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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
AT&T says it will begin notifying consumers about a data breach where cybercriminals stole phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline customers — Stolen data includes millions of AT&T customer phone numbers, calling and text records, and location-related data.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Sources: John Binns, a US citizen who has been incarcerated in Turkey and indicted for allegedly hacking T-Mobile in 2021, is linked to the AT&T data breach — John Binns, a U.S. citizen who has been incarcerated in Turkey, is linked to the massive data breach of metadata belonging …
More: Wired, New York Times, itprotoday, and Pixel Envy
Mastodon: @mhoye@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @josephfcox, @samleecole, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, and @arawnsley. Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Snowflake confirms that the data breach at AT&T is connected to the hack that has affected other customers, including Ticketmaster and LendingTree — - Fallout from attack disclosed in May is still spreading — Ticketmaster, LendingTree among recent victims in crime spree| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Preliminary findings: the European Commission says X's paid blue checkmark deceives users and breaches the DSA; X could be fined up to 6% of its global revenue — Brussels regulators use new digital powers to threaten social media company with huge fines over transparency issues
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Threads: @joshuatopolsky. Mastodon: @Frederik_Borgesius …. X: @thierrybreton, @elonmusk, @thierrybreton, @lewis_crofts, @lukolejnik, @eric_seufert, @mathver, @paulg, @eu_commission, @micsolana, @balajis, @carnage4life, and @digitaleu. Forums: r/technology
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Meta says it will soon roll back restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure parity among candidates ahead of the 2024 election — - While those penalties were designed to limit any public figure's accounts during civil unrest, Donald Trump's accounts …
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Forums: r/technology and r/politics
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Three US senators introduce the COPIED Act, which aims to give journalists, songwriters, and artists tools to fight AI models using their work without consent — A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a new bill that seeks to protect artists, songwriters, and journalists from having … | Reuters: |
An internal document and source detail OpenAI's Strawberry, formerly known as Q*, which aims to improve its AI models' reasoning capabilities dramatically — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on a novel approach to its artificial intelligence models in a project code-named “Strawberry,” …
More: TechRadar, itprotoday, and DigiTimes
X: @iterintellectus, @jacquesthibs, and @deliprao
Forums: r/singularity and r/aiwars
| The Information: |
Source: Meta plans to release the largest version of its Llama 3 model, expected to have 405B parameters and multimodal capabilities, on July 23 — Meta Platforms plans to release the largest version of its open-source Llama 3 model on July 23, according to a Meta employee.
| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
In a June 24 report, Indian antitrust body CCI found that Apple exploited its dominant App Store position on iOS and engaged “in abusive conduct and practices” — An investigation by India's antitrust body has found that Apple exploited its dominant position in the market … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says its AI shopping assistant Rufus is live in the Amazon mobile app for all US customers, after launching in beta for select customers in February 2024 — Amazon's AI-powered shopping assistant, named “Rufus,” is now live for all U.S. customers in the Amazon mobile app, the retailer announced on Friday.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Saudi Arabia will host the inaugural Olympic Esports Games in 2025, as part of a newly announced 12-year partnership with the Olympic Committee — Saudi Arabia will host the inaugural Olympic Esports Games in 2025 under an agreement announced Friday by the International Olympic Committee and the kingdom.
More: The International Olympic Committee, New York Times, Engadget, Semafor, PC Gamer, Tech Xplore, Deadline, The Verge, IGN, Dexerto, and PocketGamer.biz
X: @iocmedia, @slasher, @myra__davis, @lucas_shaw, @sonofpaint, and @fdotonline
LinkedIn: Jason Chung and Katia Serbina
Forums: r/worldnews and r/Games
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
PartnerOne acquires HeadSpin, whose founder is serving a jail sentence for fraud; email: employees' stock options were canceled as the options were “underwater” — Employees' stock options were cancelled, according to a document viewed by TechCrunch.
X: @bayareawriter and @koolhead17
| Financial Times: |
Some developers remain optimistic as Apple seeks a Vision Pro “killer app”; Appfigures: the number of new Vision Pro apps has fallen since January and February — Tech giant is struggling to attract content from developers for innovative device that goes on sale in Europe this week| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
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X: @zsk, @charlesarthur, and @supersaf
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
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