Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
The FBI says it is investigating an alleged Trump campaign hack, after the campaign claimed a hack by Iran led to the leak of sensitive internal documents — The GOP campaign claimed this weekend that it had been hacked by Iran, leading to the compromise of a JD Vance vetting document.
CrowdStrike’s president appeared at DEF CON to accept the “Most Epic Fail” Pwnie Award, saying “we got this horribly wrong” and “it’s super important to own it” (Michael Kan/PCMag)
Michael Kan / PCMag:
CrowdStrike’s president appeared at DEF CON to accept the “Most Epic Fail” Pwnie Award, saying “we got this horribly wrong” and “it’s super important to own it” — CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas appears at DEF CON’s annual Pwnie Awards to accept …
The US SEC sues crypto company NovaTech and its co-founders, saying they fraudulently raised $650M+ from 200K+ investors globally, following the NY AG’s suit (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
The US SEC sues crypto company NovaTech and its co-founders, saying they fraudulently raised $650M+ from 200K+ investors globally, following the NY AG’s suit — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday sued the cryptocurrency company NovaTech and its married co-founders …
TikTok adds group chats, with support for up to 32 people, available to all users over 15 years old (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok adds group chats, with support for up to 32 people, available to all users over 15 years old — TikTok looks to be taking on popular messaging services like Meta’s WhatsApp and Apple’s Messages, as the company announced on Monday that it’s adding group chats to its platform.
Researchers: in the 30 US states which legalized access to online betting, citizens’ likelihood of filing for bankruptcy went up 25-30% after about three years (Slow Boring)
Slow Boring:
Researchers: in the 30 US states which legalized access to online betting, citizens’ likelihood of filing for bankruptcy went up 25-30% after about three years — New evidence makes it clear that more lawmakers need to take the issue seriously — Today’s post is by our regular Saturday correspondent …
Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous robotaxis on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this week, after getting regulator approval in March (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous robotaxis on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this week, after getting regulator approval in March — Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous vehicles with no human safety driver on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this week.
Patreon says it has begun a migration process to move all creators to Apple’s subscription billing by November 2025, after Apple threatened to remove the app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Patreon says it has begun a migration process to move all creators to Apple’s subscription billing by November 2025, after Apple threatened to remove the app — Apple has threatened to remove crowdfunding app Patreon from the App Store if creators continue to use unsupported third-party billing options …
NYT, Puck, and others are focusing on Reddit as its traffic went from 132M monthly visitors in August 2023 to 346M in April 2024 following Google Search changes (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
NYT, Puck, and others are focusing on Reddit as its traffic went from 132M monthly visitors in August 2023 to 346M in April 2024 following Google Search changes — Several publishers notched a record number of Reddit referrals in July — Last September, in an initiative called the Helpful Content Update …
Accountable Tech: the average weekly reach per post of five prominent political Instagram accounts fell 65% after Meta began to downrank political content (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg)
Alicia Clanton / Bloomberg:
Accountable Tech: the average weekly reach per post of five prominent political Instagram accounts fell 65% after Meta began to downrank political content — – Prominent political accounts saw fewer views, study says — Meta changed political stance to make services less combative
PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter review: a robust VR experience, but the setup is a headache, especially with the Bluetooth dependency and the lack of included cables (Gabriel Moss/IGN)
Gabriel Moss / IGN:
PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter review: a robust VR experience, but the setup is a headache, especially with the Bluetooth dependency and the lack of included cables — PC VR2 — Until now, the otherwise excellent-on-paper PlayStation VR2 headset has seen its loyal fans relegated to an underwhelming selection of games.
