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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a Mac mini in 2024 with M4 and M4 Pro options that is less than half the size of the current mini, its first major design change since 2010 — - It's the first major design change to Mac mini since Jobs era — Entire Mac line to get updated with AI-focused M4 processors
More: PCMag, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, ZDNET, Financial Express, XDA Developers, Appleosophy, Engadget, MacRumors, Macworld, The Verge, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Thurrott, Tom's Guide, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, iMore, The Apple Post, SlashGear, Trusted Reviews, TechRadar, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, Lifewire, iClarified, Supercharged, BGR, Wccftech, MacDailyNews, Six Colors, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Josh Self / Politics.co.uk: |
In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views — Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about …
More: Wired, Politico, Mashable, Fortune, Times of India, BBC, The Guardian, The Independent, Tech.eu, The Daily Beast, and The Mirror
Threads: @daveleebbg. Mastodon: @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot, @JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social, and @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Researchers: 50 false or misleading claims about the US election posted on X in 2024 by Elon Musk have generated nearly 1.2B views and none had a Community Note — The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate said that Musk's debunked claims are spreading widely and do not appear … | Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Email: the World Federation of Advertisers discontinues activities of its nonprofit, GARM, following X's antitrust lawsuit, but intends to contest X's claims — - The World Federation of Advertisers is ‘discontinuing’ the activities of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media.
More: New York Times, The Verge, Engadget, Quartz, PC Gamer, New York Post, and Pirate Wires
Threads: @crumbler and @daveleebbg
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts new rules for apps in the EU that link out to the web for purchases, including allowing links to any website, and removes many other restrictions — Following the EU ruling in June that said Apple's App Store anti-steering policies are officially in breach of the Digital Markets Act, Apple is announcing changes.
More: Apple Developer, MacRumors, Thurrott, PYMNTS.com, Macworld, Reuters, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, PocketGamer.biz, Neowin, iClarified, mjtsai.com, and Cult of Mac
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: Agence France-Presse. Bluesky: @blowdart.me. X: @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @lewis_crofts, @lewis_crofts, @mzunigap, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, and @timsweeneyepic
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google and Meta ran a pilot program in the US in May 2024 to target Instagram ads to teenagers on YouTube, which prohibits targeting ads to under-18s — Campaign on YouTube to boost Instagram's appeal to young people skirted search group's rules for marketing to under-18s
More: Android Police, Silicon Valley Business …, The Verge, Android Authority, New York Post, How-To Geek, Engadget, TechRadar, The Information, Business Insider, Quartz, MediaPost, Cybernews.com, Benzinga, Invezz, Android Headlines, Dexerto, TipRanks Financial, Boing Boing, Investopedia, More About Advertising, and NewsBytes
Mastodon: @KimPerales@toad.social. X: @joejerome, @matthewstoller, @riptari, and @ariellesgarcia. LinkedIn: Damien Geradin
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/technews, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
The UK CMA opens a formal merger inquiry into Amazon's Anthropic investment after getting “sufficient information” about the deal; Amazon is “disappointed” — CMA to escalate matter to the first phase after seeking views on tech giant's investment in the AI start-up| Wired: |
OpenAI reveals details of GPT-4o's safety testing, including concerns that its anthropomorphic voice may make some users emotionally attached to their chatbot — The company has revealed details of AI model safety testing—including concerns about its new anthropomorphic interface.
More: TechCrunch, OpenAI, and CoinGape
X: @simonw, @joheidecke, @teknium1, @lindsmccallum, and @openai
Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| Adam James / The Block: |
“Over the next few days”, Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to undo all trades following its July 18 withdrawal freeze, after hackers stole $230M+ in crypto — - WazirX announced plans to undo all trades following its withdrawal freeze on July 18.| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Hugging Face acquires XetHub, a collaboration platform started by ex-Apple employees who raised $7.5M to help developers work with and build large-scale models — Purchased for an undisclosed sum, XetHub is staffed by a number of former Apple employees. Hugging Face thinks …
More: Hugging Face, VentureBeat, GeekWire, and AIM
X: @mattmcilwain, @aymericroucher, @julien_c, and @jeffboudier
LinkedIn: Ajit Banerjee, Brigitte Tousignant, Jeff Boudier, Aymeric Roucher, and Matt McIlwain. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google says it stopped making the Chromecast due to intense competition, pivoting to a premium device, and views the Nvidia Shield as something to strive toward — The Chromecast is going away after more than a decade in Google's hardware portfolio, with the company phasing it out to make room for the new Google TV Streamer.
More: Android Authority, The Verge, Tech Advisor, Spyglass, What Hi-Fi?, Newser, and Android Headlines
Threads: @lamarrwilson and @shiraovide. Mastodon: @MishaalRahman@androiddev …. X: @chrisjortiz. Forums: r/Android
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google's DeepMind Robotics team shows a table tennis robot that it says is a “solidly amateur human-level player” when pitted against a human — Sports have long served as an important test for robots. The best-known example of the phenomenon may be the annual RoboCup soccer competition …
More: arXiv.org, Ars Technica, Popular Science, The Decoder, AIM, and Tech Xplore. X: @googledeepmind
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SoundHound acquires Amelia, which makes an AI agent that businesses can customize for internal or customer use, for $80M; PitchBook: Amelia raised $189M+ — SoundHound, an AI company that makes voice interface tech used by car companies, restaurants and tech firms, is doubling … | Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Researchers: hackers have used an 18-year-old flaw in how Safari, Chrome, and Firefox on macOS handle queries to a 0.0.0.0 IP address to breach private networks — Weaknesses in Chrome, Firefox and Safari gave hackers a route into internal networks, even those protected by firewalls, security researchers warn.
More: Oligo security, Security Affairs, BleepingComputer, Android Authority, Dark Reading, The Hacker News, iPhone in Canada Blog, CyberScoop, Laptop Mag, PCMag, Livemint, Tom's Guide, Notebookcheck, PhoneArena, LWN.net, iDownloadBlog.com, Benzinga, The Cyber Express, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, iThinkDifferent, AppSec Village, BGR, 9to5Mac, Macworld, AppleInsider, and The Verge
| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft and Palantir partner to sell government cloud and AI tools, such as GPT-4, to US defense and intel agencies; Palantir plans to add its tools to Azure — Microsoft Corp. and Palantir Technologies Inc. are combining their government cloud-computing and artificial intelligence tools …
More: Microsoft, The Verge, Engadget, Barron's Online, Reuters, Quartz, CNBC, Neowin, Nextgov/FCW, FedScoop, and Constellation Research
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A researcher details a Windows Update vulnerability that could be exploited to downgrade key components of Windows to older versions that contain known flaws — A researcher found a vulnerability that would let hackers strategically downgrade a target's Windows version to reexpose patched vulnerabilities.
More: SafeBreach, Tom's Hardware, Ghacks, ExtremeTech, BleepingComputer, Washington Post, The Register, Neowin, The Hacker News, WinBuzzer, TechRadar, Help Net Security, TechSpot, Metacurity, CSO, The Register, SecurityWeek, Cybernews.com, Notebookcheck, and PCMag. Mastodon: @HoustonDog@mastodon.world
| Financial Times: |
Similarweb: active UK Telegram users hit 3.1M on July 29 and 3.7M on July 30 after a stabbing, as rioters used chat apps, up from a ~2.7M average in early 2024 — Messaging service, known for ‘hands off’ approach to content moderation, faces pressure to tackle extremist groups
More: The Hill, Wired, Bloomberg, The Verge, Northumberland Gazette, The Independent, and TechCrunch
| CJ Fairfield / CRN: |
Tampa-based Rewst, which provides robotic process automation services, raised a $45M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures, bringing its total raised to $104M — 'I don't think we're ever done when it comes to improving the platform. I think it can continue to get better year over year … | New York Times: |
Analysis: Truth Social is increasingly reliant on niche ad campaigns that target hard-core Trump fans and Christian conservatives, often with small ad budgets — Donald J. Trump's social network is increasingly relying on a niche of the ad market that caters to hard-core Trump fans and Christian conservatives for revenue.
X: @mattgoldstein26, @mattgoldstein26, and @konrad_it
| TASS: |
Putin signs a law legalizing cryptocurrency mining in Russia; only Russian legal entities and individuals included in a register will have the right to mine — Only Russian legal entities and individual entrepreneurs included in a register will have the right to mine
| John Liu / New York Times: |
Interviews with 12 TSMC staff detail ongoing culture clashes in Arizona, as well as Japan and Germany; about 50% of the 2,200 Phoenix workers came from Taiwan — The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company facility in Phoenix.Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times
More: Wccftech. X: @mazmhussain, @whatthebit, @steveashleyplus, @bigmeaninternet, and @scottlincicome. LinkedIn: John Liu
Forums: r/phoenix and r/neoliberal
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