Access Now and Citizen Lab: Russian spy agencies are using deep knowledge about opponents, reporters, and human rights groups to target them via phishing emails (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Access Now and Citizen Lab: Russian spy agencies are using deep knowledge about opponents, reporters, and human rights groups to target them via phishing emails  —  Traditional phishing attacks aimed to break into organizations advocating for Russian dissidents, among others.

MIT releases a database of 700+ unique AI risks, based on 43 existing taxonomies, including peer-reviewed articles, preprints, conference papers, and reports (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat)

Ben Dickson / VentureBeat:
MIT releases a database of 700+ unique AI risks, based on 43 existing taxonomies, including peer-reviewed articles, preprints, conference papers, and reports  —  As research and adoption of artificial intelligence continue to advance at an accelerating pace, so do the risks associated with using AI.

Meta shuts down CrowdTangle, less than three months before the US election, in favor of the Meta Content Library; Mozilla says 50K+ petitioned against the move (Dara Kerr/NPR)

Dara Kerr / NPR:
Meta shuts down CrowdTangle, less than three months before the US election, in favor of the Meta Content Library; Mozilla says 50K+ petitioned against the move  —  Meta has been bombarded by academics, researchers, politicians and regulators about a tool called CrowdTangle, which most people probably haven’t heard of.

Kiteworks, formerly Accellion, which offers secure email and file transfer tools, raised $456M from Insight and Sixth Street Growth at a $1B+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Kiteworks, formerly Accellion, which offers secure email and file transfer tools, raised $456M from Insight and Sixth Street Growth at a $1B+ valuation  —  Mark up another unicorn and large funding round for the cybersecurity industry: Kiteworks, a company that builds tools to secure email communications …

Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$22.5B, meeting est., and a $6.6B net income, above $5.6B est., after releasing blockbuster Dungeon & Fighter Mobile (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$22.5B, meeting est., and a $6.6B net income, above $5.6B est., after releasing blockbuster Dungeon & Fighter Mobile  —  – China’s mobile gamers enthusiastically welcomed ‘DnF Mobile’  — Tencent’s cloud and fintech prospects hinge on China economy

Apple approves Spotify updating its app to show in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the EU starting today, after Spotify’s yearslong legal battle (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Apple approves Spotify updating its app to show in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the EU starting today, after Spotify’s yearslong legal battle  —  Spotify will begin showing in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the European Union starting today, following a yearslong legal battle against Apple.

AT&T says it won’t carry Google’s new Pixel 9 Pro Fold, after selling the original Pixel Fold; the network will carry the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL (Eli Blumenthal/CNET)

Eli Blumenthal / CNET:
AT&T says it won’t carry Google’s new Pixel 9 Pro Fold, after selling the original Pixel Fold; the network will carry the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL  —  The second-generation Google foldable isn’t heading to AT&T. The carrier told CNET that it will not be offering Google’s newest Pixel Fold to its customers.