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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Delta is suing CrowdStrike over July’s global IT outage.

Reuters reports Delta filed a lawsuit Friday over the July 19th crash, blaming CrowdStrike for having “forced untested and faulty updates to its customers, causing more than 8.5 million Microsoft Windows-based computers around the world to crash.”

Delta’s CEO already called out Microsoft and CrowdStrike during a CNBC interview (included below), saying, “When was the last time you heard of a big outage at Apple?,” while Microsoft said Delta ignored offers to help recover faster.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Hyundai’s cool, small EV spotted in the US for some reason.

The Hyundai Casper (in Korea) / Inster (everywhere else) is a compact utility vehicle that’s just too good to come to the United States... or is it?

Electrek points out spy photographer kindelauto’s pic of one rolling around in California, which could still mean nothing for a potential US release. We shouldn’t get our hopes up about Hyundai’s grand electrification plans, but we will anyway.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
The Google Home-Spotify casting outage is over.

Android Police writes that it took less than 24 hours for Google to fix the issue, partly thanks to a particularly concerted effort on the part of Google Home users. Also: today I learned there’s a dedicated Google smart home gadget feedback form.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Donald Trump meets with Blue Origin execs the same day WaPo declines to endorse a presidential candidate.

Nothing to see here, I’m sure. Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin and The Post, just really strongly felt like there didn’t need to be a presidential endorsement this time around, no reason.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
‘Yikes’: Is Elon Musk bragging about his Diablo prowess or his SpaceX near-miss?

Okay, this one’s weird: Musk has posted a three-minute clip of a game, but the audio is someone telling him how “We were one second away from telling the rocket to abort” — and how the amazing ‘chopstick’ Super Heavy booster catch was close to being a scary crash.

While TechCrunch suggests he “inadvertently” broadcasted this, it’s not a broadcast. Someone clipped it this way.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Pro, Pro, Pro.

Insomniac has released patches adding PS5 Pro support to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and both updates add new “performance pro” and “fidelity pro” graphics modes and toggles for ray tracing. The studio didn’t share screenshots or video alongside the updates, so we’ll have to wait and see if the improved graphics are worth the cost.

Version 1.004.000 Release Notes

[Insomniac Games Support]

Sarah Jeong
Sarah Jeong
Here’s a “grim bit of trivia” about the FTC’s click-to-cancel rule:

One of the lawyers suing to block the immensely popular new Federal Trade Commission regulation happens to be the wife of one of the judges sitting on that appeals court. Don’t worry though:

Federal law mandates that judges recuse from cases in which their spouse represents a party, so even if [James] Ho, one of the Fifth Circuit’s thirstiest culture warriors, were assigned to the panel, her involvement is less a five-alarm legal ethics fire than a grim bit of trivia about just how tight-knit the conservative legal movement can be.

(Relatedly, last year, Ian Millhiser at Vox called James Ho “the edgelord of the federal judiciary,” describing him as “a Breitbart comments forum come to life.”)

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Another tiny new reason to use your Vision Pro.

Safari will support spatial photos and videos starting later this year, PetaPixel reports. That means you’ll be able to see photos and videos with depth if you’re browsing a website that builds support for the feature — though, of course, you’ll need to be using a Vision Pro, which may not be selling very well.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
‘Salt Typhoon’ hackers reportedly targeted phone numbers for Trump and Harris campaigns.

The Wall Street Journal previously reported Chinese hackers “engaged in a vast collection of internet traffic” from ISPs, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen, that reached the system used for court-ordered wiretapping requests. The New York Times now says Donald Trump and JD Vance were targeted in the Verizon breach.

Later on Friday afternoon, the WSJ followed up with another report confirming that, while saying other targets included people affiliated with the Harris campaign and even a WSJ writer reporting on the investigation. The FBI and Verizon also acknowledged an investigation without adding additional details.

Update: Added details from WSJ.