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How Silicon Valley executives' routine drug use 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: Bloomberg, Forbes, and Axios
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Forums: Hacker News and r/shroomstocks
| 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: Forbes, AppleInsider, TechRadar, Daring Fireball, New York Times, Droid Life, Computerworld, XDA Developers, T3, BGR, Patently Apple, Chrome Unboxed, Display Daily, Pocketnow, Tom's Guide, Wccftech, Sammy Fans, The Verge, Engadget, Insider, Appuals.com, PhoneArena, Notebookcheck.net, Gizmodo, Wired, Android Police, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, CNET, Mashable, SlashGear, 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, Android Central, Engadget, Wccftech, XDA Developers, Neowin, iFixit News, PhoneArena, GSMArena.com, and Digital Trends. Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social. Thanks:@nexusben
| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Apple says the UK should amend its Online Safety Bill, which would mandate scanning messages for CSAM, 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: TechCrunch, Open Rights Group, 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, European Digital Rights, MacDailyNews, Supercharged, and Pixel Envy
Mastodon: @konstantin@digitalcourage …. Twitter: @openrightsgroup, @michaelguimarin, and @openrightsgroup
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
FTC v. Microsoft: an internal Microsoft presentation from June 2022 discussed building on Windows 365 “to enable full Windows ... streamed from the cloud” — Microsoft has been increasingly moving Windows to the cloud on the commercial side with Windows 365, but the software giant also wants to do the same for consumers.
More: Windows Central, PCMag, MobileSyrup, PCWorld, Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, MSPoweruser, XDA Developers, Pureinfotech, Thurrott, Guru3D.com, TechRadar, BGR, SlashGear, WinBuzzer, OnMSFT.com, and Beehaw
Twitter: @liliputingnews, @zacbowden, @tomwarren, and @never_released
Forums: r/technology and r/technews
| 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, Cult of Mac, BGR, 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 …
More: Meta, Gizmodo, The Guardian, The Verge, CNET, Fortune, Thurrott, Washington Post, iMore, WinBuzzer, Lifewire, TIME, PhoneArena, Engadget, MSPoweruser, 9to5Mac, WRAL TechWire, International Business Times, Mashable, Techlusive, and Business Post
| Mike Corder / Associated Press: |
French and Dutch police say the 115M+ communications obtained by cracking the encryption of EncroChat phones, announced in 2020, has led to 6,558 arrests so far — 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, HackRead, The Hacker News, and Help Net Security. Forums: Slashdot
| Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg: |
Source: 3AC liquidators are seeking to recover $1.3B from co-founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, taking action against the duo in a British Virgin Islands court — Three Arrows Capital liquidators are seeking to recover $1.3 billion from the co-founders of the failed crypto hedge fund …
More: CoinDesk, Reuters, The Block, Watcher Guru, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Cointelegraph. Twitter: @autismcapital
| 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.
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu claims that its latest LLM, Ernie 3.5, surpasses GPT-3.5-based ChatGPT in general abilities and outperforms GPT-4 in 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.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches the TikTok Creative Challenge, which lets US-based creators with 50K+ followers submit video ads for brands and make money based on performance — TikTok is introducing a new way for creators to earn money on its platform. The company announced on Tuesday that it's launching the … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A 2019 email by Xbox Game Studios' Matt Booty encouraged acquiring games to “spend Sony out of business”; Microsoft says 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
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Tel Aviv-based enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $100M Series B led by Accel, a source says at a $500M valuation; Sequoia and others participated — The Israeli company's data security platform learns an enterprise's unique data and business purpose using large language models …
More: Cyera US, Crunchbase News, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, and SecurityWeek
| 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: The Information, Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Mashable, SlashGear, The Verge, and BGR
| 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: WABetaInfo, WhatsApp Business, Moneycontrol, PYMNTS.com, Tech.co, Android Police, Neowin, Techlusive, Coinspeaker, TechRadar, The Verge, and International Business Times. Twitter: @sarthakgh
| 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: @zacharylipton, @stevelohr, @joshgans, @stevelohr, @chrissyfarr, @morgancheatham, and @antoniogm
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Unity's shares jump 14%+ after it announces its Asset Store will sell third-party “AI solutions” that can generate game dialogue, graphics, and more — - Unity shares rose 12% on Tuesday after the gaming tool maker announced a marketplace for AI software that positions …
More: Business Wire, TechRadar, Digiday, and Associated Press
| 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 …
More: Nvidia Newsroom, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, The Register, The Information, Snowflake, MarTech, VentureBeat, Silicon Valley Business …, Constellation Research, TechCircle, Tech Monitor, ITPro, Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, SiliconANGLE, and MarketWatch. Twitter: @snowflakedb
| 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: PitchBook, TweakTown, The Decoder, and Fast Company
Bluesky: @iamnow.bsky.social. Twitter: @aaronpholmes, @toughsf, @fromvalue, and @amir. Forums: Slashdot
| 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.
More: UT News, CNN, Associated Press, TIME, WRAL TechWire, Silicon Republic, 9to5Mac, PC Gamer, Engadget, Associated Press, SlashGear, Reuters, The Register, DigiTimes, Livemint, The Verge, IGN, and The Information
LinkedIn: Paulo Ferreira. Twitter: @readingkafka, @kamatlabnd, @nytscience, @jp_loksatta, @silananotech, @nytimes, and @quantamagazine
Forums: r/chemistry and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
A look at review-bombing campaigns on Goodreads that can derail a book's publication long before its release, frustrating both new and established authors — The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire.
More: Tech Xplore and Bloomberg
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
A look at Newark Public Schools' test of Khan Academy's Khanmigo, one of the first in the US, and worries the chatbot handles too much of the students' thinking — Newark public schools are cautiously trying out a new automated teaching aid from Khan Academy. The preliminary report card: “could use improvement.”
Twitter: @megankstack and @natashanyt
| Bloomberg: |
Investors keen on the AI buzz are snapping up private shares on EquityZen, Rainmaker, and other marketplaces; Anthropic bidders are willing to pay a 25% premium — The buzz around artificial intelligence has investors snapping up shares of startups on alternative venues … Sponsor Posts
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