BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware
Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says “the issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed”, and CrowdStrike is working with its 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 cyberat...
Experts say CrowdStrike's fix requires deleting a specific file and that cannot be automated at scale, meaning outages could persist for longer than expected
There have been two issues affecting Microsoft systems in quick succession, adding to the confusion over a global outage.
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).
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
OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, a smaller, cheaper offshoot of GPT-4o, replacing GPT-3.5 Turbo, with support for all multimodal inputs and outputs coming soon
each step more refined Aiming for the ‘perfect training set’ - the ultimate concentrate of all human knowledge and creativity Whether Gemini 1.5 Jeff Harris / @jeffintime : hidden gem: GPT-4o mini sup...
CrowdStrike and other endpoint security tools require access to the core of OSes, giving them the ability to disrupt the very systems they're trying to protect
- Glitch caused global fallout after crashing Microsoft systems — CrowdStrike is a top provider of corporate protection software
The outage appears to have been caused by CrowdStrike pushing a faulty update to its Falcon software that causes Windows machines to get stuck in a boot loop
On Friday morning, some of the biggest airlines, TV broadcasters, banks, and other essential services came to a standstill as a massive outage rippled across the globe.
Messari CEO Ryan Selkis says he ran “too hot” with X posts this week calling for war and sending immigrants back, after Messari leadership told him to cool it
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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
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A workaround to fix the BSOD caused by CrowdStrike's faulty update involves booting Windows in Safe Mode and deleting the security firm's “C-00000291*.sys” file
They trigger an issue that causes Windows to blue screen. — I am unsure how these got pushed to customers. I think Crowdstrike might have a problem. … X: @vxunderground : How to fix the Crowdstrike...
Microsoft says it fixed an Azure configuration issue behind a Microsoft 365 outage, and “all previously impacted Microsoft 365 apps and services have recovered”
Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble — UPDATED Microsoft's 365 subscription services …
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
Peter Naylor, Netflix VP of ad sales since August 2022, is leaving, and the company will hire a head of US and Canada ad sales to fill his spot
yet Bevin Fletcher / StreamTV Insider : Netflix marks Q2 growth, expects ad tier scale in 2025 Brian Steinberg / Variety : Peter Naylor is Latest Senior Ad-Sales Executive to Exit Netflix Leigh Mc Gow...
Netflix says its ad tier now accounts for over 45% of all signups in the markets where it's available, and ad tier memberships grew 34% QoQ in Q2
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Messari CEO Ryan Selkis says he's stepping down, after a series of controversial political X posts; chief revenue officer Eric Turner will be the interim CEO
- Selkis was there the moment that Trump first expressed support for the crypto world publicly, at an event the GOP nominee …
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says Trump's immediate reaction after being shot was “badass” and inspiring, but declines to endorse either Trump or Biden
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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
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 …
Bangladesh orders a nationwide shutdown of its mobile internet amid student protests that killed dozens of people to “ensure the security of citizens”
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Netflix added 8M subscribers in Q2 vs. 5M est., as it benefited from a crackdown on password-sharing and popular titles like Bridgerton and Baby Reindeer
Apple is launching new immersive video content for the Vision Pro over the next few months, including content from The Weeknd and the 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Xbox says an outage affecting Xbox Store and subscriptions is now resolved; the outage lasted for about five hours
Check this page for details on the status of Xbox features and functionality. Dashiell Wood / TechRadar : Why did Xbox Live go down and what does it mean for gamers? X: @xboxsupport : We are seeing im...
Huawei sues MediaTek in China over alleged infringement of its intellectual property patents; MediaTek says the lawsuit would have no significant impact
Licensing is increasingly important revenue source for Chinese company — TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies is suing Taiwanese mobile …
Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, and others form the Coalition for Secure AI to share best practices and open-source methodologies for secure AI deployment
Emma Roth / The Verge :
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
a one-man news channel for millions of Latinos and a case study in how the White House works with creators on key issues: https://www.nytimes.com/... (w/@kenbensinger!) Anupam Chander / @anupamchander...
Indian crypto exchange WazirX says one of its multisig wallets “experienced a security breach” after $230M+ in withdrawals; WazirX had $500M in holdings in June
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk :
Instagram expands Notes, its temporary away status-like feature, to let users leave Notes on Reels and grid posts; the temporary comments are semi-private
for your friends' eyes only ✨ [image] @popbase : Instagram is launching the ability to leave Notes directly on Reels and Feed posts. [image] Lindsey Gamble / @lindseygamble_ : 🚨NEW🚨 Instagram has offi...
Nvidia and Mistral release Mistral NeMo, a 12B-parameter language model with a 128K-token context window, available under the Apache 2.0 open-source license
Mistral NeMo: our new best small model. A state-of-the-art 12B model … Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder : Mistral releases three new LLMs for math, code and general tasks X: Prince Canuma / @prince_canu...
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
looks like the real Oracle is in Congress! @modestproposal1 : It's a good article from @theinformation on Altman wanting to set up companies to design and purchase huge amounts of chips and build larg...
Brazil-based Matera, which provides instant payment and QR code payment software to financial institutions, raised $100M from Warburg Pincus to expand in the US
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Austin-based Saronic, which is developing autonomous military boats, raised a $175M Series B led by a16z at a $1B+ valuation, taking its total funding to ~$245M
David Jeans / Forbes :
Montréal-based Planned, which offers corporate events and travel planning tools, raised a CAD$35M Series B led by Drive Capital
Bianca Bharti / BetaKit :
An ex-Reality Labs manager says Meta asked the unit to cut spending by ~20% from 2024 to 2026; Meta plans two Quest 4 versions in 2026 and a Quest Pro 2 in 2027
A US judge dismisses most of a SEC lawsuit accusing SolarWinds of misleading investors by failing to disclose cybersecurity failures in its Orion software
Tim Starks / CyberScoop :
Microsoft reaches a settlement with French cloud service OVHcloud in which OVHcloud will drop its March 2022 antitrust complaint to EU regulators
Austin-based Thoughtful AI, which provides healthcare revenue collection tools, raised a $20M Series A led by Drive Capital, bringing its total funding to $35M
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Docs: Canadian PE firm PartnerOne paid $28.2M for HeadSpin, whose 2023 revenue was $21M and its Q1 2024 was $5M; HeadSpin was valued at $1.1B in 2020
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch :
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