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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple and Luxshare cut Vision Pro production plans from 1M to fewer than 400K units in 2024 due to many manufacturing problems for the $3,500 headset — Initial hopes of 1mn shipments in 2024 launch year dashed by manufacturing problems — Apple has been forced to make drastic cuts …
More: MacRumors, TechCrunch, Road to VR, New York Post, The Economic Times, Silicon Valley Business …, UploadVR, Bloomberg, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, Reuters, Wccftech, KNSD-TV, T3, The Apple Post, Coinspeaker, Supercharged, iMore, Tom's Guide, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, Neowin, Dexerto, BigTechWire, MacDailyNews, Mashable, PCMag, Cult of Mac, Appuals.com, AppleInsider, Insider, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Mac, Business Post, and WRAL TechWire
Forums: Hacker News, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| New York Times: |
A look at the cottage industry of tech contractors in Russia, many employed by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for the FSB — Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Mastodon: @Mer__edith@mastodon.world. Twitter: @satariano, @kevinrothrock, @matthew_d_green, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @smith_jeffreyt, @profwoodward, @danharris, @rondeibert, @mer__edith, @lukolejnik, and @matthew_d_green
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read limits; home timelines still load — Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping.
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Associated Press, Engadget, Gizmodo, Thurrott, Forbes, Insider, The i Paper, WinBuzzer, and Gizchina
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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Bluesky: @caseynewton.bsky.social. Twitter: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @jack, @rmac18, @jack, @jayrosen_nyu, @zaleskiluke, @patrickw, @esthercrawford, @huntingthedead, @0xngmi, @goldman, @notabigjerk, @benjysarlin, @davenewworld_2, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @levie, @austin_rief, @alex_valaitis, @auschwitzmuseum, @alicemazzy, @nkulw, @elonmusk, @wongmjane, @scottnover, @broderick, @jayrosen_nyu, @mikeisaac, @katienotopoulos, @demercy_, @sarahfrier, @growing_daniel, @matt_levine, @r_chirgwin, @joannastern, @markscott82, @geoconfirmed, @katebevan, @nirave, @theapplehub, @saeeddicaprio, @nancylevine, @tomwarren, @snowden, @mrjamesob, @inafried, @mattbinder, @cjc, @tomwarren, @alisonnolan9, @mat, @themaxburns, @helenkennedy, @mnateshyamalan, @triketora, @lanceulanoff, @joshelman, @jack, @_asiwajulerry, @cyriakharris, @hnshah, @alicegoldfuss, @jamesmoran, @teroterotero, @paulswhtn, @modestproposal1, @joannastern, @gruber, @whitest_injera, @brijwaasi, @profgalloway, @emollick, @shl0ms, @oneunderscore__, @jimmysecuk, @mskidchaos, @christapeterso, @boygrri, @discussingfilm, @imbethmccoll, @bzamayo, @lijukic, @derjarjour, @tomwarren, @levie, @om, @taylorlorenz, @nkulw, @jules_su, @mikebutcher, @maxwelltani, @trungtphan, @ashleyfeinberg, @athertonkd, @suhail, @suhail, @zoink, @ryanbeckwith, @willguyatt, @alshipley, @taylorlorenz, @brianstelter, @obsoletedogma, @dimensionmedia, @johnolilly, @panzer, @matthfield, @matthfield, @lamhfada, @karaswisher, @ghoulhag, @levie, @tomcoates, @digiphile, @pt, @tsuvik, @katebevan, @williamturton, @willguyatt, @willguyatt, @loganbartlett, @rmac18, @rmac18, @krxsctr, @levie, @internethippo, @mattbinder, @dieworkwear, @martinsfp, @daveleebbg, @rmac18, @mikeisaac, @kevinjrawlinson, @neroxiia, @bradeauxnba, @anisha12, @norootcause, @norootcause, @daveleebbg, @thetomzone, @markgurman, @thecubsfan, @joshtpm, @mattlombardonfl, @jpsartre_noexit, @oalexanderdk, @esotericcd, @shuglisam, @camolnft, @sjftbi, @igb, @lanceulanoff, @thestalwart, @mikeelgan, @daveleebbg, and @elonmusk. Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Bloomberg: |
China imposes export restrictions on gallium and germanium, used to make chips and other electronics, starting on August 1, likely raising manufacturers' costs — China imposed restrictions on exporting two metals that are crucial to parts of the semiconductor, telecommunications …
More: Wall Street Journal, Tom's Hardware, Financial Times, PCMag, Agence France-Presse, and CHINAdaily
Twitter: @damienics, @mohamedmansour, @byron_wan, @dylanljmartin, @lingling_wei, @agathedemarais, and @markdampier
Forums: r/LessCredibleDefence and r/worldnews
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta held talks with Tencent and other Chinese tech companies about selling Quests in China, but Mark Zuckerberg's past China comments may cause issues — Meta is in talks with Tencent to bring Meta's Quest VR headset to a huge new market, but potential partners worry about Zuckerberg's past criticisms of China
More: Insider, PYMNTS.com, and New York Post
| New York Times: |
Sources detail ByteDance's book publishing push and uneven playing field concerns; BookScan: 100+ authors with large #BookTok followings had $760M in 2022 sales — As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.
More: The Verge and Tubefilter
Twitter: @aidenschmaiden, @nytimesbooks, @washburnealex, @ratlpolicy, and @magnifymedia
| Wall Street Journal: |
How some crypto miners want to repurpose their idle rigs to train AI models, which isn't easy or cheap but can be more affordable than Big Tech's cloud services — Demand for high-end chips allows cryptocurrency companies to repurpose idle equipment — The boom in demand for high-end chips powering …
More: Tom's Hardware, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Crypto Daily, Cryptonews, The Overspill, Cryptopolitan, and Blockworks
Twitter: @vipulved and @kylebrussell
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Sweden's privacy watchdog says “Companies must stop using Google Analytics” and issues $1M+ in fines to businesses, including telco Tele2, that used the service — Sweden's data protection watchdog has issued a couple of fines in relation to exports of European users' data via Google Analytics …
More: Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, Tech Xplore, and noyb.eu
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Jio Platforms unveils a ~$12 4G phone in India with mobile payment tech and access to Jio's video and music streaming services, and a $1.5/month 14GB data plan — Reliance's digital arm, Jio Platforms, has unveiled a new mobile handset and associated tariff plans, the latest in a series … | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Sources: Netflix plans to develop targeted and tailor-made ad formats, like “episodic” campaigns, and discussed the strategy with ad executives at Cannes Lions — US streaming service introduced ad-supported subscriptions last year — Netflix will develop increasingly targeted …
More: Search Engine Journal, ChannelX, and MakeUseOf
| Benedict Evans: |
An analysis of whether generative AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs over years like other automation waves, or if this time is different — Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change …
More: Forbes. LinkedIn: Allan Thygesen. Bluesky: @fudge.org. Twitter: @benedictevans, @stevesi, @newley, @benedictevans, @dok2001, @aridavidpaul, @willcritchlow, @eswarpr, and @_jeremyflores. Forums: Hacker News
| Financial Times: |
A look at Reliance's JioCinema, which had 400M+ IPL cricket stream viewers, acquired content rights from NBC, HBO, and WBD, and is challenging Disney in India — Asia's richest man is on a mission to transform Reliance Industries into a digital group — India's richest man Mukesh Ambani …
More: The Streamable, Deadline, Broadband TV News, and Variety
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