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June 3, 2023, 10:45 AM
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect at WWDC: an MR headset that a source calls part “status symbol” and part “future of the computer”, a 15" MacBook Air, iOS 17, macOS 14, and more  —  Apple Inc.'s most significant product launch event in nearly a decade kicks off Monday …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
YouTube stops removing content advancing “false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections”  —  In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud …
Washington Post:
ChatGPT and other LLM tools have already replaced some marketing and social media writers as many companies decide cutting costs is worth the drop in quality  —  Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs.  Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: A.J. Brown, Twitter's head of brand safety and ad quality, is leaving the company, the second departure of a top safety executive this week  —  A.J. Brown's departure comes after Ella Irwin, company's head of trust and safety, left Thursday  —  Twitter lost a second senior executive …
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Cybersecurity firms say hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer software to steal data from organizations  —  Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer software, tracked as CVE-2023-34362, to steal data from organizations.
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft plans to drop Cortana support on Windows 10 and Windows 11 in late 2023, touting the company's AI efforts as suitable replacements for the assistant  —  Microsoft will no longer support the Cortana app starting this fall.  —  What you need to know
Erin Woo / The Information:
Sources: Zume, which used robots to automate pizza-making, shuts down and is undergoing liquidation; the startup raised $375M from SoftBank and $445M in total  —  Zume, which raised $375 million from SoftBank to automate pizza-making with robots before switching to developing sustainable packaging, has shut down.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Amazon is in talks with Verizon, T-Mobile, Dish Network, and AT&T for wholesale prices to offer low-cost or free mobile service to US Prime subscribers  —  Amazon.com Inc. has been talking with wireless carriers about offering low-cost or possibly free nationwide mobile phone service …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New Yorker:
A look at India's hacking-for-hire industry, which has a tacit alliance with the government and is unusually brazen, with firms publicly touting their services  —  The country has developed a lucrative specialty: cyberattacks for hire.  —  In the summer of 2020, Jonas Rey …

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From Mediagazer

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

More News

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Nvidia, including how Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky started the company at Denny's and placed early bets on “$0B markets”
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vimeo plans to end support for its TV apps on June 27, 2023, saying video-casting will give customers a “better ongoing experience”

Earlier Picks

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg:
Current and former staff: Meta only gives Quest headsets to employees who signed up to test new features; source: even VR staff don't use the headsets for work
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Elon Musk of insider trading by manipulating Dogecoin, alleging he sold ~$124M in DOGE after changing Twitter's logo
Ginger Adams Otis / Wall Street Journal:
Meta updates its policy to require employees assigned to an office to start coming in three days per week starting on September 5; remote workers are exempt
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Twitter VP of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin says she has resigned from the company; Irwin joined in June 2022 and took over as head of T&S when Yoel Roth resigned
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