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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google unveils Android 15 security features, like Theft Detection Lock, which detects motions associated with theft, and Private Space, to store sensitive data — Google is announcing an array of new security features as it releases its second Android 15 beta, including a feature that can detect …
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| Andrew Heinzman / How-To Geek: |
Google announces Android 14 for TV, with new energy modes, accessibility features including color correction, picture-in-picture for some TV models, and more — It's been nearly two years since the last major Android TV release. — It's been two-year-long wait, but the next major Android TV version is finally here.
More: Android Developers Blog, Android Authority, Droid Life, 9to5Google, Pocket-lint, TechRadar, and Digital Trends. X: @mishaalrahman
| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Apple unveils accessibility features, like Eye Tracking, to let users with physical disabilities control iPads or iPhones with their eyes, and Music Haptics — The company is making it easier to use your gaze to navigate iOS and iPadOS. — Deputy Editor, Reviews
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Anthropic hires Instagram and Artifact co-founder Mike Krieger as its chief product officer, after the startup released an iOS app for its Claude chatbot — As Anthropic tries to take on the AI giants, it has a new big-name executive on board: the company announced this morning that Mike Krieger is its new chief product officer.
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| CNBC: |
Netflix says its ad tier has 40M MAUs, up from 23M in January, and it will launch its own ad platform and no longer partner with Microsoft for that technology — Netflix's cheaper, ad-supported tier has amassed 40 million global monthly active users, the company said Wednesday.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
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| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
The US DOJ indicts two brothers for allegedly stealing $25M in crypto via an exploit of the MEV-Boost software used by some Ethereum validators — The alleged 12-second attack related to the controversial practice known as MEV, or maximal extractable value. — 10 Years of Decentralizing the Future| New York Times: |
Bipartisan US Senators release a long-awaited plan for AI, calling for spending $32B annually by 2026 on R&D, creating a federal data privacy law, and more — Their plan is the culmination of a yearlong listening tour on the dangers of the new technology.| Ben Smith / Semafor: |
Billionaire tech critic Frank McCourt says he is preparing a “people's bid” to buy and rebuild TikTok so users “own and control their identity and their data” — The Scoop — A billionaire tech critic says he is mounting a bid to buy TikTok, the massive Chinese …
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| Dan Robinson / The Register: |
VMware makes its Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro desktop hypervisor products free for personal use — A nice gesture among the sh!tshow of Broadcom's acquisition — VMware has made another small but notable post-merger concession to users: the Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro desktop hypervisor products …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Some iPhone owners say the iOS 17.5 update, which Apple released on Monday, is resurfacing photos they had deleted — Apple appears to have a bug that's dredging up data that iPhone owners thought was gone. Some iPhone owners are reporting that, after updating their phones to iOS 17.5 …
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber plans to work with local fleets to add US shuttle bus services to and from airports, concert venues, and sports stadiums, for a fraction of UberX's cost — - Uber Shuttle priced at a fraction of usual cost of rideshares — Shares of rival Instacart slid on news of Uber's Costco deal
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cisco reports Q3 revenue down 13% YoY to $12.7B, vs. $12.53B est., net income down 41% YoY to $1.89B, and forecasts FY 2024 revenue above estimates — Cisco reported earnings and revenue for the fiscal third quarter that topped Wall Street's estimates, even with sales dropping from a year earlier.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI seizes BreachForums' hacking forum, which the group used to leak and sell stolen corporate data to other cybercriminals, and its Telegram channel — The FBI has seized the notorious BreachForums hacking forum used to leak and sell stolen corporate data to other cybercriminals.
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| The Verge: |
Jan Leike, who was co-leading OpenAI's Superalignment team with Ilya Sutskever to “steer and control” more powerful AI, has also resigned from the company — Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's co-founder and chief scientist who helped lead the infamous failed coup against Sam Altman …
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft's carbon emissions grew 29.1% from 2020 to 2023, as its push to be the global leader in AI puts its goal to be carbon negative by 2030 in peril — The company's goal to be carbon negative by 2030 is harder to reach, but President Brad Smith says the good AI can do for the world will outweigh its environmental impact.
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Intel debuts Thunderbolt Share, a new specification and app to connect two PCs, letting users transfer data at 40Gbps+, control another PC, sync files, and more — Adios, shuffling around flash drives? — With Thunderbolt Share, Intel is turning the Thunderbolt cable into a way to connect … | Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: |
US judge rules Tesla must face claims it misled buyers on self-driving; it's faced accusations since 2016 when it said new cars had “full self-driving” hardware — - Negligence, fraud allegations advance based on Musk statements — CEO vowed in 2016 cars would soon self-drive from LA to NYC| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks is buying IBM's QRadar cloud security software assets and moving customers to its own platform; IBM will adopt Palo Alto products internally — Palo Alto Networks is buying cloud security software assets from IBM as part of a broader partnership that will give … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
AWS details its European “sovereign cloud”, designed to enable greater data residency, starting in Germany in 2025, and plans to invest €7.8B in Europe by 2040 — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing business, has confirmed further details of its European … | Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
USDC issuer Circle, which confidentially filed for a US IPO in January, plans to shift its legal base from Ireland to the US, and may face more onerous taxes — - Circle's holding company is currently located in Ireland — With an IPO looming, the firm will re-domicile to the US
More: Forkast, CoinDesk, The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, CCN.com, and Coinspeaker
| Rachael Levy / Reuters: |
Sources: Neuralink's disclosure last week that tiny wires inside its first patient's brain had pulled out of position is an issue it has known about for years — Neuralink's disclosure last week that tiny wires inside the brain of its first patient had pulled out of position is an issue … | VideoCardz.com: |
A leaked Dell XPS roadmap details Qualcomm's “Oryon V2” series, possibly named Snapdragon X Gen2 and launching in H2 2025, and “QC Oryon V3”, set for late 2027 — Dell XPS Qualcomm leak: next-gen Snapdragon X series in mid-2025 — Qualcomm Snapdragon X Gen2 and Gen3 already in the planing.
More: VideoCardz.com, Dexerto, XDA Developers, Laptop Mag, Windows Report, Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, and Android Headlines. X: @stevemoser
| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
AT&T and satellite provider AST SpaceMobile announce an agreement to provide a space-based broadband network direct to cell phones; the deal runs through 2030 — - Deal with satellite company AST SpaceMobile runs through 2030 — Telecoms are racing to build out space-based wireless networks
More: PCMag, AT&T, The Verge, Reuters, Seeking Alpha, and Telecompetitor
| University of Oxford: |
A study of 2,414,294 people in 168 countries between 2006 and 2021 finds 84.9% of associations between internet connectivity and wellbeing were positive — Links between internet adoption and wellbeing are likely to be positive, despite popular concerns to the contrary …
More: TechSpot and Cybernews.com
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