Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Google fixes a flaw after hackers bypassed email verification to create “a few thousand” Workspace accounts to access 3rd-party apps via Sign in with Google — Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent the email verification required …
How Win With Black Women and other groups are using Zoom calls to organize and fundraise for Kamala Harris; virtual rallies for Harris raised $10M+ this week (Jacob Knutson/Axios)
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
How Win With Black Women and other groups are using Zoom calls to organize and fundraise for Kamala Harris; virtual rallies for Harris raised $10M+ this week — – “What we’re seeing now at the moment is a beautiful intersection of concerned citizens utilizing digital media and virtual technology …
Sources: Kamala Harris’ advisers have approached top crypto companies, including Coinbase, Circle, and Ripple Labs, to “reset” relations with the industry (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: Kamala Harris’ advisers have approached top crypto companies, including Coinbase, Circle, and Ripple Labs, to “reset” relations with the industry — Vice-president’s team aims to improve relations after industry criticism of the Biden administration
Sources detail how Elon Musk undermined CEO Linda Yaccarino’s efforts to repair X’s business over the past year; X’s US revenue fell 53% YoY to $114M in Q2 (Kate Conger/New York Times)
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Sources detail how Elon Musk undermined CEO Linda Yaccarino’s efforts to repair X’s business over the past year; X’s US revenue fell 53% YoY to $114M in Q2 — Linda Yaccarino, the C.E.O. of X, has worked hard to bring back advertisers and fix the platform’s business.
A profile of CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, who co-founded CrowdStrike in 2011 after departing as McAfee’s CTO following Intel’s acquisition of McAfee for $7.68B (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, who co-founded CrowdStrike in 2011 after departing as McAfee’s CTO following Intel’s acquisition of McAfee for $7.68B — ‘A piece of software shouldn’t be able to take everything out,’ says George Kurtz — CrowdStrike Chief Executive George Kurtz answered …
The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is using real-time AI-based video surveillance tech to detect and predict threats, raising concerns over mass surveillance (Jorja Siemons/Bloomberg Law)
Jorja Siemons / Bloomberg Law:
The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is using real-time AI-based video surveillance tech to detect and predict threats, raising concerns over mass surveillance — The Paris Summer Olympics that begin Friday include among the most public and controversial rollouts ever of algorithmic video surveillance …
Filing: the US DOJ says TikTok collected data about its users’ views on gun control, abortion, and religion, and censored content at ByteDance’s direction (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Filing: the US DOJ says TikTok collected data about its users’ views on gun control, abortion, and religion, and censored content at ByteDance’s direction — Justice Department defends new law requiring the sale or ban of the popular app — TikTok collected data about its users’ views …
The International Association of Machinists says Apple reached a three-year tentative labor agreement with retail workers at a Towson, Maryland store, a first (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
The International Association of Machinists says Apple reached a three-year tentative labor agreement with retail workers at a Towson, Maryland store, a first — – Three-year deal will increase pay by an average of 10% — Union aims to build on the success; Apple declines to comment
Sources: Honeywell is considering a US IPO of its majority-owned quantum computing firm Quantinuum as soon as 2025, and could seek a valuation of about $10B (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Honeywell is considering a US IPO of its majority-owned quantum computing firm Quantinuum as soon as 2025, and could seek a valuation of about $10B — – The firm has held early talks with banks on potential IPO — A listing in the US could take place as soon as next year
Chinese self-driving startup WeRide files to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol WRD, reporting a loss of $268M on revenue of $55M in 2023 (Michael Hytha/Bloomberg)
Michael Hytha / Bloomberg:
Chinese self-driving startup WeRide files to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol WRD, reporting a loss of $268M on revenue of $55M in 2023 — Driverless technology startup WeRide Inc. filed for what could be the biggest US initial public offering by a Chinese company since ride-share company Didi Global Inc.’s disastrous 2021 listing.
