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A look at the M4 Macs coming this week; sources say Apple's home smart display will have an iMac G4-like base and a square screen about the size of two iPhones — Also: fresh details on the company's upcoming smart home device. — Apple kicks off a Mac overhaul this week that centers on new M4 chips.
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: Google plans to preview an AI tool codenamed Jarvis, which controls a user's browser to complete tasks like booking a flight, as early as December 2024 — Google is developing artificial intelligence that takes over a person's web browser to complete tasks such as gathering research …
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| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Elon Musk says there's a “chance” that HW3, in millions of Teslas, “does not achieve the safety level that allows for unsupervised FSD” and floats free upgrades — Elon Musk finally admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn't actually know what it will take.
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| Claire Jiao / Bloomberg: |
Indonesia bans iPhone 16 series sales, saying that Apple has not fulfilled its 40% local content requirements and invested ~$95M, below its ~$108M commitment — - Indonesia says Apple hasn't fulfilled investment pledges — Rivals Samsung, Xiaomi have set up local factories to comply
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| Reuters: |
Sources: TSMC halted shipments to Chinese chip designer Sophgo, which Bitmain's Micree Zhan co-founded, after a TSMC chip was found in Huawei's Ascend 910B chip — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (2330.TW) suspended shipments to China-based chip designer Sophgo after a chip …
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X: @pstasiatech, @wublockchain, @wublockchain, @amir, and @yueqi_yang
Forums: r/fucktheccp and r/worldnews
| Financial Times: |
Naspers and Prosus CEO Fabricio Bloisi says he is overhauling corporate culture and pay structures in search of growth beyond Prosus' stake in Tencent — Fabricio Bloisi will overhaul corporate culture and pay structures in search of growth beyond its stake in the Chinese internet giant| Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on Agility's humanoid robot Digit, which was demoed onstage sorting laundry, automation's impact on jobs, and more — Peggy Johnson of Agility Robotics gives a demo of the company's Digit—a robot that can, among other things, sort laundry| Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong outlines an AI policy for finance and proposes an extension of a tax break on owning digital assets, as it seeks to become Asia's go-to financial hub — - Tax break law to be tabled by year-end: treasury secretary Hui — City was denied access by major AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini
More: HKEX and crypto.news
| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
Banks and regulators warn of a rise in QR code phishing scams, which experts say are commonly deployed in emails to get through corporate cyber security filters — HSBC, Santander and the US Federal Trade Commission concerned over email attacks that bypass cyber-defences
More: PYMNTS.com
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based Filigran, which develops open-source threat intelligence platform OpenCTI used by the EU, the FBI, and more, raised a $35M Series B led by Insight — Paris-based startup Filigran is fast becoming the next cybersecurity rocketship to track: The company just raised a $35 million Series B round …
More: FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, Sifted, and Help Net Security
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Online influencers are earning thousands for a single post on behalf of groups backing Harris or Trump, with scant regulatory oversight or public transparency — On TikTok, Instagram and X, freelance creators profit from the murky practice of persuading their large followings to back Trump or Harris.
X: @cat_zakrzewski and @seanjcooksey
| Alex Wolf / Bloomberg Law: |
FTX agrees to drop its litigation against Bybit in a deal worth about $228M that will allow FTX to withdraw assets from Bybit's cryptocurrency exchange — Search by Law Firm Search by Topic — FTX Trading Ltd. agreed to drop sprawling litigation against Bybit Fintech Ltd. and related entities …
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