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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, Open Rights Group, Gizmodo, Prism, TechCrunch, iThinkDifferent, European Digital Rights, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Supercharged, MacDailyNews, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Pixel Envy
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| 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, New York Post, Insider, Forbes, Fortune, The Verge, and Axios
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Forums: Hacker News and r/shroomstocks
| 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 up, likely from crushed 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.
More: 9to5Google, AppleInsider, ExtremeTech, Daring Fireball, TechRadar, Droid Life, PhoneArena, T3, BGR, Patently Apple, Chrome Unboxed, Display Daily, Pocketnow, Tom's Guide, Computerworld, Wccftech, Sammy Fans, Engadget, Insider, Appuals.com, Notebookcheck.net, Gizmodo, Android Police, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, Mashable, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, and The Verge
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Forums: r/hardware, r/GooglePixel, r/PixelFold, r/GalaxyFold, and Ars OpenForum
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
The Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, which lacks support for external GPUs and is capped to 192GB of RAM, is a tough sell for pros, given the cheaper M2 Ultra Mac Studio — Apple's latest Mac Pro targets professionals with highly demanding computing workloads. But we talked to those professionals …
More: 9to5Mac, BGR, Cult of Mac, MacStories, MakeUseOf, and Forbes
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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, Techaeris, MobileSyrup, Gizmodo, BGR, PCWorld, SlashGear, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, Guru3D.com, Tom's Hardware, TechRadar, Pureinfotech, WinBuzzer, XDA Developers, OnMSFT.com, and Beehaw
Twitter: @nixcraft, @zacbowden, @liliputingnews, @tomwarren, and @never_released
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| 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 … | 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, Reuters, The Daily Hodl, Bitcoinist.com, Watcher Guru, Cointelegraph, The Block, and Coinpedia Fintech News. Twitter: @autismcapital
| 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 …
More: Europol, BleepingComputer, The Register, PCMag, Reuters, BankInfoSecurity.com, The Hacker News, HackRead, and Help Net Security
Forums: r/technews 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.
More: Apple, iDownloadBlog.com, Lifewire, TweakTown, Techlusive, Tom's Guide, and T3
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Report: Google canceled its “Iris” AR glasses project earlier in 2023 and is now focused on creating AR software platforms to license to headset manufacturers — Google reportedly killed its glasses hardware project. — Business Insider's Hugh Langley cites … | 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 … | 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: Cyera US, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, SiliconANGLE, PaymentSecurity.io, Accel, and SecurityWeek
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: SiriusXM plans to shut down its Stitcher podcast app on August 29 and move subscribers to its flagship SXM app, where podcasts will include ads — Sirius XM Holdings Inc., the satellite radio and audio company owned by Liberty Media Corp., plans to shut down its Stitcher podcast app …
More: Variety, 9to5Google, Engadget, and The Hollywood Reporter. Mastodon: @numbercrow@techhub.social
| Issie Lapowsky / Fast Company: |
SCOTUS rules 7-2: for an alleged cyberstalker to be a “true threat”, a court must prove they recklessly disregarded that their words might be seen as threats — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that in order to find someone guilty of making a “true threat” courts must first determine …
More: Bloomberg, Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press, and NBC News
| 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.| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Adalytics: ~80% of Google's video ad placements on third-party sites violated the company's promised standards between 2020 and 2023; Google disputes the claims — About 80% of Google's video-ad placements on third-party sites violated promised standards, new research shows; Google disputes claims| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
A look at Newark Public Schools' test of Khan Academy's Khanmigo, one of the first in the US, and worries the chatbot handles too much of the students' thinking — Newark public schools are cautiously trying out a new automated teaching aid from Khan Academy. The preliminary report card: “could use improvement.”
Twitter: @megankstack and @natashanyt
| 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: Engadget, The Information, WeRSM, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, SlashGear, The Verge, BGR, and Mashable
| 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, @morgancheatham, @chrissyfarr, and @stevelohr
| 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 …
More: The Verge, Axios, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup, IGN, TheGamer, PC Gamer, Forbes, Push Square, TechSpot, Thurrott, Eurogamer.net, Gameranx, WinBuzzer, Pure Xbox, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Dot Esports, Metro, GamingBolt, Neowin, Game Rant, GameSpot, GameRevolution, IGN, Wccftech, GameSpot, and Windows Central
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Forums: r/xboxone, r/Games, r/XboxSeriesX, and Slashdot
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Unity's stock jumps 15%+ after the company announces its Asset Store will sell third-party “AI solutions” that can generate game dialogue, graphics, and more — - Unity shares rose 12% Tuesday after the gaming tool maker announced a marketplace for artificial intelligence software.
More: Business Wire, TechRadar, Digiday, and Associated Press
| Anthony Vargas / AdExchanger: |
Tel Aviv-based Anzu, which offers in-game ad tools across mobile, PC, and consoles, raised a $48M Series B led by Emmis, bringing its total funding to $65M — Investors are betting on the growth of video games as an advertising channel. — On Tuesday, in-game ad company Anzu announced …
More: CTech, Nikon Rumors, and Pocket Gamer.biz
| 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: The Decoder and Fast Company
Bluesky: @iamnow.bsky.social. Twitter: @aaronpholmes, @toughsf, @fromvalue, and @amir. Forums: Slashdot
| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
TikTok admits that it's funding the TikTok creators' lawsuit in Montana challenging the state's ban of the app, but says it's not paying the creators directly — The popular video service had deflected questions about its involvement in the creators' lawsuit for more than a month.| 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 …
More: VentureBeat, Nvidia Newsroom, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, ZDNet, CIO Dive, Forbes, Snowflake, TechCrunch, MarTech, Constellation Research, The Information, Silicon Valley Business …, The Register, TechCircle, ITPro, Barron's Online, Tech Monitor, Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, SiliconANGLE, and MarketWatch. Twitter: @snowflakedb
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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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