Financial Times:
Fortnox CEO Tommy Eklund leaves the Swedish software provider effective immediately; Fortnox stock jumped nearly 5x between 2020 and 2024, drawing short sellers — Swedish software group has attracted short sellers amid scrutiny of its growth and disclosures
The FBI, the UK’s NCA, and others seize the servers and websites of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware operation; since August 2023, the gang targeted 43 SMBs (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The FBI, the UK’s NCA, and others seize the servers and websites of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware operation; since August 2023, the gang targeted 43 SMBs — The FBI announced on Monday that it seized the servers and websites of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware operation following a joint international investigation.
India’s antitrust body orders an unusual recall of a report on its Apple investigation; a source says Apple complained about confidential revenue disclosures (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
India’s antitrust body orders an unusual recall of a report on its Apple investigation; a source says Apple complained about confidential revenue disclosures — India’s antitrust body has ordered an unusual recall of its investigation reports that found Apple in breach of competition laws …
Analysis: about half of all job seekers are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini to assist them in writing CVs, cover letters, and completing assessments (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Analysis: about half of all job seekers are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini to assist them in writing CVs, cover letters, and completing assessments — About half of applicants are using tools such as ChatGPT to help write cover letters but without editing the language is ‘clunky’
A look at US chipmaker ON Semiconductor’s $2B manufacturing hub in Roznov, Czech Republic to make chips for EVs and more; the hub will create 800 new jobs (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
A look at US chipmaker ON Semiconductor’s $2B manufacturing hub in Roznov, Czech Republic to make chips for EVs and more; the hub will create 800 new jobs — A $2 billion investment by a US company promises to create a tech hub and help modernize the country’s stagnating economy.
A look at Fragmentarium, a project to use AI to piece together digitized tablet fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a 3,000-year-old Mesopotamian poem (Erik Ofgang/New York Times)
Erik Ofgang / New York Times:
A look at Fragmentarium, a project to use AI to piece together digitized tablet fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a 3,000-year-old Mesopotamian poem — Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest literary texts.
Inside Worldcoin’s Orb factory in Germany and a profile of Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania; 6M+ people have gotten a World ID and WLD’s market cap is $550M+ (Ashlee Vance/Bloomberg)
Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg:
Inside Worldcoin’s Orb factory in Germany and a profile of Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania; 6M+ people have gotten a World ID and WLD’s market cap is $550M+ — The startup, co-founded by Sam Altman, is determined to verify every human on Earth, one iris at a time.
A recap of Elon Musk’s interview of Trump on X which started 42 mins late; X says the interview was at times heard by 1M+ people, while Musk had prepared for 8M (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
A recap of Elon Musk’s interview of Trump on X which started 42 mins late; X says the interview was at times heard by 1M+ people, while Musk had prepared for 8M — Tech billionaire praises ex-president in rambling conversation on X delayed by technical glitch
Sources: the US to remove lidar maker Hesai from a list of Chinese military-affiliated companies, after judging it did not meet the legal criteria for inclusion (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: the US to remove lidar maker Hesai from a list of Chinese military-affiliated companies, after judging it did not meet the legal criteria for inclusion — U-turn on world’s biggest laser sensor maker is embarrassing reversal for the Pentagon — The Pentagon has decided to remove Hesai …
Hackers leaked ~2.7B data records of people in the US containing SSNs, names, more on Aug. 6, allegedly from National Public Data, which collects and sells data (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Hackers leaked ~2.7B data records of people in the US containing SSNs, names, more on Aug. 6, allegedly from National Public Data, which collects and sells data — Almost 2.7 billion records of personal information for people in the United States were leaked on a hacking forum, exposing names …
