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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
iPad mini (2024) review: fast A17 Pro chip, delightful size, and Pencil Pro support, but less powerful than other iPads, outdated Touch ID and camera placement — Apple's smallest tablet got an upgrade — but it won't feel like much of one unless Apple Intelligence is better than it seems.
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| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Netflix shut down AAA game studio “Team Blue”, which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up — The SoCal studio boasted senior veterans from Halo, God of War and Overwatch — One of Netflix's most intriguing video game studios is no more.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Jack Sweeney says Meta suspended Instagram and Threads accounts tracking celebrities' private jets, including Zuckerberg's; Meta cites a “risk of physical harm” — Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities - including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk …
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| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential attempt to have it manufacture AI chips for Huawei, circumventing export controls; sources: the chips resembled 910Bs — Chipmaker reported having received order for processor resembling that of Chinese company Huawei
More: Reuters, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and WinBuzzer
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to help enable faster recovery of compromised Facebook and Instagram accounts — 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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| 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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| Robert Triggs / Android Authority: |
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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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
X data: Elon Musk-backed America PAC spent $166K between July 8 and October 1 to run 59 ads on X targeting swing voters in six states, yielding 32M+ impressions — America PAC purchased ads yielding tens of millions of impressions on X between July 8 and October 1, according to the platform's ad disclosure data.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app soon, after previously relying on the local contact book, and developed a new IPLS encrypted storage system — WhatsApp announced today a new feature that will allow users to save contacts within the app.
More: Business Today, Engadget, WhatsApp Blog, Android Central, Engineering at Meta, and NewsBytes
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Lawsuit: a civil rights organization says a Virginia town installing Flock cameras violated the Fourth Amendment, making citizens moving untracked “impossible” — A civil liberties organization has filed a federal lawsuit in Virginia arguing that widespread surveillance enabled by Flock …
More: Techdirt, San Francisco Chronicle, and Daily Press
| 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 …
More: US Department of Justice, SC Media, Metacurity, CyberScoop, TechRadar, Cybersecurity …, WinBuzzer, The Register, and PCMag
| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
A UK court says prominent Saudi dissident Yahya Assiri can sue Saudi Arabia in London court over claims of targeting him with NSO Group's Pegasus — A prominent Saudi dissident who accuses Saudi Arabia of targeting him with spyware can sue the kingdom in London, his lawyers said on Monday.
More: Middle East Monitor
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Accel: Klarna alumni have founded 62 new startups, more than any $1B+ European fintech startup; Revolut alumni founded 49, and Wise and N26 alumni had 33 each — LONDON — More startups are being spun out of Swedish digital payments firm Klarna than any other financial technology unicorn in Europe …
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