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Google Open-Sources ‘Project Oscar’, An AI Agent that Enriches Issues Reports. (iblnews.org)

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CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem

This is an unpopular opinion, and I get why – people crave a scapegoat. CrowdStrike undeniably pushed a faulty update demanding a low-level fix (booting into recovery). However, this incident lays bare the fragility of corporate IT, particularly for companies entrusted with vast amounts of sensitive personal information....

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Supreme Court Dodges Key Question in Murthy v. Missouri and Dismisses Case for Failing to Connect The Government’s Communication to Specific Platform Moderation. (www.eff.org)

Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier (m.gsmarena.com)

Netflix execs needs a new jet.

UK parents should check under-18s’ phones for nude photos, says police chief (www.theguardian.com)

Microsoft Says Bye-Bye DEI, Joins Growing List Of Corporations Dismantling Diversity Teams (atlantadailyworld.com)

cross-posted from: yall.theatl.social/post/3229309...

TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany (arstechnica.com)

cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/14914636

Gambling Is No Game: DNS Links Between Chinese Organized Crime and Sports Sponsorships (blogs.infoblox.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1024102...

To what extent, if at all, would have CrowdStrike's faulty update have been easier to deal with with an immutable distro?

Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)

Disney hack leads to 1.2TB of Slack communications leaked online (stackdiary.com)

In a significant data breach, hacktivist group NullBulge has infiltrated Disney’s internal Slack infrastructure, leaking 1.2TB of sensitive data. This breach, posted on the cybercrime platform Breach Forums on July 12, 2024, exposes many of Disney’s internal communications, compromising messages, files, code, and other...

Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware | 84% of people said no (www.techspot.com)

Companies are going all-in on artificial intelligence right now, investing millions or even billions into the area while slapping the AI initialism on their products, even when doing so seems strange and pointless....

Conspiracy Theorists Say Global Outage Was an Attack on Trump (gizmodo.com)

Instructions for Windows users who want have improved security without CrowdStrike (programming.dev)

Boeing and NASA engineers have wrapped up ground tests on the Starliner thruster (www.engadget.com)

OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole (www.theverge.com)

CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft releases recovery tool to help repair Windows machines hit by CrowdStrike issue (www.theverge.com)

Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs (www.theverge.com)

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Apple AI Released a 7B Open-Source Language Model Trained on 2.5T Tokens on Open Datasets. (www.marktechpost.com)

Illicit chip flows to Russia seen slowing, but China, Hong Kong remain transshipment hubs (www.reuters.com)

LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells (www.tomshardware.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17822148...