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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
A Pixel Fold reviewer says the device's flexible OLED screen died after four days of light use, starting at the bottom and moving upwards, likely due to debris — The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen. — A flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
More: AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, Chrome Unboxed, T3, Tom's Guide, Computerworld, XDA Developers, Wccftech, BGR, Patently Apple, Display Daily, Pocketnow, Sammy Fans, The Verge, Engadget, New York Times, Insider, Appuals.com, PhoneArena, Notebookcheck.net, Android Police, CNET, Mashable, SlashGear, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, Wired, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, and The Verge
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Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/hardware, r/PixelFold, r/GalaxyFold, and Ars OpenForum
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to offer DIY repairs for the Pixel Fold via its iFixit partnership, including the battery and inner, folding display — One of the biggest downsides of foldable smartphones right now is durability and, more so, repairability. Google is breaking new ground with the Pixel Fold …
More: Android Authority, Engadget, XDA Developers, iFixit News, Neowin, and PhoneArena. Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social. Thanks:@nexusben
| Wall Street Journal: |
How routine drug use by Silicon Valley executives moved from an after-hours activity squarely into corporate culture, causing issues for boards and tech leaders — Entrepreneurs including Elon Musk and Sergey Brin are part of a drug movement that proponents hope will expand minds, enhance lives and produce business breakthroughs
More: Axios. Twitter: @timaeppel, @modestproposal1, @mroliverbarnes, @tatichin, @nycsouthpaw, @bendreyfuss, @sspencer_smb, @karaswisher, @mattyglesias, and @davecbenoit. Forums: r/shroomstocks
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
AI is killing the web with spam sites, mass article producing “AI editors”, AI-generated junk on Etsy, Reddit, and Wikipedia that exhausts moderators, and more — In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links.
More: MIT Technology Review, The Overspill, and Beyond Search
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
A survey of 20+ professionals finds all but one do not plan to buy the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, citing Apple's cheaper and similarly powerful laptops and desktops — Apple's latest Mac Pro targets professionals with highly demanding computing workloads. But we talked to those professionals …
More: 9to5Mac, MacStories, MakeUseOf, and Forbes
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches new parental controls and other safety features for Messenger and Instagram in the US, the UK, and Canada, including letting parents view contacts — Meta announced new parental control tools across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger today. This includes a new parental supervision hub … | Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Apple says the UK's Online Safety Bill, which would mandate scanning messages for CSAM, should be amended to protect encryption, joining WhatsApp and Signal — Apple has criticised powers in the Online Safety Bill that could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage …
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, Open Rights Group, European Digital Rights, and Supercharged
Mastodon: @konstantin@digitalcourage …. Twitter: @michaelguimarin, @openrightsgroup, and @openrightsgroup. Forums: r/apple
| Mike Corder / Associated Press: |
French and Dutch police say the ~115M communications obtained by cracking the encryption of EncroChat phones, announced in 2020, has so far led to 6,558 arrests — Investigations triggered by the cracking of encrypted phones three years ago have so far led to more than 6,500 arrests worldwide …
More: BleepingComputer, Europol, Reuters, The Hacker News, and Help Net Security
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A 2019 email by Xbox Game Studios' Matt Booty encouraged buying content to “spend Sony out of business”; Microsoft argues the company didn't pursue the strategy — Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios chief, Matt Booty, was encouraging Xbox CFO Tim Stuart to spend big money …
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Forums: r/xboxone, r/Games, r/XboxSeriesX, and Slashdot
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu claims Ernie 3.5, the latest version of its LLM, has surpassed ChatGPT in general abilities and outperformed GPT-4 on many Chinese-language capabilities — Baidu Inc.'s ChatGPT-style service has outperformed OpenAI's seminal product on several measures, China's search leader said on Tuesday.
More: Baidu Research, Dexerto, South China Morning Post, Reuters, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, BigTechWire, Coinspeaker, PCMag, CNBC, Tech in Asia, and TechNode
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Some doctors say that their current best use for generative AI is to ease the heavy burden of documentation, which takes hours a day and contributes to burnout — The best use for generative A.I. in health care, doctors say, is to ease the heavy burden of documentation that takes them hours a day and contributes to burnout.
Twitter: @joshgans, @antoniogm, @zacharylipton, @stevelohr, @stevelohr, @chrissyfarr, and @morgancheatham
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Prosus, a top Byju's shareholder, cuts the value of its stake, implying a $5.1B valuation, far below the Bengaluru-based edtech giant's $22B valuation in 2022 — Prosus, the largest non-founder shareholder in Byju's, has drastically slashed the worth of its stake in the edtech giant … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta says WhatsApp Business crossed 200M MAUs, up from 50M in 2020, adds a tool to let users create “click-to-WhatsApp” ads without a Facebook account, and more — Meta announced today that WhatsApp Business, its app designed specifically for small businesses …
More: PYMNTS.com, WABetaInfo, Android Police, Moneycontrol, WhatsApp Business, Coinspeaker, TechRadar, Neowin, Techlusive, The Verge, and International Business Times. Twitter: @sarthakgh
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
TikTok plans to shut down TikTok Now, its BeReal clone unveiled in September 2022, without giving a reason; user estimates suggest that BeReal has faded in 2023 — TikTok is killing off its BeReal clone TikTok Now, according to notifications being sent to users.
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, SlashGear, BGR, and The Verge
| Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg: |
Source: 3AC liquidators seek to recover $1.3B from co-founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, taking action against the failed hedge fund in the British Virgin Islands — Three Arrows Capital liquidators are seeking to recover $1.3 billion from the co-founders of the failed crypto hedge fund …
More: CoinDesk, The Block, and Cointelegraph
| Robert D. McFadden / New York Times: |
John B. Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in developing the lithium-ion battery used in mobile devices and EVs, dies at 100 — An unassuming professor who remained active into his 90s, he is credited with the breakthrough that gave rise to the batteries powering today's electronic devices.
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Forums: r/chemistry and Slashdot
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Decentralized social media app Damus says Apple rejected an app update and told the company to remove its tipping feature or use Apple's in-app purchase system — Damus, a decentralized social networking app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, will be removed from the App Store due to Apple's strict payment rules.
More: AppleInsider, CryptoGlobe, Watcher Guru, Developer Tech News, International Business Times, Decrypt, and mjtsai.com
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @damusapp, @jack, @billfour, @jack, @timsweeneyepic, @jack, @_pretyflaco, @kryptosebek, @nickgillespie, @real_n3o, @tyonclubhouse, @stats_feed, @damusapp, @c7five, @nima_owji, @mecee, @theguyswann, @walkeramerica, @britishhodl, @lylepratt, @patrickmoorhead, @virushuo, and @brockm. Forums: r/apple
| Jane Lee / Reuters: |
Snowflake partners with Nvidia to let customers build generative AI models using their own data; Nvidia plans to embed NeMo Framework into Snowflake Data Cloud — Snowflake (SNOW.N) a cloud data analytics company, is partnering with computing company Nvidia (NVDA.O) to allow customers ranging … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Thomson Reuters plans to acquire YC-backed Casetext, which builds AI/ML-powered workflows and tools for lawyers, for $650M in cash, expected to close in H2 2023 — Thomson Reuters has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext, a Y Combinator-backed legal tech startup.
More: Reuters, Metaverse Post, Fortune, Thomson Reuters, PYMNTS.com, and Y Combinator
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israeli autonomous cloud security startup Cyera raised a $100M Series B led by Accel with Sequoia and others participating, a source says at a $500M valuation — The Israeli company's data security platform learns an enterprise's unique data and business purpose using large language models …
More: TechCrunch, FinSMEs, Globes Online, and Cyera US
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Vision Pro documentation: the device has a “system boundary”, defined as a 1.5-meter radius from the headset, when in a “fully immersive VR experience” — Apple has limited a Vision Pro safe area to 10 feet by 10 feet, when using fully immersive VR experiences.
More: Apple, TweakTown, Techlusive, Tom's Guide, Lifewire, and T3
Twitter: @neilcybart, @adriaaaaaaaaanz, @vrmaninjapan, @benlovejoy, @vrmaninjapan, @neilcybart, @vrmaninjapan, and @eighttwo_three. Forums: r/apple
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: Sam Altman told developers in May that OpenAI plans to turn ChatGPT into a “supersmart personal assistant for work”, setting up a Microsoft rivalry — In the span of half a year, ChatGPT has become one of the world's best-known internet brands.
More: TweakTown, The Decoder, and Fast Company
| Will Knight / Wired: |
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