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Developer Christian Selig says Apple removed his YouTube app Juno for the Vision Pro from the App Store, after YouTube said it violated its ToS in April 2024 — Juno, the third-party YouTube app created for the Apple Vision Pro, has been removed from the App Store.
More: Christian Selig, Neowin, NewsBytes, Benzinga, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors
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Sources: Apple is planning a new iPad mini, possibly for 2024, and nearing production of an iPhone SE without a home button and iPad Air models for early 2025 — - New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025
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X: @newsynick, @markgurman, @markgurman, @samsheffer, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple, r/iphone, and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in recent months, Google teams have made progress on AI reasoning models like OpenAI's o1; source: some DeepMind staff are worried about falling behind — The push deepens the search giant's rivalry with OpenAI — Google is working on artificial intelligence software that resembles … | Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind is developing an AI research assistant for scientists; BioNTech's InstaDeep unveils Laila, a Llama 3.1-based assistant for experimental biology — Artificial intelligence used to help researchers plan experiments and better predict outcomes| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases a $150 standalone version of Office 2024 for consumers and SMBs, with core app updates and UI changes; the last standalone was Office 2021 — Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don't want to subscribe to Microsoft 365.
More: Microsoft 365 Blog, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, GreenBot, BGR, Neowin, Notebookcheck, NewsBytes, Thurrott, How-To Geek, and Tom's Hardware
| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
The UK FCA fines Starling Bank £29M over its “shockingly lax” controls against financial crime, like potential money laundering and sanctions breaches — FCA said lender's efforts to identify potential money laundering ‘did not keep pace’ with its growth| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
Meta rolls out Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange to let UK banks share transaction intel to help catch scammers, after a pilot with NatWest and Metro Bank — Tech group to roll out channel for sharing of transaction intelligence — Facebook owner Meta is launching a data-sharing partnership …
More: Meta, PYMNTS.com, UPI, Tech Monitor, The Mirror, CNBC, City A.M., Invezz, and UKTN
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been removed from GitHub, and its team has reportedly ceased development after Nintendo contacted its creator — GitHub removal comes months after a Nintendo lawsuit took down the Yuzu emulator. — Popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx …
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| Sebastiaan de With / Lux: |
iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, and Camera Control, Zero Shutter Lag, and its advanced Photographic Styles impress — For the first “Desert Titanium” iPhone, we took over 1000 photos and videos in the desert. Take a deep dive into what's new — and why it's close to the last of its kind.
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Threads: @sandofsky. X: @sdw, @sdw, @halidecamera, @jimmyjamesuk123, @sandofsky, @bawan__abdul, @robswish, @sdw, @durreadan01, @app_settings, and @sdw. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: |
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says his post about ToS updates “may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works” but “in reality, little has changed” — The World's Call Center Capital Is Gripped by AI Fever — and Fear … Hello World
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the startup has largely abandoned building AI models after Google poached its founders, focusing on its chatbots instead — AI start-up's new chief says race to build large language models against Big Tech got ‘insanely expensive’
More: TechCrunch and Benzinga
| Rob Davies / The Guardian: |
A profile of Denise Coates, the UK's richest woman, who founded online gambling company Bet365, which had £3B+ in 2023 revenue, as she focuses on a US expansion — She is the mastermind behind Bet365, the company that made it possible to gamble online any hour of the day or night.
X: @byrobdavies, @ianbirrell, and @thecullobsidian
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
VC firm CRV plans to return $275M from its $500M Select fund, citing worsening market conditions and high startup valuations relative to their potential payoff — CRV, based in Silicon Valley, plans to return to investors $275 million because the market for mature start-ups has soured.
More: Moneycontrol
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Automattic demanded a cut of 8% of WP Engine's monthly revenue to use the WordPress trademark in a seven-year deal in a September 20 letter; WP Engine declined — Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, asked rival hosting service WP Engine to hand over 8 percent of its revenue each month …
More: Automattic. X: @dcurtis, @ozskier, @crowdersoup, @jeffseverson, @photomatt, @hashim_warren, @automattic, @ryancduff, @tealou, and @bwhalley. Forums: Hacker News
| Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: |
AI contact center startup Crescendo raised $50M from General Catalyst and others at a $500M valuation, and acquired Idaho-based outsourcing company PartnerHero — - Crescendo has raised $50 million, is acquiring PartnerHero — Investors include General Catalyst and Celesta Capital| Tom Faber / Financial Times: |
2024 has been a barren year for big video games compared to 2023, helping indie games take center stage; the games industry has laid off 10,000+ people in 2024 — As gamers turn their backs on gargantuan adventures, we could be entering a golden age of modest titles| Andreo Calonzo / Bloomberg: |
Philippine President Marcos Jr. signs a law imposing a 12% value-added tax on non-resident digital service providers, including Netflix, HBO, and Disney — The World's Call Center Capital Is Gripped by AI Fever — and Fear … Hello World
More: CoinGeek and Yahoo Finance
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia details LLM family NVLM 1.0, which can handle vision and language tasks while enhancing text-only capabilities and is led by the 72B-parameter NVLM-D-72B — Nvidia has released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that competes with proprietary systems from industry leaders like OpenAI and Google.
More: Constellation Research, arXiv.org, and Benzinga
Forums: Hacker News, r/NVDA_Stock, r/ChatGPT, and r/artificial
| Matt Reynolds / Wired: |
A profile of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency, set up in February 2022 with an £800M budget for high-risk, high-reward science and tech projects — The Advanced Research and Invention Agency—ARIA—is the UK's answer to Darpa. But can it put the country back on the scientific map?| Wired: |
Pig butchering operations that are offshoots of the Southeast Asian activity have emerged in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and West Africa — Scamming operations that once originated in Southeast Asia are now proliferating around the world, likely raking in billions of dollars in the process.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist — Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he'll be joining Anthropic.
More: The Independent, Silicon Republic, Maginative, and NewsBytes
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X: @dpkingma, @morqon, @shakeelhashim, @luke_metro, @modestproposal1, and @kennethcassel. Forums: Hacker News
| Pui Gwen Yeung / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Hong Kong stock exchange executive Yang Qiumei inherited a 20% SenseTime stake, worth $1.5B, from her late husband, making her its largest shareholder — - Yang inherited the shares from her late husband Tang — Tang was one of the co-founders of the Chinese AI giant| John Gapper / Financial Times: |
Raspberry Pi, the FTSE 250 company that defied the trend of UK tech companies listing in the US, has revived Cambridge's history of making hardware — The Cambridge company conceived to enable technology education is now an industrial force — Raspberry Pi is a quirky enterprise.Sponsor Posts
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