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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Sources say Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC that could launch by year's end — We can confirm some, but not all, of what's in store for the codenamed “SteamPal.” — Video game and hardware studio Valve has been secretly building a Switch-like portable PC …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts Microsoft 365 updates, including tools for developers to integrate deeper into Teams, Graph updates, and Outlook message extensions on the web — Microsoft today announced a number of improvements across Microsoft 365, its line of subscription services offered as a part of Microsoft Office.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, LinkedIn, iThinkDifferent, Microsoft 365 Blog, Thurrott, ZDNet, Neowin, MSPoweruser, XDA Developers, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, mobilesyrup.com, Engadget, The Register, and OnMSFT.com. Tweets: @chiefmartec
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft, an investor in OpenAI, says it's now using the GPT-3 model in its low-code Power Apps service to translate natural language text into code — Unlike in other years, this year's Microsoft Build developer conference is not packed with huge surprises — but there's one announcement …
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The AI Blog, TNW, The Verge, ZDNet, The Official Microsoft Blog, EnterpriseAI, TechRepublic, Petri, PCWorld, VentureBeat, Neowin, and Thurrott
Tweets: @msftnews, @yoda, and @msftresearch
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Weeks after announcing plans to shut down Azure Blockchain, Microsoft debuts Azure Confidential Ledger, adding a layer of security and scalability to blockchain — Microsoft is launching a preview of is Azure Confidential Ledger service, its new Blockchain-based secure ledger.
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InfoWorld, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Microsoft Tech Community, Protocol, and Neowin
Tweets: @markrussinovich and @chris_skinner
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Satya Nadella teases a “next generation of Windows” announcement “very soon”; the revamped Windows will likely have big UI changes, a new store, and more — Windows is getting big UI changes, a new store, and more — Microsoft isn't talking about its big Windows plans …
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Windows Central, OSnews, PCWorld, TNW, PCMag, Laptop Mag, Windows Central, HotHardware.com News, Patently Apple, PC Gamer, Engadget, Trusted Reviews, Neowin, TechSpot, and Petri
Tweets: @tomwarren, @chrisbhoffman, and @eposvox
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DC attorney general sues Amazon on antitrust grounds, claiming the company's practices have unfairly raised prices for consumers and suppressed innovation — Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Tuesday he's suing Amazon on antitrust grounds, claiming the company's practices …
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oag.dc.gov, The Verge, TechCrunch, NPR, Vox, Ars Technica, CNN, Wall Street Journal, mobilesyrup.com, Yahoo Finance, BBC, CBS News, Politico, Neowin, DCist, Newser, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, Washington Post, New York Times, Tom's Guide, Wired, Fast Company, Financial Times, Associated Press, Protocol, GeekWire, The Hill, Tech Xplore, Invezz, Axios, Bloomberg, Android Central, Insider, and CNET
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A breakdown of the different arguments pertaining to the App Store and how they were presented and discussed in the Epic vs Apple trial — Arguments in Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc. wrapped up yesterday; Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers noted she had thousands of documents to pore over …
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Fortune, New York Times, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Verge, Pixel Envy, The Information, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Michael Tsai, iPhone in Canada Blog, Protocol, and iMore
Tweets: @timoreilly, @backlon, @ballmatthew, and @stratechery
| Matt Stroud / The Verge: |
Chicago PD constantly surveilled a man after its predictive policing system said he'd be involved in a shooting, but not whether he'd be the shooter or victim — Robert McDaniel's troubles began with a knock on the door. It was a weekday in mid-2013, as he made lunch in the crowded three-bedroom house …
Tweets: @mattstroud, @tupp_ed, @tiffanycli, @starfire2258, @sub8u, @hypervisible, @pebonilla, @carnage4life, @h_liyan, @histoftech, @reckless, and @verge
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google says it's rolling out its Fuchsia OS to first-gen Nest Hubs as an update, replacing Cast OS; the new OS will not change any functionality of the device — Google's long-in-development, from-scratch operating system, Fuchsia, is now running on real Made by Google devices, namely, the first-generation Nest Hub.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Tesla says deliveries of Model 3 and Y vehicles in North America will no longer be equipped with radar for Autopilot and instead rely on a camera-based system — Autopilot will rely on cameras from here on out in the Model 3 and Model Y — Tesla has stopped building forward-facing radar sensors …
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Tesla, TechCrunch, Engadget, Reuters, CNBC, Electrek, KnowTechie, and SlashGear
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Arm unveils Cortex-X2 CPU, which it says offers 30% more performance than current high-end Android phones, and Mali-G710 for Chromebooks and high-end phones — first new chip architecture in a decade, it's ready to show the CPU designs that will take advantage of those improvements. The company has
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Tweets: @neiltwitz, @arm, @aschilling, @aschilling, @anandtech, and @aschilling
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Vimeo stock fell 12.85% on Tuesday, its first day of trading as a public company after spinning off from IAC, closing at $45.39/share, with a ~$7.2B market cap — Shares of video-hosting provider Vimeo fell 12.85% on Tuesday, its first day of trading as a publicly traded company … | Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Survey finds startling disinterest in ethical use of AI among business execs, with only 35% saying their org tries to use AI in a transparent, accountable way — Just 6% of respondents said they ensure AI is used ethically and responsibly by making development teams diverse.| Washington Post: |
In a first, DHS will issue mandatory rules regulating cybersecurity for pipelines, initially to require incident reporting, after Colonial's ransomware attack — Two directives will seek oversight of the industry after a ransomware attack upended gas availability in the southeast U.S. for 11 days.
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Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Channel Futures, Dark Reading, Engadget, Insider, Malwarebytes Labs, CyberScoop, Federal Computer Week, and The Hill
Tweets: @dnvolz, @chadfwolf, @apienergy, @gaspricewizard, @jimlangevin, @reprobinkelly, and @ericgeller
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Contentsquare, which operates a customer experience analytics service, raises $500M Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, bringing its valuation to $2.8B — A year after its $190 million Series D, Contentsquare is back with an even bigger round, closing on $500 million in Series E financing to value the company at $2.8 billion.
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VentureBeat, FinSMEs, Wall Street Journal, and Contentsquare
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
VMware patches a new bug in vCenter Server, a virtualization management product used by an estimated 43K organizations, that could allow remote code execution — Remote code execution flaw in vCenter Server poses “serious” risk to data centers. — Data centers around the world … | David Pan / CoinDesk: |
Inner Mongolia issues a draft plan to crack down on crypto mining after China's February ban that cited environmental concerns and State Council's recent notice — Inner Mongolia drafted a detailed plan to crack down on crypto mining in the region following the ban issued in February and the State Council's notice.| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Big Sur 11.4 fixes a bug that let malware capture screenshots and camera footage using other apps' permissions; researchers found ~400 instances of the malware — It's time to update your Apple Mac again, as malware that secretly takes screenshots has been spotted exploiting a serious weakness in macOS security.
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Tweets: @patrickwardle, @forbes, @patrickwardle, and @datadrivenmd
| Haroon Siddique / The Guardian: |
European court of human rights rules that GCHQ's bulk interception of online communications violated the right to privacy — Judgment follows legal challenge begun in 2013 after Edward Snowden's whistleblowing revelations — GCHQ's methods for bulk interception of online communications violated …
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Reuters. Tweets: @protonmail, @diabolicalidea, @arusbridger, @ggreenwald, @kgosztola, @profwoodward, @martinsfp, @janinegibson, @uk_cage, @snowden, and @daviddavismp
| Mara Hvistendahl / The Intercept: |
A look at Oracle's effort to sell Endeca software to Chinese authorities beginning in 2012, and how Oracle touted its use in Chicago for predictive policing — As he helped plan massive demonstrations in Chicago to protest the 2012 NATO summit, Matt McLoughlin knew he was up against a formidable police force.| Josh Constine / Josh Constine's PressClub: |
Poparazzi, which hit #1 on App Store, is a new photo-sharing app that bans selfies, focuses on sharing photos of friends, and has no follower counts or comments — The future of social is multiplayer — Hyping up your friends is actually a lot more fun than self-glorification.
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Poparazzi, Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, Crunchbase News, iThinkDifferent, TechSpot, KnowTechie, Input, and Protocol
Tweets: @dtrinh, @suzywillow, @scottyoung_, @zebulgar, @rrhoover, @joshconstine, @sophgoldb, @turnernovak, @edzitron, @pelnike, @annimaniac, @katie_roof, @jowyang, @hipcityreg, @saraduit, and @alexia
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Report: Amazon's ad revenue is 2.4x larger than the combined revenue of Snap, Twitter, Roku, and Pinterest, and is growing 1.7x as quickly — - The major growth in Amazon's advertising unit means its revenue contribution is now 2.4 times larger than Snap, Twitter, Roku and Pinterest combined … | Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Messari: transactions on decentralized exchanges totaled $122B in April vs. <$1B a year earlier; Uniswap had volume of $36.6B in April vs. $110B at Coinbase — Decentralized markets such as Uniswap account for a growing share of cryptocurrency trading — Coinbase Global Inc. … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
USB standards body unveils its USB-C 2.1 revision, which supports power up to 240W, up from 100W currently, aimed at devices like 4K displays and gaming laptops — An upgrade to the USB-C standard will accommodate levels of up to 240 watts, an improvement that could let you plug power-hungry devices … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Smart Eye, which develops AI-based eye-tracking monitoring systems for automakers, acquires emotion-detection software startup Affectiva for $73.5M — Smart Eye, the publicly traded Swedish company that supplies driver monitoring systems for a dozen automakers, has acquired emotion-detection …
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