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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard agree to extend their merger agreement to October 18, pending the outcome of negotiations with UK regulators — Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have agreed to extend their merger agreement pending the outcome of negotiations with UK regulators.
More: Financial Times, Activision Blizzard, GamesIndustry.biz, Forbes, GeekWire, Thurrott, Polygon, CNN, Axios, The Hill, AppleInsider, Engadget, Bloomberg, Reuters, Barron's Online, MobileSyrup, IGN, Dot Esports, Neowin, Gameranx, GamingBolt, Variety, Gamereactor UK, CNBC, Push Square, Pure Xbox, and OnMSFT.com
Twitter: @XboxP3, @BradSmi, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @leah_nylen, @GeorgeOsborn, and @fxshaw. Forums: r/pcgaming
| Or Goren / Cord Busters: |
Netflix removes its $10 Basic tier, its most affordable ad-free tier, in the US and UK for new and rejoining members — This post may contain affiliate links* — Breaking: In a major shakeup of its pricing model, Netflix, the global streaming giant, has abandoned its low-cost ‘Basic’ tier …
More: 9to5Mac, PCMag, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, AppleInsider, Thurrott, Insider, IGN, Gizmodo, Android Authority, TechHive, TechRadar, The Mirror, Tech Advisor, Deadline, PhoneArena, Variety, Mashable, Phandroid, GameSpot, The Streamable, TalkAndroid.com, MacDailyNews, Android Headlines, SlashGear, Neowin, BGR, Digital Trends, The Hollywood Reporter, and Cord Cutters News. Twitter: @alexweprin
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Microsoft, OpenAI, Cohere, and others are testing the use of “synthetic data”, as they find generic data from the web is no longer good enough for training LLMs — Microsoft, OpenAI and Cohere experiment with “synthetic data,” as they reach the limits of information created by humans| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Microsoft's stock closed up 4% at $359.49 on July 18, an all-time high, after announcing pricing for Microsoft 365 Copilot service; MSFT is up ~50% in 2023 — - Microsoft shares rallied to an all-time high after the company announced pricing for its new Microsoft 365 artificial intelligence subscription service.
More: The Verge, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, BigTechWire, NBC 7 San Diego, Business Today, Neowin, Reuters, GeekWire, and Petri IT Knowledgebase. LinkedIn: Olga Martí
| Will Shanklin / Engadget: |
More: The Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft 365 Blog, Thurrott, Bing Blogs, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog, iPhone in Canada Blog, WinBuzzer, TechCircle, ComputerWeekly.com, TechRadar, BetaNews, Techlusive, Coinspeaker, gHacks Technology News, Seattle Business Journal, MSPoweruser, The Verge, Search Engine Journal, Notebookcheck.net, International Business Times, Bloomberg, TechRepublic, The Decoder, ExtremeTech, AppleInsider, CIO Dive, Windows Report, 9to5Mac, Windows Central, Constellation Research, BigTechWire, Computerworld, Neowin, Directions on Microsoft, and TechCrunch
Twitter: @jaminball, @marypcbuk, @satyanadella, @stevesi, @markhachman, @techau, and @yusuf_i_mehdi. Threads: @stevesi
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sources: Google is internally piloting an opt-in program where some employees will be restricted to internet-free PCs to reduce the risk of cyberattacks — - Google is enlisting employees for a pilot program to work without internet access. — The search giant, which is undergoing …
More: PCMag, Tech.co, Digital Trends, Neowin, Insider, and TechRadar
Twitter: @wexler, @rustybrick, and @loh
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, and r/technology
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Rapid7: threat actors have exploited zero-day RCE flaws in Adobe ColdFusion and Citrix NetScaler; Citrix patched its flaw but Adobe issued an incomplete fix — The exploited code-execution flaws are the kind coveted by ransomware and nation-state hackers. — Organizations big and small …
More: Citrix.com, Rapid7, Rapid7, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, ITPro, iTnews, Infosecurity, Qualys ThreatPROTECT, and SC Media
Twitter: @pdiscoveryio, @rapid7, @raj_samani, @keithdsouza, @securityweek, and @stephenfewer. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Framework Laptop 16, a modular gaming laptop that lets you replace and upgrade the whole GPU, for pre-order starting at $1,399 for the DIY edition — Four layers of modular components — including a swappable discrete GPU — right at your fingertips.
More: Framework Blog, PCMag, Tom's Guide, Notebookcheck.net, BetaNews, Wccftech, TechPowerUp, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, AndroidGuys, Tom's Hardware, Engadget, and Liliputing
Mastodon: @joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org, @nileane@nileane.fr, and @frameworkcomputer …
Twitter: @tomwarren and @deantak
Forums: r/gadgets, r/hardware, r/LinusTechTips, and r/Amd
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: former FTX COO Zhe “Constance” Wang has joined crypto VC firm Sino Global Capital; Wang has not been accused of wrongdoing in FTX or Alameda's collapse — - Wang worked at Credit Suisse and Huobi before joining FTX — Wang held COO position at FTX up until the exchange collapsed
More: Ethereum World News, DL News, CoinDesk, Cryptopolitan, The Block, and Tech in Asia
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Over 8,500 authors sign an Authors Guild letter asking AI leaders to get consent and fairly compensate writers when using copyrighted material for generative AI — If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair job at it …
More: The Authors Guild, NPR, Wall Street Journal, TechSpot, Techlusive, Insider, Silicon Republic, Business Today, SiliconANGLE, NPR, Clayton County Register, CP24, and The Register
Twitter: @johnlegere, @authorsguild, @sashastiles, @pfau, @dramatistsguild, @sylday, @liznealon, and @sallywgrotta
| Axios: |
Sources: Vox Media plans to stop using Chorus, its CMS that the company licensed to external publishers from 2018 to 2022, and move its websites to WordPress — Vox Media, the parent company to websites such as New York Magazine, Eater and SB Nation, will no longer use Chorus …
More: Business Wire, AdExchanger, and Pixel Envy
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Twitter: @film_girl, @jeffjarvis, and @rafat
| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
A look at “non-playable character” TikTok creators, like Pinkydoll, who livestream themselves doing robotic and repetitive actions for digital tips — On TikTok, a woman named Pinkydoll with a thousand-yard stare faces you, undulating just enough to let you know she's alive.
More: The Guardian, New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Mashable
Twitter: @hassankhan, @hassankhan, @genepark, @broderick, @jayjay_frfr, @jason, and @sinfuldon_
| Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft will make 31 security logs available for free to its lower-cost cloud service licensees from September, after criticism about China hack disclosures — Company says it will make security logs available to customers with lower-cost cloud services — Microsoft said it plans …
More: SC Media and Microsoft Security Blog
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Review of $350 Beats Studio Pro headphones: nice transparency mode, lossless USB-C audio, native iOS and Android support, but subpar build quality for the price — They look like a lazy refresh from the outside, but the noise-canceling Studio Pros include a ton of new features like transparency mode and lossless USB-C audio.
More: MacRumors, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Engadget, TechCrunch, iMore, Tom's Guide, BGR, Pocketnow, TechPowerUp, BGR, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, and Digital Trends. Twitter: @ChanceHMiller
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Samsung says it has completed the development of its first generation GDDR7 DRAM, slated for 2024, with a 32Gbps data transfer rate, up ~33% from GDDR6's 24Gbps — Samsung has announced this evening that they have completed development on their first generation of GDDR7 memory.
More: Tom's Hardware, The Verge, HotHardware, VideoCardz.com, ExtremeTech, PC Gamer, GSMArena.com, Guru3D.com, SamNews 24, Neowin, TechPowerUp, Sammy Fans, SamMobile, Wccftech, and Notebookcheck.net. Forums: r/intel
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Due to safety concerns like facial recognition abuse, OpenAI hasn't widely shipped GPT-4's “multimodal” capability that can respond to images and text prompts — An advanced version of ChatGPT can analyze images and is already helping the blind.
More: Ars Technica, Tech.co, The Decoder, and KnowTechie
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Twitter: @glenngabe, @kashhill, @marietjeschaake, @katecrawford, @random_walker, @random_walker, @random_walker, @garymarcus, @tomwarren, and @kashhill
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Unity launches PolySpatial, announced in conjunction with Vision Pro at WWDC to help developers port and create a 3D experience for Apple's visionOS, in beta — Unity this morning announced that it has opened the beta version of its development platform for visionOS.
More: MacRumors, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, UploadVR, Game Developer, Unity Technologies, Six Colors, and MakeUseOf
| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Nasdaq says it's halting the launch of its digital-asset custodian business in the US and a license related to it, citing a shifting regulatory environment — The exchange operator is also halting its efforts to pursue a license related to the business but will continue to build out its technological capability to handle crypto.
More: CoinDesk, The Block, CNBC, Cointelegraph, CryptoGlobe, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinJournal, and Financial Times
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Germany-based Neura Robotics, which builds collaborative robots with cognitive capabilities that can work with humans in complex environments, raised $55M — Neura Robotics, a German startup that since 2019 has been building cognitive robots — machines that possess memory …
More: FinSMEs, Tech.eu, Silicon Canals, and NEURA Robotics
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
p0x labs, which develops Manta Network, a privacy-preserving protocol running on the Polkadot blockchain, raised a $25M Series A at a $500M valuation — Even amid the crypto winter, some web3 companies are racking up hefty valuations. P0x Labs, the team behind Manta Network …
More: The Block, Decrypt, and Cointelegraph
| Matthew Humphries / PCMag: |
Intel grants Asus a non-exclusive license to its NUC designs; Asus will make and sell 10th to 13th gen NUC systems and can develop new system designs — The agreement covers existing NUCs and allows Asus to design new models. … , Asus is granted a non-exclusive license to Intel's NUC designs … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Telegram raised $210M through bond sales, more than two years after raising $1B+ in debt financing; CEO Pavel Durov “personally bought” ~25% of new bonds — Telegram has raised $210 million through bond sales this week from a number of investors, including its founder …
More: Du Rove's Channel on Telegram, CoinDesk, Cryptopolitan, CryptoPotato, ReadWrite, and Tech in Asia. Forums: Hacker News
| Jon Gertner / New York Times: |
A look at the Wikipedia community's debates about AI, including AI's threats and potential benefits, knowledge creation, truthfulness, and legal concerns — Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?
More: Digital Scholarship. Mastodon: @danyork@mastodon.social. Twitter: @landemore, @rao2z, @billwasik, and @jongertner
| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
RISC Zero, which is developing the Bonsai computing platform to let developers build zero-proof software, raised a $40M Series A led by Blockchain Capital — The startup creates developer tooling that helps build zero-proof software for improved security and computational power.
More: Metaverse Post, Decrypt, The Block, and Fortune
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
The FTC and the DOJ release draft changes to US merger review guidelines, introducing potentially comprehensive changes for the first time in more than a decade — The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday released a set of long-anticipated draft updates …
More: Deadline, Federal Trade Commission, HuffPost, US Department of Justice, NPR, CNBC, Axios, and Reuters
Twitter: @econliberties, @econliberties, @bedoyaftc, and @ftc
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