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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter changes its handle from @twitter to @X, Twitter Blue to @XBlue, @TwitterSupport to @Support, and more; the previous @X owner now uses @x12345678998765 — Twitter has changed its official handle to @X as part of the ongoing rebranding. As a result, the original @Twitter handle is now inactive …
More: Mashable, Telegraph, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, NBC News, Mashable, Insider, Engadget, Deadline, PetaPixel, PCMag, Neowin, PhoneArena, Livemint, Reuters, The Apple Post, MobileSyrup, and Android Headlines
LinkedIn: Natalie Christman. Twitter: @x12345678998765, @zackstanton, @0xgaut, @jweimermedia, @princessmissdee, @xnewsdaily, @pt, @tictoctick, @crimefish, @mattbinder, @jamestitcomb, @xnewsdaily, @islandthembo, @everythingooc, @imprisonedemily, @adamamcbride, and @halomancer1. Threads: @mgsiegler
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/offbeat, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Wall Street Journal: |
More: Engadget, The Register, Slate, Adweek, Observer, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, ExchangeWire.com, Platformer, and Bloomberg
Twitter: @elonmusk, @ericliptonnyt, @danprimack, @xnewsdaily, @pt, @chetta_cheetah, @joelwenger, @patrickcoffee, @moguldom, @commuternyc, @thefinancerebel, @digiphile, @aaronguhreen, @keithdsouza, @kimcrayton1, @pkafka, and @noahcrothman. Forums: Beehaw
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch the Frontier Model Forum, aiming to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models” — Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI team up to establish best practices but critics argue they want to avoid regulation
More: The Keyword, OpenAI, Microsoft On the Issues, TechCrunch, Thurrott, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, ZDNet, Tech Monitor, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech Startups, Engadget, The Decoder, Axios, CNBC, Reuters, Washington Post, EnterpriseAI, The Guardian, Cointelegraph, BigTechWire, WinBuzzer, Bloomberg, Tech Xplore, WRAL TechWire, Neowin, PYMNTS.com, and Silicon Valley Business …
LinkedIn: James Dyett, Gianluca Varisco, Paul Roetzer, Mark Montgomery, Karen DeSalvo, and Eric Horvitz
Twitter: @bradsmi, @jonasschuett, @anthropicai, @sebkrier, @googlepubpolicy, @demishassabis, @bcmerchant, @openai, and @mer__edith
Forums: r/slatestarcodex and Slashdot
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft starts rolling out a new Xbox Home UI, offering more space for backgrounds and quick access to store, search, and settings, after 10 months of testing — Microsoft first started testing a new Xbox Home UI nearly a year ago, and the company is now ready to deliver it to all Xbox owners.
More: Xbox Wire, PayPal Newsroom, The Verge, Android Authority, Engadget, Video Games Chronicle, SlashGear, Kotaku Australia, Thurrott, TechRadar, Windows Central, Neowin, Eurogamer.net, Gameranx, TrueAchievements, BGR, GameSpot, Pure Xbox, and OnMSFT.com
Forums: r/xbox, r/Games, r/xboxone, r/XboxSeriesX, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Flip5, offering a larger 3.4" cover screen, up from 1.9" on the Z Flip 4, a new hinge, 256GB storage, and more for the same $999 — The Motorola Razr Plus' reign as the best flip phone might be short-lived. — The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 is officially here …
More: Samsung Newsroom, USA Today, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, PCMag, Bloomberg, Android Police, SamMobile, Patently Apple, Phone Scoop, Gizchina, 9to5Google, TechSpot, XDA Developers, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Techlusive, Digital Trends, The Verge on YouTube, Mashable, and ZDNet
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 hands-on: essentially the same displays and some nice upgrades, but Samsung seems to be wasting its advantage and $1,800 is ludicrous — Even with a new hinge, a brighter display and improved multitasking, the Z Fold's rivals are catching up.
More: Android Police, SlashGear, ExtremeTech, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, Trusted Reviews, Mashable, TechRadar, XDA Developers, Laptop Mag, Android Central, Forbes, Stuff, ZDNet, Techlusive, Windows Central, CNET, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, Tom's Guide, AndroidGuys, Android Police, and Notebookcheck
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
More: Android Central, Sam Lover, MakeUseOf, TweakTown, Digital Trends, Samsung us, XDA Developers, Mashable, GameSpot, Stuff, XDA Developers, The Guardian, Android Authority, SlashGear, Droid Life, Trusted Reviews, IGN, Android Central, The Independent, TechRadar, British GQ, TechEBlog, Laptop Mag, HotHardware, and The Verge
Twitter: @groundedtech and @pramitbasnyat
| CNN: |
US prosecutors ask a judge to detain Sam Bankman-Fried over witness tampering allegations, saying he leaked Caroline Ellison's personal writings to the NYT — New York CNN — — US prosecutors asked a federal judge to detain former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried over allegations of witness-tampering.
More: Reuters, The Information, Decrypt, Insider, Associated Press, The Block, Mercury News, Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, Watcher Guru, and Cryptopolitan
| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The FBI's seizure of Mastodon server Kolektiva.social in May should serve as a wake-up call to fediverse users and hosts to protect their privacy — We're in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
More: TechCrunch and PCMag
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @hrefna@hachyderm.io, @eff@mastodon.social, and @evacide@hachyderm.io
Forums: r/technology, r/RedditAlternatives, r/Mastodon, r/privacy, r/stupidpol, and Beehaw
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
T-Mobile rolls out ultrafast 5G capable of 3.3Gbps, first in a few US markets for Samsung Galaxy S23 users only, then nationwide in “the coming weeks” — / T-Mobile's new wireless tech is live in a few markets and will be available nationally in ‘weeks.’
More: T-Mobile, Android Authority, Droid Life, RCR Wireless News, Sammy Fans, and CommsUpdate
| Bloomberg: |
New rules approved by the SEC require publicly traded companies to file details of a cyberattack within four days of identifying that it has a material impact — - Delay possible if public safety or national security at risk — Some business groups argued that deadline was too short| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The CISA warns US federal agencies to secure their systems against an Ivanti flaw that's been exploited as a zero-day to hack Norway's government systems — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned U.S. federal agencies today to secure their systems …
More: Cybersecurity …, TechCrunch, Security Affairs, SC Media, and The Register
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
The Overture Maps Foundation, formed by Meta, Microsoft, AWS, and TomTom, releases its first dataset with 59M “points of interest” donated by Meta and Microsoft — - A group formed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and TomTom is releasing data that could enable companies …
More: Overture Maps Foundation, TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Authority, Gizmodo, TechRadar, Engadget, Dexerto, MacDailyNews, OnMSFT.com, 9to5Mac, WinBuzzer, and Neowin. Twitter: @overturemaps
| Meta Investor Relations: |
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $32B, net income up 16% YoY to $7.79B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.07B for June 2023 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023. — “We had a good quarter.
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Mastodon: @dme@mastodon.online. Twitter: @ericjhonsa, @zerohedge, @munster_gene, @supbagholder, @mikeisaac, @ophirgottlieb, @kobeissiletter, @stockmktnewz, @conorsen, @3peakstrading, and @rihardjarc
| Medha Singh / Reuters: |
Dish partners with Amazon to sell a Boost Infinite postpaid wireless plan with unlimited talk, text, and data services at $25/month for Amazon Prime subscribers — Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) is partnering with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) to sell wireless postpaid service plans through its platform …
More: The Verge, The Information, PCMag, Boost Infinite, PhoneArena, and Fierce Wireless
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, an open-source text-to-image model that can yield 1MP resolution images “in seconds” in multiple aspect ratios — AI startup Stability AI continues to refine its generative AI models in the face of increasing competition — and ethical challenges.
More: Stability AI, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Unite.AI, and The Decoder
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
AWS debuts HealthScribe, an AI-powered tool to summarize patient visits, and is working with partners rather than selling it directly to hospitals and doctors — Amazon Web Services is unveiling AI services for doctors, business analysis and chatbots as it aims for Microsoft and Google
More: About Amazon, ZDNet, Forbes, TechCrunch, Neowin, CNBC, Constellation Research, and Forbes
| The Guardian: |
UNESCO calls for a global ban on smartphones in schools, saying intensive technology use negatively impacts student performance and increases disruption — Major UN report issues warning over excessive use, with one in six countries already banning the devices
More: 9to5Mac, UNESCO, Neowin, UNESCO, Silicon Republic, Fast Company, TechRadar, 2023 GEM Report, and The Guardian
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/europe
| Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian: |
A profile of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot in 1966 but turned against AI, believing the computer revolution constricted our humanity — Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence - but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
Mastodon: @Weizenbaum_Institut …, @skarthik@neuromatch.social, @joningold@mastodon …, and @bentarnoff@mastodon.social
Twitter: @johnpmerrick, @yohannk, @erocdrahs, and @cabitzaf
| Bloomberg: |
As droughts spread across Spain, the US, and elsewhere, communities are battling water-hungry data centers; Meta expects a €1B facility to use 665M liters/year — With drought spreading around the globe, battles over water are erupting between AI companies seeking more computing power …
More: Bloomberg, DatacenterDynamics, and TechNewsWorld
Twitter: @oliviasolon, @oliviasolon, and @jon_boone
| Will Knight / Wired: |
How a US Navy task force is using AI to police the waters of the Gulf of Oman for pirates, a glimpse of increasingly capable autonomous systems transforming war — Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence … | Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the $300+ Galaxy Watch6 and $400+ Galaxy Watch6 Classic, powered by Wear OS 4, reviving the Classic's rotating bezel, and more — The Classic's rotating bezel is back — and the display bezels are a lot thinner all around. Oh, and here comes Wear OS 4.
More: 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Android Central, TalkAndroid.com, New York Times, Wareable, ZDNet, Techlusive, PCMag, Android Headlines, Mashable, Android Police, T3, PhoneArena, Samsung Newsroom, Engadget, SamMobile, Inverse, Sammy Fans, and Droid Life. Forums: r/gadgets
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: CrowdStrike is in advanced negotiations to acquire Bionic, a security posture management platform for cloud services, for between $200M and $300M — It sounds like another M&A deal is about to go down in the world of cybersecurity. Sources tell TechCrunch that CrowdStrike … Sponsor Posts
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