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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Elon Musk tweets that he is “up for a cage fight” with Mark Zuckerberg, who replies “send me location” in an Instagram story; Musk suggests the Vegas Octagon — Here we go. — After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg …
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| Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: |
DuckDuckGo releases its browser in public beta on Windows, over a year after its private beta on macOS, offering Duck Player for YouTube without ads and more — No extensions yet, but it can fight spam, tracking, and YouTube's algorithm. — Privacy-focused firm DuckDuckGo has released …
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Forums: r/privacy, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft aims to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years, after claiming to have created scalable and stable qubits using Majorana particles in 2022 — Microsoft today announced its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer, using the topological qubits the company's researchers …
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| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
As Spotify's podcast strategy of focusing on exclusives and celebrity hosts continues to falter, the company seems to be shifting its attention to selling ads — The company is entering the ‘next phase’ of its podcast strategy — but will it learn from its mistakes?
More: Los Angeles Times. Mastodon: @The_Tim@mastodon.social. Twitter: @michellemanafy and @askhalid. Forums: Hacker News
| CoinDesk: |
BitGo ends its bid to acquire rival Prime Trust, which in turn halts all deposits and withdrawals; a judge dismissed BitGo's lawsuit over the failed Galaxy deal — Prime Trust has been losing clients and deposits to competitors for weeks amid mounting concerns over its business, a source at one former client told CoinDesk.
More: Decrypt, Blockworks, Protos, Fortune, The Block, Crowdfund Insider, and Web3 is Going Just Great
Twitter: @bitgo, @bearnakedcrypto, @adamscochran, and @martybent
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Apple patches three zero-days in macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS, exploited by the Triangulation iMessage spyware reported by Kaspersky earlier in June 2023 — Apple addressed three new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks installing Triangulation spyware on iPhones via iMessage zero-click exploits.
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Forums: r/InfoSecNews, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
a16z, Accel, Bain, Bessemer, Kleiner, and, sources say, Coatue and Tiger are increasingly buying startup shares on the secondary market, often at cheap prices — It's a bargain-hunter's dream, and for sellers it's sometimes the only good option left. — Secondary markets … | Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Argonne and Intel say they installed the Aurora supercomputer, announced in 2015, which will come online later in 2023 with 2 ExaFLOPS of processing power — Argonne National Laboratory and Intel said on Thursday that they had installed all 10,624 blades for the Aurora supercomputer … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases visionOS SDK for creating Vision Pro apps and plans to open applications for Apple Vision Pro developer kits and developer labs in July 2023 — When Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC, the company promised to make a robust set of tools available for developers.
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| Bloomberg: |
The US and the EU both agree that Google's ad tech dominance must end and call for a breakup; Margrethe Vestager hailed “close and fruitful” work with the DOJ — European Union and US antitrust regulators may have gone their separate ways of late.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Ripple says Singapore gave the company in-principle regulatory approval to offer payment tokens, services, 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.
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LinkedIn: Kirit Bhatia and Brooks Entwistle
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood acquires X1, a startup offering a no-fee income-based credit card with rewards, for $95M in cash; X1 had raised $62M, including $15M in December 2022 — Robinhood announced on Thursday that it was acquiring X1, a no-fee credit card startup, for $95 million in cash.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at TikTok's effect on US small businesses, as the app has become “a billion-person focus group”, disrupting business cycles and upending corporate R&D — The social-media giant has become ‘a billion-person focus group,’ disrupting business cycles and upending corporate R&D| Kaya Yurieff / The Information: |
TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas steps down after five years at the company to refocus on “entrepreneurial passions” — TikTok's Chief Operating Officer V. Pappas has quit, Pappas told staff on Thursday, according to an email viewed by The Information.
More: CNN, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Reuters, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Axios, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter
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| Bob Mehr / New York Times: |
A look at Dolby Atmos, supported by 15 music streaming services including Apple Music, which has heavily invested in Atmos, and the future of immersive audio — True believers in the immersive audio format say it could restore a musical appreciation lost to a generation that has come up during the streaming era.
More: CNET and 9to5Mac
Twitter: @audiophilestyle, @nytimesarts, @bennjordan, @dolby, @nytimestech, and @mehpatrol
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Citing rising complaints, Australia's eSafety commissioner gives Twitter 28 days to explain the company's plans to combat hate speech or face AU$700K in fines — Australia's online safety regulator sent a legal notice to Twitter demanding the social network explain the steps it is taking …
More: BBC, Gizmodo, ABC, Fortune, The Guardian, TechRadar, Dexerto, The Canberra Times, Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald, Tech Xplore, Insider, Livemint, and The Register
Twitter: @deves_katherine and @polibard
Forums: r/technology, r/worldnews, r/inthenews, r/australia, r/TheTwitterEnd, r/Twitter, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Figma expands its Google for Education partnership to Japan and now lets all US K-12 students access its design tools for free on education Chromebooks — Figma is expanding its partnership with Google for Education in a bid to introduce more school-age students to its product design and collaboration platforms.| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Stability AI launches SDXL 0.9, a model that uses a higher number of parameters to produce more photorealistic images than its SDXL beta from April, on Clipdrop — Artificial intelligence startup Stability AI is releasing a new model for generating images that its says can produce pictures … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to open a four-month investigation into Amazon's $1.7B iRobot acquisition after the end of a preliminary review on July 6 — EU antitrust regulators are expected to open a full-scale investigation into Amazon's (AMZN.O) $1.7 billion acquisition …
More: Neowin, Barron's Online, and Bloomberg
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Acryl Data, which offers a data catalog service built on the open-source framework DataHub, raised a $21M Series A led by 8VC, taking its total funding to $30M — With the explosion of different kinds of data, companies are struggling to realize meaningful value from their stored data.| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Sequoia launches Atlas, an interactive tool that uses qualitative and quantitative data collection methods to map out the European technical talent landscape — There is an estimated 3 million software engineers in Europe, depending on what report you want to believe, but finding …
More: Silicon Republic, AIN.Capital, Sequoia Atlas, TheRecursive.com, Sifted, Sequoia Atlas, Sequoia Atlas, Sequoia Atlas, Tech.eu, and Tech in Asia. Twitter: @martinsfp
| Politico: |
The EU's Thierry Breton visits California to discuss the DSA with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, and a new AI Pact with Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Jensen Huang — Thierry Breton flies to US to warn Twitter's Elon Musk and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to fall in line with EU law.| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: CEO Linda Yaccarino intervened to mend Twitter's relationship with Google Cloud over skipping some payments; sources say the bills were $20M+ per month — Social-media platform is now paying for Google cloud services amid talks of broader partnership| Glenn Gamboa / Associated Press: |
Google pledges $20M in grants to support and expand the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, aiming to introduce US students to potential cybersecurity careers — Free medical clinics and legal aid clinics, where college students and their instructors help their communities while also learning …
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