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| New York Times: |
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more — In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook's and Instagram's algorithms …
More: Nature, Meta, Science, The Guardian, Engadget, The Verge, The Information, Associated Press, The Atlantic, Science, NPR, Science, Nature, Politico, Wired, Wired, Tech Xplore, and Anchor Change …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out Android unknown tracker alerts, including manual scan, and pauses a Find My Device update to locate missing items until Apple updates iOS — Google today will begin to roll out a new safety feature, unknown tracker alerts, first announced at its developer event Google I/O this spring.
More: The Keyword, XDA Developers, Engadget, 9to5Google, The Verge, Ars Technica, Android Authority, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, Neowin, BigTechWire, Cult of Mac, TweakTown, Tom's Guide, BGR, Mashable, Android Central, PhoneArena, Wccftech, SlashGear, Sammy Fans, Droid Life, Huawei Central, 9to5Google, and Washington Post. Twitter: @mishaalrahman
| New York Times: |
Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren announce the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, seeking an independent regulator to license and police Big Tech — Mr. Graham, a Republican, is the senior senator from South Carolina. Ms. Warren, a Democrat, is the senior senator from Massachusetts.
More: CNN, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Mac, The Hill, The Information, Neowin, Reuters, Information Technology …, SlashGear, New York Times, ZDNet, and Gizmodo
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
More: The Record, Techdirt, CyberScoop, and Center for Democracy …
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| The Verge: |
Sony has sold over 40M PS5s since its launch in November 2020, up from 10M in July 2021, despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues — / Despite supply chain issues and the problems caused by the pandemic, Sony says the PS5 supply is now ‘well-stocked.’
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| Reuters: |
Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a “Diversion Team” to suppress thousands of complaints — About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” …
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| Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: |
The EU opens an antitrust investigation into whether Microsoft abuses its dominant position by bundling Teams with Office, the first investigation in 10+ years — Probe marks the first time in a decade that Microsoft has come under formal investigation by Brussels
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
WhatsApp announces instant video messages, letting users send clips up to 60 seconds in a similar way to voice notes; videos automatically play on mute — WhatApp's latest feature is the ability to quickly send short video messages, similar to the voice messages the service already supports.
More: TechCrunch, Meta, XDA Developers, Pocket-lint, Thurrott, Gadgets 360, NewsBytes, iThinkDifferent, TweakTown, SlashGear, TechRadar, Neowin, Android Police, TechSpot, The Economic Times, PhoneArena, Moneycontrol, BigTechWire, BGR, Zee News, Android Authority, and Techlusive. Twitter: @wabetainfo
| Steve Moser / MacRumors: |
iOS 17 beta 4 code hints at a rumored Action button, offering quick access to Shortcuts, Silent Mode, Camera, and more, similar to the Watch Ultra's button — Apple released the fourth beta of iOS 17 to developers yesterday, and among the changes in the latest beta are some new code snippets …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Researchers: the guardrails on ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude can be bypassed by adding a long suffix of characters to prompts, generating false and toxic responses — A new report indicates that the guardrails for widely used chatbots can be thwarted, leading to an increasingly unpredictable environment for the technology.
More: LLM Attacks, ZDNet, and Mashable
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue down 15% YoY to $12.9B, Data Center and AI revenue down 15% YoY to $4B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates; INTC jumps 6%+ — - Intel reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday, including a return to profitability after two straight quarters of losses, and a stronger-than-expected forecast.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit starts testing an “Official” label to indicate that an account is authentic, visible on its iOS and Android apps, and unveils accessibility improvements — Reddit is starting to test a new “Official” label that will make it easier to spot if an account is authentic.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A postmortem of Neeva, which tried to build a faster, simpler, and ad-free search engine, and how default search engine choices reinforce Google's dominance — A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free.
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Forums: r/technology and Beehaw
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based Proprio, which offers a device with multiple cameras and a display that shows real-time 3D visualization of surgery, raised a $43M Series B — Surgeries of all kinds have become more and more powerfully assisted by technology, but in most cases it's still a human holding the scalpel … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Filing: US government services contractor Maximus says MOVEit hackers accessed protected health information and other data of “at least” 8M to 11M people — U.S. government services contracting giant Maximus has confirmed that hackers exploiting a vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer accessed …
More: BleepingComputer, The Register, The Record, Dark Reading, Tech.co, BankInfoSecurity.com, SecurityWeek, and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sequoia cut the size of its cryptocurrency fund to $200M from $585M and of its ecosystem fund, which invests in other funds, to $450M from $900M — Brand has come under scrutiny following a series of controversial decisions — Sequoia Capital pared back the size of two major venture funds … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US DOJ informed a federal judge that Sam Bankman-Fried won't face the campaign finance charge, which wasn't part of an extradition document with The Bahamas — The Justice Department said late Wednesday that the campaign finance charge was not included in an extradition document with The Bahamas …
More: CourtListener.com, New York Times, Bloomberg, Bitcoin News, The Block, Crypto Daily, Unchained Crypto, New York Post, Cryptonews, Ethereum World News, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, Watcher Guru, Blockworks, Coinpedia Fintech News, Watcher Guru, Cointelegraph, and CNN
Twitter: @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, @innercitypress, and @joshgerstein. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Linda Yaccarino pitched her vision for Twitter/X to talent agencies in LA and met with Disney, in a bid to bring stars and influencers to the platform — Social media app's new chief meets with agents at leading talent agencies amid controversy over rebranding to ‘X’
More: Daring Fireball, The Information, and The Guardian
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| Aisyah Llewellyn / Al Jazeera: |
More: The Daily Beast, International Business Times, Silicon Republic, Mashable, Engadget, Mashable, and Gizmodo
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta forecasts 20% revenue growth in Q3, returning to pre-pandemic and pre-ATT levels, potentially creating cover for expensive AI and metaverse investments — - Meta's current quarter sales projection beats estimates — Company continues to increase spending on metaverse, AI
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $847.2M, vs. $773.5M est., platform revenue up 11% YoY to $744M, and active accounts up 16% YoY to 73.5M; ROKU jumps 8%+ — The company reported Q2 revenue of $847.2 million, up 11%, and a net loss of $107.6 million (-$0.76 per share).| PYMNTS.com: |
RapidAI, which develops AI-powered software to help diagnose neurovascular, cardiac, and vascular diseases, raised a $75M Series C led by Vista Credit Partners — RapidAI has secured $75 million in Series C funding to continue developing its clinical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.
More: FinSMEs, Business Wire, Crunchbase News, and HIT Consultant
| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian says thousands of customers, including Sony and Ryanair, have tried its AI services suite Bedrock ahead of a wider roll out “soon” — Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) cloud division has drawn thousands of customers to try out its service vying with Microsoft …
More: VentureBeat, ITPro, Tech Monitor, OnMSFT.com, Supervised, and Bloomberg
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