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Meta unveils the $500 Quest 3, “the first mainstream headset with high-res color MR”, slimmer and over 2x the GPU performance vs. the Quest 2, coming this fall — Meta Quest 3 Launches Later This Year + Lower Prices & Improvements for Quest 2 The countdown is on for …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Meta cuts the Quest 2's price to $350 for 256GB and to $300 for 128GB, and plans a software update to boost the Quest 2 and Quest Pro's CPU and GPU performance — Starting June 4th, the 128GB version of the Quest 2 will cost $299.99 while the 256GB version will cost $349.99, Meta announced today.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing two new high-end Macs, one with M2 Max and the other with an unannounced M2 Ultra, offering 60 graphics cores and up to 192GB of RAM — Apple Inc. is testing a pair of new high-end Macs and their accompanying processors ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference next week …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Amazon agrees to pay $25M to settle FTC and DOJ charges over the company keeping Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data collected from children for years — Regulators said the tech giant kept children's Alexa voice recordings “forever,” violating a children's privacy law.
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon agrees to pay $5.8M to settle FTC allegations that Ring gave employees and third-party contractors full access to every customer video until 2017 — Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $30.8 million to resolve two cases brought by the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday related to privacy lapses by its smart devices.
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Danielle Duclos. Tweets:
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Survey: Android owners mostly switched to iPhone because of prior phone problems and new iPhone features; only 6% moved because of iMessage and FaceTime — Following its report that showed Android users pivoting to iPhone at a 5-year high, CIRP is out today with a study that reveals why people are making the switch.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram details ranking content in Feed, Stories, Reels, and more, and is testing more user controls, including an “Interested” button for recommended posts — Instagram announced today that it's testing a new feature that gives users more control over what they see on the social network …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
After Microsoft paid $7.5B for ZeniMax in 2020, sources detail development issues for Redfall, one of the worst-reviewed games in 2023 and Xbox's latest misfire — Over the years, Microsoft Corp.-owned video-game developer Arkane Studios has cultivated a reputation for releasing games …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI researchers say training AI with process supervision, which rewards the thought process rather than the outcome, could help prevent hallucinations — - AI hallucinations occur when models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Bard fabricate information entirely.
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| EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone: |
A look at the grotesque world of AI true-crime-victim TikTok, where AI deepfakes, based on images of children who were abused, describe their own ghastly demise — TikTok accounts are posting horrifying artificial intelligence-generated clips of murder victims — mostly children — describing their own ghastly demise
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| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk sent no tweets during his visit to China, the longest hiatus from the platform since June 2022; once his jet left Shanghai, Musk tweeted about SpaceX — Elon Musk, a prolific presence on Twitter and owner of the social media platform, didn't send any tweets while he was in China for his first visit since the pandemic.
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Crypto bridging protocol Multichain suspended service for multiple chains after being unable to contact its CEO to get server access, during ongoing tech issues — - Multichain, the cross-chain protocol, confirmed Wednesday that the team is unable to contact its chief executive amid ongoing technology problems.
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Decrypt, Micky, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Protos, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, and CoinGape
| Isaac Schorr / Mediaite: |
The Daily Wire says Twitter canceled a deal to release “What Is a Woman” and claims Twitter threatened to “throttle” the documentary due to “misgendering” — Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing tore into Elon Musk and Twitter for allegedly threatening …
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| Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: |
Hundreds of white-collar Amazon workers in Seattle walked off the job, frustrated by job losses, a return-to-office mandate, carbon emissions, and leadership — Frustrated by job losses, office policies and rising carbon emissions, white-collar Amazon workers are demanding more from leadership
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
BeReal plans to launch a chat feature, initially testing in Ireland; users will be able to message one-on-one, send a private BeReal, and react with RealMoji — BeReal is working on a chat feature, which will begin with a test among users in Ireland. — At launch, users will be able …
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| Bloomberg: |
Tether's USDT circulation surpasses its $83.2B all-time-high, recovering the ~$20B lost after TerraUSD imploded in 2022, even as crypto trading volumes drop — Tether Holdings Ltd.'s stablecoin has recovered all of the roughly $20 billion in market value it lost following the collapse …
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Tether, DL News, ZyCrypto, Coinspeaker, Coinpedia Fintech News, and CryptoSlate
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@cz_binance, @paoloardoino, and @nic__carter
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Some IT executives say generative AI lowers the barrier for code creation, which could result in growing levels of complexity, technical debt, and confusion — Chief information officers could see their job getting more complex even as generative AI makes software development easier
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@chrismattmann, @wavesblog, and @nyike
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
DeFi lending protocol MakerDAO's community votes to ditch $500M of the Paxos Dollar stable from its reserves, impacting half of the token's supply — The result is a significant blow for Paxos as MakerDAO currently holds roughly half of USDP's total supply.| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Apple Savings Account users have had trouble transferring money from their accounts; Goldman representatives have given differing responses on what to do — Some customers said it has taken weeks to withdraw their money, and that the bank's instructions have differed| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Ultraleap unveils the $140 hand-tracking module Leap Motion 2, its first since the original in 2013, with support for standalone headsets, and opens preorders — The Daily Roundup Newsletter — Keep your finger on the pulse of the XR industry with the Daily Roundup, the most important news in one daily email.
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Ultraleap on YouTube, The Ghost Howls, Ultraleap, Auganix.org, The Verge, and The Verge
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Reddit client Apollo's developer says Reddit plans to charge $12K for 50M API requests and that he would need to pay $20M per year to keep operating the app — Popular Reddit app Apollo might not be able to operate as is in the future due to planned API pricing that Reddit is implementing.
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Bluesky:
@carnage4life.bsky.social. Tweets:
@christianselig, @wongmjane, @raywongy, @andruedwards, @nideveloper, @giovan_h, @greentetra_, @jonyiveparody, @s8mb, @mattdesl, @timsweeneyepic, @headfallsoff, @pt, @snazzylabs, @saketme, @ow, @phillryu, @sindresorhus, @useclear, @sdw, @cabel, @javi, and @panzer
| Financial Times: |
Investigation: of 14 laptops with trackers given to UK retailers to recycle, 10 were recycled correctly; others were sold, likely stolen, or took long journeys — Every year about 30,000 tonnes of electronic waste is illegally shipped out of Britain. Much is destined for developing countries …
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@willgreenpeace, @restartproject, @alexandraheal, @upyorkshire, and @muradahmed
| Reuters: |
Sources: a planned $3B chip plant in India by ISMC, a consortium that included chipmaker Tower, has stalled due to the company's pending takeover by Intel — A planned $3 billion semiconductor facility in India by chip consortium ISMC that counted Israeli chipmaker Tower as a tech partner …
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@dnystedt, @adityakalra, @reuters, and @adityakalra
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