Monday, August 8, 2022

As Congress prepares for its August recess, the bipartisan antitrust bill targeting US tech giants remains in limbo; Schumer plans a vote after recess (Ryan Tracy/Wall Street Journal)

Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
As Congress prepares for its August recess, the bipartisan antitrust bill targeting US tech giants remains in limbo; Schumer plans a vote after recess  —  Legislative clock ticks down on bill that would block largest tech companies from favoring their own products and services



Your Twitter data might be up for sale with 5.4 million other users

On Friday, Twitter confirmed a zero-day vulnerability that allowed a bad actor to find email addresses and phone numbers associated with several, to be exact, 5.4 million Twitter accounts. And it is said to be currently on sale. https://ift.tt/xVWPBRM

Amazon Great Freedom Sale: 5G smartphones from Xiaomi, Samsung, OnePlus and others you can buy under Rs 20,000

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A look at potential Ethereum forks, led by some miners, after the shift to a proof-of-stake model, called the Merge, expected as early as September (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
A look at potential Ethereum forks, led by some miners, after the shift to a proof-of-stake model, called the Merge, expected as early as September  —  A monkey wrench is about to be thrown into the already complicated transition that the Ethereum blockchain is slated to go through soon.



Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)

Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter : Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection ...