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Bloomberg : How Sweden's push to go cashless has left consumers and the country vulnerable to online fraud; value of fraudulent transactions has doubled since 2021   —  Sweden has led the way in Europe in going cashless, but fast and easy digital commerce have left consumers and the state vulnerable to fraud.

New York City officials are boasting that a taxpayer-funded program that hands out $350 per week to migrant families is helping to set an example for the rest of the nation on how to manage the "national humanitarian crisis" created by mass illegal immigration. Although the program has drawn opposition from critics who question giving illegal immigrants no-strings handouts from the city's strapped coffers, officials seem to think the program is a major success. "New York City is leading the nation in managing this national humanitarian crisis, having cared for more than 203,900 migrants since the spring of 2022 and helping more than 65 percent move out of our care and take the next steps in their journeys," a city hall spokesperson told Fox News Digital. New York City officials began giving out prepaid debit cards to migrant families residing in the Big Apple earlier this year. The prepaid cards – the first of which were distributed in March as part ...

Janko Roettgers / The Verge : An interview with Netflix's senior encoding technology director Anne Aaron about the company's cutting-edge codecs, preparing for livestreaming, and more   —  How cutting-edge codecs and obsessive tweaks have helped Netflix to stay ahead of the curve — until now. … Anne Aaron just can't help herself.

FIRST ON FOX: Two Democratic state attorneys general are being sued on claims that they are violating the First Amendment with "threats" to shut down an organization that seeks to expand aid for survivors of sexual assault with a government-alternative "self-administered DNA collection" kit. Leda Health Corporation says it is working to "end the cycle of sexual violence" – developing an Early Evidence Kit (EEK) that allows victims to "receive time-sensitive DNA after sexual assault" through a self-collection of evidence, rather than getting a traditional rape kit at the hospital. CEO Madison Campbell filed a lawsuit against New York AG Letitia James and Pennsylvania AG Michelle Henry after the two penned letters in opposition to the at-home alternative kit. Alex Little, the attorney representing Campbell, emphasized that the lawsuit "focused on threats that those attorneys general made to shut down the company and penalize Miss Campbell...

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch : Change Healthcare says the February ransomware attack on its systems resulted in the theft of medical records of a “substantial proportion of people” in the US   —  Change Healthcare has confirmed a February ransomware attack on its systems, which brought widespread disruption …

The FBI on Thursday raided a home connected to Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao just a day after a recall campaign to oust her from office received enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.  "The FBI is conducting court authorized law enforcement activity on Maiden Lane," a bureau spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "We are unable to provide additional information."  Property records indicate Thao is associated with the address 80 Maiden Lane in Oakland, California, though it does not appear she owns the property.  A November 2022 article by The Guardian stated Thao was the "first renter" to hold the position of Oakland Mayor.  DEM MAYOR FACES BACKLASH FOR CITY'S ‘HAPHAZARD’ MIGRANT POLICY: ‘CRUELTY’ The embattled mayor will face a recall on November's ballot after community organizers garnered nearly twice the required number of signatures needed to qualify.  Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao (OUST) submitted its petition two weeks ...

Karissa Bell / Engadget : How some Meta users in the US are turning to small claims court, often successfully, to recover their Facebook or Instagram accounts; some won financial damages   —  People are using the courts in a last-ditch attempt to recover their accounts.  —  Last month, Ray Palena boarded a plane …

President Biden is adding to his campaign war chest, thanks to help from the Clintons. The president's 2024 re-election campaign says Biden hauled in $8.1 million at a fundraiser where he was joined by former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State and former Sen. Hillary Clinton, who was the Democrats' 2016 standard-bearer. The fundraiser took place in McLean, Virginia, an upscale community in the suburbs of the nation's capital, at the home of former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime friend and adviser to the Clintons. BIDEN STRIKES GOLD IN CALIFORNIA, ONE WEEK AFTER TRUMP'S MASSIVE HAUL IN THE BLUE BASTION  Well-known author John Grisham, known for his best-selling legal thrillers, also attended the event. In his comments at the fundraiser, Biden took aim at former President Trump , his GOP challenger in their 2024 election rematch. He once again labeled Trump a "convicted felon," as the president pointed to Trump's 34 felony...

The Information : China's top-valued AI startup, Moonshot AI, recently debuted a role-play chat app and music maker app in the US; Chinese rival MiniMax also expanded to the US   —  Chinese tech companies are facing more scrutiny in the U.S. than ever before.  Yet some of China's artificial intelligence startups are making a rush to grab U.S. customers.

A high-level meeting planned between U.S. and Israeli officials regarding Iran's nuclear program was canceled after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized a lack of U.S. military aid, a source told Fox News, while a White House official pushed back on the claim. Senior officials had planned to meet Thursday following new revelations about Iran's nuclear program. Hours after news of the meeting got out, Netanyahu went public with a pre-recorded video, in English, calling a recent lack of U.S. military support for Israel "inconceivable." The meeting was canceled after Netanyahu's comments, a senior official told Fox News. The official said a scheduled U.S. visit by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant next week is proceeding as planned, as are other meetings about aid distribution and coordination. Meantime, a White House official said plans for the meeting were still moving forward, but have yet to be "fully finalized." US PARK POLICE ...

Sara Fischer / Axios : Forbes demands Perplexity not infringe on Forbes IP and drop Forbes-sourced articles; Perplexity-made content remains without attribution, including on YouTube   —  - The chatbot tried to give credibility to the Forbes story it presented by citing other “sourced” reports that were actually …

FIRST ON FOX: Two conservative nonprofits have teamed up to deploy resources at major sporting events across the country this summer to criticize and bring attention to a push by Democrats to crack down on Zyn nicotine pouches. Americans for Consumer Protection and Building America’s Future have launched a six-figure campaign that began with a team on the ground at golf’s U.S. Open in North Carolina over the weekend as operatives with signs and promotional materials called on lawmakers to "Save Our Pouches." "Nicotine pouches have been found to help adult smokers transition 'to safer alternatives.' Sweden has virtually eradicated usage of traditional cigarettes by ‘enabling this transition to safer alternatives’ and the country’s openness to allow the sale of smoke free alternatives (like nicotine pouches) to cigarettes," the nonprofits said in a press release. "Instead of banning nicotine pouches, alternative products to cigarettes such as nicotine...

Jason Snell / Six Colors : Devs say Apple is denying or delaying notarization of iOS apps, including emulators and AltStore apps, to enforce its rules, defeating the point of the EU's DMA   —  This apparently happened just before WWDC, so I missed it, but it deserves everyone's attention.

Larry Dignan / Constellation Research : HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud offerings for generative AI workloads coming this fall, including HPE Private Cloud AI, a co-developed “turnkey” option   —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nvidia teamed up to launch a set of private cloud offerings and integrations designed for generative AI workloads.

A prominent Democrat power broker is facing racketeering and other charges in New Jersey, the state's attorney general revealed Monday. Businessman George Norcross is facing the charges in connection to government-issued tax credits. State Attorney General Matt Platkin alleged Norcross and others got property rights along the state's Camden waterfront and collected millions of dollars in state-backed tax credits. Prosecutors say Norcoss and his associates "used their political influence to tailor New Jersey economic development legislation to their preferences. After the legislation was enacted in September 2013, members and associates of the Norcross Enterprise conspired to, and did, extort and coerce others to obtain — for certain individuals and business entities — properties and property rights on the Camden, New Jersey waterfront and associated tax incentive credits." The indictment further alleges that Norcross "led a criminal enterprise whose members a...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Finaloop, which offers accounting tools to e-commerce businesses, raised a $35M Series A led by Lightspeed and says its customer base grew 400% in the last year   —  For consumers, one of the big pluses of e-commerce is the convenience: You can shop anytime, from anywhere …

Ari Saperstein / The Guardian : How Apple added support for automatic transcript generation in the Podcast app, a feature highly requested by both disabled users and podcast creators   —  Apple rolled out a feature highly requested by both disabled users and podcast creators.  Why did it take so long?

A majority of Americans believe the U.S. should focus more on issues at home and withdraw from foreign affairs , despite an increasing number of Americans believing the U.S. should be more engaged and take the lead when it comes to international events. Just under two-thirds of Americans, 62%, believe the U.S. would be "better served by withdrawing from international affairs and focusing more attention on problems here at home," according to the results of the Ronald Reagan Institute’s 2024 summer survey, which was shared exclusively with Fox News Sunday. Despite that finding, the percentage of Americans who believe it’s important for the U.S. to be more engaged and take the lead in international events is on the rise, up 12 points in the last six months. A majority, 54%, expressed support for a more engaged U.S. foreign policy , up from 42% in November. The latest figure includes 66% of Democrats and 49% of Republicans. ZELENSKYY APPEALS FOR AID, INVESTMENT IN ENERGY SEC...

Caroline Mimbs Nyce / The Atlantic : Kids are interacting with AI in school and online, serving as testers for a new generation of tech, making them the ones to experience some of its worst effects   —  AI is quickly becoming a regular part of children's lives.  What happens next?  —  This spring, the Los Angeles Unified School District …

Former President Trump courted Black voters in Detroit Saturday, when he raised President Biden's authorship of the 1994 crime bill, which remains a sore point after three decades. Headlining a roundtable discussion at the predominantly Black 180 Church as his campaign was announcing the launch of a Black voter coalition, Trump noted that rising crime rates hurt his audience's community the most. "Look, the crime is most rampant right here and in African American communities," Trump said Saturday in Detroit. "More people see me, and they say, ‘Sir, we want protection. We want police to protect us. We don’t want to get robbed and mugged and beat up or killed because we want to walk across the street to buy a loaf of bread.’" Trump took aim at Biden and the Biden-Harris campaign during his remarks, recalling how Biden, as a senator in 1994, authored the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which Biden has since called a "mistake."  BI...