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The US DOJ indicts a North Korean hacker, who remains at large, for his alleged role in Andariel group's cyberattacks on US hospitals, NASA, and military bases — A North Korean military intelligence operative has been indicted in a conspiracy to hack into American health care providers …
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, a search tool powered by GPT-4 that can organize links and summarize its findings, available as a prototype to 10,000 users at launch — OpenAI is announcing its much-anticipated entry into the search market, SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine with real-time access to information across the internet.
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Sarah Parvini / Associated Press: |
SAG-AFTRA announces a strike starting Friday against major video game companies, including EA, after talks for a new contract broke down over AI protections — Hollywood's video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Binarly: UEFI Secure Boot is completely compromised on 200+ device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro due to a cryptographic key leak — Keys were labeled “DO NOT TRUST.” Nearly 500 device models use them anyway. — In 2012, an industry-wide coalition of hardware …
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| G.S Vasan / 91mobiles: |
Leaked promo material reveals Pixel 9 series specs: all phones powered by Tensor G4, Pixel 9 Pro in 6.3-inch and 6.8-inch models with 16GB of RAM, and more — - Google Pixel 9 Pro will come in a 6.3-inch model and a 6.8-inch model. — Google boasts a 24-hour battery and seven years of security updates with the Pixel 9 Pro.
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says 97% of Windows sensors are back online, about a week after CrowdStrike shipped a faulty update that bricked Windows computers — - “While I can't promise perfection, I can promise a response that is focused, effective, and with a sense of urgency.”
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| Washington Post: |
A look at the flood of “fancam” videos and memes about Kamala Harris on short-form video platforms, echoing “meme armies” that have supported Donald Trump — A grassroots network of TikTok creators, energized by the new likely Democratic nominee …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Epic Games: |
Epic plans to bring its mobile games to AltStore on iOS in the EU, and remove its games from the Galaxy Store due to Samsung blocking sideloading by default — We are fast approaching a quantum leap in Epic's efforts to bring our games to players on mobile devices.
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
A decade-old drama between David Sacks and Parker Conrad has blown up into a fight on X over VC behavior, drawing in Paul Graham and other Silicon Valley names — A decade-old drama involving VC David Sacks and Rippling founder Parker Conrad over their previous company Zenefits has blown …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence apologizes for Sonos' redesigned app, which launched in May to widespread criticism, and promises biweekly app updates through the fall — The big Sonos app redesign was intended to make the company's software more modern, customizable, and easier to use.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta says WhatsApp now has more than 100M MAUs in the US and that more than 50% of WhatsApp users in the country have an iPhone; WhatsApp has 2B+ MAUs globally — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday on his channel that WhatsApp now has more than 100 million monthly active users in the U.S. …
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| Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg: |
The Biden administration says Apple agreed to White House's voluntary safeguards for AI, joining the ranks of OpenAI, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and others — - Guardrails aim to protect consumers, influence AI development — Apple moving to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into iPhone
More: 9to5Mac, Axios, and Agence France-Presse
| Maia Spoto / Bloomberg: |
California's Supreme Court upholds Prop 22, allowing Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and other companies to keep classifying California drivers as independent contractors — The unanimous ruling upholding California's Proposition 22 was released Thursday. — The favorable ruling … | Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind rolls out AlphaProof AI model, which specializes in math reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an updated version of a model focused on geometry — AI models, trained on text, have historically struggled with math reasoning — Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.'s artificial …
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LinkedIn: Alik Sokolov, Arindam Khan, and Jessica Yung
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| Reuters: |
Canalys: China's smartphone shipments rose 10% YoY in Q2, with Huawei's shipments up 41%; Apple's market share in China dropped to 14%, down from 16% in Q2 2023 — Apple's smartphone shipments in China fell by 6.7% in the second quarter of 2024, as the tech giant faced intensifying competition …
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
SK Hynix announces plans to invest roughly $6.8B through 2028 on a chip plant in Yongin, South Korea, including a “mini-fab” to process 300mm silicon wafers — The world's second-largest maker of memory chips, SK Hynix (000660.KS), said on Friday it had decided to invest about 9.4 trillion won …
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| Bloomberg: |
FTC's Lina Khan says open-weights AI models can promote competition and “liberate startups from the arbitrary whims of closed developers and cloud gatekeepers” — - Khan comments made at San Francisco event on AI startups — Agency is probing Microsoft, OpenAI over antitrust concerns| Patrick Sisson / Bloomberg: |
As xAI builds a supercomputer in Memphis, many locals are wary of its benefits, and environmental advocates are puzzled over its potential effects — The billionaire's artificial intelligence company is moving quickly to build one of the world's largest computers in South Memphis.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google updates its Gemini chatbot with Gemini 1.5 Flash and a 32K-token context window in its free tier, links to related content for some prompts, and more — Google's Gemini AI chatbot will be able to respond to you more quickly and process more content in prompts thanks to an upgrade to the company's Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model.
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