Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
The US DOJ charges three hackers employed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard for allegedly hacking Trump’s presidential campaign and disseminating stolen info — The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Friday against three Iranian operatives suspected of hacking Donald Trump’s presidential campaign …
Mendaera, which is developing a robotic system with real-time imaging and AI for use in interventional radiology, raised a $73M Series B led by Threshold (Marty Stempniak/Radiology Business)
Marty Stempniak / Radiology Business:
Mendaera, which is developing a robotic system with real-time imaging and AI for use in interventional radiology, raised a $73M Series B led by Threshold — Mendaera, a startup aiming to bring robotics into interventional radiology, has raised $73 million in financing, the company announced Thursday.
Sources: Apple rethinks its movie strategy, including rolling back theatrical releases and cutting budgets for most to under $100M, after some box office misses (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple rethinks its movie strategy, including rolling back theatrical releases and cutting budgets for most to under $100M, after some box office misses — The tech giant intended to spend $1 billion annually on films for cinemas. After several box office disappointments …
The US is fretting over signing a UN cybercrime treaty due to fears Russia, China, and others could use it to justify surveillance and suppression of rights (Maggie Miller/Politico)
Maggie Miller / Politico:
The US is fretting over signing a UN cybercrime treaty due to fears Russia, China, and others could use it to justify surveillance and suppression of rights — The Biden administration has weeks left to decide how to vote on a controversial U.N. cybercrime treaty, which critics …
iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max teardown: great modularity upgrades and much improved repairability with a dual-entry design and a metal enclosure for 16 Pro battery (Kyle Wiens/iFixit News)
Kyle Wiens / iFixit News:
iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max teardown: great modularity upgrades and much improved repairability with a dual-entry design and a metal enclosure for 16 Pro battery — We first cracked into the iPhone 16 lineup over the weekend, and we were impressed. The vanilla iPhone 16 earned a respectable 7 out of 10 repairability score.
A look at some standout startups from Day 2 of YC’s S24 Demo Day, including energy-efficient AI chips maker Exa Laboratories and freight carpooling startup Oway (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
A look at some standout startups from Day 2 of YC’s S24 Demo Day, including energy-efficient AI chips maker Exa Laboratories and freight carpooling startup Oway — Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator held the second Demo Day for its Summer 2024 cohort on Thursday, and just like we saw on Day 1 …
The Irish Data Protection Commission wraps up an inquiry launched in 2019 and fines Meta €91M for violating GDPR rules by storing passwords in plain text (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
The Irish Data Protection Commission wraps up an inquiry launched in 2019 and fines Meta €91M for violating GDPR rules by storing passwords in plain text — The Irish Data Protection Commission found that the company violated several GDPR rules. — The Irish Data Protection Commission …
The UK CMA rules that Amazon’s $4B Anthropic deal does not qualify for an investigation under merger laws as Anthropic’s UK revenue did not meet needed limits (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg)
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA rules that Amazon’s $4B Anthropic deal does not qualify for an investigation under merger laws as Anthropic’s UK revenue did not meet needed limits — The Competition and Markets Authority said Friday that the tie-up did not qualify for an investigation under merger laws.
Current and former staff say OpenAI has rushed product announcements and safety testing, lost its lead over rivals, and Altman is detached from the day-to-day (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Current and former staff say OpenAI has rushed product announcements and safety testing, lost its lead over rivals, and Altman is detached from the day-to-day — Executives and researchers have left this year amid disputes over the company’s values and fights among its leaders
DefiLlama: Coinbase’s L2 Ethereum network Base stands at $2.08B in total value locked, up from $430M at the start of 2024, marking a 370% growth year-to-date (Vishal Chawla/The Block)
Vishal Chawla / The Block:
DefiLlama: Coinbase’s L2 Ethereum network Base stands at $2.08B in total value locked, up from $430M at the start of 2024, marking a 370% growth year-to-date — – Base has surpassed a total value locked of $2 billion for the first time — a 370% increase year-to-date.
