AT&T Hack, X’s Blue Checkmark, and free trump

☎️🔓 AT&T Data Exposed: Calls & Texts Leaked!

AT&T is notifying customers after a data breach exposed call and text records of almost everyone on their network, including landlines. 😬 Yikes! [link]

🇺🇸🇹🇷 Sources claim John Binns, a US citizen currently imprisoned in Turkey, might be involved. Binns faces charges for allegedly hacking T-Mobile in 2021. Could this be a repeat performance? AT&T is yet to confirm, but the connection adds another layer of concern to the massive data leak. [link]

❄️🔓 Snowflake, the cloud data platform used by AT&T, confirms the data breach is linked to previous hacks affecting Ticketmaster and LendingTree. This suggests a wider vulnerability exploited by the attackers. As investigations continue, concerns mount about the extent of the exposed data. [link]

🐦🇪🇺 The EU says X's paid blue checkmarks are misleading and violate the Digital Services Act (DSA). This could result in fines of up to 6% of X's global revenue! Looks like the party's over for buying legitimacy on X. [link]

📱🇺🇸 Meta will soon lift restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure equal treatment of candidates before the 2024 election. [link]

🇺🇸📝 Three US senators have introduced the COPIED Act, designed to provide journalists, songwriters, and artists with tools to prevent AI models from using their work without consent. [link]

📄🔍 An internal document and source reveal OpenAI's Strawberry, previously known as Q*, which aims to significantly enhance its AI models' reasoning capabilities. [link]

🦙🔍 Source: Meta plans to release the largest version of its Llama 3 model, expected to feature 405B parameters and multimodal capabilities, on July 23. [link]

📄🇮🇳 In a June 24 report, the Indian antitrust body CCI found that Apple exploited its dominant App Store position on iOS and engaged "in abusive conduct and practices." [link]

🎮🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia will host the first-ever Olympic Esports Games in 2025, following a newly announced 12-year partnership with the Olympic Committee. [link]

🇪🇺📜 The EU has published the final text of the EU AI Act, which will come into force on August 1, 2024. Most companies will have until August 2026 to comply with the new transparency rules. [link]