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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia unveils the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination GPU and CPU relying on high-bandwidth memory 3, or HBM3e, expected to enter production in Q2 2024 — - Company is upgrading lineup that fueled $1 trillion valuation — New chip could make it harder for rivals like AMD to catch up
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Decrypt, Tom's Hardware, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, VentureBeat, AnandTech, HotHardware, Supervised, The Verge, Neowin, CNBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, Reuters, TechEBlog, Appuals.com, Guru3D.com, and Wccftech
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia announces AI Workbench, which lets users create, test, and customize LLMs from Hugging Face and others on local workstations before using cloud resources — Timed to coincide with SIGGRAPH, the annual AI academic conference, Nvidia this morning announced a new platform designed to let users create …
More: The Decoder, TechCrunch, Nvidia Newsroom, eWeek, VentureBeat, Constellation Research, TechPowerUp, CIO.com, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, insideHPC, Digital Trends, TechRepublic, and WinBuzzer
X: @drjimfan and @_philschmid
| The Guardian: |
The UK Electoral Commission reports a hack by “hostile actors” starting in August 2021 and discovered in October 2022; the full scope isn't “conclusively” known — Names and addresses of 40 million registered voters were accessible as far back as 2021 after cyber-attack
More: UK Electoral Commission, BBC, TechCrunch, NBC News, The Verge, ITPro, InfoRiskToday.com, OSnews, PCMag, Security Affairs, Infosecurity, Engadget, Silicon Republic, CSO, HackRead, ComputerWeekly.com, PublicTechnology, Financial Times, Tech Monitor, The Register, Politico, Metro.co.uk, Bloomberg, CyberScoop, Reuters, and City A.M.
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open-source code editor, died on August 3 at 62 — The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62. — Computing as we know it today was built in no small part by individuals …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Intel fixes a flaw found by a Google researcher, affecting Skylake, Tiger Lake, and Ice Lake chips, that could let attackers steal passwords and other secrets — The vulnerability could allow attackers to take advantage of an information leak to steal sensitive details like private messages, passwords, and encryption keys.
More: Downfall Attacks, Intel, Phoronix, Tom's Hardware, Daniel Moghimi, Wccftech, ServeTheHome, and CyberScoop
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
The SEC fines 11 Wall Street firms $289M total for poor recordkeeping by using apps including Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage; CFTC fines four banks $260M total — - U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a combined $549 million in penalties against Wall Street firms that failed to maintain electronic records of employee communications.
More: US Securities …, CFTC, The Verge, AppleInsider, Finextra, Ars Technica, The Irish Times, Insider, UPI, Reuters, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, New York Times, Financial Times, and The Hill
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Given the countless times Elon Musk has walked back announcements, the business media must rethink its coverage of X, Musk, and the fight with Mark Zuckerberg — After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix launches a game controller app on the App Store to let users play Netflix games on their TV; the app description says the feature is “coming soon” — After last fall signaling its intentions to expand into cloud gaming, Netflix today launched a new app that will soon allow subscribers to play games on their TV.
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| Bloomberg: |
TSMC plans to build a €10B plant in Germany's Dresden, owning 70% of the fab while Infineon, NXP, and Bosch each hold 10% stakes, set to open by the end of 2027 — - Taiwanese giant will own 70% of fab in eastern city of Dresden — Facility to supply auto, industrial sectors starting in 2027
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Forums: Hacker News, r/worldnews, and Slashdot
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Federal Reserve launches a program for overseeing banks' crypto activity and clarifies its pre-approval process for engaging with stablecoins — Fresh crypto guidance from the U.S. central bank doesn't represent a departure from previous policy, but it provides more details on what the Fed expects from banks.| Nivesh Rustgi / Decrypt: |
El Salvador grants Binance licenses to offer custodial services, process crypto payments, provide digital wallets, and operate a digital asset exchange — Today, El Salvador's central bank and crypto regulator granted Binance a Bitcoin Services Provider License (BSP) and Digital Assets Services Provider license (DASP)| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based dev environment using the open-source Visual Studio Code and that integrates Google's PaLM 2-based Codey — Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment …
More: Google for Developers Blog, Thurrott, Neowin, 9to5Google, and WinBuzzer
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Messages with group end-to-end encryption and turns RCS on by default for new and existing users, but some have to agree to their carrier's ToS — After testing group end-to-end encryption for the past few months, Google Messages has now fully rolled it out and is enabling RCS by default too.
More: CNET, ZDNet, Android Authority, Engadget, The Verge, Android Central, TechCrunch, Phone Scoop, MobileSyrup, and Android Police. Forums: r/Android
| Nikkei Asia: |
Source: Apple, Samsung, Nvidia, and Intel plan to invest in Arm as soon as its Nasdaq IPO in September 2023; SoftBank owns 75% of Arm and Vision Fund owns 25% — SoftBank chip design unit to debut on Nasdaq, market cap seen topping $60bn — SoftBank Group plans to list shares in its chip deign unit …
More: Reuters, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, MacRumors, Apple Must, SoftBank - Investor Relations, Financial Times, MacDailyNews, BigTechWire, WinBuzzer, Neowin, Reuters, Wccftech, and AppleInsider. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Jane Friedman: |
An author finds “garbage books”, most likely AI-generated, uploaded to Amazon under her name and added to Goodreads; both services have since removed the titles — Update (afternoon of Aug. 7): Hours after this post was published, my official Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.
More: Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Cryptopolitan, and TechCrunch
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X: @janefriedman, @nina_metz, @greglinden, @lexlanham, @lisadubbels, @authorsguild, @charlotteashley, and @otisframpton
LinkedIn: Ann Douglas and Jane Friedman
Forums: Hacker News and r/books
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Grimes on her “c” persona, letting people use her voice in their music, AI, social media, Elon Musk, NFTs, a stronger sense of ethics in tech, and more — Claire Boucher is open sourcing her musical persona to let people create their own version of Grimes with AI.
More: Entertainment Tonight, Decrypt, Us Weekly, New York Post, Insider, and ET Canada
Mastodon: @mimsical@mastodon.social. X: @eringriffith, @wired, @wired, @stevenlevy, @wired, and @wired. LinkedIn: Steven Levy. Forums: r/Grimes
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Verizon will shut down BlueJeans, a business-focused video conferencing app it acquired in 2020, on August 31, 2023, due to “the changing market landscape” — Did you know Verizon acquired a video conferencing app back in 2020? It's fine if you haven't because Verizon has announced that its …
More: The Verge and TechCrunch
Mastodon: @paninid@mastodon.world. Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com. X: @mattrosoff, @cliffpavlovic, @selviano, and @joshuaogundu
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Lyft CEO says Lyft is trying to get rid of surge pricing because “riders hate it” and rides affected by surge pricing dropped 35% QoQ due to more driver supply — Lyft has been cutting fares in order to secure more riders, and it's working. Bu that success has come with a (literal) cost.| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
More: The Information, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, and Bloomberg. X: @thetranscript_
| Wall Street Journal: |
EchoStar co-founder Charlie Ergen strikes a deal to merge Dish and EchoStar, a move aimed at getting the funds for a wireless network to rival AT&T and Verizon — Deal aims to give Dish the financial flexibility it needs to compete in the next generation of wireless| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands its AI-powered DJ beta, available in the app's Music feed, to ~50 markets, six months after debuting the English-only feature in North America — Spotify is expanding its AI-powered “DJ” to dozens of markets globally, six months after debuting the feature in North America.
More: Spotify, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, MSPoweruser, 9to5Mac, BGR, Engadget, AppleInsider, and Bloomberg
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube will stop showing users recommended videos in some places, including the homepage, when watch history is turned off entirely — Recommended videos keep users engaged on YouTube, but starting today, YouTube will stop showing recommended videos in some places, such as the homepage, if your watch history is turned off entirely.
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, and Neowin
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google and UMG are in talks to license artists' melodies and voices for AI-made songs; goals include making a tool for fans and paying copyright owners — New technology that can mimic artists' voices has been seen as growing threat — Google and Universal Music are in talks … Sponsor Posts
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