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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft increases the prices in most markets for its Xbox Series X and, for the first time, Xbox Game Pass; Xbox Series X pricing remains the same in the US — Microsoft is increasing its Xbox Series X prices in most countries in August apart from the US, Japan, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia.
More: Engadget, TechSpot, Neowin, TheGamer, Press Start, 9to5Toys, IGN, Thurrott, Android Headlines, GameSpot, Gamereactor UK, Gameranx, Game Rant, TweakTown, MobileSyrup, Game Developer, Android Authority, Metro, Kotaku, SlashGear, Eurogamer.net, Stevivor, Windows Central, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, TrueAchievements, Wccftech, GamingBolt, Pure Xbox, and Polygon
Twitter: @tomwarren, @deeketweak, @dmc_ryan, @genki_jpn, and @zherb76
Forums: r/xcloud, r/VideoGameDealsCanada, r/MicrosoftRewards, r/XboxGamePass, r/xbox, r/gadgets, r/xboxone, r/pcgaming, r/Games, r/kindafunny, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases visionOS SDK, and says the company will open developer labs and applications for Apple Vision Pro developer kits next month — When Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC, the company promised to make a robust set of tools available for developers.
More: Apple, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Thurrott, iClarified, AppleInsider, Forrester, MobileSyrup, The Apple Post, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, Supercharged, MacStories, TechCrunch, Patently Apple, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Road to VR, UploadVR, and Wccftech
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Twitter: @lindadong, @twostraws, and @gregjoz
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
After Elon Musk tweeted he is “up for a cage fight” with Mark Zuckerberg, both parties agree to a fight in principle without agreeing to specifics — Here we go. — After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO shot …
More: Australian Financial Review, The Hill, Livemint, New York Post, SlashGear, UPROXX, Daily Mail, Forbes, Opoyi, Sports Illustrated, Consequence, Dexerto, VigourTimes, BusinessLend, FightBook MMA, indy100, Complex, Sportskeeda, pageone.ng, UNILAD, Instagram, and Insider
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
The US FTC files a lawsuit alleging Amazon used “dark patterns” to steer customers to enroll in Prime without consent and “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel — - The FTC on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging it tricked customers into signing up for its Prime subscription program …
More: Insider, The Verge, New York Times, Reuters, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Ars Technica, Insider, PCMag, BleepingComputer, VICE, The Information, Wall Street Journal, Reason, Axios, Federal Trade Commission, SiliconANGLE, The Register, CNET, Fast Company, The Guardian, Thurrott, PYMNTS.com, Livemint, Light Reading, Neowin, SlashGear, GameSpot, The Hollywood Reporter, NPR, GeekWire, New York Post, IGN, Financial Times, Politico, The Hill, and Washington Post
LinkedIn: Jeffrey Roberts. Twitter: @linakhanftc, @linakhanftc, @linakhanftc, @matthewstoller, @alistairmbarr, @ftc, @senwarren, @douglaslfarrar, @stacyfmitchell, @davenewworld_2, @alfredwkng, @tomwarren, @pat_hedger, @stevesi, @sarthakgh, @deitaone, @ericboehm87, @eugenekim222, @notkavi, @kristakbrown, @ddayen, @scottlincicome, @ftc, @richardhanania, @cydharrell, @megangra, @daveyseligman, and @tomgara
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/wallstreetbets, r/technology, r/business, and r/technology
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Apple patches three zero-days in its operating systems, including Operation Triangulation iMessage exploit described by Kaspersky earlier in June — Apple addressed three new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks installing Triangulation spyware on iPhones via iMessage zero-click exploits.
More: Securelist, Washington Post, Apple Support, MacRumors, CyberScoop, SC Media, iTnews, The Hacker News, AppleInsider, Wccftech, Cult of Mac, The Record, Macworld, The Register, PCMag, SecurityWeek, Infosecurity, SecurityWeek, and The Verge
Mastodon: @BleepingComputer …. Twitter: @oct0xor, @billmarczak, @kaspersky, @patrickwardle, @jonathandata1, @billmarczak, @runasand, @iblametom, @kucher1n, @talbeerysec, @k_sec, and @tyrus_
Forums: r/InfoSecNews and MacRumors Forums
| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter resumed paying Google Cloud for its services; the companies are negotiating a partnership that could include ads and Google using Twitter's API — Twitter has resumed paying Google Cloud for its services, patching up a relationship that became strained after Elon Musk acquired …
More: iTnews, Wall Street Journal, Insider, The Information, Beehaw, and Engadget
Twitter: @byjulialove, @tsgiles, @bostonjerry, and @olivelampe
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft aims to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years, after Microsoft researchers claim to create Majorana particles for scalable and stable qubits — Microsoft today announced its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer, using the topological qubits the company's researchers …
More: The Official Microsoft Blog, Physical Review B, New Scientist, Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog, GeekWire, BigTechWire, Neowin, OnMSFT.com, and Federal Computer Week
LinkedIn: Satya Nadella. Twitter: @brianfagioli, @satyanadella, @matthiastroyer, @gmelnik, @yusuf_i_mehdi, @trengarajan, and @techcrunch. Forums: Slashdot
| Zosha Millman / Polygon: |
Ali Selim, the director and executive producer of Marvel's Secret Invasion, says Method Studios used AI to design the opening credits scene — ‘It just came right out of the shape-shifting, Skrull world identity’ — The world of Secret Invasion is decidedly sketchy.
More: The Guardian, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Ars Technica, SlashGear, ET Canada, UPROXX, Digital Trends, IGN, Game Rant, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Mashable, Metro, and GameSpot
Bluesky: @saltybretzel.bsky.social. Twitter: @jonlamart, @bobbymiller, @hairyshortstack, and @discussingfilm
Forums: r/aiwars, r/MarvelStudios_Rumours, r/blankies, r/DefendingAIArt, r/television, and Slashdot
| Scott Wong / NBC News: |
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer unveils an AI regulatory framework and says that “Congress must join the AI revolution” before it's too late to regulate — The Senate majority leader released his long-awaited framework for regulating artificial intelligence …
More: MarketWatch, Washington Post, New York Times, CIO Dive, InfoRiskToday.com, Federal Computer Week, Politico, CNN, Wall Street Journal, TIME, The Hill, and The Verge
Twitter: @senschumer, @therealhoarse, and @scottwongdc
| Jeremy Diamond / CNN: |
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Australia's online safety regulator gives Twitter 28 days to explain the steps it is taking to combat hate speech or face $475K in fines — Australia's online safety regulator sent a legal notice to Twitter demanding the social network explain the steps it is taking to combat online hate or risk being slapped with fines.
More: ABC, The Register, The Guardian, Reuters, and Reclaim The Net
Forums: r/worldnews, r/Twitter, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/australia
| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta rolls out the Quest v55 update, boosting the Quest 2 and Pro maximum clock speeds by up to 19% for the GPU and 26% for the CPU, as Quest 3 preps for launch — The Quest v55 update brings the promised CPU & GPU clock speed increases for Quest 2 and Quest Pro.
More: Meta, Game Rant, UploadVR, The Verge, and XR Daily News
Twitter: @robsprance, @waifuverseai, @bozoid, @waffyonyt, @hmltn, @jonmayowriter, @joeybatz35, @uploadvr, @chrismhatch, @lostinartmagic, @nigelclements, @jayhadhope, @jdunrrp, and @ericpresidentvr
Forums: r/OculusQuest and r/OculusQuest
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Dropbox debuts two AI tools: one for summarizing documents, and Dash, an ambitious universal search engine that aims to be the “Google for your personal stuff” — Dropbox is launching two different but related AI-powered services into its platform.| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
A look at the vast and mostly hidden “tasker” underclass, including subject-matter experts, hired by companies like Scale AI to annotate data for AI training — As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.
More: Fortune. LinkedIn: Timnit Gebru, Rafael Brown, David Oro, and Alison Taylor
Bluesky: @sarahjeong.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, and @yoyoel.com
Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org, @stshank@mstdn.social, and @alastairmrushworth …
Twitter: @caseyjohnston, @niamh_mcintyre, @shamuskhan, @jathansadowski, @jwherrman, @drvolts, @joshdzieza, @billdeblasio, @knguyen, @lil_mermaid, @saedelstein, @joshdzieza, @gvsmith, @chrisgayomali, @nostalgiatrap, @cfarivar, @bernstein, @dylanmatt, and @beneltham. Forums: r/artificial. Thanks:@ants000
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based newsletter platform beehiiv raised a $12.5M Series A led by Lightspeed and says it has 7,500 active newsletters with 350M monthly impressions — The world took a double take at the potential of newsletters after Substack started to blow up a few years ago.
More: beehiiv Blog, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Howie Town
Twitter: @stephenkaraolis, @adventure_fund, @adamsinger, and @martymadrid
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
NYC-based Warp, a Rust-based terminal app for macOS with features like AI-powered auto-complete suggestions of commands, raised a $50M Series B led by Sequoia — Command-line interfaces have barely changed in decades, but remain beloved by techies. Warp aims to modernize the whole experience—and add a dash of AI.
More: Warp.dev. LinkedIn: Zach Lloyd. Twitter: @mikeyk, @technologizer, @warpdotdev, @harrymccracken, and @zachlloydtweets. Thanks:@technologizer
| Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: |
Intel plans to sell a ~20% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to Bain in a deal valuing IMS at $4.3B; Intel invested in IMS in 2009 and acquired the company in 2015 — Intel Corp. agreed to sell a roughly 20% stake in IMS Nanofabrication GmbH to Bain Capital in a deal that values the company at $4.3 billion.
More: Intel, MarketWatch, Tom's Hardware, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, and The Register
| Edward Felsenthal / TIME: |
Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on why UX matters for AI, AGI going “wrong” vs. “AGI is going to go fantastically well”, capping profit, regulation, and more — For this week's TIME100 Most Influential Companies cover story about OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman … | Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Google files a US FTC complaint alleging Microsoft used Office 365 licensing terms to lock clients into Azure contracts; Microsoft changed its EU terms in 2022 — After years of publicly alleging that Microsoft used its dominant position in enterprise software to push customers toward …
More: Reuters, iTnews, Livemint, CNBC, SiliconANGLE, CIO Dive, Neowin, The Register, BigTechWire, and Forbes
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Big firms want to trade crypto with the structure of traditional finance, including orders intermediated by brokers and asset custody separate from the exchange — Institutional crypto — I think even a year ago it was possible to imagine the traditional financial system learning something from crypto.| Maria Streshinsky / Wired: |
Q&A with Christopher Nolan, the director of Oppenheimer, on AI improving images in filmmaking, the parallels between nuclear weapon development and AI, and more — The Oppenheimer director says AI is not the bomb. His new movie might still scare you shitless.
Forums: r/boxoffice, r/OppenheimerMovie, and Slashdot
| Sawdah Bhaimiya / Insider: |
In a tweet reply, Elon Musk says Twitter considers “cis” and “cisgender” slurs and “the contemptible creep” who “manufactured” the term “has serious problems” — - Elon Musk said terms like “cisgender” and “cis” are now considered “slurs” on Twitter.
More: Hard Drive, The Hill, Fortune, Global News, Reclaim The Net, TechCrunch, and Gizmodo
Bluesky: @lolgop.bsky.social. Twitter: @elonmusk, @jk_rowling, @jamesesses, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @jonfavs, @marionumber4, @jdcmedlock, @mattgertz, @elonmusk, @internethippo, @walshfreedom, @keffals, @erininthemorn, @csmfht, @fmanjoo, and @rvawonk
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/LGBTnews, r/FreeSpeech, and r/daverubin
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Ripple says it got in-principle regulatory approval from Singapore to offer digital payment token products and expand XRP cross-border transfers in the country — - Ripple said it received in-principle approval of a Major Payment Institution Licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the country's central bank.| 9to5Google: |
Code repository suggests Google is working on a separate “Chromebook X” brand for premium devices, a source says with first models expected by the end of 2023 — When does a Chromebook become more than “just a Chromebook?” That's the question that Google has set out to answer with its upcoming …
More: TechRadar, Chrome Unboxed, Laptop Mag, XDA Developers, BGR, ZDNet, and The Verge
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