The SEC's Paul Munter warns that the accounting firms working with crypto companies could be held liable for misleading public statements made by their clients (Colin Wilhelm/The Block)

Colin Wilhelm / The Block:
The SEC's Paul Munter warns that the accounting firms working with crypto companies could be held liable for misleading public statements made by their clients  —  - The SEC's chief accountant issued a warning to accounting firms that work with crypto clients, saying auditors …

Realme GT 5 name officially confirmed, tipped to launch in August

Realme has announced its flagship smartphone, the Realme GT 5, which will be launched in August 2023 with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. While the Realme GT 5 Pro will be launched towards the end of this year or the first quarter of 2024. The smartphone is expected to have a 6.74-inch OLED panel with a 144Hz refresh rate, a 16-megapixel front camera, and a triple-camera unit on the back. The Realme GT 5 is expected to be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen chipset and offer up to 16GB LPDDR5 X RAM and 1TB UFS 4.0 storage. https://ift.tt/j4flwMp

PUBG releases official collaboration trailer with Street Fighter

PUBG has released a trailer showcasing its collaboration with Street Fighter, which includes character skins, special moves and Street Fighter-themed loot crates. The new features come as part of the game's summer update, which also rewards players with exclusives for in-game events. PUBG also announced a partnership with Dragon Ball Super, which sees characters Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo and Frieza all added to the game. https://ift.tt/WCbmUP7

Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a "Diversion Team" to suppress thousands of complaints (Reuters)

Reuters:
Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a “Diversion Team” to suppress thousands of complaints  —  About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” …

Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures (Srishti Jaswal/Rest of World)

Srishti Jaswal / Rest of World:
Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures  —  As the campaign for the 2024 elections in India goes digital, social media influencers have become a powerful tool to try and shape voter behavior.

Slack experienced an "outage across the app" starting around 5AM ET for about an hour, including issues with sending messages and search (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge:
Slack experienced an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET for about an hour, including issues with sending messages and search  —  Slack, the workplace chat app, experienced an outage this morning, with messages failing to send on the service.