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August 30, 2023, 8:25 PM

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Emma Roth / The Verge:

Sony plans to raise PlayStation Plus annual subscription prices on September 6: Essential from $60 to $80, Extra from $100 to $135, Premium from $120 to $160 — Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation Plus subscription next month. The service's annual Essential plan will go from $60 to $80 …

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Forums: r/playstation, r/PS4, and r/gamernews

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: Apple is testing 3D printing the stainless steel Apple Watch Series 9's chassis to speed up production, boost sustainability, and lower costs over time — - New approach will use less material and be more eco-friendly — Company is trying out the process with steel Apple Watches

More: MacRumors, PYMNTS.com, XDA Developers, MobileSyrup, Patently Apple, Reuters, iThinkDifferent, MacDailyNews, The Voice of 3D Printing, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Redmond Pie, Supercharged, The Verge, AppleInsider, and Barron's Online

X: @patentlyapple, @tashaark, @scottlincicome, and @markgurman

Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Microsoft retires Visual Studio for Mac, saying the IDE will get “servicing updates for security issues and updated platforms from Apple” until August 31, 2024 — Microsoft has announced plans to discontinue Visual Studio for Mac. The latest version of the company's IDE …

More: Visual Studio Blog, XDA Developers, AppleInsider, Visual Studio Magazine, MSPoweruser, and Neowin

Bluesky: @sbisson.com. X: @migueldeicaza, @timeyoutakeit, and @migueldeicaza

Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/csharp, r/dotnet, r/apple, and r/dotnet

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft plans to address a Windows 11 “unintended behavior” that for months has caused malware-like notification pop-ups promoting Bing search to Chrome users — I thought I had malware on my main Windows 11 machine this weekend. There I was minding my own business in Chrome …

More: The Register, Ars Technica, Windows Central, Thurrott, and iPhone in Canada Blog

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Forums: Hacker News, r/browsers, r/MacOS, r/cybersecurity, r/Windows11, and r/microsoft

Abner Li / 9to5Google:

Google announces a hardware event on October 4 at 10am ET in New York City, where the company is expected to unveil the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, and Pixel Watch 2 — Google this morning announced that it will be hosting its annual Pixel hardware event on Wednesday, October 4.

Richard Lawler / The Verge:

An image with the alt text “A person takes a call on a Pixel 8 Pro phone in Porcelain” popped up on a Google Store page, revealing the as-yet-unannounced device

Ben Strack / Blockworks:

Robinhood Wallet adds support for bitcoin and dogecoin six months after public launch, and is rolling out in-app Ethereum swaps to all users in the coming weeks — Six months after its public launch, the self-custody offering has begun enabling in-app swaps on the Ethereum network

More: Robinhood Newsroom, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, Crowdfund Insider, CoinGape, The Block, and crypto.news. LinkedIn: Johann Kerbrat

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:

OpenAI files a motion to dismiss two similar lawsuits from book authors alleging copyright infringement, saying the authors “misconceive the scope of copyright” — Authors claim generative AI is just a “grift” that repackages original works. — This week, OpenAI finally responded …

More: TorrentFreak, Reuters, CIO Dive, The Decoder, Bloomberg Law, VICE, and UNITED STATES DISTRICT …

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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Amazon announces the Buy with Prime app for Shopify, which will let US-based Shopify merchants natively integrate Amazon's program into their Shopify stores — In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.

More: Amazon, The Information, Bloomberg, and Reuters

X: @taylorsicard, @jerrycap, @modestproposal1, @mattahertz, @fromvalue, @harleyf, and @benthompson

Steve Dent / Engadget:

Samsung launches Food, an AI-powered food and recipe app in eight languages and 104 countries, with 160K+ recipes based on a database by Whisk, acquired in 2019 — It builds on Whisk, an app it acquired a few years back. — As it promised last week, Samsung has launched Food, a …

More: Samsung Newsroom, TechRadar, Mashable, Android Central, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, SlashGear, PCMag, 9to5Google, Silicon Republic, Sammy Fans, and SamNews 24. Bluesky: @epro.social

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:

Instagram is internally testing letting users create Reels up to 10 minutes long, after TikTok increased its maximum video length to 10 minutes in February 2022 — Instagram is internally testing the ability to create Reels that are up to 10 minutes in the length, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday.

More: The Information, The Verge, MediaPost, Search Engine Journal, TechJuice, Engadget, MSPoweruser, and Zee News

Threads: @karissabe and @quillmatiq

X: @alex193a, @thebkh, and @liahaberman

Reuters:

Huawei quietly launches the ~$960 Mate 60 Pro, without any advance notice or ads; some investors speculate that the Mate 60 Pro uses a Huawei-produced 5G chip — Chinese chip stocks rallied on Wednesday following Huawei Technologies' (HWT.UL) launch of its new Mate 60 Pro phone …

Reuters:

Filing: Nvidia says the US expanded export restrictions of “a subset of A100 and H100” chips to regions beyond China, including some Middle Eastern countries — The U.S. government has imposed restrictions on some Nvidia (NVDA.O) artificial intelligence chip exports to certain countries …

More: PCMag, Telegraph, iTnews, and Tom's Hardware

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:

JBL announces the $330 Authentics 200, $700 Authentics 500, and portable $430 Authentics 300, the first smart speakers featuring both Alexa and Google Assistant — Three new JBL smart speakers from Harman will be the first to offer simultaneous voice assistants, so you can ask Alexa to start the music and then ask Google to stop it.

More: The Ambient, The Keyword, Harman International, Neowin, Tom's Guide, About Amazon, TechHive, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, XDA Developers, Stuff, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Lifewire, AFTVnews, GeekWire, Bloomberg, Phandroid, T3, What Hi-Fi?, Pocket-lint, and TechRadar

LinkedIn: Eric Olason. Forums: r/gadgets

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which develops generative AI tools for text use cases, raised a $155M Series C at a $1.4B valuation, taking its total funding to $283M — AI21 Labs, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing a range of text-generating AI tools, has raised $155 million in a Series C funding round led …

More: The Information, Crunchbase News, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, FinSMEs, VentureBeat, and Voicebot.ai

X: @citrini7 and @danprimack

Makena Kelly / The Verge:

A look at the wave of child safety legislation in the US aimed at age-gating minors' access to the internet, backed by Republicans and Democrats alike — By the end of this month, porn will get a lot harder to watch in Texas. Instead of clicking a button or entering a date of birth …

More: The Guardian. X: @mike_salter, @eff, @matthew_d_green, and @matthew_d_green

Forums: r/politics and r/technology

Emily Bary / MarketWatch:

CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 37% YoY to $731.6M, vs. $724.2M est., ARR up 37% YoY to $2.93B, and forecasts Q3 and FY 2024 earnings above expectations — Cybersecurity stock dips in aftermarket action — CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. topped expectations with its results and outlook …

More: CRN, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, and Crowdstrike

Wallace Witkowski / MarketWatch:

Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.6B, vs. $8.53B est., $1.27B net income, and forecasts Q3 and FY 2024 earnings above expectations; CRM jumps 5%+ — Salesforce sees third-quarter earnings of $2.05 to $2.06 a share, compared with Street's $1.84

More: Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, Bloomberg, Salesforce, CNBC, and Constellation Research

X: @benioff, @lexnfx, @cityofthetown, @jordannovet, @jordannovet, and @lexnfx

Bloomberg:

China starts approving the first batch of generative AI services for public rollout; Baidu receives approval to launch its Ernie Bot to the public on August 31 — - Regulators may give out the green-light as soon as this week — Beijing deems AI a business as well as political imperative

More: PingWest, Engadget, MIT Technology Review, MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, and Reuters. X: @pingroma

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

Seattle-based Hyperproof, which offers SaaS risk and compliance management tools, raised $40M led by Riverwood Capital, taking its total funding to $66.5M — Hyperproof, a software-as-a-service risk and compliance management company, today announced that it raised $40 million in a funding round led …

More: Hyperproof, Hyperproof, FinTech Global, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, and GeekWire. LinkedIn: Tarryn Marcus

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Wall Street Journal:

WBD adds Anton Levy, former co-president of PE firm General Atlantic, to its board, a source says due to pressure from activist shareholder Sessa Capital

Bari Weiss / The Free Press:

The Free Press announces Tyler Cowen, Jed Rubenfeld, Matthew Continetti, and Batya Ungar-Sargon as new columnists, with Coleman Hughes bringing his podcast

Oliver Darcy / Status:

The Daily Wire's communications chief, Alyssa Cordova, departs as the company frames co-CEO Jeremy Boreing's demotion as his own choice and lays off some staff

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Blassy Boben / Reuters:

India says 32+ international electronics firms, including HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, and Lenovo, applied to the country's $2B incentive program under “Make in India”

More: ZDNet, International Business Times, and Bloomberg

Jordan Fragen / VentureBeat:

Data.ai and IDC project that consumers will spend $108B on mobile games in 2023, or ~55% of game spending globally, $43B on consoles, and $40B on PC and Mac

More: Data.ai, Pocket Gamer.biz, and Mobilegamer.biz

Financial Times:

UAE-linked G42, MBZUAI, and Cerebras launch Jais, an open-source, English and Arabic bilingual LLM; the UAE once trained an LLM, Falcon, using 300+ Nvidia GPUs

More: Tech Startups, Reuters, EnterpriseAI, G42, The National, and Gulf News

Jordyn Holman / New York Times:

GOP AGs from 16 states express concerns to the SEC about Shein filing for a US IPO and urge the agency to have Shein prove the company doesn't use forced labor

Jon Porter / The Verge:

Fairphone announces the €699 Fairphone 5, with a 6.46" 90Hz OLED display, dual 50MP cameras, 30W charging, and eight years of patches, shipping on September 14

More: Forbes, CNET, Phandroid, TechRadar, PhoneArena, SPARROWS NEWS, T3, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, Liliputing, nextpit, TechSpot, TechEBlog, Wccftech, Gizchina, PCMag, Phone Scoop, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, OSnews, Android Headlines, Android Police, Digital Trends, Fairphone, ZDNet, Engadget, Android Authority, and Notebookcheck

X: @mishaalrahman, @dvrkplayer, @mishaalrahman, and @fairphone

Forums: r/gadgets and Beehaw

Gabriel Sanchez / Bloomberg:

Bumble, Match, and Grindr explore more expensive subscription tiers for users seeking a more curated experience; Bumble says some users feel $40 to $50 is “low”

More: 9to5Mac. Threads: @carnage4life

Financial Times:

Critics say India's personal data protection bill passed earlier in August gives authorities the power to surveil via equipment at subsea cable landing stations

More: DatacenterDynamics and Livemint

Caiwei Chen / Rest of World:

Chinese sextortion scammers have flooded X, harassing political dissidents and influential opinion leaders since the site added paid blue checks in April 2023

More: MIT Technology Review and New York Post

Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @casilli@mamot.fr

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Lora Kolodny / CNBC:

In July 2023, the NHTSA ordered Tesla to provide data on Autopilot's “Elon mode”, which eliminates prompts for drivers to their keep hands on the wheel

More: Bloomberg, The Register, Tech.co, Gizmodo, TweakTown, Electrek, Tech Xplore, Reuters, and The Verge

Forums: Hacker News, r/RealTesla, and r/teslamotors

Wall Street Journal:

Despite a rough year for the memory chip business, SK Hynix's stock rose almost 60% in 2023, benefiting from AI applications that rely on high bandwidth memory

More: Tom's Hardware

Leo Lewis / Financial Times:

Sources: Chinese hackers accessed Japanese cybersecurity agency NISC's emails for up to nine months; experts: China may be behind Port of Nagoya's July 4 attack

More: The Record, SC Media, Security Affairs, Metacurity, and The Information

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Lilian Zhang / South China Morning Post:

Alibaba's T-Head, VeriSilicon, and seven other Chinese chip companies form a patent protection alliance for RISC-V to share and license patents to third parties

Lora Kolodny / CNBC:

Court filing: X faces 2,200 arbitration cases from employees laid off after Elon Musk took over; the filing fees alone could be $3.5M for such a volume of cases

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Alex Zorn / Chicago Business Journal:

Chicago-based Mediafly, which provides a revenue enablement service to Adobe, ADP, Honeywell, Nestlé, and other large companies, raised $80M led by BIP Ventures

More: Tech Funding News, Chicago Business, Mediafly, and Forrester

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Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:

In a “safety” blog post, X announces “paid-for promoted political posts”, starting in the US, and plans to “provide a global advertising transparency center”

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