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Associated Press:
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 …
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.
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI says it partnered with publishers including WSJ and The Atlantic to build its search engine SearchGPT; publishers can manage how their content appears
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 …
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 …
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.
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.”
Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
Insurer Parametrix estimates that the global outage sparked by CrowdStrike's faulty update will cost US Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, $5.4B
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 …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Kamala Harris joins TikTok, following an explosion of Harris memes since announcing her presidential run; her account has attracted 400K+ followers in ~2 hours
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.
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 …
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.
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. …
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 …
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 …
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.

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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

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
The new Disney+, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle goes on sale in the US for $16.99 per month with ads and $29.99 per month without ads
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool
Financial Times:
The UK FCA fines Coinbase £3.5M for providing payment services to 13K+ “high-risk” customers, in the agency's first enforcement action against a crypto company
Sam Altman / Washington Post:
We need a US-led global coalition of like-minded countries and a new strategy to ensure that a democratic vision for AI prevails over an authoritarian one
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft unveils Bing generative search, which shows LLM-generated answers with the sources used to create them, currently available to a small subset of users
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