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The US FTC releases a four-year study of how Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six other companies collected and used data, finding a “vast surveillance” of consumers — Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission warns Apple about required interoperability of iOS and iPadOS with third-party devices under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply — - EU announces efforts to pull Apple into compliance with rules — Apple previously said it would hold back future tech from EU
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Forums: r/technews, r/LinusTechTips, and r/worldnews
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
A look at the two “specification proceedings” that the EU has opened on Apple under the DMA, instructing Apple on how to comply with interoperability provisions — The European Union has opened two “specification proceedings” on Apple under the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA) … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google unveils Password Manager PIN to let Chrome users sync passkeys across Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, and Android devices, with iOS support coming soon — The search giant is introducing a Google Password Manager PIN that allows users to securely save and synchronize passkeys for use across Windows … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
YouTube says it has “widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers” after a “strong advertiser and strong viewer response” and piloting Pause ads from 2023 — It's been nearly six years since we warned you that ads were coming for your pause button …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
macOS 15 Sequoia appears to have broken security tools made by CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft, and others; CrowdStrike had to delay support for Sequoia — On Monday, Apple released its latest computer operating system update called macOS 15, or Sequoia.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches an AI-powered video generator, available for some US advertisers in beta, which turns a single product image into a few-second video showcase — Like its rival, Google, Amazon has launched an AI-powered video generator — but it's only for advertisers at the moment, and somewhat limited in what it can do.
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| Bloomberg: |
Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to reimpose a block or face a ~$920K daily fine after an update made X accessible; X says service restoration was “inadvertent” — - Judge orders $920,000 daily fine if site isn't blocked — Regulator says it got help from Cloudflare to restrict access
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sue Palworld developer Pocketpair for allegedly infringing “multiple patent rights”; Palworld sold 5M+ copies in January 2024 — Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, which makes the game Palworld.
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| Georgina Rannard / BBC: |
Study: unintended electromagnetic radiation from second-gen Starlink satellites is stronger than first-gen, causing 32x more interference with radio telescopes — Radio waves from Elon Musk's growing network of satellites are blocking scientists' ability to peer into the universe, according to researchers in the Netherlands.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce advances KOSA and COPPA 2.0 on a voice vote despite discontent from some lawmakers over last-minute KOSA changes — The proposed laws passed on a voice vote despite discontent over last-minute changes to KOSA, in particular, that were aimed at quelling persistent criticism.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple seeds the first iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 public betas, with a Siri redesign and some Apple Intelligence features, like Writing Tools — Apple today released the first public betas of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, allowing non-developers to test the software ahead of its October launch.
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
US DOJ lawyers told a court that Google employees liberally labelled emails as “privileged and confidential”, a strategy that may backfire in the antitrust case — Google employees liberally labeled their emails as “privileged and confidential” and spoke “off the record” … | Reuters: |
Alibaba releases 100+ open-source models under Qwen 2.5, its LLM released in May 2024, ranging from 0.5B to 72B parameters, and unveils a text-to-video model — Chinese technology company Alibaba (9988.HK) released on Thursday new open-source artificial intelligence models and text-to-video AI technology … | Wall Street Journal: |
Layoffs.fyi: tech companies have laid off ~137,000 people since January 2024; Indeed.com: software development job postings are down 30%+ since February 2020 — Employment for software engineers has cooled as resources shift toward developing artificial intelligence
More: San Francisco Business Times and Channel Futures
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| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
A UN advisory body makes seven recommendations for governing AI, including establishing a panel to provide impartial and reliable scientific knowledge about AI — An artificial-intelligence advisory body at the United Nations on Thursday released its final report proposing seven recommendations … | Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft partners with Anduril Industries to improve the performance of Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS, the new combat goggles for the US Army — - Pentagon may spend up to $21.9 billion on headsets over decade — System must pass combat test next year before full production
More: Wired, Gizmodo, Maginative, Anduril, Breaking Defense, The Verge, Telegraph, Defense Daily, PCMag, Road to VR, WinBuzzer, Neowin, DefenseScoop, and TechCrunch
X: @anduriltech, @palmerluckey, @techcrunch, and @palmerluckey. LinkedIn: Rafael Brown. Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: server CPU design startup Ampere is exploring a potential sale; Ampere was reportedly valued at $8B in a SoftBank proposed minority investment in 2021 — - Ampere has been working with an adviser amid takeover interest — Firm valued at $8 billion before 2022 confidential IPO filing| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
The FBI, ODNI, and CISA say Iranian hackers emailed stolen, non-public Trump campaign info to Biden campaign associates; there's no sign the recipients replied — - “There is currently no information indicating those recipients” responded to these incidents in late June and early July, the agencies added.
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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Disney plans to stop using Slack in most of its businesses by the end of this year, after a hacking group leaked more than 1TB of company data in summer — The company said in a memo that most of its businesses would stop using the tool by the end of this year
More: PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Business Insider, NBC New York, and Bloomberg
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| Reuters: |
Intel says it has no plans to sell its majority stake in Mobileye; the self-driving tech company's stock, which is down 73% in 2024, jumps 13%+ — Intel (INTC.O) said on Thursday it had no plans to sell its majority stake in Mobileye Global (MBLY.O), sending shares of the self-driving tech firm up more than 13%.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Fal.ai, a developer-focused platform for media-generating AI models, raised a $9M seed and a $14M Series A from Kindred Ventures, a16z, First Round, and others — Fal.ai, a dev-focused platform for AI-generated audio, video, and images, today revealed that it's raised $23 million in funding … Sponsor Posts
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