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Sources: China plans to expand its ban on iPhones in sensitive departments to government agencies and state companies, an unprecedented blockade; AAPL drops 3%+ — - Beijing begins by banning the devices from certain bodies — It could deal blow to Apple and amplifies a self-reliance push
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Forums: r/China, r/technology, r/technews, and MacRumors Forums
| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Source: at Gamescom in August, Nintendo demoed the Switch 2 running a souped-up Breath of the Wild to developers; the console is expected to launch in 2024 — Ahead of widely-expected launch next year. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief — In Cologne last month …
More: Video Games Chronicle, Ars Technica, Android Authority, Engadget, Game Developer, Thurrott, MobileSyrup, TechPowerUp, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gameranx, Destructoid, ExtremeTech, WhatIfGaming, SlashGear, KitGuru, TechRadar, Gizmodo, TechSpot, The Sun, Neowin, PC Gamer, T3, TheGamer, IGN, PCMag, Tom's Guide, Polygon, Kotaku, GameSpot, Dexerto, BGR, Wccftech, The Verge, Press Start, Metro, GamingBolt, OnMSFT.com, and GSMArena.com
Threads: @tomwarrenuk. Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/NintendoSwitch, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, r/gaming, and r/nintendo
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google plans to update Chrome in the coming weeks to incorporate the company's Material You design language, including refreshed icons and new color palettes — Chrome on the desktop is about to get a new look. Google's widely used browser is getting an update based on its Material … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
More: AdExchanger, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, The Privacy Sandbox, and The Register
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| CNBC: |
Riot Blockchain reports earning $31.7M in energy credits from Texas' power grid to curtail its usage in August, dwarfing the ~$8.9M worth of bitcoin mined — - Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms raked in $31.7 million in energy credits from Texas power grid operator ERCOT in August.
More: Gizmodo, Riot Platforms, Inc., The Register, The Verge, Blockworks, Cryptonews, TechSpot, The Block, Decrypt, CryptoSlate, and CryptoPotato
X: @riotplatforms, @bitcoinpierre, and @ohitsstuart
Forums: Hacker News, r/texas, r/politics, r/centrist, r/conservativeterrorism, r/inthenews, and r/energy
| Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: |
The ESA announces organizer ReedPop will not be working on future E3 events and informs the Los Angeles Convention Center that 2024's E3 will not be held there — E3 2024 may still happen, but not at the Los Angeles Convention Center — News by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B
More: The Verge, VentureBeat, IGN, Game Developer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Game Rant, Neowin, Video Games Chronicle, Destructoid, Pure Xbox, MobileSyrup, Dot Esports, Nintendo World Report Updates, My Nintendo News, TechRadar, Gameranx, GameSpot, Kotaku, Push Square, Digital Trends, Eurogamer.net, OnMSFT.com, and Blue's News
| Lane Brown / Vulture: |
How Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer, an important metric in entertainment, became erratic and reductive as some PR firms hack its score by paying obscure “critics” — In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia, a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley.
More: 9to5Mac, ScreenGeek, IGN, Gamereactor UK, Dexerto, The Wrap, SlashFilm, Screen Rant, IndieWire, and ComingSoon.net
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LinkedIn: Kevin Ervin Kelley and Sergio Acevedo
| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
An IMF and Financial Stability Board paper warns jurisdictions against blanket crypto bans, recommending targeted restrictions and sound monetary policy instead — The global standard-setters also warned stablecoins adopted by multiple jurisdictions “may transmit volatility more abruptly” than other crypto.
More: fsb.org, Reuters, Unchained Crypto, Cryptonews, Reuters, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Finextra, Cryptopolitan, CCN.com, CryptoSlate, and Metaverse Post
| Dylan Smith / TucsonSentinel.com: |
Molly Holzschlag, aka “mollydotcom”, a longtime advocate for a more open web and accessible, inclusive online design standards, died at 60 on September 5 — Pioneer of online design & accessibility — Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed …
More: Bruce Lawson's personal site. Threads: @jkottke. Mastodon: @davidroessli@mastodon.social, @ourmaninjapan@mastodon.cloud, @mattmay@mstdn.social, @rem@front-end.social, @markboulton@typo.social, @olivierlacan@ruby.social, @sjvn@mastodon.social, @lemay@mastodon.social, @triptych@social.yesterweb.org, @fraying@xoxo.zone, @redcrew@mstdn.social, @boagworld@mastodon.social, and @glightly@mastodon.social
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LinkedIn: Michael Spellacy, Pete Gaughan, and Johnathan Williamson
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Beehaw
| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Microsoft says Chinese state-affiliated hackers are using AI to generate content designed to “go viral across social networks in the US and other democracies” — Chinese state-affiliated hacking groups are become more adept at using artificial intelligence to generate content designed to …
More: Microsoft On the Issues, CNN, Reuters, and CNBC
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft commits to defending customers of its AI Copilots from copyright infringement lawsuits, as long as they've “used the guardrails and content filters” — The software giant also will pay related fines and settlements, so long as customers follow its rules.
More: Microsoft On the Issues, OnMSFT.com, Reuters, Thurrott, Financial Times, and MSPoweruser
| Alistair Charlton / Forbes: |
BMW drops a controversial subscription that activates heated seats or other hardware already in its cars, limiting subscriptions to software-based functions — BMW has made a U-turn on a controversial subscription service that saw drivers pay a fee to activate the heated seats already fitted to their car.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Anthropic debuts a paid tier of its Claude chatbot in the US for $20/month and the UK for £18/month, offering priority in busy times, early features, and more — Anthropic, the AI company backed by Google, has launched a paid version of its Claude chatbot in the US and UK.
More: Anthropic, Unite.AI, ZDNet, Decrypt, TechCrunch, The Decoder, and MSPoweruser
| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Vitalik Buterin co-authors a paper on Privacy Pools, a blockchain protocol to verify the legality of user funds without revealing their full transaction history — - Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin co-authored a research paper on a privacy protocol named Privacy Pools.
Source: SSRN. More: Blockworks, DL News, Decrypt, DeviceSecurity.io, Cryptonews, Metaverse Post, CryptoSlate, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, and CoinDesk
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases September 2023 updates for Android 11, 12, 12L, and 13 to fix a privilege escalation zero-day that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” — The September 2023 Android security updates tackle 33 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day bug currently targeted in the wild.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
eBay rolls out an AI tool for marketplace sellers that can generate a product listing including price from a single photo, starting with its iOS app — eBay is rolling out a new AI tool for marketplace sellers that can generate a product listing from a single photo.
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| Walter Isaacson / TIME: |
An excerpt from the new Elon Musk biography details an argument with Larry Page in 2013 over AI's dangers, how he co-founded OpenAI and founded xAI, and more — At a conference in 2012, Elon Musk met Demis Hassabis, the video-game designer and artificial—intelligence researcher who had co-founded …
More: The Verge, Futurism, Insider, and Cryptopolitan
| Joe Coscarelli / New York Times: |
Ghostwriter, the anonymous creator who used AI to mimic Drake and The Weeknd, has met with record labels, Grammy organizers, and more, and releases a new song — The anonymous artist, who stirred conversation with the A.I. track “Heart on My Sleeve,” has been quietly consulting with executives, while also gunning for a Grammy.
More: Variety, VIBE.com, Futurism, Engadget, Voicebot.ai, Cryptonews, Music Ally, and Gizmodo
X: @imghostwrit3r, @raptalksk, @parkermolloy, @popbase, and @joecoscarelli
| Forbes: |
Imbue, formerly Generally Intelligent, which has 10K Nvidia H100 GPUs to train AI agents, raised a $200M Series B at a $1B valuation led by the Astera Institute — The startup, one of very few woman-led AI unicorns, has a $1 billion valuation and access to 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs …
More: Crunchbase News, TechCrunch, imbue, and Bloomberg
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta expands keyword search on Threads to “most” English- and Spanish-speaking countries, including the US and UK, after a test in Australia and New Zealand — Instagram's Threads is rolling out the ability to search through posts more widely. In a post on the platform … | Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: |
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt attributes the angst around driverless cars to anti-robot bias: “anything that we do differently than humans is being sensationalized” — Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said in an interview with The Washington Post that the angst around driverless cars in San Francisco is overblown| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
In a novel move, Pinterest updates its content algorithms to surface diverse body types, powered by an AI system trained on 5B+ images of bodies of all sizes — Social media algorithms usually promote biases toward white, thin bodies. Pinterest is using machine learning to surface images of all shapes and sizes.| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Norway's $1.4T oil fund, which owns ~1.5% of the world's listed companies, shares its three AI concerns: board responsibility, transparency, and risk management — Head of sovereign investor warns boards are ‘absolutely not on top’ of the issues surrounding the technology
LinkedIn: Dwight Burden
| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser describes the company's evolution from a gaming company to a broader entertainment company, including live events — For decades, Nintendo was synonymous with video games. Now in its second century, the Japanese company wants to be much more.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Certa, which offers a compliance, governance, and risk management service for enterprises, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total raised to “just over” $50M — Certa, a compliance, governance and risk management platform for enterprises, today announced that it raised $35 million …
More: FinSMEs and SiliconANGLE
| Bloomberg: |
The founders of shuttered AV startup Argo AI launch Stack AV, an autonomous trucking startup, a Pittsburgh official estimates with $1B+ funding from SoftBank — - SoftBank said to provide more than $1 billion to Stack AV — Founders of defunct Argo AI aim to automate long-haul trucking
More: TechCrunch, Technical.ly, and The Robot Report
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