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A Facebook user shares a video of an alleged “Meta Quest Pro” VR headset, claiming Meta left the device, labeled “engineering sample”, in a hotel room — A prototype of Meta's VR headset has surfaced — Images and, later, a video of a “Meta Quest Pro” virtual reality …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Starbucks announces Starbucks Odyssey, a loyalty program and NFT community built on the Polygon blockchain, launching broadly sometime in 2023 — Starbucks is today officially introducing Starbucks Odyssey, launching later this year — the coffee chain's first foray into building with web3 technology.
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CoinDesk, Polygon Blog, The Block, GeekWire, and Starbucks
Tweets: @0xpolygon, @jdkanani, @fwiz, @mylesudland, and @taschalabs
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Sources: the US government plans more curbs on US shipments to China of chipmaking tools and chips for AI, affecting Lam Research, Applied Materials, and others — The Biden administration plans next month to broaden curbs on U.S shipments to China of semiconductors used for artificial intelligence …
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Tweets: @byron_wan, @martijnrasser, @hancocktom, and @jaygoldberg
| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Binance-linked crypto exchange WazirX says India's Enforcement Directorate has “unfrozen” or restarted its bank account; the ED raided its office on August 5 — The account was frozen in relation to the “illegal loan apps” scam investigation, which has come under the national spotlight.
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WazirX Blog, The Economic Times, Decrypt, Inc42 Media, Entrackr, Livemint, CoinGape, and TechCircle
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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Nintendo says Splatoon 3 for Switch sold 3.45M total copies in Japan in its first three days, beating Animal Crossing: New Horizons' first-week record by 600K — Splatoon 3 has smashed Nintendo Switch software launch records in Japan, the company has announced.
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Tweets: @nintendocoltd, @stealth40k, @peerign, and @zhugeex
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers discover Shikitega, a strain of Linux malware that uses polymorphic encoding and abuses legitimate cloud services to infect servers and IoT devices — With polymorphic encoding and a multistage infection chain, Shikitega is hard to detect. — Researchers this week unveiled …
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Tweets: @rootsecdev, @thehackersnews, @barnacules, and @campuscodi
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
In an interview, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan details the company's decision to rebrand Zoom Chat as Team Chat, seeking to better compete with Slack, Teams, and others — It's nice to be synonymous with a product category. But Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says that expanding on its video-calling ubiquity is both an opportunity and a challenge.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Report: ransomware gangs are using intermittent encryption, where files are partly encrypted, to evade detection tools looking for intense file I/O operations — A growing number of ransomware groups are adopting a new tactic that helps them encrypt their victims' systems faster while reducing … | Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes: |
At Code, CEOs and politicians voiced concerns about TikTok's power, rapid growth, and surveillance potential, as some called for the app to be banned altogether — At the Code Conference in LA, tech and media CEOs and politicians all expressed concerns about the Chinese-owned app — as a competitor, and as a national security risk.
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Newcomer, The Overspill, Axios, New York Post, Wired, Mediaite, The Wrap, and Techdirt
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku updates its $30 Roku Express streaming player, launches the $130 Roku Wireless Bass subwoofer, and details Roku OS 11.5, including a short-form content hub — Roku unveiled a software update to its streaming operating system — OS 11.5 — that among other features will introduce …
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TechCrunch, TechHive, CNET, The Verge, TechCrunch, Tom's Guide, Pocket-lint, Pocket-lint, 9to5Toys, and Roku Blog
| Rebecca Jennings / Vox: |
A look at concerns for women at Launch House, an a16z-backed startup promising “community” to young tech founders, such as sexual assault and a lack of security — The people here are young and friendly and full of hope. And why shouldn't they be?
Tweets: @nikmilanovic, @taylorlorenz, @juliarubin, and @taylorlorenz
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the increasing efforts of device manufacturers, telecom companies, and satellite operators to connect smartphones to satellites in remote locations — Years of preparation helped tech giant, but other phone makers, wireless carriers and aerospace companies have similar ambitions
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ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and International Business Times
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