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June 28, 2023, 1:00 AM
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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 …
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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
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
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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:
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

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Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
Warner Bros. Discovery says John Malone is not seeking re-election to the board of directors and will instead take on the role of chairman emeritus

Julian Clover / Broadband TV News:
A group of current and former BBC World Service journalists warn that cuts to the international service risk fracturing “the core identity of the World Service”

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Copyright law professors and a trade group for academic and professional publishers file amicus briefs supporting authors suing Meta in an AI copyright case

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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

Earlier Picks

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
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
More: The Decoder and Fast Company
Bluesky: @iamnow.bsky.social.  Twitter: @toughsf, @aaronpholmes, @fromvalue, and @amir.  Forums: Slashdot
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
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
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
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