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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple schedules WWDC 2024 for June 10 to June 14 as a virtual event with a June 10 keynote, where Apple is expected to unveil its AI Strategy, iOS 18, and more — Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 10 to Friday, June 14.
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X: @newsynick, @markgurman, @techcrunch, @gregjoz, @connorjewiss, @chancehmiller, @rsgnl, @parkerortolani, and @tomwarren
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Canva acquires Affinity, popular with Mac users for its photo editing and other tools, to take on Adobe, Canva's COO says for “several hundred million pounds” — - Australian unicorn buys British team behind Affinity art suite — Affinity offers alternative tools to Adobe's flagship products
More: Canva, The Verge, Affinity, The Register, TechCrunch, MacRumors, TechRadar, Constellation Research, Thurrott, Sydney Morning Herald, Phandroid, Silicon Republic, Fortune, iClarified, Australian Financial Review, Tech.eu, Tech Funding News, Nairametrics, PetaPixel, Tech in Asia, The Hindu, and Neowin
Threads: @moore.creativ, @heylemoncreative, and @todd_coleman
Mastodon: @esther@strangeobject.space, @baldur@toot.cafe, @heycaseywattsup@social.coop, @mass_driver@typo.social, @metin@graphics.social, @doctormo@floss.social, @simoncox@seocommunity.social, @hynek@mastodon.social, and @aulia@mementomori.social
X: @lexnfx, @jonathanwinbush, @zachhazard, @va_experience, @artofsoulburn, @gingerbeardman, @meatcastlegw, @radioinactivity, @gergelyorosz, @therehn, @bonjuerg, @danlefeb, @_erichu, @film_girl, @film_girl, @snazzylabs, @pranavenstein, @gonzapink, @jaytholen, @iconredesign, @canva, @luciascarlet, @v21, and @affinitybyserif. LinkedIn: Andrew Green
Forums: Hacker News and MacRumors Forums
| Chris Plante / Polygon: |
An interview with Phil Spencer on bringing Xbox to handhelds via hardware or software, how Valve, Lenovo, and Asus “innovated in a new form factor”, and more — A handheld Xbox could be hardware, an app, or both — Phil Spencer has tried all of the new PC gaming handhelds …
More: PC Gamer, Polygon, Thurrott, HotHardware, PCWorld, The Verge, Dexerto, Laptop Mag, TrueAchievements, GameSpot, Neowin, KnowTechie, Metro.co.uk, Game Rant, Wccftech, TechRadar, T3, and Pure Xbox
X: @matpiscatella, @klobrille, and @hazzadorgamin
Forums: r/xboxone, r/gaming, r/hardware, r/ROGAlly, r/Games, r/XboxSeriesX, and r/gamingnews
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches GenStudio to let brands create content and measure its performance using generative AI, underpinned by promises of brand safety — Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts — but they are also deathly afraid of AI going off message and ruining their brand.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Memo: Microsoft names Pavan Davuluri as its Windows and Surface chief; Microsoft split its Windows and Surface groups after Panos Panay left in September 2023 — Microsoft is naming Pavan Davuluri as its new Windows and Surface chief today. After Panos Panay's surprise departure to Amazon last year …
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X: @tomwarren and @bdsams
Forums: r/Surface, r/Windows11, and Slashdot
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft's Bing and ads chief, is looking for a new position at the company, after Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman to run Microsoft AI — Parakhin, who had been chief executive officer for advertising and web services, will report to Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott … | CoinDesk: |
The US DOJ charges crypto exchange KuCoin and two co-founders with violating anti-money laundering laws, failing to register with the US government, and more — The exchange was charged under the Bank Secrecy Act. — U.S. federal prosecutors charged crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders …
More: US Department of Justice, CFTC, Blockworks, Finextra, Reuters, The Block, Cryptopolitan, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, Crypto Briefing, Milk Road, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, and CoinGape
Bluesky: @swolecialism.bsky.social. X: @web3quant, @reetikatrades, @darkcryptolord, @kasperloock, @wublockchain, @tmnxeq, @zekefaux, @cftc, @tmnxeq, @adamscochran, @macrocrg, @wublockchain, @bentodar, @basedkarbon, @ahcastor, @kucoincom, @jchervinsky, @0xjaypeg, @eleanorterrett, @sdnynews, and @tmnxeq
| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
The US OFAC sanctions 13 entities, including Netex24, and two individuals for helping Russian nationals potentially evade sanctions by building crypto services — - The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 13 entities and two individuals for helping sanctioned entities to evade sanctions in Russia.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI releases seven Sora videos from select filmmakers, artists, ad agencies, and musicians; Fairly Trained CEO Ed Newton-Rex calls the move “artistwashing” — OpenAI has been releasing a steady drip of videos generated by its new highly realistic AI model, Sora, but the text-to-video …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
AI search engines review: they are worse than Google at navigational queries, mixed on information queries, and offer helpful citations in exploration queries — The AI search tools are getting better — but they don't yet understand what a search engine really is and how we really use them.| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Internal Tesla memo: Elon Musk tells staff to give buyers a “short test ride” to demonstrate Full Self-Driving, now a “hard requirement” in North America — - New requirement will slow delivery process, Musk says in memo — Full Self-Driving, other features have generated controversy
More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, PCMag, Notebookcheck, BGR, New York Post, Mashable, TechSpot, Engadget, Fossbytes, TweakTown, and Electrek
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon launches same-day prescription medication deliveries in New York City and the greater Los Angeles area, and plans to expand to 12+ cities by 2024's end — The Amazon Pharmacy home screen is displayed on a laptop in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 17, 2020.
More: About Amazon, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Forbes, Neowin, TechSpot, Chain Store Age, Mashable, and The Verge
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony plans to add a new opt-in Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later in 2024 that can automatically create clips for helping other players complete games — Sony is introducing a new Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later this year that is designed to automatically create clips that can help other players.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google plans to release a Chrome version optimized for Windows on Arm this week, two months after Canary testing; Arm PCs previously ran an emulated x64 version — Google is releasing an optimized version of its Chrome browser for Windows on Arm this week, the search giant has announced alongside chipmaker Qualcomm.
More: The Keyword, Windows Central, ZDNet, Ars Technica, Android Police, PCMag, Android Authority, Engadget, 9to5Google, Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, Thurrott, Neowin, TechPP, Tom's Guide, Liliputing, MSPoweruser, and How-To Geek
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @mishaalrahman, @ryanshrout, @maxwinebach, @tomwarren, and @sinclairinat0r
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Tencent agrees to release some of its most important apps on the Apple Vision Pro; sources: Meta plans to release a cheaper Quest for China in Q4 2024 — When Apple launched the Vision Pro headset, it leaned heavily on its own streaming app, as well as those of Disney and others …
More: MacRumors, UploadVR, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MIXED Reality News, and Supercharged
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Kevin Systrom says AI news app Artifact will stay online for now due to taking “a lot less to run it than we had imagined”, reversing a February shutdown date — Artifact, the well-received AI-powered news app from Instagram's co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, may not be shutting down as planned.| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Trump Media & Technology Group's shares jumped up to 58% to hit $78.80 on its trading debut before the Nasdaq briefly halted trading, following the DWAC merger — - Trump Media & Technology Group operates Truth Social — Deal provides a windfall on paper for the former president
More: Gizmodo, Barron's Online, Washington Post, Yahoo Finance, NPR, Wired, Associated Press, CNBC, New York Times, CNN, Axios, MarketWatch, New York Times, and Politico. X: @thestalwart
| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Filings detail Meta's Project Ghostbusters to get data analytics about Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon, using Onavo VPN on iOS and Android between 2016 and 2019 — Unsealed court filings reveal Meta's secret plan, “Project Ghostbusters,” to acquire valuable intel about Snapchat through its users' devices.
More: Business Insider and Northern District of California
Threads: @kalihays1. X: @odinburgerson, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @graphific, @migueldeicaza, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint. Forums: Beehaw
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Dell cut 13,000 employees over the last fiscal year, a steeper reduction than initially announced, and had 120K staffers globally as of February 2, 2024 — Dell had 120,000 employees globally as of Feb. 2, the technology hardware maker said Monday in a filing. That's down nearly 10% from the previous year.
More: CRN, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, and The Indian Express
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Telegram rolls out its Peer-to-Peer Login Program, giving some Android users a Premium sub for volunteering their phone numbers to relay SMS OTPs to other users — Telegram is offering a new way to earn a premium subscription free of charge: all you have to do is volunteer your phone number …
More: ZDNet, TechCrunch, Telegram, Android Police, Security Boulevard, PCMag, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, and PhoneArena
X: @assembledebug, @mysk_co, and @panley01
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Stability AI was in a “death spiral” prior to Mostaque's resignation, due to talent departures, mismanagement, legal troubles, and dwindling resources — Inside the startup's journey from AI darling to cautionary tale. — LEARN MORE| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta confirms rolling out a political content setting on Instagram and Threads last week that limits “political content from people you don't follow” by default — Meta's executives have been saying for a while that they don't want to boost posts about politics in their apps.
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