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Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Ahead of child safety group's campaign to pressure Apple to scan iCloud for CSAM, Apple says such sans may lead to a “slippery slope of unintended consequences”  —  Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting.
Monica Chin / The Verge:
Hands-on with Windows-powered $699 Lenovo Legion Go, with an 8.8" QHD+ screen, AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, and detachable controllers, available in October  —  Every company and its mother seems to be putting out handheld gaming PCs these days, and Lenovo is next to the plate.
Monica Chin / The Verge:
Lenovo unveils $4,400 Legion 9i, a gaming laptop with liquid-cooling, 16" Mini LED display, 13th Gen Intel Core i9, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, available in Oct.  —  Lenovo has announced a new Legion 9i, and it might just be the wildest thing I've ever seen from the Legion line.
Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide:
Lenovo unveils $329 Legion Glasses with 60Hz displays, equivalent to a 27" monitor, that works with Legion Go, Android phones, iPhones, Macs, and Windows PCs  —  Finally, a gaming face peripheral that doesn't give me a headache  —  Gaming on the go is easier than ever …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Robinhood says it paid nearly $606M to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of Sam Bankman-Fried, via an agreement with the US Marshal Service  —  Stock-trading app Robinhood on Friday said it paid nearly $606 million to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of jailed crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried.
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Magic Leap tells customers the Magic Leap 1 AR headset, which launched in August 2018, and its apps will “cease to function” from December 31, 2024  —  Magic Leap 1 AR headsets will “cease to function” from 31 December 2024, the company announced.  —  Magic Leap sent an email to all customers containing the following:
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Sony unveils Xperia 5 V, with a 120Hz, 6.1" display, Snapdragon 8 Gen2 chip, a 52MP sensor, and a heat diffusion shield, available in late September for €999  —  It also has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor and heat diffusion shield for gamers.  —  Sony has unveiled the Xperia 5 V smartphone …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google removes controversial live streaming app Chamet, which let users video call hosts, from the Play Store for violating its user-generated content policy  —  Google has removed a popular but controversial live video chat app Chamet from the Play Store.  The company confirmed the move …
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
University of Zürich and Intel researchers reveal Swift, an autonomous drone trained via deep reinforcement learning to beat human champions in FPV drone racing  —  University creates the first autonomous system capable of beating humans at drone racing.
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority:
Honor says Magic V2, its foldable phone launched in China in July 2023, will come to Europe, UK and other markets, except the US, in Q1 2024 for around €1,500  —  The Magic V2 will come to global markets roughly six months after the Chinese launch.  Ouch.  —  •  —  TL;DR
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
A US district judge grants a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that requires age verification to access porn sites  —  Texas was supposed to start enforcing the law tomorrow.  —  The day before a Texas antiporn law that requires age verification …

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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In an earnings call, David Zaslav says the Trump Administration may be more merger friendly, enabling a “real positive and accelerated impact on this industry”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis tells staff they'll be expected to work from the office five days a week, instead of three, by June 2, and by February 3 for managers

Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
How conservatives nurtured and funded a vast network of online influencers and creators, and how structural disadvantages prevent the left from replicating it

More News

Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press:
A US district judge temporarily blocks an Arkansas law requiring parental consent for minors to open social media accounts that was set to take effect on Sep. 1
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Dell reports Q2 revenue down 13% YoY to $22.9B, vs. $20.8B est., Client Solutions down 16% to $12.9B, Infrastructure Solutions down 11% to $8.5B; DELL jumps 7%+

Earlier Picks

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta is testing a “For you on Threads” carousel in Instagram, with a button to open the Threads app, after adding a “Send to Instagram DM” button in Threads
New York Times:
A look at Starfield, a game by Microsoft's Bethesda with 1,000 explorable planets, set for September 6 after a 10-month delay, as Microsoft needs an Xbox hit
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta releases FACET, an AI benchmarking tool for evaluating the “fairness” of AI models that classify and detect things in photos and videos, including people
Walter Isaacson / Wall Street Journal:
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new Elon Musk biography details Musk's decision to buy Twitter and how his moods fluctuated wildly before the official closing
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Binance plans to “gradually” end support for its BUSD stablecoin by February 2024, as “Paxos halted minting of new BUSD” after an NYDFS order in February 2023
Charlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says X users will be able to make video and audio calls without sharing a phone number, as X “is the effective global address book”, but gives no date
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google launches its Search Generative Experience in India and Japan via a Search Labs opt-in, after the US debut of the AI search feature in preview in May 2023
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