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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 …
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| 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| 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/politics and r/technology
| 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,” …
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Forums: r/aiwars, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
An experiment where writers had access to GPT-4 for short story ideas finds it boosted creativity for some but reduced the collective diversity of novel content — A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: it appeared …
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| 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, Game Rant, Engadget, IGN, PC Gamer, Dexerto, Semafor, PocketGamer.biz, The Verge, Tech Xplore, and Deadline
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LinkedIn: Jason Chung and Katia Serbina
Forums: r/Games and r/worldnews
| 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.
| 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 … | Kosuke Shimizu / Nikkei Asia: |
China accounts for 40%+ of sales at Applied Materials and Lam Research, as they boost shipments of legacy chipmaking equipment not targeted by US export curbs — Applied Materials, Lam Research ship legacy products not targeted by export curbs — PALO ALTO, California … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Arkham: the German government appears to have sold its last bitcoin on July 12, after authorities seized ~50K bitcoin, worth $2B+, in January 2024 from suspects — - The German government had received 50,000 Bitcoin in January — Bitcoin's price has been choppy in recent weeks on worries
More: Crypto Briefing, crypto.news, Bitcoin News, Decrypt, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Block, and CryptoGlobe. X: @arkhamintel
| Financial Times: |
A profile of Shein's executive chair Donald Tang, who has become the public face of the company as he leads its expansion overseas and prepares for a London IPO — Executive whose rise on Wall Street won fame in his native China faces tough task at fashion group planning London IPO| Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired: |
A look at challenges indie video game devs face, as they struggle to survive due to lack of funding and studio closures, leading to talent loss in the industry — Big video game makers like Epic Games and EA have gone through substantial layoffs in the past year.
More: How-To Geek. X: @megan_nicolett, @chhopsky, @merryh, @ellaguro, @waterslicer, @megan_nicolett, @sonofbadru, and @megan_nicolett. Forums: r/Games
| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Hashed: 1M+ memecoins have been created on Pump.fun, a platform based on the Solana and Blast blockchains, generating $50M+ in revenue since its January launch — - Pump.fun is one of the most profitable memecoin projects — Platform has been at the center of crypto's memecoin craze
More: Bitcoinist.com
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