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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft CPO Panos Panay is leaving after 19 years, ahead of the September 21 Surface event; consumer marketing chief Yusuf Mehdi will lead Windows and Surface — Panos Panay, the chief product officer at Microsoft, leading Windows development and the company's Surface line, is leaving Microsoft.
More: OSnews, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Register, Windows Central, CNBC, XDA Developers, MobileSyrup, MSPoweruser, Engadget, Neowin, SlashGear, Associated Press, BGR, PCWorld, Mashable, Pureinfotech, GeekWire, Thurrott, and Android Authority
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Forums: r/technology, r/pcgaming, and r/Windows11
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is hiring Microsoft's former CPO Panos Panay to run the Alexa and Echo unit; longtime hardware chief Dave Limp said in August he is retiring — Amazon.com Inc. is hiring Microsoft Corp.'s product chief to run the division responsible for Alexa and the Echo smart speakers …
More: TechCrunch, Seattle Business Journal, CRN, Gizmodo, TechHive, GeekWire, OnMSFT.com, Android Central, CNET, PCWorld, Neowin, Thurrott, The Verge, The Information, and Tom's Hardware
Mastodon: @lkhrs@fosstodon.org. X: @patrickmoorhead, @bradstone, @tomwarren, @markgurman, and @mgsiegler. Forums: Slashdot
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
At an all-hands, Unity discussed potential changes to its controversial new fees, like capping fees to 4% of a game's revenue for customers with $1M+ in revenue — Maker of video-game development tools backtracks after customers threaten boycott — Video-game tool maker Unity Software Inc …
More: GamesIndustry.biz, GamesIndustry.biz, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Neowin, The Verge, Game Developer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, For The Win, Forbes, Mobilegamer.biz, Polygon, and Eurogamer.net
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Games, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Unity3D, r/gamingnews, r/Games, r/gamedev, r/unity, and r/pcgaming
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find a GitHub repo run by Microsoft's AI research unit that exposed 38TB of sensitive data, like secret keys and 30K+ Microsoft staff Teams messages — Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords …
More: Wiz, Microsoft Security …, Security Affairs, Bloomberg, PCMag, Hackread, The Record, CRN, CyberScoop, ExtremeTech, TechRepublic, SC Media, Mashable, The Register, SiliconANGLE, OnMSFT.com, BigTechWire, WinBuzzer, HotHardware, and SecurityWeek
Mastodon: @paul@oldfriends.live and @AAKL@noc.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/hacking, r/technology, r/cybersecurity, and Slashdot
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
On a livestream, Elon Musk says X is moving toward charging all users a “small” monthly subscription, as it's the “only way” to combat the “vast armies of bots” — - Tesla, SpaceX and X Corp. leader Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke …
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Mastodon: @selfagency@kibitz.cloud, @willoremus@mastodon.social, @Jonathanglick@mstdn.social, and @kim_harding@mastodon.scot. Bluesky: @epro.social
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 review: a bigger bet on widgets and the modularization of apps, and needed Stage Manager fixes, but visionOS stole the spotlight this year — Well, last year was weird. — For the first time since I started writing annual reviews of Apple's two mobile operating systems …
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
A look around MGM's Vegas properties, where a September 10 cyberattack has led to broken slot machines and payment kiosks, strained employees, and long waits — At the Aria, Bellagio, and MGM Grand, evidence of the massive ransomware hack is everywhere, if you're looking for it.
More: New York Post. Mastodon: @404mediaco@mastodon.social, @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social, and @josephcox@infosec.exchange. LinkedIn: Jason Koebler
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft adds layers and image transparency to Paint, 38 years after the app's launch, rolling out to Windows Insiders first, after adding background removal — Microsoft is finally rolling out support for layers and image transparency to the Paint image editor application 38 years after its launch.
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| Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: |
Citigroup debuts Citi Token Services, which turns deposits into tokens that can be sent internationally, in a push to offer institutional clients digital assets — - New offering turns customer deposits into digital tokens — Pilot program focuses on trade finance, cash management| Yoel Roth / New York Times: |
Twitter's former head of trust and safety reflects on Donald Trump and Elon Musk attacking him, the resulting abuse, fact-checking, the Twitter Files, and more — When I worked at Twitter, I led the team that placed a fact-checking label on one of Donald Trump's tweets for the first time.
More: The Information. Threads: @yair_rosenberg1, @renee.diresta, @renee.diresta, and @anneapplebaum2000
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Agility Robotics is opening a Salem, Oregon factory to mass produce up to 10K humanoid Digit robots per year, designed to be warehouse and factory “co-workers” — - Agility Robotics is opening a first-of-its-kind factory in Salem, Oregon where it will mass-produce a line of humanoid robots called Digit.
More: Agility Robotics on YouTube, GeekWire, Engadget, Agility Robotics, Oregonian, and The Robot Report
Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com. LinkedIn: Nathan Boyd. Forums: r/Futurology, r/singularity, and r/oregon
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Instacart prices its 22M shares at $30 a piece, giving the company a fully diluted valuation of ~$10B; Instacart was valued at $39B in 2021 — - Instacart priced its IPO at $30 a share on Monday, at the top end of the expected range of $28 to $30. — The grocery-delivery company has taken …
More: Bloomberg, The Information, New York Times, Reuters, Financial Times, Axios, Instacart, and NBC 7 San Diego
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Intel details its work on glass core substrates, a long-term project to replace organic substrates in chips, and plans a launch in the second half of the decade — Although Intel's annual Innovation event doesn't kick off until tomorrow, the company is already publishing some announcements ahead …
More: VentureBeat, The Register, CNET, ServeTheHome, Tom's Hardware, Intel, HotHardware, Forbes, Neowin, Wccftech, ExtremeTech, PCMag, guru3d.com, HardwareZone Singapore, Bloomberg, and PC Gamer. Forums: Slashdot
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
As Google prepares its Gemini multimodal LLM, a source says OpenAI is racing to debut GPT-Vision, which integrates multimodal image and text features into GPT-4 — As fall approaches, Google and OpenAI are locked in a good ol' fashioned software race, aiming to launch the next generation of large-language models: multimodal.
More: Android Central, BigTechWire, Android Police, Insider, and Voicebot.ai
Forums: r/mlscaling and r/singularity
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
AI writing startup Writer, used by L'Oréal, Spotify, and Uber to create digital marketing campaigns, raised $100M led by Iconiq Growth at a $500M+ valuation — The company's technology can write and summarize a wide range of text. … Led by Chief Executive Officer May Habib …
More: San Francisco Business Journal, Writer, FinSMEs, Forbes, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, Writer, and Metaverse Post. LinkedIn: Jillian
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Google and the US DoD reveal an AI-powered Augmented Reality Microscope, in the works for years, that may help doctors diagnose cancer and cost $90K to $100K — - The Department of Defense has teamed up with Google to build an AI-powered microscope that can help doctors identify cancer.
LinkedIn: Aashima Gupta
| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Netflix and South Korean ISP SK Broadband end their lawsuits with each other over whether Netflix should pay for network usage, and agree to form a partnership — South Korean internet service provider SK Broadband and Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) said on Monday they were ending all lawsuits with each other … | Catherine Thorbecke / CNN: |
Filing: CEO of Block's Square unit Alyssa Henry plans to step down on October 2 after nine years at the company; Jack Dorsey will become the “Square Head” — Alyssa Henry, the CEO of Square - a unit of Jack Dorsey's fintech company, Block - will leave her post at the company next month.
More: Payments Dive, Reuters, US Securities …, Wall Street Journal, and CNBC
X: @alexrkonrad, @jerrycap, @sarthakgh, and @economyapp
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple's new USB-C AirPods Pro add only dust resistance; an AirPods Pro software update adds Adaptive Audio, Personalized Volume, and Conversation Awareness — Last week, as predicted, Apple announced that the second-generation AirPods Pro would start shipping with a USB-C charging case instead …
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Threads: @mgsiegler. Mastodon: @dcseifert@mastodon.social. X: @nandoprince93 and @miyagawa. Forums: r/apple
| Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA lists seven AI foundation model regulating principles and plans to engage Google, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Anthropic before a 2024 report — - CMA to develop AI regulation position in ‘significant program’ — CMA says ‘real risk’ that AI could undermine consumer trust
More: GOV.UK, The Verge, GOV.UK, Tech Monitor, Reuters, Financial Times, Computerworld, and The Guardian
X: @techmilly, @leoringer, and @cmagovuk
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