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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK's parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, in the works since 2019, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days — Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services …
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Forums: r/technology, r/technology, and Slashdot
| BBC: |
After Meta criticizes potential UK encryption rules, the UK says Meta “failed to provide assurances” over keeping its platforms “safe from sickening abusers” — Facebook's owner Meta has hit back at a new government campaign strongly critical of its plans to encrypt messages.
More: The Guardian, 9to5Mac, Tech Monitor, London Evening Standard, Sky News, Politico, Reuters, Daily Mail, ComputerWeekly.com, and Reuters
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| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp releases a beta via Apple's TestFlight that works natively with the iPad, built using Mac Catalyst, after years of requests for the app from users — WhatsApp has just submitted a new update through the TestFlight beta Program, bringing the version up to 23.19.1.71.| CNBC: |
Sources: as equities soared in 2020, Apple and Goldman were working on a stock trading feature for iPhones, shelving the project in 2022 as markets turned — - Apple was exploring the launch of an iPhone feature that would let users buy and sell stocks, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
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| The Verge: |
Memo: Phil Spencer tells staff the FTC v. Microsoft documents leak is “disappointing” and that the company failed to live up to its confidentiality expectations — / ‘We all put incredible amounts of passion and energy into our work, and this is never how we want that hard work to be shared with the community.’
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| Ed Nightingale / Eurogamer.net: |
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta expands its Meta Verified program to businesses on Facebook and Instagram in select markets, for $21.99/month/page for each or $34.99/month/page for both — Meta announced today that it is expanding Meta Verified to businesses after first launching it for creators in March.
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| Qianer Liu / Financial Times: |
Sources and analysis: four of the eight CPUs in the Kirin 9000S SoC use Arm designs and four use Huawei-modified Arm designs, HiSilicon made the GPU, and more — Facing US sanctions, Chinese company emulates Apple by using its own designs in chips for Mate 60 Pro
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
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| Mariam Sunny / Reuters: |
Neuralink opens enrollment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients, expected to take about six years, likely to include <10 people — Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
In a WeChat post, China's Ministry of State Security accuses the US of hacking Huawei's servers, stealing critical data, and installing backdoors since 2009 — Beijing says Washington forces tech companies to install backdoors for spying — China has accused the U.S. of hacking Huawei's servers continuously since 2009.
More: 9to5Mac, TIME, and South China Morning Post
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Bard's “Google it” feature adds the ability to “double check” answers by highlighting phrases with supporting or contradicting information found by Search — Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search? — Today let's talk about an advance in Bard …
More: The Keyword, Decrypt, Ars Technica, BetaNews, MediaNama, The Register, Search Engine Roundtable, The Verge, New York Times, Search Engine Journal, and Gizmodo
Threads: @crumbler. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @aurman21, @kelvin_guu, @ilyaabyzov, and @mcwm
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 review: Precision Finding, Double Tap is great, and some Siri and brightness improvements, but many of the tweaks feel minor — Iterative updates aren't flashy, but these smartwatches are mainly for folks who don't have Apple Watches yet.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
The Linux Foundation launches the Unified Acceleration Foundation to create an open standard for accelerator programming, an evolution of the oneAPI initiative — At the Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao, Spain, the Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation.
More: The Linux Foundation, Forbes, The Next Platform, oneAPI.io, Runtime, The New Stack, and insideHPC
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches the Red Teaming Network, a contracted group of experts to help inform the company's AI model risk assessment and mitigation strategies — In its ongoing effort to make its AI systems more robust, OpenAI today launched the OpenAI Red Teaming Network, a contracted group …
More: OpenAI, WinBuzzer, Digit, SiliconANGLE, Decrypt, and The Decoder
X: @openai, @currencyat, @_lamaahmad, and @_lamaahmad
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
An Uber executive says the EU's Platform Work Directive designating gig workers as employees may result in Uber closing in hundreds of cities and price hikes — Brussels starts negotiations on final text of legislation to improve conditions for workers — A top Uber executive has warned …
More: Fortune, Rest of World, Techpoint Africa, City A.M., Technical.ly, and The Rideshare Guy. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LimeWire, the infamous piracy site that pivoted to content creation, acquires AI image tool BlueWillow, which has a 2.5M-strong Discord and created 500M+ images — In the Wild West of generative AI, a new, unlikely cowboy is riding into town. LimeWire — once infamous for music piracy …
More: Metaverse Post, Axios, CCN.com, and Decrypt
| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
An interview with Instacart founder and former CEO Apoorva Mehta on Instacart's beginnings, his board exit, his reluctance to take the company public, and more — The grocery delivery giant's founder and former CEO speaks exclusively to Forbes about his decision to exit the board … | Ari Levy / CNBC: |
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X: @apoorva_mehta, @aswathdamodaran, @taliagold, @ycombinator, @apoorva_mehta, @davehclark, @bgurley, @jamestamplin, @garrytan, @apoorva_mehta, @lesliepicker, @aswathdamodaran, @modestproposal1, @jason, @davehclark, @luke_metro, @jonerlichman, @coryweinberg, @nasdaqexchange, @tobi, @instacart, @apoorva_mehta, @apoorva_mehta, @levie, @rolfewinkler, @garrytan, @garrytan, @levie, @jesslivingston, @alexia, @jeff_jordan, @fidjissimo, @fidjissimo, and @altcap. Forums: r/StockMarket
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