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June 26, 2024, 3:35 PM

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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple touts its device longevity in a white paper and says True Tone and battery health data will be available for third-party replacement parts later in 2024  —  Apple's putting renewed focus on its repairability efforts today. … But perhaps more interesting is the fact that Apple …
Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:
Apple expands its diagnostics tool for self-service repairs from the US to 32 European countries, including the UK, and plans to launch in Canada in 2025  —  Apple Diagnostics for Self Service Repair is now available in 32 European countries, the company announced today.
Jessica Lyons / The Register:
Researchers: polyfill.io, which offers JavaScript polyfills, is being used to infect 100K+ websites with malware, after a Chinese CDN bought the domain in 2024  —  Scripts turn malicious, infect webpages after Chinese CDN swallows domain  —  The polyfill.io domain is being used to infect …
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
SCOTUS declines to impose limits on the way the Biden administration may communicate with social media platforms, overturning a lower court's 2023 decision  —  The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to impose limits on the way President Joe Biden's administration may communicate …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Researchers in Rabbit R1's jailbreaking community say Rabbit left critical API keys hardcoded in its code, which would let hackers use Rabbit's internal systems  —  Members of a community focused on jailbreaking and reverse engineering the Rabbit R1 AI assistant device say that Rabbit left …
The Information:
Slides shown to Chinese sellers: Amazon plans to launch a Temu-like section featuring cheap items that ship directly from China to overseas consumers  —  Amazon plans to launch a section on its shopping site featuring cheap items that ship directly to overseas consumers from warehouses in China …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Sources: AU10TIX, an ID verification service that handles ID photos and is used by TikTok, Uber, X, and others, exposed admin credentials online for over a year  —  A company that verifies the identities of TikTok, Uber, and X users, sometimes by processing photographs of their faces …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
NBCU says an AI-generated voice of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on its streamer Peacock  —  Legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on Peacock — well, an AI-generated Al Michaels voice will.
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Meta says “an error” is causing Instagram and Threads to turn on a setting that limits political content from people who users don't follow, upon every app open  —  After Democratic strategist Keith Edwards urged Threads users to check the Instagram setting limiting political content …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
At Nvidia's first shareholder meeting since the recent stock surge, CEO Jensen Huang laid out Nvidia's strategy to maintain its position amid rising competition  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday that the company's advantage in artificial intelligence chips was thanks to a bet …
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Google is testing facial recognition tech for campus security at an office near Seattle; people entering the building will not be able to opt out  —  Google is testing facial recognition technology for office security “to help prevent unauthorized individuals from gaining access to our campuses …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
A look at YouTube's growing dominance as Nielsen says it had ~10% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the US in May, ahead of Netflix's 7.6%  —  WATCH NOW  —  It's been almost 20 years since the founding of Alphabet's YouTube, and Hollywood still doesn't really know what to do with it.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Boston-based Creatio, which offers a no-code CRM and workflow automation platform, raised $200M led by Sapphire Ventures at a $1.2B valuation  —  Creatio, the no-code CRM and workflow automation platform, on Wednesday announced that it has raised a $200 million funding round led by Sapphire Ventures.
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for July 10 at 9AM ET in Paris, where Galaxy AI updates, the Galaxy Z Fold 6, and Galaxy Z Flip 6 are expected  —  Samsung's next Unpacked summer launch event will take place on July 10th in Paris, France, the company announced on Tuesday.
Benjamin Taubman / Bloomberg:
Kaiko: spot bitcoin ETFs' launch in the US helped Bybit double its market share to 16% in March, crossing Coinbase to become the world's second-largest exchange  —  - Bitcoin ETFs helped Bybit's market share rise, Kaiko says  — Binance remains biggest exchange even after losing share
Bloomberg:
Sensor Tower: Nexon's Dungeon & Fighter Mobile generated $270M on iOS in China in the 30 days after its May 21 launch, marking Tencent's biggest release in 2024  —  - ‘Dungeon & Fighter Mobile’ is off to a hot start in China  — The Nexon-produced game is Tencent's biggest release this year

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