You can get some great deals on Prime Day
Amazon Prime Day is underway and it’s offering up to 34% off on products, including everything from smart home devices to headphones. The deals are valid till July 17 and can also be availed through e-commerce site’s website and app. Among other things, the sale is also offering free two-day shipping for Prime members.
Silicon Valley powerhouses, including Musk, rallied behind the VP pick
The America PAC campaign against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, which has raised almost $9 million to date, has raised over $1 million in donations from Khosla Ventures Managing Director Keith Rabois. Rabois said he’ll donate $1 million to the campaign. He added that he and other Khosla employees were told that the president would be more tolerant of businesses incriptocurrency industry.
Apple, Anthropic, and other companies used videos on YouTube to train their machines
Over 100 videos from The Verge are included in an interactive dataset that helps users find content being used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. The dataset includes videos from the likes of YouTubers PewDiePie, MrBeast and Jacksepticeye among others. It is available on The Verge’s website, where users can use its search feature to find their content.
Apple deals on Prime Day are some of our favorites
Amazon is offering a 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M3 Pro for $349, down from the normal price of $390. This is the lowest prices we’ve ever seen on a laptop. The 16-inch MacBook Pro comes with M3 Max display, has an Intel Core i5-7200U processor and 16 GB RAM. The 13-inch MacBook Pro comes with the Intel Core i5-6200U processor and 16 GB RAM.
The top five Prime Day laptop deals
Amazon has started its annual Prime Day event where the online retailer slashes prices on thousands of items, including hardware, for customers. Amazon is offering a 50% discount on a variety of devices, including Kindles, Echos, Fire TV Stick and Scribes among others. Some of the biggest discounts are being offered on Kindles with up to 35% off, Amazon said.
The AT&T phone records are at risk of being compromised
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance’s former investigator Tigran Gambaryan, detained last month for allegedly stealing millions of dollars from Nigeria, has been classified as a hostage. Gambaryan was detained alongside a colleague in mid-March on charges that Binance had devalued the country’s fiat currency and enabled “illicit” transfer of funds. Several of his alleged hackers remain at large, with multimillion-dollar bounties on their heads.
The Falcon 9 rockets have been grounded after an in-flight failure
SpaceX blamed a liquid oxygen leak on Falcon 9’s second stage for the failed launch of its Starlink internet satellites. Falcon 9’s second stage performed its first burn nominally, however a Liquid Oxygen Leak developed on the second stage. SpaceX said it will work with the Federal Aviation Administration to get to the bottom of the incident.
The EU is taking Musk to court over his blue checks and ads
The European Commission is looking into whether Elon Musk-led platform X has done enough to combat hate speech. The commission said that X’s ‘blue check’ system negatively affects users’ ability to make free decisions about authenticity of accounts and the content they interact with. It may face fines of up to 6% of its global revenue if it doesn’t address EU’s three grievances.
There is a danger to the AT&T phone records
AT&T has said that it found that the phone numbers of its current and former users have been exposed due to a data breach. It added that it’s notifying affected customers via text, email or US mail. The company has urged users to check their webpage and report any suspicious text activity to the AT&T team.
AT&T leaked the phone and text records of almost all wireless customers
AT&T has said that a security breach involving some of its data may have affected over 70 million US customers, who used its services between October 2016 and March 2017. It also said the data does not include any time stamps for the calls or texts. AT&T is notifying affected customers by text, email or US mail and has also set up a webpage.