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July 28, 2023, 7:55 PM
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Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Apple plans to require developers to submit reasons to use certain APIs in their apps starting this fall, to prevent the misuse of those APIs for fingerprinting  —  The App Store review process is very strict to ensure that apps comply with Apple's guidelines.  And soon, this whole process will get even stricter.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Google launches RT-2 or Robotics Transformer 2, a “vision-language-action” model trained on text and images from the web that can output robotic actions  —  Our sneak peek into Google's new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.
Matthew Orf / Counterpoint Research:
US smartphone shipments fell 24% YoY in Q2 2023, the third consecutive quarter of decline; Samsung shipments fell 37% YoY, and Apple's fell 6%  —  - Shipments declined YoY for the third consecutive quarter amid weak consumer demand.  — Android smartphone shipments declined 38% while Apple shipments fell 6% YoY.
Janko Roettgers / Lowpass:
Meta's metaverse VP Vishal Shah on a reboot of Horizon Worlds, starting with a Super Rumble game, a new mobile app, and a transition from VR only to VR first  —  Who's ready to rumble? … Earlier this week, I was hiding in a tree, dodging bullets, while frantically trying to score some last-second points in a free-for-all brawl.
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Stephanie Hirschmiller / Decrypt:
The British Museum partners with Ethereum-based metaverse game The Sandbox to create NFTs showing the museum's collections and offer “new immersive experiences”  —  The cultural institution plans to establish an interactive space within the Ethereum-based world, as well as offer up NFT collectibles.
Gareth Jenkinson / Cointelegraph:
Crypto.com says it has received approval from the Netherlands' central bank to offer its services in the country, after a comprehensive review  —  The exchange received the green light from De Nederlandsche Bank to offer services in the country. … Join us on social networks
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
NASA plans to launch the free streaming service NASA+ later this year on the web, iOS, Android, and streaming media devices, with ad-free original content  —  The agency is also working on a consolidated web experience.  —  NASA is launching its very own streaming platform called NASA+ sometime this summer.
Reuters:
At an internal town hall, Chris Cox said Meta is looking to add more “retention-driving hooks” for Threads, like showing Instagram users important Threads posts  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) executives are heavily focused on boosting retention on their new Twitter rival Threads …
Colin Wilhelm / The Block:
The SEC's Paul Munter warns that the accounting firms working with crypto companies could be held liable for misleading public statements made by their clients  —  - The SEC's chief accountant issued a warning to accounting firms that work with crypto clients, saying auditors …
Washington Post:
Twitter/X reinstates the account of a right-wing influencer with over 500K followers who posted child sex abuse imagery that drew over 3M views and 8K retweets  —  It's only the latest incident of banned imagery making its way onto the site since Musk bought it  —  CORRECTION

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New York Times:
Court docs detail a smear campaign against actor Blake Lively via media articles and social media posts after she accused director Justin Baldoni of misconduct

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

More News

Munsif Vengattil / Reuters:
AMD plans to invest $400M and create 3,000 new engineering roles in India by 2028 and to build its largest design center in Bengaluru by the end of 2023
Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
AMD announces Ryzen 9 7945HX3D, its first mobile CPU based on 3D V-cache packaging, with 16 Zen 4 CPU cores and a 2.3GHz base frequency, available on August 22
Ryan Mac / New York Times:
To build a super app like those in Asia, Elon Musk will face cultural differences, regulatory scrutiny, and other issues, as Meta, Snap, and Uber did before
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Analyses: hackers infect players of an old Call of Duty game with a worm that spreads in online lobbies; Activision turns off multiplayer for the game on Steam

Earlier Picks

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Wiz researchers say two vulnerabilities in the OverlayFS filesystem module in Ubuntu may allow unprivileged local users to gain elevated privileges
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Intel reports Q2 revenue down 15% YoY to $12.9B, Data Center and AI revenue down 15% YoY to $4B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates; INTC jumps 6%+
New York Times:
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out Android unknown tracker alerts, including manual scan, and pauses a Find My Device update to locate missing items until Apple updates iOS
The Verge:
Sony has sold over 40M PS5s since its launch in November 2020, up from 10M in July 2021, despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Researchers: the guardrails on ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude can be bypassed by adding a long suffix of characters to prompts, generating false and toxic responses
Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal:
The EU opens an antitrust investigation into whether Microsoft abuses its dominant position by bundling Teams with Office, the first investigation in 10+ years
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