Tel Aviv-based startup Hour One is paying people to use their likenesses to create AI-voiced characters for marketing and educational videos for its clients (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

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A bad solar storm could cause an “Internet apocalypse”

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Filing in AGs’ lawsuit against Google: the Play Store hit revenues of $11.2B in 2019, with $8.5B in gross profit and an operating margin of over 62% (Paresh Dave/Reuters)

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38 million records exposed online—including contact-tracing info

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Toast, a cloud management software provider for restaurants, files its S-1, reports it had $494M ARR at the end of June, up 118% YoY, and $38B in GPV (Joe Guszkowski/Restaurant Business)

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“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure

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Need to get root on a Windows box? Plug in a Razer gaming mouse

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Following WH meeting, Google says it will spend $10B over 5 years and train 100K IT and data workers, Apple pledges supply chain security improvements, more (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

Biden meets with CEOs from Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and others to discuss cybersecurity, says private…

Nude hunt: LA phisherman accessed 4,700 iCloud accounts, 620K photos

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President Biden to host infosec roundtable with tech giant CEOs

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