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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, European Digital Rights, Gizmodo, iThinkDifferent, TechCrunch, MacDailyNews, The Verge, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Supercharged, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Pixel Envy
LinkedIn: Omkhar Arasaratnam. Mastodon: @konstantin@digitalcourage …. Twitter: @mer__edith, @evacide, @michaelguimarin, @tomcoates, @openrightsgroup, and @openrightsgroup
| 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
More: PCMag, Dexerto, Fortune, Adalytics, The Information, Search Engine Journal, and The Keyword
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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, Reuters, MSPoweruser, MobileSyrup, Pureinfotech, Techaeris, TheGamer, PCMag, Guru3D.com, SlashGear, TechRadar, BGR, PCWorld, Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, OnMSFT.com, Thurrott, WinBuzzer, and Beehaw
Twitter: @nixcraft, @zacbowden, @liliputingnews, @tomwarren, and @never_released
Forums: r/technews and r/technology
| 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: MacStories, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, BGR, and MakeUseOf
| 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 …
Source: Insider. More: The Information, Android Authority, nextpit, PhoneArena, Android Central, 9to5Google, and The Verge
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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, The Information, New York Post, Insider, Forbes, Fortune, The Verge, and Axios
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/shroomstocks
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US is considering new AI chip export restrictions to China as soon as July, which could even prevent sales of Nvidia's A800 chip without a license — Restrictions come amid concerns that China could use AI chips from Nvidia and others for weapon development and hacking
More: Financial Times, Reuters, The Information, Bloomberg, NBC 7 San Diego, and Wccftech
| 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 … | 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 …
More: Meta, The Guardian, The Verge, Gizmodo, Instagram, Fast Company, 13newsnow.com, Tech Times, KATC-TV, Gizchina, TechRadar, Social Media Today, MediaPost, PCWorld, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, Fortune, iMore, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, Lifewire, MSPoweruser, Mashable, NBC Bay Area, Business Post, Techlusive, PhoneArena, International Business Times, 9to5Mac, WRAL TechWire, Engadget, and Washington Post
| 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, Bitcoinist.com, The Daily Hodl, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cointelegraph, and Reuters. Twitter: @autismcapital
| 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, The Hollywood Reporter, KnowTechie, The Verge, 9to5Google, and Engadget
LinkedIn: Paul Riismandel and Matty Staudt
Mastodon: @overcastfm@mastodon.social and @numbercrow@techhub.social
| 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.| 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: Unity Blog, Financial Times, Business Wire, Kotaku, TechRadar, Digiday, and Associated Press
| 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 … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI's ChatGPT iOS app adds Bing for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, letting them get answers on information that extend beyond ChatGPT's original training data — ChatGPT on mobile can now surf the web. But only via Bing. — Today, OpenAI announced that subscribers to ChatGPT Plus … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Augmedics, which develops an FDA-approved AR navigation system for spinal surgery, raised an $82.5M Series D led by CPMG, bringing its total funding to $148M — Spinal is one of the fastest-growing categories of surgery, with the number of operations taking place annually now approaching 8 million.| 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, Reuters, BankInfoSecurity.com, The Register, PCMag, HackRead, ComputerWeekly.com, The Hacker News, and Help Net Security
Forums: r/technews and Slashdot
| Miranda S. Spivack / New York Times: |
Experts say there is a growing need to build data centers in the US, which had 2,701 data centers in 2022 per Statista, but finding land may be a challenge — The need for data centers has soared, fueled by remote work and the growth of high-speed streaming. But finding the necessary land and energy can be a challenge.
Mastodon: @ravirockks@infosec.exchange. Twitter: @nytimesbusiness, @nytimestech, @jameshewettdc, and @berkeleylab
| 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, Lifewire, iDownloadBlog.com, TweakTown, Techlusive, and Tom's Guide
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Forums: r/apple and r/VisionPro
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
In a first for foldables, Google plans to offer Pixel Fold DIY repairs via its iFixit partnership, including for the battery, inner display, and charging port — One of the biggest downsides of foldable smartphones right now is durability and, more so, repairability.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
More: AppleInsider, ExtremeTech, 9to5Google, TechRadar, Droid Life, Chrome Unboxed, PhoneArena, Display Daily, Pocketnow, T3, Tom's Guide, Patently Apple, Daring Fireball, BGR, Computerworld, Wccftech, Sammy Fans, Insider, Notebookcheck.net, Appuals.com, Engadget, 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
| 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, Anzu, and Pocket Gamer.biz
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Reka, which is building custom AI models for the enterprise, emerges from stealth with $58M in funding led by DST Global Partners and Radical Ventures — Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-4 are all the rage these days, owing to their unparalleled ability to analyze and generate text.Sponsor Posts
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