ID verification service IDScan confirms that a data breach involved the theft of driver's licenses from its systems after hackers offered 153M licenses for sale (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

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ID verification service IDScan confirms that a data breach involved the theft of driver's licenses from its systems after hackers offered 153M licenses for sale  —  ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver's licenses from its systems …

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Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog  —  UMG's AI music platform will let users create remixes, mashups, and new takes on tracks.

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Apple says iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI, will be released on September 14 (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

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Apple says iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI, will be released on September 14  —  It's almost time for Siri AI.  —  The next version of iOS will arrive on Monday, September 14, Apple announced today at its fall iPhone event.

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The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB, with a 2TB model costing $3,199, in star white and night sky colors; preorders start Oct. 16, and sales begin Oct. 23 (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Dominic Preston / The Verge:
The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB, with a 2TB model costing $3,199, in star white and night sky colors; preorders start Oct. 16, and sales begin Oct. 23  —  Seven years after foldable phones arrived, Apple thinks the tech is ready for an iPhone.

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OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he never asked for removal of Levent Alpöge from authorship of the work Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster did on Navier-Stokes (Sebastien Bubeck/@sebastienbubeck)

Sebastien Bubeck / @sebastienbubeck:
OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he never asked for removal of Levent Alpöge from authorship of the work Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster did on Navier-Stokes  —  I would like to clarify a few things: 1) The screenshot is my reaching out to Levent to coordinate our releases. I hope it's clear from the message that we came in with the best possible intentions. 2) I never ever asked for Levent to be removed from authorship of his own work (as indicated by my...

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Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users' HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law (Julia Kollewe/The Guardian)

Julia Kollewe / The Guardian:
Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users' HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law  —  US-owned dating app allegedly allowed ad firms access to private information in breach of UK law  —  Grindr will pay £26m to settle a lawsuit brought …

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Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura's IPO, which could give it more influence over how many shares are allocated to its customers (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura's IPO, which could give it more influence over how many shares are allocated to its customers  —  Playing an official part in the IPO process could give Robinhood more influence over the number of shares allocated to its customers

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