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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and a key figure in Google's creation, dies at age 56, after two years of living with cancer  —  Her husband, Dennis Troper, made the announcement earlier this evening: … Susan Wojcicki joined Google in 1999 as its 16th employee and first marketing manager.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Interfax: Roskomnadzor blocked Signal in Russia for allegedly violating laws linked to anti-terrorist operations; Venezuela reportedly blocked Signal too  —  Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia.  The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying …
Reuters:
Sources: Cisco plans a second round of layoffs in 2024, affecting at least as many as the 4,000 laid off in February, to be announced as soon as August 14  —  Cisco (CSCO.O) will cut thousands of jobs in a second round of layoffs this year as the U.S. networking equipment maker shifts focus …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
IOActive researchers detail “Sinkclose”, a vulnerability in almost all AMD chips dating back to 2006 that allows attackers to run code in System Management Mode  —  Researchers warn that a bug in AMD's chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer …
Eva Dou / Washington Post:
Truth Social parent TMTG, which has a $5B market cap, reports Q2 revenue down 30% YoY to $837K and a net loss of $16.4M; Trump owns 59.9% of TMTG's common stock  —  Donald Trump's company, which operates Truth Social, said it earned $837,000 in quarterly revenue.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Sources: Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised a $60M Series A co-led by a16z and Thrive at a $400M post-money valuation  —  Anysphere, a two-year-old startup that's developed an AI-powered coding assistant called Cursor, has raised over $60 million in a Series A financing …
Matt Burgess / Wired:
A researcher shows five proof-of-concept ways that Copilot can be manipulated by attackers, including turning it into an automatic spear-phishing machine  —  Attacks on Microsoft's Copilot AI allow for answers to be manipulated, data extracted, and security protections bypassed, new research shows.
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Intel delays its Innovation event, slated for September and expected to include details about new CPUs, until 2025, citing its financial results and H2 outlook  —  The chipmaker is delaying one of its biggest events, which was slated for September and expected to include more details about upcoming processors.

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From Mediagazer

Minho Kim / New York Times:
A Trump administration letter to Congress outlines a plan to restructure VOA that would shrink the agency to 18 employees, down from roughly 1,400 in March

Caroline Haskins / Wired:
Palantir removed three journalists from a security conference after one of them asked about its work with ICE and threatened to call police on a Wired reporter

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The New European rebrands as The New World, expands its coverage, and moves to a magazine format; the title made £2.6M in 2024 revenue and had 35K subscribers

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@martin_casado:
[Thread] A roundup of recent announcements from researchers, businesses, and academic institutions opposing California's AI safety bill
The Guardian:
UK PM Keir Starmer says ministers will review the Online Safety Act, after London mayor Sadiq Khan said it was “not fit for purpose” following far-right riots

Earlier Picks

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
A look at the US' Chips and Science Act two years after its enactment on August 9, 2022, as the Biden administration nearly finishes divvying up $39B in grants
Reuters:
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blocks X in the country for 10 days, accusing Elon Musk of using X to incite hate after Venezuela's disputed election
Jay Peters / The Verge:
OpenAI now lets ChatGPT free users generate up to two images per day using DALL-E 3, after launching DALL-E 3 to ChatGPT Plus subscribers in October 2023
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