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| Anja Karadeglija / National Post: |
Meta will remove news content from Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada after the country's Senate passed the Online News Act, which goes for Royal Assent — With Bill C-18 on the verge of becoming law, Canadians could soon see news removed from their Facebook pages and Google searches
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Forums: r/canada and r/CanadaPolitics
| 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.
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| 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 …
More: HPCwire, Tom's Hardware, Intel, ServeTheHome, SiliconANGLE, CRN, HotHardware, TechPowerUp, and insideHPC
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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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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Filing: Microsoft says Xbox “lost the console wars”, with a 16% share of console sales in 2021, behind Nintendo and PlayStation, and a 21% installed base share — Xbox “in third place” behind PlayStation and Nintendo, with a sales market share of 16%.
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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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| 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.
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| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
New York-based Captions, an AI-powered video editing app, raised a $25M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $250M valuation, bringing its total funding to $40M — The video editing software, designed for “talking videos,” has been used by 3 million creators to date and stands at a $250 million valuation.
More: VentureBeat, FinSMEs, The Information, Captions, Captions, Tubefilter, and Andreessen Horowitz
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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?| 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| 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 it says can produce pictures that look more realistic than past efforts.
More: Stability AI, Digital Trends, The Decoder, and Engadget
| 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 …
More: PitchBook and TechCrunch
Twitter: @sarthakgh, @davemcclure, @bigbrutha_, @iatalkspace, @tmrohan, and @mhdempsey
| 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 …
More: Tom's Hardware, The Official Microsoft Blog, Physical Review B, IonQ, TechRadar, Forbes, GeekWire, Silicon Republic, Dexerto, ITPro, Tech Monitor, New Scientist, Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog, GeekWire, Neowin, OnMSFT.com, BigTechWire, and Nextgov
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| Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: |
Micron plans to invest up to $825M in its first DRAM and NAND assembly and test facility in India, with construction in Gujarat expected to begin in 2023 — U.S. memory chip firm Micron Technology, Inc (MU.O) said on Thursday it would invest up to $825 million in a new chip assembly …
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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.| 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.
More: The Keyword, Figma, Gizmodo, Mashable, and Figma
Twitter: @lemmccann, @lemmccann, @googleforedu, @misterwashburn, and @lemmccann
Forums: r/k12sysadmin and Slashdot
| 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: 9to5Mac and CNET
Twitter: @audiophilestyle, @nytimesarts, @bennjordan, @dolby, @nytimestech, and @mehpatrol
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS is investing $100M in a new program to help companies use generative AI by connecting them with AI experts, with Highspot and Twilio among its first clients — - Amazon's cloud unit said Thursday that it's allocating $100 million for a center to help companies use generative artificial intelligence.
More: SiliconANGLE, Unite.AI, Data Center Knowledge, GeekWire, About Amazon, CIO Dive, insideHPC, WebProNews, WinBuzzer, CIO.com, EnterpriseAI, and VentureBeat
Twitter: @glenngabe, @edgecgroup, and @jordannovet
| 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.
More: Cointelegraph, Crunchbase News, Benzinga, The Information, Watcher Guru, Axios, and TechCabal. LinkedIn: Drew Glover
| 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| 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.
Bluesky: @romitmehta.com
| 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: The Information, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, and Neowin
| 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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| 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 …
More: CyberScoop and The Keyword
| 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.| 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.
More: Ripple, CoinDesk, Cryptopolitan, The Daily Hodl, The Crypto Basic, ZyCrypto, nft now, and crypto.news
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A look at Intel's history as the chip industry's only major Integrated Design Manufacturer and why the position is both a structural advantage and disadvantage — Foundry Cost, Hot Lots, Steppings, Tool Utilization, Test & More: Path to Operational Efficiency? — ∙ Paid
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