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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says developers can offer NFC transactions using the iPhone's Secure Element, separate from Apple Pay, starting in iOS 18.1; there'll be “associated fees” — Apple has announced that it is opening up the iPhone's NFC chip using the Secure Element to allow …
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X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @psythor, and @psythor
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
xAI launches Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta with improved reasoning and image generation, available now to X Premium and Premium+ users, and later via its API — Elon Musk-owned launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta today with improved reasoning. The new Grok AI model can now generate images … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Apple approves Spotify updating its app to show in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the EU starting today, after Spotify's yearslong legal battle — Spotify will begin showing in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the European Union starting today, following a yearslong legal battle against Apple.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is prioritizing developing a tabletop home device with an iPad-like display and a robotic limb, aiming for a release in 2026 or 2027 for ~$1,000 — - Executive who oversaw car project is leading the effort — Device would offer twist on home products from Amazon and Meta| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X review: the Zen 5 flagship chips are fine for highly threaded productivity workloads, but the gaming issues need to be fixed — Earlier this month, AMD launched the first two desktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X.
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Mastodon: @cslinuxboy@mastodon.social. X: @sebasti66855537, @igorwallossek, @dapoets42, @ryansmithat, and @tomwarren. Forums: r/Amd
| Dara Kerr / NPR: |
Meta shuts down CrowdTangle, less than three months before the US election, in favor of the Meta Content Library; Mozilla says 50K+ petitioned against the move — Meta has been bombarded by academics, researchers, politicians and regulators about a tool called CrowdTangle, which most people probably haven't heard of.| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Access Now and Citizen Lab: Russian spy agencies are using deep knowledge about opponents, reporters, and human rights groups to target them via phishing emails — Traditional phishing attacks aimed to break into organizations advocating for Russian dissidents, among others.
More: The Citizen Lab, Access Now, The Register, The Record, The Guardian, Forbes, The Verge, Bloomberg, and CyberScoop
X: @accessnow, @jsrailton, and @citizenlab
| Troy Hunt: |
A look at the National Public Data breach, first noted in April 2024 and posted publicly last week, and why it's unlikely that “nearly 3B people” were exposed — I decided to write this post because there's no concise way to explain the nuances of what's being described as one of the largest data breaches ever.
More: Los Angeles Times, The Verge, and CNET
Mastodon: @shoq@mastodon.social, @paco@infosec.exchange, and @haveibeenpwned@infosec …
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/inthenews, and r/privacy
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent says it and Apple are exploring ways to offer in-app transactions via iOS' payment system, the first acknowledgment of talks with Apple to take a cut — The Chinese company is exploring ways to offer in-app transactions via Apple's iOS payment system, Chief Strategy Officer James Mitchell told analysts on an earnings call.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
More: Nikkei Asia, The Information, Tencent, Variety, CNBC, Reuters, Tech Xplore, South China Morning Post, and Tencent
| Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 48+ people detail Snowflake and Databricks' intense rivalry, jockeying to be the dominant platform for organizing AI data, and fear of Microsoft — Secret codenames, pugnacious billboards and deal drama mark the competition for data supremacy — Snowflake Inc. was looking for acquisitions.| Ben Dowsett / Wired: |
How the English Premier League plans to use 28+ iPhone 14 or newer cameras at stadiums to call offsides later in the 2024/25 season, ditching its VAR system — Later this season, the UK's top soccer division will replace its controversial VAR offside-detection system in favor of a whole bunch of Apple's smartphones.
More: Cybernews.com, PetaPixel, iClarified, PhoneArena, TNW, iMore, Gizchina.com, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and Sportico. Forums: r/soccer
| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
A look at some of the victims of the now-ubiquitous deepfake video scams; an analysis of 2,000+ deepfakes found Elon Musk was featured in ~25% of such scams — “It's shifting now because organized crime has figured out, ‘we can make money at this,’” according to Lou Steinberg, the founder of CTM Insights, a cybersecurity research lab.
Threads: @stuartathompsonnyt and @yonetteajoseph
X: @ahier, @ranimolla, @arthurmacmillan, @sensityai, and @saletan. LinkedIn: Francesco Cavalli. Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The main takeaway from the Google Pixel event is Android's primacy, and Google's integration with Android is worth preserving if the goal is spurring innovation — The original Pixel was released in 2016 at the end of interesting, at least when it came to smartphones.| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
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Threads: @technicallymims. X: @joannastern, @joannastern, @joannastern, @drjwrae, @googledeepmind, @google, @geminiapp, @google, @mishaalrahman, and @ssamat
| Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
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| Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to ~$48B and net profit up 6% YoY to ~$1.08B, above ~$1.04B est., on strong AI server demand; its stock is up ~18% in 2024 — Quarterly revenue rose 19% from a year earlier — Foxconn Technology Group reported a 6% increase in quarterly net profit …
More: Reuters, CNBC, Reuters, Business Standard, KuwaitTimes, Barron's Online, BNN Bloomberg, Tech Xplore, and MacDailyNews. X: @adityakalra
| Financial Times: |
How Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are using accounting techniques to hide their growing emissions, while working to influence pollution disclosure rules — Critics say a proposed change could allow large energy users to hide their true emissions — By its own account, Amazon is a green business leader.
More: Action Speaks Louder and The Verge
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Intel sold its 1.18M Arm shares during Q2 2024, which would have raised ~$147M for Intel based on the stock's $124.34 average price in the quarter — Intel Corp., which is slashing jobs and expenses in a bid to turn around the business, sold its holdings in chip technology creator Arm Holdings Plc during the second quarter.
More: Reuters, Intel, TrendForce Insights, Portland Business Journal, KitGuru, Hackster.io, Quartz, Barron's Online, TechRadar, Tech Monitor, Silicon UK, OC3D, TechPowerUp, The Hindu, CCN.com, TechSpot, The Information, Tom's Hardware, Tech Startups, Proactive, Benzinga, PC Games Insider, CNBC, The Register, MarketWatch, GamesIndustry.biz, TweakTown, and Wccftech. Forums: r/hardware
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