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Sources detail how Elon Musk undermined CEO Linda Yaccarino's efforts to repair X's business over the past year; X's US revenue fell 53% YoY to $114M in Q2 — Linda Yaccarino, the C.E.O. of X, has worked hard to bring back advertisers and fix the platform's business.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: the US DOJ says TikTok collected data about its users' views on gun control, abortion, and religion, and censored content at ByteDance's direction — Justice Department defends new law requiring the sale or ban of the popular app — TikTok collected data about its users' views … | Jacob Knutson / Axios: |
How Win With Black Women and other groups are using Zoom calls to organize and fundraise for Kamala Harris; virtual rallies for Harris raised $10M+ this week — - “What we're seeing now at the moment is a beautiful intersection of concerned citizens utilizing digital media and virtual technology … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Kamala Harris' advisers have approached top crypto companies, including Coinbase, Circle, and Ripple Labs, to “reset” relations with the industry — Vice-president's team aims to improve relations after industry criticism of the Biden administration
More: Fortune, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, and The Boston Globe
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| Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central: |
X activates a setting, on by default, that gives it permission to train Grok on user's posts; the setting can be turned off on the web but not in the mobile app — X's new experience is automatically set to opt-in and uses your data to train its Grok AI model.
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Mastodon: @RuthMalan@mastodon.social. X: @easybakedoven, @safety, @kevinschawinski, @cherthedev, @rmac18, @charlesarthur, @mattrosoff, @rmac18, @paulg, @toadpacshakur, @bentossell, @sirjamesa12, @_alialkhatib, @internethippo, and @drewmcweeny. Forums: r/technology
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Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it is surprised and is “seeking clarity” about X's move to automatically allow user data to train Grok — Social media company's move to automatically allow user data to train chatbot could breach European privacy rules
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US-based security vendor KnowBe4 says it unwittingly hired a North Korean hacker who then unsuccessfully attempted to load malware into the company's network — KnowBe4, which provides security awareness training, was fooled by stolen ID. — KnowBe4, a US-based security vendor …
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
The International Association of Machinists says Apple reached a three-year tentative labor agreement with retail workers at a Towson, Maryland store, a first — - Three-year deal will increase pay by an average of 10% — Union aims to build on the success; Apple declines to comment
More: IAMAW, The Baltimore Banner, AppleInsider, CGTN, Reuters, and Bloomberg Law
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, who co-founded CrowdStrike in 2011 after departing as McAfee's CTO following Intel's acquisition of McAfee for $7.68B — 'A piece of software shouldn't be able to take everything out,' says George Kurtz — CrowdStrike Chief Executive George Kurtz answered … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Honeywell is considering a US IPO of its majority-owned quantum computing firm Quantinuum as soon as 2025, and could seek a valuation of about $10B — - The firm has held early talks with banks on potential IPO — A listing in the US could take place as soon as next year| Jorja Siemons / Bloomberg Law: |
The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is using real-time AI-based video surveillance tech to detect and predict threats, raising concerns over mass surveillance — The Paris Summer Olympics that begin Friday include among the most public and controversial rollouts ever of algorithmic video surveillance …
More: Wired, Euractiv, and Tech.co
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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Freelancer.com, iFixit, and others say Anthropic's crawler has aggressively scraped their websites, potentially breaching their terms of service — Web publishers say developer is swarming their sites, collecting content to train models and ignoring orders to stop
More: Engadget, 404 Media, Read the Docs, The Verge, PC Gamer, and MSPoweruser
X: @kwiens, @kwiens, @kwiens, @bobkitten, @jason_koebler, @jordancmeyer, @glenngabe, @rahll, @barelylingual, @readthedocs, @kwiens, @ericholscher, @matt_barrie, and @matt_barrie. LinkedIn: Toshit Panigrahi
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