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The restrictions on Kaspersky will stop new sales of its antivirus software in the US from July 20 and bar software updates to US customers after September 29 — The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to bar the sale of antivirus software made by Russia's Kaspersky Lab in the United States …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
The Commerce Department bans Kaspersky antivirus sales in the US, says Kaspersky threatens national security and users' privacy because it is based in Russia — The U.S. government announced on Thursday that it is banning the sale of Kaspersky antivirus in the country …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which beats its flagship model Claude 3 Opus and outperforms GPT-4o in some tests, available for free on the web and iOS — OpenAI rival Anthropic is releasing a powerful new generative AI model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet. But it's more an incremental step than a monumental leap forward.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Claude 3.5 Sonnet appears to be a tremendous leap for Anthropic and LLMs generally, and shows that AI model makers' performance gains are not slowing down — A new large language model (LLM) has apparently taken the performance crown from OpenAI's GPT-4o about a month after its release …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 18 brings a new API called AccessorySetupKit, letting third-party accessory makers build the same quick pairing experience as Apple accessories like AirPods — When Apple introduced AirPods in 2016, the company also unveiled a new, easy and intuitive way to pair wireless accessories to iPhone and iPad.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
In a filing, ByteDance urged a US court to strike down a law that could ban TikTok in the US, recounting lengthy talks that it says the US ended in August 2022 — TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance on Thursday urged a U.S. court to strike down a law they say will ban the popular short video app …
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| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
SpaceX unveils Starlink Mini, a compact version of its satellite internet antenna “that can easily fit in a backpack”, offering a “limited number” for $599 each — SpaceX is rolling out a compact version of its Starlink antennas, which the company is advertising …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
NY's governor signs two bills to protect minors, banning “addictive feeds”, limiting data collection, barring social media notifications from 12am to 6am, more — New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) signed two bills into law on Thursday that aim to protect kids and teens from social media harms …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Australia's eSafety Commissioner waters down child abuse and terror content detection rules on E2E encrypted services, after a push back from tech companies — Tech companies providing end-to-end encryption, including Apple, pushed for the changes, warning of mass government surveillance| Bloomberg: |
Huawei says around 900M gadgets are now running on its HarmonyOS and sales of premium Huawei smartphones climbed 72% in the first five months of 2024 — - Consumer chief says Harmony users have reached 900 million — Richard Yu says top-end device sales surged 72% in year to May
More: Nikkei Asia, Reuters, Gizchina, Huawei Central, and China.org.cn
| The Information: |
Source: AI chipmaker Cerebras confidentially filed for a US IPO; filing: in early June, it authorized new shares at a steep discount to its 2021 funding round — Cerebras, a developer of artificial intelligence chips that's trying to wrestle business from Nvidia, has filed confidentially … | Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Qilin, hackers behind the London hospitals hack, published ~400GB of patient data on their darknet site and Telegram channel; the NHS is investigating the claim — A gang of cyber criminals causing huge disruption to multiple London hospitals has published sensitive data stolen from an NHS blood testing company.
More: launched May 2024, Reuters, Bloomberg, Cybernews.com, and The Register
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