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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Meta debuts the $500 Quest 3, featuring a 30% higher resolution than the Quest 2, double the processing power, new lenses, a thinner design, and new controllers — - New mixed-reality headset to start at $500, a $200 increase — Apple to launch rival device, Vision Pro, early next year
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| The Verge: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, Quest 3, his Elon Musk rivalry, decentralized social media, “open-source” AI tools, encryption, and more — In a rare interview, Meta's CEO dives into where AI is going next, the new Quest 3 headset, and his ongoing rivalry with Elon Musk.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Meta Quest 3: an iterative update, but its mixed reality pass through video is less grainy than the Quest Pro and offers color, unlike the Quest 2 — An upgraded VR game console with an extra feature. … I can't tell if Meta is trying too hard to make me look at the world through …
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| Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: |
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta announces AI-generated chat stickers for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, and unveils new AI-powered image editing tools for Instagram — New generative AI tools announced Wednesday at Meta's Connect event will allow users to edit images and create stickers using text prompts.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta's celebrity AIs are generated AI animations built from filming the 28 people they represent; Meta would not comment on how the celebrities were compensated — Actors are in the middle of a major, protracted battle with Hollywood over what role AI will be playing in the future of entertainment … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The US and Japan warn that the China-backed BlackTech hacking group is breaching network devices, including Cisco's, to install backdoors on corporate networks — US and Japanese law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies warn of the Chinese ‘BlackTech’ hackers breaching network devices …
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| Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT can now browse the web, available first to Plus and Enterprise users, and the chatbot is “no longer limited to data before September 2021” — ChatGPT users will now be able to surf the web, Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI said on Wednesday …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based Mistral AI makes its first LLM, Mistral 7B, that it claims outperforms open models with up to 13B parameters, free to use without restrictions — The most popular language models out there may be accessed via API, but open models — as far as that term can be taken seriously — are gaining ground.| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses: a classic look, 12MP vs. 5MP makes a big difference, some audio leakage, and a promising tool for content creators — Unlike the original, I kind of see where Meta's going with its second-gen smart glasses.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI and Jony Ive's LoveFrom are in advanced talks with Masayoshi Son to raise $1B+ from SoftBank to build the “iPhone of artificial intelligence” — ChatGPT creator in early discussions to create the ‘iPhone of artificial intelligence’| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: X is cutting ~50% of its global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud, less than a month after saying it would expand the team — Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, is cutting around half of the global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Raspberry Pi 5 launches with 64-bit quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 processor, up to 8GB of RAM, two 4K HDMI ports with HDR, available in October for $60 for 4GB model — Despite doubts that the Raspberry Pi 5 would launch this year, the latest version of the microcomputer has arrived with some notable upgrades at a $60 starting price.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan plans to retire in March 2024; Ryan joined Sony in 1994, just before the first PlayStation debuted — Jim Ryan, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, is stepping down after almost 30 years with the company.
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X: @charlieintel, @playstation, @wario64, @jasonschreier, @dmc_ryan, and @zhugeex
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
The US DOJ sues eBay for allegedly breaking environmental laws by allowing sales of harmful products, like 343K+ devices that “defeat” vehicle emission controls — The U.S. government on Wednesday sued eBay (EBAY.O), accusing the online platform of violating the Clean Air Act …
More: US Department of Justice, eBay Newsroom, Engadget, Silicon Valley Business …, 24/7 Wall St., Gizmodo, and The Verge. Forums: Slashdot
| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
SpaceX gets its first US Space Force contract, valued at up to $70M, offering the military custom satellite communications via the company's Starshield service — - Contract extends billionaire's role as a defense contractor — Starshield provides customized satellite communications| Wanqing Zhang / Rest of World: |
A look at the rise of online feminism in China, driven by content on apps like Weibo, Douyin, WeChat, and Douban, despite increased scrutiny from the platforms — Lying in bed one night in 2021, Zhang Zirui was swiping through Chinese social media app Weibo when she came across a post that gave her pause.
Mastodon: @TechDesk@flipboard.social
| Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: |
Disney tells its Canadian Disney+ subscribers the company updated the service's subscriber agreement to limit usage to a single household, effective November 1 — The streamer is updating its subscriber agreement in Canada to limit usage to a single household.| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Hands-on with ChatGPT's image recognition and voice features: image recognition isn't perfect and refuses to discuss faces, voice is fluid and natural, and more — The image-recognition feature could have many uses, and the voice feature is even more intriguing.
More: Coinmonks
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Microsoft says the company has tried for years to displace Google as the iPhone's default search engine, but Apple never seriously considered Bing — - Executive testifies Microsoft sought browser switch for years — ‘Apple is making more money on Bing existing than Bing does’
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| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
Epic Games asks SCOTUS to review a judge's 2021 ruling that Apple's App Store doesn't violate antitrust laws; SCOTUS may decide by 2024 whether to take the case — Epic's request is the latest in a long-running battle between the maker of Fortnite and Apple over the way the iPhone maker runs its marketplace.
More: The Verge, MediaNama, TechCrunch, Engadget, MacRumors, Forbes, PYMNTS.com, MacDailyNews, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, and WRAL TechWire
| Alex Pasternack / Fast Company: |
At the center of Google's antitrust trial are a “remarkable” number of deleted employee chats, as chat backups show employees discussing going “off the record” — As part of the Justice Department's landmark antitrust case against Google, lawyers for the U.S. government …
X: @fastcompany, @pasternack, and @hawallensworth
| Reuters: |
A US Senate staffer says officials told lawmakers that Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft's email system stole 60K emails from ten State Department accounts — Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft's (MSFT.O) email platform this year managed to steal tens of thousands of emails … Sponsor Posts
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