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Josh Noble / Financial Times : How YouTube, NBC, Eurosport, and others are enlisting creators to cover the Paris Olympics, to fill in storytelling gaps and captivate a younger generation   —  NBC and Eurosport among those using ‘creators’ to spur interest and reach wider audiences  —  Sandra Kwon's life …

Allison Johnson / The Verge : Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 review: all-day battery, seven years of updates, and widgets for the outer screen are helpful but hard to run full apps   —  It's not the most fun, but reliability goes a long way. … Look, fun is fun and all, but sometimes boring is better.

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, on Saturday called former President Trump’s offer to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News in September a "masterstroke." "I think it's great," Trump’s vice presidential pick told SiriusXM’s "Breitbart News Saturday." " In some ways, it's a masterstroke because, of course, the Kamala campaign has been saying for a long time that President Trump is afraid to debate Kamala Harris , which, of course, is absurd because the last time he debated their nominee, that nominee withdrew two weeks later."  President Biden pulled out of the race and endorsed Harris as the nominee last month after his weak debate performance in late June drew concerns from Democrats. Late Friday night, Trump wrote on Truth Social, "I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th. The Debate was previously scheduled against Sleepy Joe Biden on ABC, but has been terminated in that Biden will no lon...

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg : A look at Bungie's future after it laid off 220 staffers, as current and former employees say it grew too fast and tried to develop too many projects at once   —  The creator of Halo and Destiny laid off more than 200 people this week including several top executives  —  Hi everyone.

FIRST ON FOX: Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is rumored to be on the short list of vice-presidential candidates for presumptive nominee Kamala Harris , applied as state attorney general to be part of a Michael Bloomberg-sponsored program to appoint special climate prosecutors to go after the energy industry in his state. During the Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal reported that climate activists began "placing employees in Attorneys General offices in dubious private-public condominiums" highlighted a "remarkable arrangement" by the NYU Law School’s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center. The effort was launched in 2017 as part of a $6 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to "advance a liberal climate and energy agenda." The program, which is legal, has placed Bloomberg-funded oil and gas attorneys in several jurisdictions, including in Connecticut , Illinois, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C., where they focus...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some employees, are joining Google; Google has signed a non-exclusive agreement to use its tech   —  In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed startup.

The White House said Thursday that President Biden "played no role" in the plea deal process for three of the masterminds behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks. "The White House learned yesterday that the Convening Authority for Military Commissions entered into pretrial agreements, negotiated by military prosecutors, with KSM and other 9/11 defendants," a White House National Security Council spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "The President and the White House played no role in this process. The President has directed his team to consult as appropriate with officials and lawyers at the Department of Defense on this matter." The statement comes after the Department of Defense announced Wednesday that prosecutors had reached a plea agreement with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, for their role in masterminding the Sept. 11 terror attacks. 9/11 MASTERMIND, 2 OTHERS STR...

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : The Twitter for Mac app appears to have been delisted from the App Store; some users say their X accounts were suspended after using the X for iPad app on macOS   —  As noted by Vedant, the official Twitter for Mac app is currently missing from the Mac App Store.

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk : Tether reports “record” net profit of $5.2B in H1 2024, net operating profit of $1.3B in Q2, and US debt holdings of $97.6B, more than countries like Germany   —  The company said its $97 billion exposure to U.S. Treasuries would put it 18th in the ranking among countries.

The Biden/Harris administration has "super-charged" a "Lawful Pathways" program that has helped admit tens of thousands of people from Latin America . The Safe Mobility Office Initiative, launched in May 2023 and given expanded capacity this spring, has worked to fly tens of thousands of people to the U.S. through the refugee resettlement process, despite those people being of nationalities that have rarely qualified for refugee status, according to a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) analysis . According to the report, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) personnel and United Nations have set up offices in Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala that have granted refugee status to 21,000 people from seven different Latin American countries in the first year of the program, with half of those having already arrived in the country as of May. BIDEN BORDER PLAN OFFERS NEITHER ‘INVESTMENT’ NOR ‘SOLUTIONS’: IMMIGRATION WATCHDOG The refugees ar...

CNBC : Nvidia shares jump 10%+ after Microsoft and AMD signaled no slowdown in the buildout of AI servers built around GPUs; Microsoft spent $19B on capex in Q4   —  Nvidia shares popped more than 11% Wednesday after remarks from top customer Microsoft and rival chipmaker AMD signaled no slowdown …

Former President Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio , will travel to the key swing state of Arizona Thursday, where he plans to visit the southern border. Vance will make an appearance in a critical state for the Trump campaign’s hopes of winning the election while also tackling a critical concern of voters in the race by visiting the border, Fox News Digital has learned. The border stop comes as the Trump campaign has pivoted to running against Vice President Kamala Harris, who was elevated to the top of the ticket after President Biden’s decision to drop out of the race last week. HOW LONG WILL THE HARRIS ‘HONEYMOON’ IN THE POLLS LAST? Trump and Vance have made it a priority to highlight how Harris has contributed to many of the unpopular policies of the current administration, particularly the vice president’s role in attempting to identify and solve the "root causes" of illegal migration at the southern U.S. border that resulted in the vice president be...

Welcome to Fox News’ Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington D.C. and updates from the 2024 campaign trail.  What's happening… -Harris staff treatment under scrutiny as report finds a 91.5% turnover rate… -Harris to name VP by next week… -Trump endorses two GOP rivals in Arizona race A 9/11 terrorist’s plea to a Virginia judge that he be sent home to France from a federal Supermax prison to avoid the prospect of Donald Trump ordering his execution led to outrage from lawmakers on Monday. A letter from Zacarias Moussaoui to federal Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria lays out the so-called "20th hijacker’s" concerns that a future Trump administration will lead to his swift demise …Read more 'COURT'S FUTURE': Wall Street Journal calls Biden's plan to 'reform' the Supreme Court a threat to the country …Read more HIGH TURNOVER: Harris' poor treatment of staff is under scrutiny as report finds 91.5% turnov...

Kate Gibson / CBS News : The US CPSC rules that Amazon is legally responsible for recalled products sold on Amazon.com, even by third parties, and must remove them and notify purchasers   —  Amazon distributed hundreds of thousands of hazardous products sold by third-parties through the e-commerce giant's platform …

A longtime San Francisco pastor and mentor to Vice President Kamala Harris , who is the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, slammed the United States during a memorial service for victims of Sept. 11, days after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Rev. Amos Brown, a longtime pastor at Third Baptist Church and current president of the San Francisco NAACP, is in the spotlight after he revealed during a recent interview that Harris called him shortly after President Biden announced that he was dropping his re-election bid. Harris wanted Brown to pray for her and her husband during the biggest campaign of her career.  Brown, who said he has known Harris and her family for more than two decades and was one of Harris' guests to attend her inauguration in 2021 , could be a major liability for her campaign as his past sermons and anti-America rhetoric start to surface. Harris previously praised Brown for being "on this journey with me every step of the way." "America, ...

The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon posted a video warning Americans to leave the country while they can, as Israel is preparing to retaliate against Lebanon-based, Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists for a rocket attack over the weekend that killed 12 at a children’s soccer field.  The development comes as Air France has suspended flights to and from Beirut due to the expectation a major war will unfold. German airline Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines and Eurowings have also suspended flights.  "We recommend U.S. citizens develop a crisis plan of action and leave before a crisis begins," Rena Bitter, U.S. assistant secretary of state for the bureau of consular affairs, said in the video. "Regularly scheduled commercial transportation is always the best option while local communications and transportation infrastructure are intact and operating normally."  "Should commercial air not be available, individuals already in Lebanon should be prepared to shelter in...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple plans to roll out Apple Intelligence by October, missing the planned Sept. launch of its OSes; devs get to test AI features as soon as this week   —  - Developers will get to test AI features as soon as this week  — Apple is betting on enhancements to help sell iPhone 16 line

Vice President Kamala Harris has seen her favorability among American voters rise dramatically in the aftermath of President Biden dropping out of the race, a new poll shows. Harris’ overall favorability rose from 35% to 43% compared to a week earlier, while the vice president’s unfavorability rating fell from 46% to 42%, according to the results of an ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted on Friday and Saturday. The poll comes just a week after Biden made the decision to drop out of the 2024 race and endorse Harris, who quickly consolidated support among her fellow Democrats to essentially lock up the nomination by the middle of last week. HARRIS CLOSES IN ON TRUMP IN ELECTION BETTING MARKETS The news brought a jolt of enthusiasm to Democrats, who donated record-setting fundraising numbers to the Harris campaign in the aftermath of her taking over at the top of the ticket, enthusiasm that was reflected in the new poll. Among Democrats, 88% indicated that they were enthusiastic about Ha...

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times : Dune Analytics: ~1.7M new digital coins entered circulation in H1 2024, compared with 264K in H1 2023, as the crypto market revival fuels a surge in memecoins   —  Josh Bailey, a 26-year-old day trader in Austin, Texas, was scrolling through a cryptocurrency group chat last month when he encountered …