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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
A Pixel Fold reviewer says the device's flexible OLED screen died after four days of light use, starting at the bottom and moving upwards, likely due to debris — The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen. — A flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
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Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/hardware, r/PixelFold, r/GalaxyFold, and Ars OpenForum
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to offer DIY repairs for the Pixel Fold via its iFixit partnership, including the battery and inner, folding display — One of the biggest downsides of foldable smartphones right now is durability and, more so, repairability. Google is breaking new ground with the Pixel Fold …
More: Engadget, Android Authority, XDA Developers, Android Central, Neowin, PhoneArena, iFixit News, Digital Trends, and GSMArena.com. Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social. Thanks:@nexusben
| Wall Street Journal: |
How Silicon Valley executives' routine drug use moved from an after-hours activity squarely into corporate culture, causing issues for boards and tech leaders — Entrepreneurs including Elon Musk and Sergey Brin are part of a drug movement that proponents hope will expand minds, enhance lives and produce business breakthroughs
More: Bloomberg and Axios
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| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Apple says the UK should amend its Online Safety Bill, which would mandate scanning messages for CSAM, to protect encryption, joining WhatsApp and Signal — Apple has criticised powers in the Online Safety Bill that could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage …
More: Open Rights Group, 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, European Digital Rights, and Supercharged
Mastodon: @konstantin@digitalcourage …. Twitter: @michaelguimarin, @openrightsgroup, and @openrightsgroup
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches new parental controls and other safety features for Messenger and Instagram in the US, the UK, and Canada, including letting parents view contacts — Meta announced new parental control tools across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger today. This includes a new parental supervision hub …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
FTC v. Microsoft: an internal Microsoft presentation from June 2022 discussed building on Windows 365 “to enable full Windows ... streamed from the cloud” — Microsoft has been increasingly moving Windows to the cloud on the commercial side with Windows 365, but the software giant also wants to do the same for consumers.
More: Windows Central, PCMag, Gizmodo, PCWorld, Thurrott, Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, Guru3D.com, TechRadar, SlashGear, BGR, WinBuzzer, OnMSFT.com, and Beehaw
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Forums: r/technology and r/technews
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
A survey of 20+ professionals finds all but one do not plan to buy the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, citing Apple's cheaper and similarly powerful laptops and desktops — Apple's latest Mac Pro targets professionals with highly demanding computing workloads. But we talked to those professionals …
More: 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, BGR, MacStories, MakeUseOf, and Forbes
| Mike Corder / Associated Press: |
French and Dutch police say the 115M+ communications obtained by cracking the encryption of EncroChat phones, announced in 2020, has led to 6,558 arrests so far — Investigations triggered by the cracking of encrypted phones three years ago have so far led to more than 6,500 arrests worldwide …
| Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg: |
Source: 3AC liquidators are seeking to recover $1.3B from co-founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, taking action against the duo in a British Virgin Islands court — Three Arrows Capital liquidators are seeking to recover $1.3 billion from the co-founders of the failed crypto hedge fund …
More: CoinDesk, The Block, Watcher Guru, Cointelegraph, and Coinpedia Fintech News
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A 2019 email by Xbox Game Studios' Matt Booty encouraged acquiring games to “spend Sony out of business”; Microsoft says the company didn't pursue the strategy — Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios chief, Matt Booty, was encouraging Xbox CFO Tim Stuart to spend big money …
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Forums: r/xboxone, r/Games, r/XboxSeriesX, and Slashdot
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Vision Pro documentation: the device has a “system boundary”, defined as a 1.5-meter radius from the headset, when in a “fully immersive VR experience” — Apple has limited a Vision Pro safe area to 10 feet by 10 feet, when using fully immersive VR experiences.
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu claims that its latest LLM, Ernie 3.5, surpasses GPT-3.5-based ChatGPT in general abilities and outperforms GPT-4 in many Chinese-language capabilities — Baidu Inc.'s ChatGPT-style service has outperformed OpenAI's seminal product on several measures, China's search leader said on Tuesday.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
TikTok plans to shut down TikTok Now, its BeReal clone unveiled in September 2022, without giving a reason; user estimates suggest that BeReal has faded in 2023 — TikTok is killing off its BeReal clone TikTok Now, according to notifications being sent to users.
More: The Information, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, Mashable, SlashGear, The Verge, and BGR
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches the TikTok Creative Challenge, which lets US-based creators with 50K+ followers submit video ads for brands and make money based on performance — TikTok is introducing a new way for creators to earn money on its platform. The company announced on Tuesday that it's launching the …
More: TikTok, BGR, The Verge, and Pixel Envy
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Prosus, a top Byju's shareholder, cuts the value of its stake, implying a $5.1B valuation, far below the Bengaluru-based edtech giant's $22B valuation in 2022 — Prosus, the largest non-founder shareholder in Byju's, has drastically slashed the worth of its stake in the edtech giant … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta says WhatsApp Business crossed 200M MAUs, up from 50M in 2020, adds a tool to let users create “click-to-WhatsApp” ads without a Facebook account, and more — Meta announced today that WhatsApp Business, its app designed specifically for small businesses …
More: WABetaInfo, Moneycontrol, PYMNTS.com, WhatsApp Business, Android Police, Tech.co, Neowin, Techlusive, Coinspeaker, TechRadar, The Verge, and International Business Times. Twitter: @sarthakgh
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Some doctors say that their current best use for generative AI is to ease the heavy burden of documentation, which takes hours a day and contributes to burnout — The best use for generative A.I. in health care, doctors say, is to ease the heavy burden of documentation that takes them hours a day and contributes to burnout.
Twitter: @joshgans, @antoniogm, @zacharylipton, @stevelohr, @stevelohr, @chrissyfarr, and @morgancheatham
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: Sam Altman told developers in May that OpenAI plans to turn ChatGPT into a “supersmart personal assistant for work”, setting up a Microsoft rivalry — In the span of half a year, ChatGPT has become one of the world's best-known internet brands.
More: TweakTown, The Decoder, and Fast Company
Bluesky: @iamnow.bsky.social. Twitter: @aaronpholmes, @toughsf, @fromvalue, and @amir. Forums: Slashdot
| Jane Lee / Reuters: |
Snowflake partners with Nvidia to let customers build generative AI models using their own data; Nvidia plans to embed NeMo Framework into Snowflake Data Cloud — Snowflake (SNOW.N) a cloud data analytics company, is partnering with computing company Nvidia (NVDA.O) to allow customers ranging … | Robert D. McFadden / New York Times: |
John B. Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in developing the lithium-ion battery used in mobile devices and EVs, dies at 100 — An unassuming professor who remained active into his 90s, he is credited with the breakthrough that gave rise to the batteries powering today's electronic devices.
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LinkedIn: Paulo Ferreira. Twitter: @readingkafka, @kamatlabnd, @nytscience, @jp_loksatta, @silananotech, @nytimes, and @quantamagazine
Forums: r/chemistry and Slashdot
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Tel Aviv-based enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $100M Series B led by Accel, a source says at a $500M valuation; Sequoia and others participated — The Israeli company's data security platform learns an enterprise's unique data and business purpose using large language models …
More: SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Cyera US, and SecurityWeek
| Axios: |
Betr, a sports micro-betting app co-founded by Jake Paul, raised a $35M at a $300M pre-money valuation, in an extension to its $50M Series A in August 2022 — Betr, a media and sports micro-betting platform co-founded by social media star and boxer Jake Paul, on Tuesday said it's secured $35 million …
More: Sportico
| New York Times: |
A look at review-bombing campaigns on Goodreads that can derail a book's publication long before its release, frustrating both new and established authors — The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire.
More: Tech Xplore and Bloomberg
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| Bloomberg: |
Investors keen on the AI buzz are snapping up private shares on EquityZen, Rainmaker, and other marketplaces; Anthropic bidders are willing to pay a 25% premium — The buzz around artificial intelligence has investors snapping up shares of startups on alternative venues … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Thomson Reuters plans to acquire YC-backed Casetext, which builds AI/ML-powered workflows and tools for lawyers, for $650M in cash, expected to close in H2 2023 — Thomson Reuters has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext, a Y Combinator-backed legal tech startup.
More: Reuters, Metaverse Post, Fortune, Thomson Reuters, Y Combinator, and PYMNTS.com
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