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| Nathan Edwards / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a unified Copilot built into Windows 11, launching on September 26 across all its apps and services, including Microsoft 365, Edge, and Bing — Microsoft today announced a new, unified Copilot experience launching on September 26th. The new “AI companion,” …
More: Microsoft 365 Blog, Microsoft Tech Community, Engadget, Tech Monitor, Windows Central, PYMNTS.com, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, The Messenger, Windows Central, PCMag, BetaNews, Livemint, TechRadar, MSPoweruser, Wired, OnMSFT.com, Mashable, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Decoder, PetaPixel, MobileSyrup, Neowin, and Digital Trends
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to release its next major Windows 11 update, 23H2, on September 26, with an AI-powered Copilot and Paint, a redesigned File Explorer, and more — Microsoft will release its next big Windows 11 update, 23H2, on September 26th. The update will include the new AI-powered … | Wes Davis / The Verge: |
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the 14.4" Surface Laptop Studio 2, offering Intel's 13th Gen i7 H chips, Nvidia's RTX 4050 or RTX 4060, and up to 2TB of storage, for $1,999+ — Microsoft just showed off its new high-end convertible laptop, the Surface Laptop Studio 2, at its launch event in New York City.
More: Microsoft Surface on YouTube, Microsoft Devices Blog, Ars Technica, XDA Developers, Engadget, PCMag, The Messenger, Thurrott, BetaNews, PCWorld, Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, TechEBlog, Digital Trends, MobileSyrup, Microsoft Store, MSPoweruser, PetaPixel, TechSpot, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, SlashGear, Neowin, MobileSyrup, Android Headlines, Liliputing, Mashable, and Pocket-lint
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Surface Hub 3, offering 50" or 85" 4K PixelSense displays with anti-glare, smart rotation, and portrait mode, available later in 2023 — Microsoft has revealed the Surface Hub 3, the latest version of the company's all-in-one collaborative touchscreen device.
More: Microsoft Tech Community, Engadget, Neowin, and MSPoweruser
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
More: Ars Technica, PCWorld, Android Authority, Windows Central, Tabletmonkeys, Laptop Mag, Neowin, Liliputing, and MSPoweruser
| Bloomberg: |
Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity company Splunk in cash for $157 per share, a 31% premium on Splunk's September 20 closing price, in a deal valued at ~$28B — - Acquisition is largest deal ever for networking stalwart — Cisco is trying to lessen dependence on one-time sales
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| Ashley Stewart / Insider: |
Sources: Panos Panay's abrupt departure came after Microsoft made budget and staff cuts, canceled products in his division, and discussed reorganizing the unit — - Microsoft this week announced Chief Product Officer Panos Panay left after nearly 20 years.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Apple's failed plan to cut out Qualcomm and develop its own modem chip for the iPhone 15 lineup; sources say the chip was slow and prone to overheating — The company set out to design a silicon chip that would allow it to cut ties with Qualcomm, a longtime supplier and bitter foe
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube debuts YouTube Create, an app that lets creators edit videos, adding effects, GIFs, royalty-free tracks, and more, in beta on Android in eight markets — YouTube this morning introduced a new app for creators, YouTube Create, that will offer a suite of easy-to-use and free tools …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
South Korea-based game publisher Krafton says Striking Distance Studios' CEO Glen Schofield, COO, and CFO are leaving, months after its new horror game flopped — Video-game developer Striking Distance Studios, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Krafton Inc., is appointing new management several months …
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| Wired: |
Docs: up to a dozen of Neuralink's primate subjects had to be euthanized after suffering complications; Elon Musk said no primates died because of the implants — Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink's implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon releases Mastodon 4.2, which makes it easier for users to get started, use its network even when logged out, more easily search for content, and more — As changes at Elon Musk's X continue to push former Twitter users to seek alternatives, the open-sourced, decentralized social network Mastodon …
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| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
Tether confirms resuming lending its stablecoins to clients, less than a year after committing to end such loans; $5.5B of its assets were loans as of June 30 — Cryptocurrency issuer had said it would cut loans to zero in 2023 — Tether Holdings resumed lending out its own stablecoins to customers …
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X: @bitfinexed, @tmnxeq, @jonathanweil, @tether_to, @stevenkelly49, @occamicrypto, @tmnxeq, @tmnxeq, @wublockchain, and @stevenkelly49. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta now lets Facebook users create up to four extra profiles and switch between them without logging out and back in; the profiles don't support all features — Basically, Meta is embracing finstas but for Facebook. — “Whether you're new to Facebook or a longtime user …
More: Meta, Engadget, The Messenger, TechCrunch, and Neowin
| Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
Data-labeling firms like Scale AI and Appen are hiring poets and writers with humanities backgrounds to improve the literary quality of their AI writing tools — Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Snap says Snapchat+ now has 5M+ subscribers, up from 3M in April 2023; the $3.99 per month tier launched in June 2022, after an industry slowdown in ad revenue — Snap Inc. has gained more than 5 million subscribers for its paid service, an offering that gives users early access to new features … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta updates Facebook's “identity system”, including a logo with a “more confident expression” of the “core blue color”, and refines Facebook's emoji Reactions — Meta is updating Facebook's “identity system,” and that includes a dramatically refreshed logo.
More: Design at Meta, BetaNews, Digital Trends, TechRadar, and Neowin
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Bastian Lehmann's TipTop launches an app that scans for past purchases in users' Gmail and Amazon accounts and offers to buy their used products at a fair value — Billed as a “reverse Postmates,” TipTop has launched its first app, TipTop Cash, with the promise to help shoppers resell products like used iPhones.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mesh, which helps its customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto, raised a $22M Series A led by Money Forward, bringing its total funding to $32M — Mesh (formerly Front Finance), a startup developing a service to help customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto … | Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Google extensively discussed dropping Broadcom as its TPU supplier as early as 2027 and designing the chips itself to save billions of dollars annually — Google executives have extensively discussed dropping Broadcom as a supplier of artificial intelligence chips as early as 2027 …
More: SiliconANGLE, Fortune, Investor's Business Daily, NBC 7 San Diego, and Metaverse Post
X: @waynema, @amir, and @paulroetzer
| Ken Ritter / Associated Press: |
MGM Resorts ended its 10-day computer shutdown on September 20, after a September 7 hack, and says that “all of our hotels and casinos are operating normally” — MGM Resorts brought to an end a 10-day computer shutdown prompted by efforts to shield from a cyberattack data including …
More: Cybersecurity Dive, The Verge, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Dark Reading, and Gizmodo. Forums: Slashdot
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