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ATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look (www.wired.com)

EFF and 12 Organizations Tell Bumble: Don’t Sell User Data Without Opt-In Consent. (www.eff.org)

X to pause using European user data to train AI systems (www.rte.ie)

X are being sued by the Irish data regulator for breaching the GDPR in processing European citizens’ data for Grok AI without an initial opt-out....

TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture (www.tomshardware.com)

Roblox banned in Türkiye following nationwide Instagram block (www.turkiyetoday.com)

Logitech has ‘no plans’ for a subscription mouse (www.theverge.com)

Cat and mouse: Myanmar netizens find cracks in draconian VPN ban (www.frontiermyanmar.net)

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Scientists illuminate a path to quantum AGI with new light-based chips (cointelegraph.com)

Intel's stock drops 30% overnight —company sheds $39 billion in market cap | As of now, Intel's market value is a fraction of Nvidia's worth and less than half of AMD's (www.tomshardware.com)

Intel’s stock dropped around 30% overnight, shaving some $39 billion from the company’s market capitalization since rumors of a pending layoff first emerged. The devastating results come after the chip giant reported a loss for the second quarter, complained about yield issues with the Meteor Lake CPU, provided a modest...

Ad industry initiative abruptly shuts down after lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X (arstechnica.com)

OnePlus Open Apex Edition launched in India (lemmy.world)

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The ‘Unsettling,’ Nearly Normalized Surveillance Tech Monitoring the U.S.-Mexico Border. (themarkup.org)

Almost all Windows 10 systems can be upgraded to the new version — so why are businesses holding back? (www.techradar.com)

What do people really ask chatbots? It’s a lot of sex and homework. (www.washingtonpost.com)

Microsoft Ruined Windows (www.youtube.com)

Microsoft is ruining Windows. It just keeps getting worse. Whether it be their insistence on AI and cloud garbage, or just a general sense of incompetence, I can’t help but feel like the operating system has seen better days....

AI could be the breakthrough that allows humanoid robots to jump from science fiction to reality. (theconversation.com)

Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs (www.wired.com)

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512-bit RSA key in home energy system gives control of “virtual power plant” (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft says Delta’s ancient IT explains long outage after CrowdStrike snafu (arstechnica.com)

Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison (www.bbc.co.uk)

Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison::Judge says hacker remains a high risk through his skills and motivation to carry out cyber-crime.

How the Frontal Lobotomy Won the Nobel Prize in 1949 (youtu.be)

Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry. (www.vox.com)

[L]ately, Anthropic has been in the headlines for less noble reasons: It’s pushing back on a landmark California bill to regulate AI. It’s taking money from Google and Amazon in a way that’s drawing antitrust scrutiny. And it’s being accused of aggressively scraping data from websites without permission, harming their...

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