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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the 14.4" Surface Laptop Studio 2, offering Intel's 13th Gen i7 H chips, Nvidia's RTX 4050 or RTX 4060, and up to 2TB of storage, for $1,999+ — Microsoft just showed off its new high-end convertible laptop, the Surface Laptop Studio 2, at its launch event in New York City.
More: Microsoft Surface on YouTube, Microsoft Devices Blog, Engadget, Microsoft Store, Ars Technica, ExtremeTech, XDA Developers, Notebookcheck, PCMag, TechEBlog, The Verge, TechSpot, PetaPixel, Tom's Guide, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, The Messenger, Android Headlines, MSPoweruser, Neowin, MobileSyrup, Digital Trends, Liliputing, Windows Central, TechRadar, SlashGear, Mashable, Thurrott, and PCWorld
Threads: @tomwarrenuk. X: @pauliharman, @zacbowden, @zacbowden, @patrickmoorhead, @patrickmoorhead, @bobodtech, @surface, @shanselman, @tomwarren, @daniel_rubino, @ijustine, @parkerortolani, @greengart, @ijustine, and @markhachman
Forums: r/gadgets, r/hardware, r/Surface, and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Surface Hub 3, offering 50" or 85" 4K PixelSense displays with anti-glare, smart rotation, and portrait mode, available later in 2023 — Microsoft has revealed the Surface Hub 3, the latest version of the company's all-in-one collaborative touchscreen device.
More: Microsoft Tech Community, ZDNet, MobileSyrup, and MSPoweruser
X: @cullend, @dndsm, and @maryjofoley
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
More: Microsoft Surface on YouTube, The Verge, Engadget, SlashGear, TechSpot, OnMSFT.com, Engadget, Tom's Guide, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Neowin, Digital Trends, and MSPoweruser
X: @patrickmoorhead and @surface
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
More: PCMag, Ars Technica, Windows Central, Liliputing, Tabletmonkeys, Android Authority, PCWorld, Laptop Mag, and Neowin
| Nathan Edwards / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a unified Copilot built into Windows 11, launching on September 26 across all its apps and services, including Microsoft 365, Edge, and Bing — Microsoft today announced a new, unified Copilot experience launching on September 26th. The new “AI companion,” …
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LinkedIn: Kevin Peesker and Satya Nadella
Forums: r/technology, r/Windows11, and Beehaw
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to release its next Windows 11 update, 22H2, on September 26, with an AI-powered Copilot and Paint, a redesigned File Explorer, and more — Microsoft will release its next big Windows 11 update on September 26th. The update will include the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature …
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Threads: @tomwarrenuk. X: @windows, @windows, @davidspringate, @maryjofoley, @patrickmoorhead, and @reedalbergotti. Forums: Slashdot
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
| Bloomberg: |
Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity company Splunk in cash for $157 per share, a 31% premium on Splunk's September 20 closing price, in a deal valued at ~$28B — - Acquisition is largest deal ever for networking stalwart — Cisco is trying to lessen dependence on one-time sales
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils YouTube Studio AI features coming in 2024 and lets select creators test Aloud, a dubbing tool that creates AI-generated dubs in other languages — YouTube is expanding its Creator Music Studio, announced last year, with new AI features in addition to the launch of an AI-dubbing tool.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon releases Mastodon 4.2, which makes it easier for users to get started, use its network even when logged out, more easily search for content, and more — As changes at Elon Musk's X continue to push former Twitter users to seek alternatives, the open-sourced, decentralized social network Mastodon …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta now lets Facebook users create up to four extra profiles and switch between them without logging out and back in; the profiles don't support all features — Basically, Meta is embracing finstas but for Facebook. — “Whether you're new to Facebook or a longtime user …
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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Snap says Snapchat+ now has 5M+ subscribers, up from 3M in April 2023; the $3.99 per month tier launched in June 2022, after an industry slowdown in ad revenue — Snap Inc. has gained more than 5 million subscribers for its paid service, an offering that gives users early access to new features … | Ashley Stewart / Insider: |
Sources: Panos Panay's abrupt departure came after Microsoft made budget and staff cuts, canceled products in his division, and discussed reorganizing the unit — - Microsoft this week announced Chief Product Officer Panos Panay left after nearly 20 years.
More: Windows Central, Laptop Mag, OnMSFT.com, Mashable, Thurrott, Neowin, Tom's Hardware, and XDA Developers
Mastodon: @counternotions@mastodon …, @redwireless@mstdn.plus, and @carnage4life@mas.to
| Ella Creamer / The Guardian: |
Amazon limits authors to self-publishing three books per day on its website, after an influx of suspected AI-generated material listed for sale in recent months — The company announced the new limitations after an influx of suspected AI-generated material was listed for sale but said that ‘very few’ publishers will be affected
More: Ars Technica. Mastodon: @DarkSideGeek@techhub.social. Bluesky: @epro.social. X: @quinnypig. LinkedIn: Harm Ellens
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
South Korea-based game publisher Krafton says Striking Distance Studios' CEO Glen Schofield, COO, and CFO are leaving, months after its new horror game flopped — Video-game developer Striking Distance Studios, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Krafton Inc., is appointing new management several months …
More: Game Developer, TrueAchievements, Destructoid, Metro, KitGuru, and Engadget
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Forums: r/Games, r/TheCallistoProtocol, r/kindafunny, r/XboxSeriesX, r/PS5, and r/pcgaming
| Wired: |
Docs: up to a dozen of Neuralink's primate subjects had to be euthanized after suffering complications; Elon Musk said no primates died because of the implants — Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink's implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics …
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X: @elonmusk, @wired, @wired, @marynmck, @bcmerchant, @laurengoode, @sparrowmedia, @wired, @wired, @bcmerchant, @wired, @gadyepstein, @wired, @wired, and @wired. LinkedIn: Kip Ludwig
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/technology, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta updates Facebook's “identity system”, including a logo with a “more confident expression” of the “core blue color”, and refines Facebook's emoji Reactions — Meta is updating Facebook's “identity system,” and that includes a dramatically refreshed logo.| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
Tether confirms resuming lending its stablecoins to clients, less than a year after committing to end such loans; $5.5B of its assets were loans as of June 30 — Cryptocurrency issuer had said it would cut loans to zero in 2023 — Tether Holdings resumed lending out its own stablecoins to customers …
More: Tether, Bloomberg, The Verge, Fortune, Unchained Crypto, Cointelegraph, The Block, Cryptopolitan, and Bitcoinist.com
X: @bitfinexed, @tmnxeq, @jonathanweil, @tether_to, @stevenkelly49, @occamicrypto, @tmnxeq, @tmnxeq, @wublockchain, and @stevenkelly49. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mesh, which helps its customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto, raised a $22M Series A led by Money Forward, bringing its total funding to $32M — Mesh (formerly Front Finance), a startup developing a service to help customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto … | Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Nnete Matima and Joël Carter, two Black ex-TikTok staff, file a civil rights complaint alleging ByteDance fired them because they spoke up about discrimination — TikTok's parent company was accused of racism and retaliation by Black former employees in a complaint …
More: NPR, The Information, The Hill, Techdirt, Washington Post, and CNN
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Bastian Lehmann's TipTop launches an app that scans for past purchases in users' Gmail and Amazon accounts and offers to buy their used products at a fair value — Billed as a “reverse Postmates,” TipTop has launched its first app, TipTop Cash, with the promise to help shoppers resell products like used iPhones.| Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
Data-labeling firms like Scale AI and Appen are hiring poets and writers with humanities backgrounds to improve the literary quality of their AI writing tools — Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.| Lara O'Reilly / Insider: |
TikTok is testing a Google integration in different markets; researcher: TikTok's search feature includes an in-app option to search the same query on Google — - TikTok is testing a search partnership with Google. — An option to search on Google.com now appears on some searches within the TikTok app.
More: The Verge, Android Headlines, and Android Central
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