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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com — Twitter has removed the iconic bird logo and adopted ‘X’ as its official logo. This move comes after Elon Musk announced the change over the weekend.
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| Financial Times: |
The Worldcoin Foundation rolls out its Worldcoin token, received after using an eye-scanning “orb”, in 35 cities; Worldcoin plans to retain 20% of its tokens — Start-up co-founded by OpenAI chief faces regulatory pushback in US — Sam Altman's cryptocurrency project …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Spotify confirms raising US Premium to $10.99/month, up from $9.99, the first increase since its US launch in 2011; Duo rises by $2, Family and Student by $1 — After 12 years, the price of Spotify Premium is increasing in the US. The subscription will now cost $10.99 a month, the company announced today.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Why the Vision Pro app store may be more successful than the Apple Watch or Apple TV app stores, despite the headset's small user base for the first few years — Third-party apps will be crucial to the success of the Vision Pro, but the pricey and niche nature of the device means that developers may not quickly flock to it.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Brian Merchant / Los Angeles Times: |
Studio executives embraced Silicon Valley's magical thinking of hypergrowth and disruption for the past 10 years, only to slash worker pay as the boom times end — In one respect, the actors and writers of Hollywood uniting on the picket lines in a historic, industry-shaking strike is a tale as old as time …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple asks suppliers to produce about 85M iPhone 15 units in 2023, only slightly below 2021 and 2022's 90M target, and considers raising 15 Pro prices — - Apple targets 85 million units, roughly in line with last year — Its fortunes affects thousands of firms, millions of workers
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| Kai Ye / Wired: |
A profile of Moxie Marlinspike and Signal, from copying WhatsApp's UX to pioneering E2EE, and its aim to reach “everyone on the planet” while upholding privacy — The privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority.| Mike Orcutt / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at the Boston Fed's Project Hamilton, launched in 2020 to research how to design a US CBDC but ended in 2022 after opposition from anti-CBDC legislators — Prominent politicians want to make sure a central bank digital currency never happens in the US—just as we've learned the basics of how one might work.| Laura Kayali / Politico: |
How France built a surveillance apparatus over two centuries that digital rights groups and UN experts are critiquing, ahead of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics — PARIS — Liberté. Egalité. But mostly: sécurité. — It all started with Napoléon Bonaparte.
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
IBM Security survey of 533 global organizations in the year to March 2023: average data breach costs rose 15% YoY to $4.45M and only ~33% were detected in-house — A new report from IBM Security today finds that the relentless rise in data breach costs continues unabated in 2023 …
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs — Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models. But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
An analysis of the potential impact of the eight AI commitments to the White House made by OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection — Seven leading A.I. companies made eight promises about what they'll do with their technology. Our columnist sizes up their potential impact.
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