Lane Florsheim / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Neon Coat, an app that offers models and influencers free restaurant meals, fitness classes, and other experiences in exchange for social media posts  —  While regular-looking people fiercely compete for tables on Resy and OpenTable, models and influencers say they can easily book entire days …

Moneycontrol:
Perplexity is offering a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription, normally $20/month, to 360M users of Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator  —  Perplexity, which seeks to disrupt Google's flagship search engine, has seen growing adoption of its service in India in recent years

Financial Times:
Sources: the European Commission has stalled one of its X investigations for breaking its digital transparency rules, as it negotiates a trade deal with the US  —  EU was expected to finalise its investigation before the bloc's summer recess but will now miss this deadline

Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Google says threat actors are stealing sensitive data from organizations by targeting fully patched, end-of-life appliances from cybersecurity company SonicWall  —  Threat actors are stealing sensitive data from organizations by breaching end-of-life appliances made by cybersecurity company SonicWall.

It’s World Emoji Day and Apple is celebrating with a new puzzle game available now on its Apple News+ app in the U.S. and Canada. Emoji Game is an original word game that has players fill in incomplete phrases by dragging emoji into blank spots. Developed internally at Apple, Emoji Game is now the fifth […]