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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
CrowdStrike reports widespread “BSODs on Windows hosts”, impacting thousands of PCs and taking banks, airlines, and more offline; Microsoft is aware — Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks, airlines …
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Threads: @panzer, @kashhill, @anildash, and @tomwarrenuk
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| George Kurtz / @george_kurtz: |
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says “the issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed”, and CrowdStrike is working with impacted customers — CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We
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| Bloomberg: |
CrowdStrike and other endpoint security tools need access to the core of operating systems, giving them the ability to disrupt systems they're trying to protect — - Glitch caused global fallout after crashing Microsoft systems — CrowdStrike is a top provider of corporate protection software
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| New York Times: |
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Microsoft says it fixed a configuration issue causing Microsoft 365 apps and services outage and restored several services; some services remain degraded — Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble — UPDATED Microsoft's 365 subscription services are down for some users …
More: BleepingComputer, New York Times, Android Police, Reuters, Moneycontrol, and The Indian Express
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| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 16.8% YoY to $9.56B, vs. $9.53B est., paid memberships up 16.5% YoY to 277.65M, vs. 274.4M est., net income up 44% YoY to $2.15B — Netflix reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results. — Earnings per share: $4.88 vs $4.74 per share expected by LSEG
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| Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: |
| Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Cellebrite gave the FBI unreleased tech to access the Trump shooter's phone, a “newer Samsung model”, after the FBI's first attempt to crack it failed — - Initial attempt to access newer Samsung model didn't work — Cellebrite sent FBI technical support, unreleased software
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
GPT-4o mini costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, prices lower than those of Claude 3 Haiku and Gemini 1.5 Flash — GPT-4o mini. I've been complaining about how under-powered GPT 3.5 is for the price for a while now (I made fun of it in a keynote a few weeks ago).
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
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LinkedIn: Amol Shah, Jenny O'Leary, Matt Kroll, and Mick Vleeshouwer
Forums: r/artificial, r/OpenAI, r/LocalLLaMA, r/ChatGPT, and r/singularity
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says its goo.gl URL shortener links will stop working after August 25, 2025; the company stopped generating new goo.gl URLs in March 2019 — After Google stopped generating new goo.gl URLs in March of 2019, those links will stop working on August 25, 2025.
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| Shashank Pathak / Entrackr: |
Google cuts Maps API pricing for Indian developers by ~70% and starts accepting payments in rupee, after Ola offered one-year free developer access to Ola Maps — Google has slashed the pricing of Google Maps platform for developers in India by as much as 70% from August 1 as the company … | Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: |
Samsung says it has “temporarily” stopped deliveries of Galaxy Buds 3 Pro to retailers after some early owners reported quality control issues with the ear tips — The suspension comes after some early buyers encountered quality control issues. — • — TL;DR
More: Financial Express, 9to5Google, The Verge, Tom's Guide, Android Police, Neowin, PhoneArena, and SamMobile. Forums: r/samsung
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI has talked to chip designers including Broadcom about developing an AI server chip and hired former members of a Google unit that produces TPUs — Last year, as the world's top artificial intelligence developers were racing to speed up their work using ever-bigger clusters of computers …
More: DatacenterDynamics, Wccftech, Silicon UK, Financial Times, Benzinga, The Verge, and WinBuzzer
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Xbox says an outage affecting Xbox Store and subscriptions is now resolved; the outage lasted for about five hours — A widespread Xbox Live outage lasting several hours has now been resolved. The issue prevented players from signing into their accounts and downloading or playing online games.
More: Xbox, TechRadar, and Destructoid
| New York Times: |
A profile of Carlos Espina, who has 9.4M TikTok followers, posts in Spanish about immigration and politics, and whom the White House treats as a broadcaster — Carlos Espina is among a new kind of social media personalities whom politicians, especially those in the Biden White House, view as modern-day broadcasters.
Threads: @simondowens. X: @taylorlorenz, @sapna, @cespina1998, @sapna, @anupamchander, and @omunderdal
| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Bangladesh orders a nationwide shutdown of its mobile internet amid student protests that killed dozens of people to “ensure the security of citizens” — Authorities in Bangladesh have reportedly ordered a nationwide shutdown of mobile internet networks amid student protests … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, and others form the Coalition for Secure AI to share best practices and open-source methodologies for secure AI deployment — Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, and other big names in AI are coming together to form the Coalition for Secure AI …
More: The Keyword, OASIS Open, SecurityWeek, WinBuzzer, Silicon Republic, and Cisco Blogs
X: @santosomar, @royalhansen, @kent_walker, and @intelnews
LinkedIn: Chris Betz and Daniel Riedel
Forums: r/cybersecurity, r/artificial, and r/singularity
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