Ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who was acquitted on US fraud charges in June 2024, is among six missing after a superyacht sank off Sicily, per Italian authorities
A luxury superyacht carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off the Italian island of Sicily in bad weather early Monday.
Chinese-made, Tencent-backed game Black Myth: Wukong became Steam's second most popular title ever within hours of its launch, gaining 2.1M+ concurrent players
- The made-in-China blockbuster surpasses Cyberpunk play record — Monkey King epic on track to set records for concurrent gamers
The FBI, ODNI, and CISA say they are “confident” that Iran was responsible for recent attempted hacks into the Trump and Biden-Harris presidential campaigns
In a joint statement with intelligence agencies, the bureau said the attempted hacks also were directed at the Democratic campaign.
Donald Trump shared AI-generated images on Truth Social that show Taylor Swift and her fans vowing their support for his campaign; Swift hasn't endorsed Trump
Presidential nominee shares AI-generated images, contributing to spread of online election disinformation
Stephen Chamberlain, who faced the same charges as Mike Lynch over Autonomy's sale, died after a road accident, per his lawyer, days before Lynch went missing
Stephen Chamberlain, once Mike Lynch's co-defendant in the U.S. fraud trial over the sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard …
Cisco Talos says eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's macOS apps could be abused by attackers to record video and sound from a device, log user input, and more
Windows giant tells Cisco Talos it isn't fixing them — Cisco Talos says eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's macOS apps …
PitchBook: seven banks' ~$13B loans to Elon Musk to buy X have been “hung” for two years, weighing on balance sheets, the worst buyout for banks since 2008-2009
Loans of around $13 billion have remained ‘hung’ for nearly two years, bringing in interest payments but weighing on banks' balance sheets
The AGs of 10 states join the US DOJ's antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster; 39 states, plus DC, are now part of the lawsuit
The attorneys general of 10 states have joined the US Department of Justice (DoJ)'s antitrust lawsuit seeking to break off Live Nation …
Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo is now giving 100K+ paid robotaxi rides every week in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, a few months after passing 50K+
Waymo disclosed Tuesday it's now giving more than 100,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across its three main commercial markets in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix.
Sources: Apple plans to make the most expensive iPhone models in India for the first time, as Foxconn rushes to produce iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max in India
- Plan shows Apple making further progress with India assembly — Company is shifting output to India to diversify beyond China
TSMC breaks ground on its €10B chip fab in Dresden, Germany, its first European plant and set to create 11K European jobs; the EU approves Germany's €5B subsidy
- Taiwanese firm begins work on its first European chip plant — German subsidies will cover about half of the fab's costs
Waymo unveils its cheaper “generation 6” self-driving tech that's integrated with Geely Zeekr vehicles, with 13 cameras and 4 lidar sensors, down from 29 and 5
Updated antitrust complaint: the US DOJ says Ticketmaster's rollout of nontransferable SafeTix tickets in 2019 aimed to make it harder to use rival services
Lengthier Amended Complaint Builds on Antitrust Arguments Forums: r/popculturechat : Ticketmaster's nontransferrable ‘SafeTix’ are anti-competitive, DOJ suit claims
Apple debuts a web app for Podcasts, letting users log in to listen to podcasts, view the Up Next queue and library, and browse new shows, at podcasts.apple.com
https://www.macstories.net/... X: @sveltesociety : And best of all, it's written in Svelte 🙂 [image] @jamescridland : Big news in the world of podcasting... Apple Podcasts is now available on the web....
AMD agrees to buy New Jersey-based ZT Systems, founded in 1994 to design and make servers, server racks, and other infrastructure, for $4.9B, closing in H1 2025
chipmaker strengthens AI ecosystem with ZT Systems' expertise in server design Josh Norem / ExtremeTech : AMD Acquires AI Infrastructure Company ZT Systems for $4.9 Billion Diana Goovaerts / Fierce Ne...
Letter to investors: Bolt is finalizing a $450M Series F at a $14B valuation but with harsh terms for existing investors; Ryan Breslow plans to return as CEO
As startup founder comebacks go, this may rank as one of the most remarkable. — Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is returning as CEO … X: @amir , @pitdesi , @jessicalessin , and @erinkwoo X: Amir Efrati / ...
Nvidia plans to let users link an Xbox account to its GeForce Now streaming service to enable automatic sign-in for supported games, starting on August 22
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Qualcomm details its mid-range Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 SoC, based on TSMC's N4P, promising 40% better GPU performance than its 7s Gen 2, shipping via Xiaomi first
Ryan Smith / AnandTech :
The UK CMA accepts Meta's ad rules changes to ensure that Meta doesn't use Marketplace advertisers' data to improve Marketplace, without having to opt in or out
Radhika Anilkumar / Reuters :
Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $2.19B, vs. $2.16B est., projects its FY 2025 earnings above est., and ups its share buyback by $500M to $1B
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters :
Gemini Live is not too useful as a paid feature as it lacks many integrations that text-based Gemini supports and cannot yet interpret images or real-time video
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
University professors still face the seemingly impossible task of detecting AI-fueled cheating, which continues unabated on both small and large assignments
RE: https://www.threads.net/... LinkedIn: Ian Bogost : As we enter the third year of AI college, I checked in on the AI cheating—and how universities are generally preparing. … Forums: Beehaw : AI Che...
Virginia-based Defcon AI, which aims to use ML to improve US DoD logistics, raised a $44M seed led by Bessemer, and has earned ~$15M in government contracts
Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch :
US labor and environmental groups submit comments to the Commerce Department saying draft health and environmental assessments for new chip factories fall short
Justine Calma / The Verge :
Q&A with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on AI, GitHub Copilot, letting developers test AI models in GitHub, open-source AI models, working within Microsoft, and more
and now the two world's collide. …
Business groups, including the Asia Internet Coalition, backed by Amazon, Google, and Meta, criticize Hong Kong's new cyber rules, calling them “unprecedented”
Newley Purnell / Bloomberg :
PhonePe and Google Pay accounted for an 85%+ share of India's 14.4B UPI transactions in July 2024; PhonePe led with 6.9B, Google Pay had 5.3B, and Paytm 1.1B
Digbijay Mishra / The Economic Times :
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