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Digbijay Mishra / The Economic Times: PhonePe and Google Pay accounted for over 85% share of 14.4B UPI transactions in July; PhonePe led with 5.9B transactions, Google Pay 5.3B, and Paytm 1.1B  —  The 30% market share cap in the UPI segment was considered improbable with only a few months left until the deadline.

Connor Jones / The Register: Cisco Talos: eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's macOS apps could be abused by attackers to record video/sound from a user's device, log user input, and more  —  Windows giant tells Cisco Talos it isn't fixing them  —  Cisco Talos says eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's macOS apps …

Associated Press: Ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who was acquitted on US fraud charges in June, is among six missing after a yacht sank off Sicily, according to Italian authorities  —  A luxury superyacht carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off the Italian island of Sicily in bad weather early Monday.

Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian: Donald Trump shared AI-generated images on Truth Social that show Taylor Swift and her fans vowing their support for his campaign; Swift hasn't endorsed Trump  —  Presidential nominee shares AI-generated images, contributing to spread of online election disinformation

Perry Stein / Washington Post: The FBI, ODNI, and CISA say they are “confident” that Iran was responsible for recent attempted hacks into the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns  —  In a joint statement with intelligence agencies, the bureau said the attempted hacks also were directed at the Democratic campaign.

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $2.2B, vs. $2.16B est., FY 2025 revenue guidance above est., and increases its share buyback by $500M to $1B  —  Palo Alto Networks (PANW.O) forecast fiscal 2025 revenue and profit above Wall Street estimates on Monday …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Gemini Live is not too useful as a premium feature as it lacks many integrations that text-based Gemini supports and cannot yet interpret images or video  —  What's the point of chatting with a human-like bot if it's an unreliable narrator — and has a colorless personality?

Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: University professors still face the seemingly impossible task of detecting AI-fueled cheating, which continues unabated on both small and large assignments  —  Kyle Jensen, the director of Arizona State University's writing programs, is gearing up for the fall semester.

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: A week after data broker NPD confirmed a breach, which reportedly impacted 272M+ people, a review of NPD property Records Check shows exposed admin credentials  —  New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds …

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple debuts a web app for Podcasts, letting users log in to listen to podcasts, view the Up Next queue and library, and browse new shows, at podcasts.apple.com  —  Apple Podcasts is expanding to the web, starting today.  You can access the new web app version at podcasts.apple.com …

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: Google will end the Google Play Security Reward Program, introduced in 2017 to incentivize researchers to find bugs in popular Android apps, on August 31  —  - Google has announced that they are winding down the Google Play Security Reward Program.  — The program was introduced in late 2017 …

Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk: Fabric Cryptography, a startup working on a “verifiable processing unit” chip for cryptography, raised a $33M Series A co-led by Blockchain Capital and 1kx  —  The fundraising, co-led by Blockchain Capital and 1kx, will be used to “build computing chips, software and cryptographic algorithms,” the company said.

CNBC: Waymo unveils its cheaper “generation 6” self-driving tech that's integrated with Geely Zeekr vehicles, with 13 cameras and 4 lidar sensors, down from 29 and 5  —  Alphabet-owned Waymo revealed details about its newest “generation 6” self-driving technology on Monday.

Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.co: Roblox has grown rapidly and consistently since 2018 and now sees an estimated average of 80M+ daily and 380M+ monthly users, over 2x that of Steam or Minecraft  —  Everyone knows Roblox is huge.  But as COVID receded into memory, Roblox shifted from “new” to “familiar,” …

Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: FOI docs: water consumption by data centers in Virginia, home to world's largest cluster of data centers, reached 1.85B+ gallons in 2023, up from 1.13B in 2019  —  Usage has increased by almost two-thirds since 2019 in the world's largest concentration of computing infrastructure

Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal: How Worldcoin is building its World ID identity system, trying to assuage government and privacy activists' concerns about its iris scanning tech and data usage  —  More than a dozen jurisdictions have either suspended the project's operations or looked into its data processing

Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: Arize AI: 56% of Fortune 500 companies cited AI as a “risk factor” in their recent annual reports, up from 9% in 2022; 86% of software firms cited AI as a risk  —  Study finds more than half of Fortune 500 groups cited new technology as a potential hazard in their latest annual reports

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple's work on its in-house modem chip, set to replace Qualcomm's, which may debut in select models in 2025, with the full rollout taking a few years  —  Apple's move to drop Qualcomm modem chips won't have a payoff at the outset, but it could set the stage for bigger things later.

Marilen Martin / Bloomberg: A survey of 2,012 people in Germany finds ~50% wouldn't use the digital euro over privacy fears; the European Central Bank will decide on a rollout in late 2025  —  - ECB officals to decide on rollout by end of next year  — Half of people in Germany can't imagine using e-euro

Jeremy Stern / Tablet: A profile of Palmer Luckey, who sold Oculus to Facebook, was fired after donating to a pro-Trump troll group, and now imagines a new age of warfare at Anduril  —  The facts of Palmer Luckey's life are so uniquely bizarre—combining elements of fantasy with lunacy and also world-altering change …

Financial Times: South Korea's plan to introduce tablets with AI features in schools faces backlash from parents and academics concerned about children's overexposure to devices  —  South Korea's plan to introduce artificial intelligence-powered digital textbooks in schools has provoked a backlash from parents …

Joyce Lee / Reuters: South Korean AI chip makers Rebellions and Sapeon agree to merge; Rebellions has raised $225M+ and Sapeon's shareholders include SK Telecom and SK Hynix  —  South Korean artificial-intelligence chip makers Rebellions Inc and Sapeon Korea Inc have signed a definitive merger agreement, the privately held companies said on Sunday.

Edward Helmore / The Guardian: Dating apps are struggling as users seek organic ways to meet; Match Group reported a decline in the total number of paying users for seven straight quarters  —  Online dating industry in crisis as shares fall and nearly half of all users report negative experiences on the apps

Maureen Dowd / New York Times: An interview with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on co-founding the company, autonomous weapons systems, AI, supporting Kamala Harris, Silicon Valley critics, and more  —  · 41:48 min Learn more  —  Alex Karp never learned to drive.  —  “I was too poor,” he said.  “And then I was too rich.”