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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: Dexerto, PCMag, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, ZDNET, Financial Express, XDA Developers, Engadget, Appleosophy, MobileSyrup, Macworld, MacRumors, Patently Apple, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, The Apple Post, The Verge, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, iMore, Neowin, TechRadar, AppleInsider, Notebookcheck, iClarified, Supercharged, BGR, Wccftech, Cult of Mac, Trusted Reviews, Lifewire, Digital Trends, MacDailyNews, and Six Colors
| 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: Ars Technica, New York Times, Gizmodo, The Guardian, Bloomberg, New York Post, The Verge, Engadget, Vox, CNBC, checkmyads.org, Quartz, and PC Gamer
Threads: @kateaconger, @karaswisher, @kbode, @renee.diresta, @davechensky, @r.gilmore, @catthekin, @mac_ryan_, @daveleebbg, and @crumbler
LinkedIn: Michael Follett, Arielle Garcia, and Ruben Schreurs
Forums: r/Twitter and Ars OpenForum
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts new rules and fees for apps in the EU that link to the web for purchases, including allowing links to any website, and removes 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, Thurrott, PYMNTS.com, MacRumors, Macworld, Reuters, Spyglass, iClarified, mjtsai.com, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Neowin, and Cult of Mac
Threads: @eshumarneedi. X: @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @mgsiegler, @ballmatthew, and @bzamayo. Forums: r/apple
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says Apple's new “unacceptable” plan “disregards the fundamental requirements” of EU's DMA; Tim Sweeney calls it “malicious compliance” with “junk fees” — Count Spotify and Epic Games among the Apple critics who are not happy …
More: Agence France-Presse and MacDailyNews
Bluesky: @blowdart.me. X: @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @lewis_crofts, @lewis_crofts, @mzunigap, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, and @timsweeneyepic. Forums: r/apple
| 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, BBC, Mashable, Fortune, Reuters, Times of India, 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 …
More: Le Monde.fr, Engadget, and CNBC
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with DOJ antitrust boss Jonathan Kanter on the US' Google win, the Apple deal, competition, being “overjoyed”, Google's appeal, market definitions, and more — AAG Jonathan Kanter says the Google monopoly verdict belongs on the ‘Mount Rushmore of antitrust.’| 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: OpenAI, TechCrunch, Cointelegraph, The Verge, Neowin, and CoinGape
| 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: The Information, The Verge, Android Police, Silicon Valley Business …, Android Authority, Engadget, New York Post, TechRadar, How-To Geek, Business Insider, Quartz, Cybernews.com, Benzinga, Invezz, MediaPost, Android Headlines, Dexerto, The Information, TipRanks Financial, Boing Boing, Investopedia, More About Advertising, and NewsBytes
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| 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| 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, Seattle Business Journal, VentureBeat, GeekWire, and AIM
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LinkedIn: Rajat Arya, 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, PC Guide, Tech Advisor, Spyglass, The Verge, 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, How-To Geek, Ars Technica, Popular Science, The Decoder, and AIM. X: @googledeepmind
| 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.
More: WazirX Blog, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, CryptoSlate, HackerNoon, Cryptopolitan, Coinspeaker, and Coinpedia Fintech News
X: @wazirxindia, @cryptooady, and @cryptooady
| 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
| 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 …
More: FinSMEs, PYMNTS.com, SoundHound, SiliconANGLE, and Benzinga
| 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, FedScoop, Reuters, Nextgov/FCW, Quartz, CNBC, Neowin, and Constellation Research
| 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 … | 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: Wired, The Hill, Bloomberg, Northumberland Gazette, The Verge, The Independent, and TechCrunch
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
TikTok launches TikTok Spotlight, in-app hubs for movies and TV shows that add links to “applicable” videos with more info and where to watch, tested with Dune — TikTok will now create in-app hubs for movies and TV shows and place them directly on fan-made videos.| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Sources: Japanese cybersecurity company Trend Micro, which has a market value of about $6.5B, is exploring a sale after attracting buyout interest — Trend Micro (4704.T), a Japanese cybersecurity firm with a market value of about 950 billion yen ($6.5 billion), is exploring a sale …
More: Bloomberg
| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Take-Two reports Q1 net bookings up 1% YoY to $1.22B, vs. $1.25B est., net revenue up 4%, and expects sequential growth in net bookings in FY 2026 and FY 2027 — Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO.O) said on Thursday it expects to see sequential growth in its net bookings in fiscals 2026 and 2027 …
More: VentureBeat, GamesIndustry.biz, Wall Street Journal, Variety, Take-Two Interactive, and Kotaku
| 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: Tom's Hardware and Wccftech
X: @mazmhussain, @whatthebit, @steveashleyplus, @bigmeaninternet, and @scottlincicome. LinkedIn: John Liu
Forums: r/phoenix and r/neoliberal
| 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.
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