A source at X says the Donald Trump interview crash was not the result of a DDoS attack; another X employee said there was a “99 percent” chance Musk was lying
Elon Musk's “conversation” with former President Donald Trump got off to a rocky start.
The FBI is investigating an alleged Trump campaign hack; sources say the agency is probing suspected hacking attempts by Iran targeting Trump, Biden, and Harris
Is Harris pulling ahead of Trump? Martin Matishak / The Record : FBI says it is investigating purported Trump campaign hack Victor Nava / New York Post : FBI investigating alleged hack of Trump campai...
Elon Musk's Donald Trump interview on X Spaces was derailed by technical glitches at the scheduled start time on August 12; Musk blamed “a massive DDoS attack”
but Elon Musk Desperately Needs Him Back Simon Sharwood / The Register : Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS Emily Dreibelbis / PCMag : Musk Blames DDoS Attack For 40-Minute De...
On August 6, hackers leaked almost 2.7B records of people in the US, such as names and SSNs, allegedly from National Public Data, which collects and sells data
Almost 2.7 billion records of personal information for people in the United States were leaked on a hacking forum, exposing names …
A recap of Elon Musk's Donald Trump interview on X, which started 42 minutes late; X says it was at times heard by 1M+ people, while Musk had prepared for 8M
Tech billionaire praises ex-president in rambling conversation on X delayed by technical glitch
After Thierry Breton's letter to X before the Trump interview, the EU says the “timing and the wording of the letter were neither co-ordinated or agreed” upon
Internal market commissioner's warning to owner of social media site X was not approved
Politico, the NYT, the WaPo, and others say they received hacked Trump campaign materials, but gave few details, a marked contrast to Clinton's emails in 2016
At least three news outlets were leaked confidential material from inside the Donald Trump campaign, including its report vetting JD Vance as a vice presidential candidate.
Iran has emerged as the most aggressive foreign threat to the US election; a Microsoft report showed ways it has tried to hack a presidential campaign and more
Microsoft reveals apparent attack ahead of US election SC Media : Iranian influence operations against US elections escalate Juliana Kim / NPR : Microsoft detects fake news sites linked to Iran aimed ...
India's antitrust body orders an unusual recall of two reports on its Apple investigation; a source says Apple complained about confidential revenue disclosures
India's antitrust body has ordered an unusual recall of its investigation reports that found Apple in breach of competition laws …
How Tether co-founder Brock Pierce's plan to use crypto to revitalize Puerto Rico's economy became mired in legal disputes and fights with his business partners
On sun-drenched days in 2022, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Brock Pierce liked to take his friends sailing to the island of Vieques …
The FBI, the UK's NCA, and others seize the servers and websites of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware operation; since August 2023, the gang targeted 43+ SMBs
The FBI announced on Monday that it seized the servers and websites of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware operation following a joint international investigation.
After Apple's threats, Patreon memberships via its iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% fee from November 2024; creators must switch to subscription billing
if you're paying with iPhone Hamish McKenzie / On Substack : The price of payments — Today, Patreon is in the unenviable position of explaining to creators … Ashley King / Digital Music News : The ‘...
Sources: Chinese internet companies have been testing Huawei's new Ascend 910C chip in recent weeks; Huawei told clients the chip is comparable to Nvidia's H100
Chinese tech company looks for AI business with Ascend series but still faces production issues
Twitch rolls out video stories, which can be 60 seconds long and set to expire after 1, 12, 24, or 48 hours, to challenge Instagram
After launching photo and text stories last year, Twitch is now introducing video stories. Streamers can now film 60-second videos in the Twitch mobile app or upload a video from their camera roll.
Analysis: about half of all job seekers are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini to assist them in writing CVs, cover letters, and completing assessments
About half of applicants are using tools such as ChatGPT to help write cover letters but without editing the language is ‘clunky’
The US SEC sues crypto company NovaTech and its co-founders, saying they fraudulently raised $650M+ from 200K+ investors globally, following the NY AG's lawsuit
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India withdraws a draft broadcasting services bill after facing backlash from online creators over its potential effect on free speech and the compliance burden
John Reed / Financial Times :
TikTok adds group chats, with support for up to 32 people, available to all users over 15 years old, and adds safety measures specifically to protect teens
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Sea reports Q2 revenue up 23% YoY to $3.8B, a $79.9M net income, vs. $60M est., and GMV up 29% YoY to $23.3B; Shopee raised its merchant fees by ~33% in 2024
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg :
A look at Fragmentarium, a project to use AI to piece together digitized tablet fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a 3,000-year-old Mesopotamian poem
one of the world's oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an ‘extreme acceleration’ to the field.” https://www.nytimes.com/... @razibkhan : Piecing Together an Ancient Epic Was Slow Work. Until A...
CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas appeared at DEF CON to accept the “Most Epic Fail” award, saying “we got this horribly wrong” and CrowdStrike “own it”
CrowdStrike President accepts award after global IT outage John Callaham / Neowin : Crowdstrike's president personally accepted the Most Epic Fail award at DEF CON Jak Connor / TweakTown : CrowdStrike...
Sources: after recent OpenAI shakeups, Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, post-training lead Barret Zoph, frontiers research lead Mark Chen, others gain prominence
OpenAI's upper management has been a bit of a revolving door lately. The last few months have seen a number of high-profile departures …
Canalys: AI PCs made up 14%, or 8.8M, of all PCs shipped in Q2; ~60% of AI PCs were Apple computers; shipments of Windows PCs priced over $800 grew 9% QoQ
A profile of Peregrine, founded by a former Palantir executive to help US police access surveillance data, raised $30M in May 2024, and had $10M in 2023 revenue
Founded and backed by former Palantir execs, Peregrine Technologies hopes to turbocharge local police department access to surveillance data …
Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous cars with no safety driver on freeways in the Bay Area this week, after getting regulatory approval in March
Chipmakers are facing a labor crisis despite huge investments; McKinsey says US plans need 160K+ new workers, but only ~1,500 engineers join the industry yearly
June Yoon / Financial Times :
Q&A with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda on AI chatbots, marrying chatbots, Replika's therapy app Tomo, friendship chatbots, LLMs, open source, and more
Sources: the US plans to remove lidar maker Hesai from a list of Chinese military-affiliated companies, after judging that Hesai did not meet the legal criteria
Financial Times :
A look at US chipmaker ON Semiconductor's $2B manufacturing hub in Roznov, Czech Republic to make chips for EVs and more; the hub will create 800 new jobs
Bloomberg :
Inside Worldcoin's Orb factory in Germany and a profile of Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania; 6M+ people now have a World ID, and WLD's market cap is $550M+
Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg : Mastodon: @ricmac@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @zbs.bsky.social Mastodon: Richard MacManus / @ricmac@mastodon.social : In-depth story about my favourite dystopian app, Sam Al...
Fortnox CEO Tommy Eklund leaves the Swedish software provider effective immediately; Fortnox stock jumped nearly 5x between 2020 and 2024, drawing short sellers
Financial Times :
Tally, which helped users manage and pay off credit card debt, is shutting down; the startup had raised $172M and, per PitchBook, was last valued at $855M
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Analysis: about half of all job seekers are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini to assist them in writing CVs, cover letters, and completing assessments
Researchers: among US states that legalized online betting access, the likelihood of filing for bankruptcy increased by 25%-30% after three to four years
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The NYT, Puck, and more are focusing on Reddit; Semrush says Reddit's monthly visitors went from 132M in August 2023 to 346M in April 2024 after Google changes
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