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Sources: China plans to expand its ban on iPhones in sensitive departments to government agencies and state companies, an unprecedented blockade; AAPL drops 3%+ — - Beijing begins by banning the devices from certain bodies — It could deal blow to Apple and amplifies a self-reliance push
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Forums: r/China, r/technology, r/technews, and MacRumors Forums
| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Source: at Gamescom in August, Nintendo demoed the Switch 2 running a souped up version of Breath of the Wild to developers; the device is expected in 2024 — Ahead of widely-expected launch next year. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief — In Cologne last month …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/NintendoSwitch, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, r/gaming, and r/nintendo
| CNBC: |
Riot Blockchain reports earning $31.7M in energy credits from Texas' power grid to curtail its usage in August, dwarfing the ~$8.9M worth of bitcoin mined — - Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms raked in $31.7 million in energy credits from Texas power grid operator ERCOT in August.
More: Riot Platforms, Inc., Gizmodo, The Verge, Blockworks, The Block, Decrypt, TechSpot, CryptoPotato, and CryptoSlate
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google plans to update Chrome to incorporate its Material You design language in the coming weeks, including refreshed icons and new color palettes — Chrome on the desktop is about to get a new look. Google's widely used browser is getting an update based on its Material You design language … | Lane Brown / Vulture: |
How Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer, an important metric in entertainment, became erratic and reductive as some PR firms hack its score by paying obscure “critics” — In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia, a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley.
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| Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: |
The ESA says it will not work with organizer ReedPop on future E3 events and informs the LA Convention Center that 2024's E3 will not be held at the center — E3 2024 may still happen, but not at the Los Angeles Convention Center — News by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B| Dylan Smith / TucsonSentinel.com: |
Molly Holzschlag, aka “mollydotcom”, a longtime advocate for the open web and accessible, inclusive online design standards, died at 60 on September 5 — Pioneer of online design & accessibility — Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed …
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LinkedIn: Michael Spellacy, Pete Gaughan, and Johnathan Williamson
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
An IMF and Financial Stability Board paper warns jurisdictions against blanket bans on crypto, recommending targeted restrictions and sound monetary policy — The global standard-setters also warned stablecoins adopted by multiple jurisdictions “may transmit volatility more abruptly” than other crypto.
More: fsb.org, Reuters, Unchained Crypto, Decrypt, Reuters, Metaverse Post, Cryptonews, Cointelegraph, Finextra, Cryptopolitan, CCN.com, and CryptoSlate. X: @brian_laverdure
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Anthropic launches a $20 per month version of its Claude chatbot in the US and the UK, offering priority during busy times, early access to features, and more — Anthropic, the AI company backed by Google, has launched a paid version of its Claude chatbot in the US and UK.
More: Anthropic, Unite.AI, ZDNet, Decrypt, TechCrunch, and The Decoder
| Alistair Charlton / Forbes: |
BMW drops a controversial subscription that activates heated seats or other hardware already in its cars, limiting subscriptions to software-based functions — BMW has made a U-turn on a controversial subscription service that saw drivers pay a fee to activate the heated seats already fitted to their car.| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Vitalik Buterin co-authors a paper on “Privacy Pools”, a blockchain protocol to verify the legality of user funds without revealing a full transaction history — - Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin co-authored a research paper on a privacy protocol named Privacy Pools.
Source: SSRN. More: DL News, Decrypt, DeviceSecurity.io, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptonews, Metaverse Post, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, and CoinDesk
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft commits to defending customers of its AI Copilots from copyright infringement lawsuits, as long as they've “used the guardrails and content filters” — The software giant also will pay related fines and settlements, so long as customers follow its rules.
More: Microsoft On the Issues, OnMSFT.com, and Thurrott
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Android Security Bulletin for September 2023 patches a privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Android 11-13 that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” — The September 2023 Android security updates tackle 33 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day bug currently targeted in the wild.| Joe Coscarelli / New York Times: |
Ghostwriter, the anonymous creator who used AI to mimic Drake and The Weeknd, has met with record labels, Grammy organizers, and more, and releases a new song — The anonymous artist, who stirred conversation with the A.I. track “Heart on My Sleeve,” has been quietly consulting with executives, while also gunning for a Grammy.
More: VIBE.com, Variety, Futurism, Engadget, Voicebot.ai, and Gizmodo
X: @imghostwrit3r, @raptalksk, @parkermolloy, @popbase, and @joecoscarelli
| Walter Isaacson / TIME: |
An excerpt from the new Elon Musk biography details an argument with Larry Page in 2013 over the dangers of AI, how he founded OpenAI and xAI, and more — At a conference in 2012, Elon Musk met Demis Hassabis, the video-game designer and artificial—intelligence researcher who had co-founded …
More: Insider, Futurism, and Cryptopolitan
| Forbes: |
Imbue, formerly Generally Intelligent, which has 10K Nvidia H100 GPUs to train AI agents, raised a $200M Series B at a $1B valuation led by the Astera Institute — The startup, one of very few woman-led AI unicorns, has a $1 billion valuation and access to 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google makes its relevance and measurement APIs for Privacy Sandbox generally available, meaning the APIs are now available by default in Chrome — Google's Chrome browser is now one important step closer to its goal of phasing out third-party cookies by the end of 2024.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat adds minor safety features, including making it harder for strangers to contact teens and cracking down on accounts marketing inappropriate content — Snapchat today is announcing a series of new safeguards for its app, aimed at better protecting teen users, similar … | Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: |
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt attributes the angst around driverless cars to anti-robot bias: “anything that we do differently than humans is being sensationalized” — Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said in an interview with The Washington Post that the angst around driverless cars in San Francisco is overblown| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube plans to drop individual Studio controls for pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads, starting in November 2023; mid-roll ads won't change — YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators. Beginning in November … | Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Norway's $1.4T oil fund, which owns ~1.5% of the world's listed companies, shares its three AI concerns: board responsibility, transparency, and risk management — Head of sovereign investor warns boards are ‘absolutely not on top’ of the issues surrounding the technology| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser describes the company's evolution from a gaming company to a broader entertainment company, including live events — For decades, Nintendo was synonymous with video games. Now in its second century, the Japanese company wants to be much more.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Certa, which offers a compliance, governance, and risk management service for enterprises, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total raised to “just over” $50M — Certa, a compliance, governance and risk management platform for enterprises, today announced that it raised $35 million …
More: FinSMEs and SiliconANGLE
| Zeke Faux / New York Magazine: |
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up details an April 2022 FTX conference in the Bahamas, where writer Michael Lewis lavished Sam Bankman-Fried with praise — Three years ago, nobody knew who you were. And now you're sitting on the cover of magazines. And you're a gazillionaire.
More: Financial Times and Decrypt
| Wall Street Journal: |
Flexport CEO Dave Clark resigns, after joining from Amazon in September 2022; sources say Clark hired consultants for a potential 2026 run for governor of Texas — The former Amazon senior executive is considering a potential run for governor of Texas, according to people familiar with the matter
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| Bloomberg: |
The founders of shuttered AV startup Argo AI launch Stack AV, an autonomous trucking startup, a Pittsburgh official estimates with $1B+ funding from SoftBank — - SoftBank said to provide more than $1 billion to Stack AV — Founders of defunct Argo AI aim to automate long-haul trucking
More: TechCrunch and The Robot Report
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
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