TWiG 777: Victim of Affluence - AT&T Hack, Google Pixel 9 Leak, TikTok Exorcisms

• AT&T says criminals stole phone records of "nearly all" customers in new data breach
• AT&T (T) Hack Is Part of Snowflake (SNOW) Customer Cyberattack Campaign
• Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks
• Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
• Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC
• This Is The Fastest Object Ever Made by Humans, And It's Not Slowing Down
• EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue "checkmark"'
• Mercedes-Benz's 400kW EV chargers are coming to Starbucks
• FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over 'Right To Repair' Violations
• Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers
• Google in talks to buy Wiz
• Google switches to selective indexing
• Google reportedly offered EU cloud firms over $500 million to continue antitrust case against Microsoft
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $27 million mansion is a 'lemon' with a leaky pool, lawsuit alleges (with video tour)
• Taboola to sell ads for Apple
• The New Satanic Panic: Exorcism in the Age of TikTok
• Kenya's biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app
• OpenAI's AGI progress chart
• Samsung's new AI image generating tool is a little too good - The Verge
• Giant Google Pixel 9 leak reveals the Fold, faster charging, battery, and more
• YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI radio in testing
• Google is ending an experiment that let you annotate search results
• Gemini on Android just got a lot more useful on the lock screen
• OpenAI illegally stopped staff from sharing dangers, whistleblowers say
• Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation | VentureBeat
• Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI
• Carlos Watson, Ozy Media Founder, Is Found Guilty of Fraud
• Drone conquers Everest
• The Planets Today

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