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.
Apple launches the Apple Vision Pro in the UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Australia after launching it in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore on June 28
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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
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
SoftBank acquires struggling UK-based chipmaker Graphcore with US and UK approvals; sources: the deal is valued at $600M+ but below Graphcore's ~$700M funding
Deal will give Bristol-based company a resource boost while advancing the ‘next big bet’ of Masayoshi Son's group
OpenAI comes up with five levels to track its progress toward AGI: Chatbots, Reasoners, Agents, Innovators, and Organizations, and says it's nearly at Level 2
The company believes its technology is approaching the second level of five on the path to artificial general intelligence
Signal plans to roll out a beta version of its desktop apps that tightens the security of how it stores plain text encryption keys, after downplaying the issue
Signal is finally tightening its desktop client's security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018.
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 …
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.
A May 2024 data breach at mobile spyware company mSpy leaked millions of customer support tickets, including personal data, its third known breach since 2010
Customer service emails dating back to 2014 exposed in May breach — A data breach at the phone surveillance operation mSpy …
Apple and Google launch a data portability tool that lets Google Photos users move their photos to iCloud, after offering iCloud to Google Photos in March 2021
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Sources: US car dealership software provider CDK Global appears to have paid ~$25M to hackers on June 21, after a ransomware attack shut down its systems
CDK Global, a software firm serving car dealerships across the US that was roiled by a cyberattack last month, appears to have paid …
Arm unveils Accuracy Super Resolution, an upscaler for mobile games based on AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 2, available under the MIT open-source license
this open-source solution is optimized for lower-power devices Nick Evanson / PC Gamer : Arm has developed a new shader-based upscaler using AMD's open source FSR 2.2 as its starting base X: @armsoftw...
The EU publishes the final text of the EU AI Act; the law will come into force on August 1, 2024, and most companies have until August 2026 to comply
The full and final text of the EU AI Act, the European Union's landmark risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence …
Chainalysis: more than half of all illicit transaction volume in crypto now winds up on centralized exchanges
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Apple settles with the EU over Apple Pay and avoids potential fines by agreeing to open NFC access on iOS to third-party wallet developers for free for a decade
After X hyped shows with Paris Hilton, Tucker Carlson, and others in January 2024, the deals have fizzled, a source says due to a lack of advertiser interest
X is having a tough time cracking into the TV business, but first... Promises, promises — Six months ago, executives … Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam See also Mediagazer Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam : Musk's...
YouTube announces new Shorts features, including TikTok-like text-to-speech video narration, in-app auto-generated captions, and a set of Minecraft effects
Sources: some of OpenAI's safety team felt pressured to speed through a safety protocol to meet GPT-4o's launch; Open AI says it “didn't cut corners” on safety
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Partior, a blockchain-based interbank payment network backed by JPMorgan, DBS, and Standard Chartered, raised a $60M Series B led by Peak XV Partners
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk :
Hanover, Germany-based HERO Software, whose SaaS acts as an operating system for trade SMEs like plumbing, raised a €40M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures
it did it by helping plumbers Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News : German SaaS platform HERO Software raises €40M to digitise SME operations Frank Weber / HERO Software GmbH : New capital: HERO raise...
A US judge sentences Ukrainian Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, who helped lead the prolific Zeus malware gang, to 18 years in jail and orders payment of $73M+
US prosecutors say crypto exchange BitMEX pled guilty to one count of violating the Bank Secrecy Act by not having an adequate AML program from 2015 to 2020
Arab and Muslim workers at Meta detail frustrations over Meta's handling of internal discussions on the Israel-Hamas war, worrying it led to bad product choices
Wired : X: @marcowenjones , @nicolefroio , @evystadium , and @wired . Forums: r/worldnews X: Marc Owen Jones / @marcowenjones : This is an essential read in all the ways Meta silence empathy for Pale...
Two Republican US House Committee chairs call for an intelligence assessment of Microsoft's deal with Abu Dhabi's G42, including a focus on G42's China ties
Source: Meta plans to release the largest version of its Llama 3 model with 405B parameters and multimodal capabilities on July 23
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Regard, which saves physicians time by analyzing patients' health data using AI, raised a $61M Series B led by Oak HC/FT, a source says at a $350M valuation
Argentina's Tapi, a payments processor for Latin American consumer platforms like Mercado Pago and crypto exchange Lemon, raised a $22M Series A led by Kaszek
Patrick Gillespie / Bloomberg :
An international study of 642 websites and mobile apps offering subscription services finds ~76% with at least one possible dark pattern and ~67% with multiple
A Google DeepMind research paper details how Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1M-token context window lets Google's robots navigate and complete tasks using simple instructions
New York-based Standard Bots, which makes AI-powered robotic arms, raised $63M over a series of deals, including a $39M Series B led by General Catalyst
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg :
Asia-based startups raised only $14.6B in Q2 2024, down 24% from Q1 and 32% YoY, with only 1,511 funding deals announced in Q2, down 15% from Q1 and 27% YoY
Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News :
Fireworks AI, which helps companies fine-tune and customize AI models, raised $52M led by Sequoia at a $552M valuation, taking its total funding to $77M
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