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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.
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 …
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%.
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.
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 …
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?
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
New York-based Captions, an AI-powered video editing app, raised a $25M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing its total funding to $40M at a $250M valuation  —  The video editing software, designed for “talking videos,” has been used by 3 million creators to date and stands at a $250 million valuation.
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.
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 …
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 …

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Betsy Morais / Columbia Journalism Review:
Several women attest to Wesley Lowery's pattern of predatory behavior toward young women in journalism between 2018 and 2024

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBCUniversal made an offer to take over MLB rights after ESPN opted out of continuing its contract, but is offering far less than ESPN currently pays

Ashley Spencer / New York Times:
How Disney's Lilo & Stitch, released in 2002, became one of its most merchandised characters, rivalling Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse, ahead of a new movie

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SemiAnalysis:
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
More: Livemint, ExtremeTech, TechPowerUp, and PC Gamer
Bluesky: @stshank.bsky.social.  Twitter: @hpc_guru and @dylan522p.  Forums: r/hardware
Shen Lu / Wall Street Journal:
Shein tries to shed its Chinese image, including by denying claims of sourcing its cotton from Xinjiang and staying silent on details of its suppliers in China

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Liani MK / Rest of World:
Indigenous communities in Borneo are using mapping tech like GPS and GIS to claim their rights to ancestral land and stop the expansion of oil palm plantations
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
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
NYC-based Warp, a Rust-based macOS terminal app with features like permalinks and AI auto-complete command suggestions, raised a $50M Series B led by Sequoia
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
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