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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
A leaked internal Google database tracking thousands of privacy and security issues from 2013 to 2018 details a myriad of data management mistakes Google made  —  Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Intel unveils its Lunar Lake laptop chips, with a new SoC design, up to 14% faster CPU, 50% faster integrated GPU, and NPU with up to 48 TOPS of AI performance  —  Last year, Intel boasted that its Meteor Lake processors, dubbed Core Ultra, represented the company's biggest architectural shift in 40 years.
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Intel announces Xeon 6 data center chips for AI: series 6700 with 144 efficient and 86 performance cores, and 6900 with 288 efficient and 128 performance cores
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Instagram confirms testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling, similar to the free version of YouTube  —  Instagram confirmed it's testing unskippable ads after screenshots of the feature began circulating across social media.
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
Coinbase donated another $25M to the pro-crypto Fairshake Super PAC; Fairshake raised ~$161M for the 2024 US election, including $25M each from a16z and Ripple  —  Coinbase followed Ripple and a16z in each giving a new $25 million to their political action committee, Fairshake …
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Sources: Microsoft is laying off hundreds of employees in Azure; one source estimated the Azure for Operators team cuts involved as many as 1,500 staffers  —  - Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs from the Azure business, sources say.  — The layoffs impact Azure for Operators and Mission Engineering teams.
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
After nine months with Starlink, the Marubo, an Indigenous Amazon tribe, faces challenges like addiction and concerns about potential loss of cultural identity  —  Elon Musk's Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware:
Qualcomm claims Snapdragon chips will come to “all PC form factors” including desktops, and Snapdragon X Elite has 2.6x the performance per watt over Apple's M3  —  The PC Reborn  —  Qualcomm CEO Christiano Amon has taken the stage at Computex Taipei and detailed the company's AI advances …
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Sony unveils a $60 PC adapter for the PlayStation VR2, adding PC support to the PS5-exclusive headset, launching on August 7 with support for all Steam VR games  —  The PlayStation VR2's PC adapter is now official.  Just a few days after a certification revealed that Sony was working on the adapter …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
MSI teases the Claw 8 AI+, its next-gen handheld powered by Intel's Lunar Lake, with an 8-inch screen, Thunderbolt 4, and a larger 80Wh battery  —  Just three months after releasing its first gaming handheld PC to damning reviews — here's mine — MSI is already announcing a likely replacement.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Spotify plans to raise US prices: Premium from $10.99 to $11.99 per month, Duo from $14.99 to $16.99, and Family from $16.99 to $19.99, after a July 2023 hike  —  A year after Spotify first increased the price of Spotify Premium in the US, it's happening again.

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Pew Research Center:
A survey of US adults finds 77% say press freedom is “extremely or very important”, but only 33% say the media is “completely free” to report the news in the US

Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
The stripped-down festivities at the WHCD reflected the somber tone in Washington, with White House journalists using the event to celebrate the First Amendment

Bloomberg:
A look at Nigeria's Nollywood filmmaking industry, which produces the second-highest number of movies after India with ticket sales up 60% YoY in 2024 to ~$8M

More News

Victoria Song / The Verge:
Samsung sues Oura, seeking a declaratory judgment that the Galaxy Ring, expected to launch in the US “in or around August”, doesn't infringe on Oura's patents
Toby Sterling / Reuters:
ASML opens a test laboratory for its High NA EUV machine with Belgium's Imec in the Netherlands, and expects customers to start manufacturing in 2025 to 2026

Earlier Picks

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan on AI features, the AI pitch, video calls, layoffs, LLMs, solving hallucinations, Zoom 6.0, Microsoft Teams, digital twins, and more
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
X changes its adult content policies, formally letting users post consensual NSFW and AI content “provided it's properly labeled and not prominently displayed”
Reuters:
Microsoft plans to invest ~$3.2B to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in Sweden over two years and to train 250K Swedes with AI skills over three years
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
AMD says its fifth-gen EPYC Turin 3nm data center chips will launch in H2 2024, based on its Zen 5 architecture and featuring up to 192 cores and 384 threads
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