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- Engadget
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- Autoblog
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- TechCrunch
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U.S. cell carrier Patriot Mobile experienced a data breach that included subscribers’ personal information, including full names, email addresses, home ZIP codes and account PINs, TechCrunch has learned. Patriot Mobile, which reportedly has fewer than 100,000 subscribers, bills itself as “America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider and our mission is to passionately defend our God-given Constitutional rights and freedoms while glorifying God.” A hacker who claimed responsibility for the breach provided TechCrunch with a sample of data stolen from Patriot Mobile.
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Trump trial updates: Defense attorneys rest their case without Trump’s testimony
The defense and prosecution have rested their cases, the jury has been dismissed for the week and closing arguments are set for next Tuesday.
- The Yodel
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- Yahoo Sports
Caitlin Clark teams with Wilson to launch first signature basketball collection since Michael Jordan's
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- TechCrunch
Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B
Scale AI, which provides data-labeling services to companies that want to train machine learning models, has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors that include Amazon and Meta. The fundraise is a mix of primary and secondary funding, and is the latest in a slew of big venture capital investments in AI. Amazon recently closed a $4 billion investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic, and the likes of Mistral AI and Perplexity are also in the process of raising more billion-dollar rounds at lofty valuations.
- TechCrunch
ETF Partners raises €285M for climate startups that will be effective quickly — not 20 years down the road
While many climate investors focus their efforts on breakthrough, deep-tech solutions, Patrick Sheehan at ETF Partners has other ideas. “I’ve actually got nothing against carbon capture and storage, apart from the fact it’s probably going to be commercialized too late,” he told TechCrunch. Instead, Sheehan and his colleagues are diving into more software-centric companies that promise to still move the needle.
- TechCrunch
Contour Venture Partners, an early investor in Datadog and Movable Ink, has raised $42M for its fifth fund
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- Engadget
Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI used her likeness without permission for its 'Sky' voice assistant
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- Engadget
Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs will be available this fall
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- Engadget
Microsoft rebuilt Windows 11 around AI and Arm chips
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- Engadget
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- Yahoo TV
'Bridgerton' Season 3 cliff-hanger leaves fans wanting more. Expect Part 2 to be 'a steadily rising arrow of tension,' showrunner says.
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- Yahoo News
Trump trial updates: Michael Cohen's testimony wraps, prosecution rests and defense witness and judge have a tense exchange
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- TechCrunch
Expedia says two execs dismissed after ‘violation of company policy’
Expedia says Rathi Murthy and Sreenivas Rachamadugu, respectively its CTO and senior vice president of core services product & engineering, are no longer employed at the travel booking company. In a statement shared with TechCrunch and other publications, Expedia said Murthy and Rachamadugu are “no longer employed at Expedia Group” due to an unspecified “violation of company policy.” Murthy spoke to TechCrunch about the new AI-powered features announced earlier this week, and she reportedly gave a presentation on those features at an Expedia conference with business partners.
- Yahoo Life
The tiny, brilliant $7 kitchen tool that set me (and 14,000+ fans on Amazon) free
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