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How Kenya's anti-government protestors are using AI tools, including the Corrupt Politicians GPT, a chatbot that reveals corruption cases involving politicians (Martin K.N Siele/Semafor) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship (Li Yuan/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Interfax: Apple has removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from its App Store in Russia, following a request by Roskomnadzor (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Apple approves the Epic Games Store on iPhones and iPads in the EU, after Epic said it was blocked due to buttons and labels being similar to the App Store's (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Researcher: X is exploring more ways to integrate xAI's Grok, including the ability to ask Grok about X accounts and use Grok by highlighting text in the app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

A test of seven Copilot+ PCs, representing all four Snapdragon X chips, against similar laptops with Apple Silicon, Intel Core Ultra, and AMD Ryzen processors (Joanna Nelius/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

In a complaint filed at a California court, two ex-Northern Data executives say they were fired after raising concerns about alleged fraud by the CEO and COO (Bryce Elder/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Sources: to reduce its reliance on Safari on the iPhone, Google considered limiting AI Overviews to its own apps, but ultimately decided against that move (Jon Victor/The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Epic says Apple is impeding its attempts to set up a games store on iPhones and iPads in Europe and that it has shared its concerns with the European Commission (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The EC asks Amazon to provide more information on its compliance with DSA provisions concerning the transparency of Amazon's recommender systems by July 26 (Benoit Van Overstraeten/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

YouTube releases an updated Erase Song tool for creators that uses AI to detect and remove any copyrighted music from their videos without impacting other audio (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The prospect of applying generative AI to contract lifecycle management software has prompted a flurry of deals, as experts expect further market consolidation (Nick Huber/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Samsung estimates Q2 operating profit up 1,452% YoY to $7.54B, and revenue up 23% YoY to ~$53.7B, as chip prices keep rising (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Cloudflare launches a tool that aims to block bots from scraping websites for AI training data, available free for all customers (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

South Korea unveils a monitoring system to find crypto exchange accounts linked to "suspected" trading activity, as a new law takes effect on July 19 (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Microsoft-owned Mojang is exploring deals in areas like merchandising, education, and streaming, on top of movies and TV series, as gaming sector growth slows (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

SemiAnalysis: Nvidia is set to sell $12B worth of H20 chips in China in 2024, or 1M+ units; Huawei expects to sell ~550,000 units of Ascend 910B chips in 2024 (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Sources: the EU plans to issue a final warning to X over its failure to combat dangerous content under the DSA; X faces fines of 6% of its global revenue (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Amazon Kindle users are unable to download new and previously purchased books to their Kindles; Amazon says the outage could last at least 48 hours (Michael Kozlowski/Good e-Reader) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Meta releases pre-trained models that use a novel multi-token prediction approach, available on Hugging Face under a non-commercial research license (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

ElevenLabs will use AI-generated voices of dead actors like Judy Garland and Burt Reynolds in its Reader app, after striking deals with the actors' estates (Samantha Murphy Kelly/CNN) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Sources: earlier in 2023, a hacker breached OpenAI's internal messaging and accessed product details; OpenAI told staff but did not go public or inform the FBI (Cade Metz/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Evan Blass leaks Samsung's entire specs sheets and marketing materials for the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, expected at its Unpacked event on July 10 (Sean Hollister/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

A look at the inaugural Esports World Cup, a multi-genre tournament in Riyadh funded by Saudi Arabia, featuring 1,500+ gamers and a record $60M+ prize pool (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

A look at a16z's Crypto Startup Accelerator, a Y Combinator-style program that provides $500K in funding and 10 weeks of coaching, most recently in London (Joel Khalili/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

AWS partners with the Australian government to build a secure cloud data system for top secret information; the government will invest $1.3B over 10 years (Ben Westcott/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

How the e-commerce-driven warehouse boom has transformed Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, into a distribution megaregion, much like California's Inland Empire (Tyler J Kelley/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Researchers say GPS spoofing has impacted 60K+ commercial flights so far in 2024; GPS could become a relic as Chinese, Russian, and European systems modernize (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

A global law enforcement operation takes down 593 servers hosting unlicensed versions of Cobalt Strike, a penetration testing tool abused by cybercriminals (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

An investigation details how online gambling giants Flutter and Entain employ practices in the US that they dropped in the UK after admitting risks to UK users (Tom Bergin/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink