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Former US national security officials form Open Source Intelligence Foundation to promote analysis of public data like social media posts for intel-gathering (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal)

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: Former US national security officials form Open Source Intelligence Foundation to promote analysis of public data like social media posts for intel-gathering — Social media, satellite images, mobile-phone data can yield as much insight as traditional espionage, but few rules exist

Sources: Apple has hired Luigi Taraborrelli, who was most recently Lamborghini’s head of chassis and vehicle dynamics, to work on its self-driving electric car (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple has hired Luigi Taraborrelli, who was most recently Lamborghini’s head of chassis and vehicle dynamics, to work on its self-driving electric car — Apple Inc. has enlisted one of Lamborghini’s top car-development managers in a sign that it’s stepping up work …

Apple is no longer signing iOS 15.5 for the iPhone

After releasing iOS 15.6 for the iPhone, Apple is now blocking downgrades to iOS 15.5.

Probing CAN Bus for EV Battery Info

The widespread adoption of the CAN bus (and OBD-II) in automobiles was largely a way of standardizing the maintenance of increasingly complicated engines and their needs to meet modern emissions standards. While that might sound a little dry on the surface, the existence and standardization of this communications bus in essentially all passenger vehicles for

Crypto exchange FTX US is expanding its no-fee stock trading service to all US users, including non-crypto investors, and plans to offer options trading next (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Crypto exchange FTX US is expanding its no-fee stock trading service to all US users, including non-crypto investors, and plans to offer options trading next — Crypto exchange FTX US is expanding its no-fee stock trading service to all US users, including non-crypto investors …

Fantasy sports app Underdog has raised a $35M Series B at a $485M valuation, and plans to launch licensed sports betting in Ohio and Colorado next year (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)

Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: Fantasy sports app Underdog has raised a $35M Series B at a $485M valuation, and plans to launch licensed sports betting in Ohio and Colorado next year — Startup is expanding into growing U.S. sports-betting industry — Fantasy-sports app Underdog said it has completed a second fundraising round …

Apple has released Safari Technology Preview 150

Apple has released Safari Technology Preview 150 with new features for macOS Ventura and macOS Monterey.

These 26 Amazon workers want the feds to investigate racist death threats

Amazon reportedly told workers they could take unpaid time off if they felt uncomfortable coming into work. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over two dozen Amazon workers claim the company didn’t respond appropriately to racist death threats against Black workers at its MDW2 facility in Joliet, Illinois, and retaliated against an employee

Live Activities will not launch with iOS 16

Apple has revealed that Live Activities, the new Lock Screen feature that tracks app updates in real-time, will not launch with iOS 16.

Facebook and Instagram are going to show even more posts from accounts you don’t follow

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you already have strong feelings about your Instagram feed increasingly showing Reels from accounts you don’t follow, just wait until next year. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will more than double the amount of content from recommended accounts people see while using Instagram and Facebook

Apple Card is raising its interest rates

Apple is raising the interest rates for Apple Card in response to the interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.

You can finally see a live feed of your Google Nest cameras on your TV

Google’s latest Nest security cameras can stream a live feed to a Chromecast with Google TV. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google is finally bringing an old feature to its new Nest cameras. Starting this week, you can stream the video feed from all your Nest cameras and video doorbells to your

Samsung Q2: operating profit up 12% YoY to ~$10.8B, revenue up 21.3% YoY to ~$59B, and chip division revenue of ~$22B, citing strong demand and strong US dollar (Yonhap News Agency)

Yonhap News Agency: Samsung Q2: operating profit up 12% YoY to ~$10.8B, revenue up 21.3% YoY to ~$59B, and chip division revenue of ~$22B, citing strong demand and strong US dollar — (ATTN: RECASTS throughout with more details; ADDS photo) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net profit …

These are the Nintendo Switch games launching August 2022

If you’re in the market for new Nintendo Switch games, here are the ones being released in August. Highlights include Dusk Diver 2, Two Point Campus, and Cleo – a pirate’s tale.

Etsy reports Q2 revenue up 10.6% YoY to $585M, vs. $556M est., and net income down 25.6% YoY to $73.1M; stock up 5%+ after hours (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Etsy reports Q2 revenue up 10.6% YoY to $585M, vs. $556M est., and net income down 25.6% YoY to $73.1M; stock up 5%+ after hours — – Etsy shares jumped more than 15% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the company’s second quarter earnings beat on top and bottom lines. —

Steam now supports Nintendo’s classic controllers for Switch Online

The Nintendo Switch Online NES Controller | Image: Nintendo Steam’s latest update adds support for Nintendo’s classic controllers that it makes for Nintendo Switch. Valve doesn’t specify exactly which controllers are compatible — the language in the patch notes is that Valve has “Added support for Nintendo Online classic controllers” — but the change presumably

RStudio unveils Shiny for Python

The Shiny Web framework for R has come to Python, with an alpha version available now at shiny.rstudio.com/py, RStudio CTO Joe Cheng announced at the RStudio Conference this afternoon. Cheng stressed repeatedly during his presentation that the framework is still in very early stages. In other words, don’t plan on using Shiny for Python in

How to connect Android Auto to your car

Android Auto can be a great aid while on the road, but it can also be a bit finicky at times. Here are step-by-step instructions to connect the app to your car without frustration, so you don’t walk away from the service forever like my colleague Palash. Ready to set up Android Auto? Let’s go.

Spirit and Frontier Airlines throw out merger agreement

Spirit has continually rejected JetBlue’s offer. Spirit and Frontier Airlines have tossed out their proposed merger agreement, leaving room for Spirit’s other suitor, JetBlue, to swoop in and score a deal, as first reported by CNBC. Shareholders were expected to reject the deal during a vote today, possibly because of JetBlue’s higher offer, according to

Apple poaches Lamborghini designer to work on Apple Car

Apple has hired Luigi Taraborrelli, a 20-year veteran of Lamborghini, to work on the design of the Apple Car.

All Pokémon games on Nintendo Switch 2022

Looking for some awesome games to complete your Nintendo Switch collection? You can’t go wrong with Pokémon RPGs and DLC!

Mark Zuckerberg: the economic downturn will broadly impact the digital ad business and Meta thus plans to “steadily reduce headcount growth over the next year” (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Mark Zuckerberg: the economic downturn will broadly impact the digital ad business and Meta thus plans to “steadily reduce headcount growth over the next year” — – It appears the economy has begun a downturn, said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, on the company’s Q2 earnings call.

Simple Universal Modem Helps Save and Load Data From Tape

Back in the early days of the home computer revolution, data was commonly saved on tape. Even better, those tapes would make an almighty racket if you played them on a stereo, because the data was stored in an audio format. The Simple Universal Modem from [Anders Nielsen] is built to work in a similar

London paid a record price for electricity during its heatwave

Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Last week, the UK reached its highest temperature on record — 40 degrees Celsius, or more than 104 degrees Fahrenheit. On July 20th, as the record-breaking “Red Extreme” heatwave continued to linger, a Bloomberg op-ed reports officials made the decision to pay a record price

Google unveils new Chromebook productivity features, including video editing for Google Photos, PDF editing in Gallery, and the ability to save a virtual desk (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google unveils new Chromebook productivity features, including video editing for Google Photos, PDF editing in Gallery, and the ability to save a virtual desk — Google today announced that it is adding a new movie editor and a few new video editing features to Google Photos …

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