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Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile SoC, with two prime and six performance CPU cores, claiming 45% faster CPU and NPU over the 8 Gen 3, and more — The new name marks a major departure from previous Snapdragons. — • — After much speculation …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign up for and buy subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store, avoiding Apple's cut — Disney is no longer allowing its customers to sign up for and purchase subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing the use of facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to enable faster recovery of compromised accounts on Facebook and Instagram — Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the Facebook owner announced Monday.
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
Blade Runner 2049's producer sues Musk, Tesla, and WBD for allegedly using AI to create imagery close to the film, despite a denied request, to promote Cybercab — Alcon Entertainment, the Hollywood company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” said it had denied a request to use images from the movie but that Mr. Musk did so anyway.
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Stripe announces it has finalized a deal to acquire stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal was worth $1.1B — Bridge, which has raised $54 million in funding, previously said it aspired to become the blockchain version of Stripe, operating a global system in which other developers could integrate
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| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
The Biden admin unveils proposed rules for restricting the transfer of US citizens' sensitive data, including biometric and genomic info, to adversarial nations — The Biden administration announced on Monday new proposed rules for regulating the transfer of certain data to adversarial countries …
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
A civil rights org claims in a lawsuit that a VA town violated 4A protections by installing Flock cameras, making it “impossible” for citizens to move untracked — A civil liberties organization has filed a federal lawsuit in Virginia arguing that widespread surveillance enabled by Flock … | Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
The US DOD plans an initiative to recruit CTOs and other senior tech professionals as uniformed, paid reservists to help in cybersecurity, data analytics, more — New Defense Department initiative would recruit Silicon Valley's top technical minds to join the reserves as officers
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| Zoya Hasan / Forbes: |
Austin-based SchooLinks, whose SaaS offers college and career readiness resources for K-12 students, raised a $80M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity — Forbes Under 30 alum Katie Fang gets an A+ when it comes to investor appeal: Her company, which helps students make decisions …
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LinkedIn: SchooLinks and Susquehanna Growth Equity
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ireland adopts an Online Safety Code for video-sharing platforms headquartered in the country, including TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, effective next month — Ireland's media and internet watchdog, Coimisiún na Meán, has adopted and published an Online Safety Code that will apply … | David Heaney / UploadVR: |
EssilorLuxottica CFO says Ray-Ban Meta glasses are a “success” in the US and the bestseller “in 60%” of Ray-Ban stores in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa — Ray-Ban Meta glasses are the top selling product in 60% of Ray-Ban stores in EMEA.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A look at some use cases of Anthropic's Claude Artifacts, which lets users create interactive single-page apps via prompts — I'm a huge fan of Claude's Artifacts feature, which lets you prompt Claude to create an interactive Single Page App (using HTML, CSS and JavaScript) …
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