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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU's General Court annuls a €1.49B antitrust fine imposed on Google in 2019 for abusing its dominance to prevent websites from using non-AdSense ad brokers — Europe's second-top court on Wednesday backed Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google's challenge against a 1.49 billion euros …
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Sources: Google tried to end an EU antitrust probe by offering to sell its ad marketplace AdX, or Ad Exchange, but European publishers rejected the proposal — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google took a major step this year to end an EU antitrust investigation with an offer to sell …
More: Engadget, The Information, and Reuters
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
YouTube integrates Google DeepMind's AI video generation model Veo into Shorts, letting creators generate high-quality backgrounds and 1080p six-second clips — The main attraction of YouTube's Made On event on Wednesday morning was, you guessed it, artificial intelligence.
More: YouTube Official Blog, The Keyword, Wired, ZDNET, Google DeepMind, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, CNBC, UPI, Deadline, Maginative, MobileSyrup, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Wrap, AIM, Tubefilter, 9to5Google, and Neowin
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
YouTube adds an Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio app that lets creators use AI to generate video concepts, create titles and thumbnails, and write scripts — Artificial intelligence is running rampant across Google's entire product portfolio, and YouTube is adopting some of the company's newest tech … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
More: Next TV, YouTube Official Blog, Fast Company, Business Insider, Variety, AV Club, and Engadget
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max review: a very incremental upgrade with new tone control in camera and a useful but a little fiddly Camera Control button — I'm not saying you should buy a new phone for a single camera setting... but I'm not not saying that, either.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Apple iPhone 16 and 16 Plus review: a reliable camera, a handy Action Button, and more RAM, but a standard refresh rate screen and Camera Control is a mixed bag — It's a good year for Apple's basic iPhone, even if its AI is MIA. … Over the past few years, Apple's standard iPhone looked a little neglected.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
X changes how it delivers its site in Brazil, evading Brazilian ISPs' digital roadblocks set up in recent weeks; a source says X's approach relies on Cloudflare — Elon Musk's social media platform used a technical maneuver to restore service for many Brazilians after a court blocked it.
More: Engadget, BBC, Reuters, The Verge, Associated Press, The Brazilian Report, and The Gateway Pundit. X: @timsweeneyepic
| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
The FBI says it disrupted a botnet of “hundreds of thousands” of devices worldwide last week that was operated by the China-linked hacking group Flax Typhoon — The FBI led an operation last week to disrupt a global botnet with connections to the Chinese government … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
SocialAI, a new iOS app that looks like a microblogging social network, is filled with bots and lets users populate their network with up to 32 types of bots — Are we at peak social media yet? It's an interesting question to ponder after the launch of an iOS app offering a social media experience just for one.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
HTC unveils the $999 Vive Focus Vision, a VR headset with built-in eye tracking, two 16MP stereo color front-facing cameras, and more, available for preorder — It's no Quest 3 competitor, but it could appeal to businesses and VR fanatics. — HTC Vive is following up its intriguing …
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Forums: r/virtualreality and r/virtualreality
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple pulls the iPadOS 18 update for M4 iPad Pro models after bricking complaints, working “to resolve an issue that is impacting a small number of devices” — Apple stopped signing the iPadOS 18 update for the M4 iPad Pro models, which means the new software is no longer available …
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| Rod McGuirk / Associated Press: |
Australia, Europol, and others say they infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted communications app made for criminals, and arrested dozens, including its alleged admin — Australian police said Wednesday they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app developed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests.
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X: @maxramsay, @josephfcox, @europol, and @fatalmeh
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
LinkedIn confirms it's training its AI models on user data by default, and says it is “making sure that those who have specific privacy preferences” can opt out — LinkedIn is using its users' data for improving the social network's generative AI products, but has not yet updated …
More: LinkedIn, Forbes, Thurrott, The Stack, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Mashable, and PCMag
LinkedIn: Matthew Rosenquist and Brian Krebs
| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Twilight, signs a deal with Runway to use generative AI in the creation of its movies and TV shows — Hollywood studio will give the tech company access to its library of movies and shows in exchange for a custom-built AI model
More: Runway, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, The Verge, Runway, The Hollywood Reporter, Inc.com, Gizmodo, Fortune, Wired, AV Club, Deadline, CNET, IGN, Tom's Guide, Quartz, TechCrunch, Maginative, The Wrap, Android Headlines, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, 404 Media, and Spyglass
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
T-Mobile announces a multi-year partnership with OpenAI that includes building IntentCX, a customer service system powered by AI agents — - The companies say that the model is already showing promise in analyzing customer care call transcripts and identifying pain points that could be addressed better.
More: T-Mobile, Wall Street Journal, How-To Geek, PCMag, Constellation Research, and CNET
X: @tmobilenews, @eliblumenthal, and @peter_adderton
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Playtika agrees to buy Tel Aviv-based mobile game maker SuperPlay for $700M, and up to an additional $1.25B if SuperPlay hits financial targets over three years — Playtika has agreed to acquire SuperPlay, a mobile gaming company in Israel for a price ranging from $700 million to $1.95 billion.
More: CTech, PocketGamer.biz, Playtika, Mobilegamer.biz, and Reuters
| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the hackers behind the February data breach of drug distributor Cencora received a record ransom of $75M through three bitcoin installments in March — - Payment made through three Bitcoin installments in March — Dark Angels hacking gang pursues high prices and low profile
More: The Block, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, Comparitech, CoinGape, and Crypto Briefing. X: @zachxbt
| New York Times: |
US prosecutors say Caroline Ellison provided “extraordinary cooperation” in the Sam Bankman-Fried case, signaling that she should receive a lenient sentence — Ms. Ellison, Sam Bankman-Fried's former girlfriend and a top executive in his empire, is set to be sentenced on Sept. 24 … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
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