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Cisco reports Q4 revenue down 10% YoY to $13.64B, vs. $13.54B est., and says it's cutting 7% of its global workforce; CSCO jumps 5%+ after hours (Ari Levy/CNBC)

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Images generated by Grok, like Barack Obama doing cocaine and Donald Trump and Kamala Harris with guns, go viral on X, raising questions about Grok's guardrails (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

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During a talk, Eric Schmidt said Google is losing the AI race because it decided that work-life balance and working from home were "more important than winning" (Orianna Rosa Royle/Fortune)

During a talk, Eric Schmidt said Google is losing ...

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Sources: Apple is prioritizing developing a tabletop home device with an iPad-like display and a robotic limb, aiming for a release in 2026 or 2027 for ~$1,000 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is prioritizing developing a tablet...

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A look at some of the victims of the now-ubiquitous deepfake video scams; an analysis of 2,000+ deepfakes found Elon Musk was featured in ~25% of such scams (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

A look at some of the victims of the now-ubiquitou...

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Apple says app developers can offer NFC contactless transactions using the iPhone's Secure Element, separate from Apple Pay and Wallet, starting with iOS 18.1 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Apple says app developers can offer NFC contactles...

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The main takeaway from the Google Pixel event is Android's primacy, and Google's integration with Android is worth preserving if the goal is spurring innovation (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

The main takeaway from the Google Pixel event is A...

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A look at the National Public Data breach, first noted in April 2024 and posted publicly last week, and efforts to establish if "nearly 3B people" were exposed (Troy Hunt)

A look at the National Public Data breach, first n...

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SAG-AFTRA strikes a deal with Narrativ for voice replicas in digital ads, letting union members add themselves to the AI startup's database and negotiate fees (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)

SAG-AFTRA strikes a deal with Narrativ for voice r...

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Tencent says it is exploring with Apple ways to offer in-app transactions via iOS' payment system, the first acknowledgment of talks with Apple (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Tencent says it is exploring with Apple ways to of...

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Interviews with 48+ people detail Snowflake and Databricks' intense rivalry, jockeying to be the dominant platform to organize AI data, and fear of Microsoft (Bloomberg)

Interviews with 48+ people detail Snowflake and Da...

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X review: the Zen 5 flagship chips are fine for highly threaded productivity workloads, but gaming issues need to be fixed (Gavin Bonshor/AnandTech)

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X review: the Ze...

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EliseAI, which offers AI property management tools for landlords, raised a $75M Series D led by Sapphire at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $140M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

EliseAI, which offers AI property management tools...

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MIT releases a database of 700+ unique AI risks, based on 43 existing taxonomies, including peer-reviewed articles, preprints, conference papers, and reports (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat)

MIT releases a database of 700+ unique AI risks, b...

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LA-based Sahara AI, which uses AI to recognize copyrights and track assets, raised a $43M Series A led by Pantera and Polychain, and claims 200K contributors (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

LA-based Sahara AI, which uses AI to recognize cop...

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Access Now and Citizen Lab: Russian spy agencies are using deep knowledge about opponents, reporters, and human rights groups to target them via phishing emails (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Access Now and Citizen Lab: Russian spy agencies a...

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Kiteworks, formerly Accellion, which offers secure email and file transfer tools, raised $456M from Insight and Sixth Street Growth at a $1B+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Kiteworks, formerly Accellion, which offers secure...

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Meta shuts down CrowdTangle, less than three months before the US election, in favor of the Meta Content Library; Mozilla says 50K+ petitioned against the move (Dara Kerr/NPR)

Meta shuts down CrowdTangle, less than three month...

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Foxconn says it will only start shipping a small volume of servers with Nvidia's GB200 chips in Q4, before ramping up significantly in Q1 2025 (Bloomberg)

Foxconn says it will only start shipping a small v...

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AT&T says it won't carry Google's new Pixel 9 Pro Fold, after selling the original Pixel Fold; the network will carry the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL (Eli Blumenthal/CNET)

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How Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are using accounting techniques to disguise growing emissions, while working to influence pollution disclosure rules (Financial Times)

How Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are usin...

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HyperX Pulsefire Haste 2 Mini review: a small, ergonomic gaming mouse with more heft than meets the eye

HyperX Pulsefire Haste 2 Mini review: a small, erg...

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Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$22.5B, meeting est., and a $6.6B net income, above $5.6B est., after releasing blockbuster Dungeon & Fighter Mobile (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$22.5B, m...

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Apple approves Spotify updating its app to show in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the EU starting today, after Spotify's yearslong legal battle (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Apple approves Spotify updating its app to show in...

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How the English Premier League plans to use 28+ iPhone 14 or newer cameras at stadiums to call offsides later in the 2024/25 season, ditching its VAR system (Ben Dowsett/Wired)

How the English Premier League plans to use 28+ iP...

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Australia's market regulator sues the country's ASX stock exchange over its botched blockchain upgrade, abandoned in November 2022 after seven years of work (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)

Australia's market regulator sues the country's AS...

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Latin America digital bank Nubank reports Q2 revenue up 52% YoY to $2.8B, above $2.66B est., a $487M net income, above $418M est., and passes 100M customers (Daniel Cancel/Bloomberg)

Latin America digital bank Nubank reports Q2 reven...

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Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to ~$48B and net profit up 6% YoY to ~$1.08B, above ~$1.04B est., on strong AI server demand; its stock is up ~80% in 2024 (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)

Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to ~$48B and...

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xAI launches Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta with improved reasoning capabilities, available to X Premium and Premium+ users; the API will debut later in August (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

xAI launches Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta with i...

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Google says Gemini will replace Google Assistant as the default on the Google Pixel 9 lineup, but "users can go back to the classic Google Assistant" (Pranav Dixit/Engadget)

Google says Gemini will replace Google Assistant a...

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A look at challenges Google faces ahead of Pixel 9 launch in India; IDC: Google's smartphone shipments in India grew over 1,300% in 2023 to a 0.5% market share (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

A look at challenges Google faces ahead of Pixel 9...

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Guidewheel, which offers plug-and-play sensors to make factory machines smarter, raised a $31M Series B led by BlackRock and Temasek's Decarbonization Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Guidewheel, which offers plug-and-play sensors to ...

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Chinese self-driving startup WeRide gets permission to test its robotaxis with passengers in California after testing without passengers in San Jose since 2021 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Chinese self-driving startup WeRide gets permissio...

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A look at the growth of free streaming service Tubi, which does not require an account to use, is entirely dependent on ad revenue, and is not yet profitable (John Koblin/New York Times)

A look at the growth of free streaming service Tub...

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US District Judge Reed O'Connor recuses himself from X's advertiser lawsuit over an alleged ad boycott; O'Connor held stock in Tesla and Unilever (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

US District Judge Reed O'Connor recuses himself fr...

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US District Judge Reed O'Connor recuses himself from X's advertiser lawsuit over an alleged ad boycott; O'Connor held stock in Tesla and Unilever (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

US District Judge Reed O'Connor recuses himself fr...

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Filing: Intel sold its 1.18M shares in Arm during the second quarter, which, based on the stock's average price in Q2, would have raised ~$147M for the company (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Filing: Intel sold its 1.18M shares in Arm during ...

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A US judge rules that a group of artists can pursue some copyright infringement claims in their lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, and other companies (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

A US judge rules that a group of artists can pursu...

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Google announces Android accessibility updates, including an easier-to-use Guided Frame for photos, AI features for Magnifier, and new Live Caption languages (Abrar Al-Heeti/CNET)

Google announces Android accessibility updates, in...

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Researchers describe now-fixed vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Azure Health Bot Service that allowed a user to access and manage other customers' resources (Nathan Eddy/Dark Reading)

Researchers describe now-fixed vulnerabilities in ...

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Researchers describe now-fixed vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Azure Health Bot Service that allowed a user to access and manage other customers' resources (Nathan Eddy/Dark Reading)

Researchers describe now-fixed vulnerabilities in ...

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Hands-on with Pixel 9's AI camera features: Add Me, Reimagine, Autoframe, Zoom Enhance, and improvements to Video Boost and panoramas (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

Hands-on with Pixel 9's AI camera features: Add Me...

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Sources: after Google's monopoly ruling, the DOJ considers options including forcing a breakup of the company or requiring it to share more data with rivals (Bloomberg)

Sources: after Google's monopoly ruling, the DOJ c...

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NIST publishes its first three post-quantum cryptography standards; IBM's director of research thinks quantum computing will hit an inflection point around 2030 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

NIST publishes its first three post-quantum crypto...

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Deep-Live-Cam, a deepfake software project that lets users impersonate others on a webcam livestream, goes viral and was briefly the top trending GitHub repo (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Deep-Live-Cam, a deepfake software project that le...

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Encord, which offers a data labeling tools for AI, raised a $30M Series C led by Next47 and expects to grow its headcount from 70 to 100 by the end of the year (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Encord, which offers a data labeling tools for AI,...

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The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that geofence warrants are "prohibited by the Fourth Amendment", at odds with a recent Fourth Circuit ruling (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rule...

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Hands-on with Gemini Live: conversationally, a big step forward, but functionally, a step back in some ways, largely because it works entirely in the cloud (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)

Hands-on with Gemini Live: conversationally, a big...

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Overview of AI features for Pixel devices including the Gemini assistant, Call Notes for call summaries, Pixel Studio for image generation, Pixel Screenshots (Molly McHugh-Johnson/The Keyword)

Overview of AI features for Pixel devices includin...

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Google previews an "Add Me" photo editing feature for group shots that merges two photos together so the picture taker can be added to photo (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET)

Google previews an "Add Me" photo editing feature ...

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