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Apple says it asked Epic to fix the buttons in a future version of the Epic Games Store submitted for review; Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Epic will “fight this” — Mere hours after reports circulated that Apple had declined to approve the Epic Games Store for iOS in the EU …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Forbes, Spyglass, Neowin, Thurrott, PhoneArena, Gizchina, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Notebookcheck. X: @florian4gamers
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and have bigger screens; main Siri upgrade will be part of iOS 18.4, with a dev beta in Jan. and a spring release — As the Apple Watch approaches its 10th birthday, the company is preparing a big update. Also: AirPods with cameras …
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| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Mt. Gox starts repaying customers, who will receive only ~15% of their lost bitcoins, but now worth many times more than their total 2014 holdings — Former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange Mt. Gox are preparing to be reunited with their lost bitcoin—and it's a $9 billion windfall.
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| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
ElevenLabs launches Voice Isolator, a freemium AI tool for removing background noise from audio files for film, podcast, and interview post production — ElevenLabs, the AI voice startup known for its voice cloning, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech models, has just added another tool to its product portfolio: an AI Voice Isolator.
More: ElevenLabs, WinBuzzer, Maginative, and Cryptopolitan
| Ben Church / CNN: |
A look at concerns about Saudi Arabia “sportswashing” as it hosts the Esports World Cup; Saudi Arabia's PIF has bought some of the biggest gaming companies — In the heart of Saudi Arabia's capital, a seismic moment for esports is underway; one which has triggered both excitement and concern across the industry.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi talks about reuniting with Square Enix to bring his company Mistwalker's Apple Arcade RPG Fantasian to PC and consoles — More than two decades ago, video-game designer Hironobu Sakaguchi parted ways with the company now called Square Enix Holding Co. At the time, it was an unexpected move.
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LinkedIn: Rafael Brown and Jason Schreier
Forums: r/TerraBattle, r/FinalFantasy, r/PS5, and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Reuters: |
Interfax: Apple removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from its App Store in Russia, following a request by state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor — U.S. tech giant Apple (AAPL.O) removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from its App Store, following a request …
More: AppleInsider, PCMag, iLounge, The Register, The Moscow Times, OSnews, mjtsai.com, Cult of Mac, Supercharged, The Mac Observer, and MacDailyNews
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X: @nexta_tv, @appcensorship, @appcensorship, @timsweeneyepic, @mediazona_en, @appcensorship, @appcensorship, and @mediazona_en. LinkedIn: Patrick Wardle. Forums: r/worldnews
| Tory Shepherd / The Guardian: |
A look at Apate, a conversational bot developed by Macquarie University's Cyber Security Hub in Australia to keep scam callers on the line while collecting data — New scambaiting AI technology Apate aims to keep scammers on the line while collecting data that could help disrupt their business model| Michelle Hampson / IEEE Spectrum: |
A study of GPT-3.5-based ChatGPT's ability to solve 728 coding problems: fairly good at solving problems that existed before 2021, but struggles with newer ones — This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.
More: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and Boing Boing
Mastodon: @HPC_Guru@mastodon.social. X: @malwarejake, @grady_booch, @mjasay, @brainify78, @joel_linux, @ivanilves, and @simonkp
LinkedIn: Bas Hamer and Michelle Hampson
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
French AI research lab Kyutai, which launched in November with €300M in funding and is backed by billionaire Xavier Niel, demos its AI voice assistant Moshi — A French artificial intelligence research lab backed by billionaire Xavier Niel showed off a new voice assistant with a variety …
More: Kyutai, kyutai on YouTube, Moshi, Kyutai, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, The Rundown AI, GreenBot, Analytics India Magazine, MarkTechPost, Dataconomy, The Decoder, and Ben's Bites
Mastodon: @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com. X: @kyutai_labs, @ryanmorrisonjer, @guillaumgrallet, @javilopen, @ryanmorrisonjer, @kyutai_labs, @kyutai_labs, @kyutai_labs, and @kyutai_labs
LinkedIn: Bernardo Perobeli, Annabelle Gerard, and Joshua Meyer
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
As Glaze, a free tool to help artists prevent AI from copying their style, sees an “explosion in demand”, researchers say its protections can be bypassed — Artists must wait weeks for Glaze defense against AI scraping amid TOS updates. — For many artists, it's a precarious time to post art online.
More: The Decoder. Threads: @charles.wiltgen. Mastodon: @LyleDAL@universeodon.com. LinkedIn: Debora Bae and Christopher Parsons, Ph.D. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
DefiLlama: the value of assets locked on the TON blockchain, which is used by Telegram, surged 1,400% this year to briefly top $1B — - TON Blockchain's assets topped $1 billion after a resurgence — Telegram's previous crypto efforts drew the wrath of the SEC
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