outage.
Bloomberg:
CrowdStrike and other endpoint security tools require access to the core of OSes, giving them the ability to disrupt the very systems they're trying to protect  —  - Glitch caused global fallout after crashing Microsoft systems  — CrowdStrike is a top provider of corporate protection software
Emma Roth / The Verge:
The outage appears to have been caused by CrowdStrike pushing a faulty update to its Falcon software that causes Windows machines to get stuck in a boot loop  —  On Friday morning, some of the biggest airlines, TV broadcasters, banks, and other essential services came to a standstill as a massive outage rippled across the globe.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
A workaround to fix the BSOD caused by CrowdStrike's faulty update involves booting Windows in Safe Mode and deleting the security firm's “C-00000291*.sys” file  —  IT admins around the world are scrambling to fix a major issue with Windows computers today, after a faulty update …
Brady Dale / Axios:
Messari CEO Ryan Selkis says he's stepping down after a series of controversial political X posts, and Chief Revenue Officer Eric Turner will become interim CEO  —  - Selkis was there the moment that Trump first expressed support for the crypto world publicly, at an event the GOP nominee …
Nick Baker / CoinDesk:
A look at Messari co-founder Ryan Selkis' tweets this week calling for war and sending immigrants back, prompting Messari's leadership to tell him to cool it
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Microsoft says it fixed an Azure configuration issue behind a Microsoft 365 outage, and “all previously impacted Microsoft 365 apps and services have recovered”  —  Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble  —  UPDATED Microsoft's 365 subscription services …
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority:
Samsung says it has “temporarily” stopped Galaxy Buds 3 Pro deliveries to retailers, after some early owners reported quality control issues with the ear tips  —  The suspension comes after some early buyers encountered quality control issues.  —  •  —  TL;DR
Bloomberg:
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says Trump's immediate reaction after being shot was “badass” and inspiring, but declines to endorse either Trump or Biden  —  Meta CEO doesn't endorse Trump or Biden for president  —  Mark Zuckerberg said that former President Donald Trump's immediate reaction …
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
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
How OpenAI's GPT-4o mini model uses a safety technique called “instruction hierarchy” to prevent misuse and stop “ignore previous instructions” types of attacks  —  Have you seen the memes online where someone tells a bot to “ignore all previous instructions” …
Shashank Pathak / Entrackr:
Google cuts Maps API pricing for Indian developers by up to 70% and now accepts 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 …
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Amazon's Twitch reinstates Donald Trump's account three years after he was banned, as “there is value in hearing from presidential nominees directly”  —  Gaming site says it allowed the candidate back after his presidential nomination.  —  LEARN MORE

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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

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Bloomberg:
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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
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”

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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
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Nvidia and Mistral release Mistral NeMo, a 12B-parameter language model with a 128K-token context window, available under the Apache 2.0 open-source license
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
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
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