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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple schedules WWDC 2024 for June 10 to June 14 as a virtual event with a June 10 keynote, where Apple is expected to unveil its AI strategy, iOS 18, and more — Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 10 to Friday, June 14.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Canva acquires Affinity, popular with Mac users for its photo editing and other tools, to take on Adobe, Canva's COO says for “several hundred million pounds” — - Australian unicorn buys British team behind Affinity art suite — Affinity offers alternative tools to Adobe's flagship products
More: Canva, The Verge, Affinity, SiliconANGLE, mjtsai.com, Sydney Morning Herald, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, iClarified, Tech Funding News, PetaPixel, TechRadar, Techaeris, Silicon Republic, TechCrunch, Constellation Research, Tech in Asia, Tech.eu, and Australian Financial Review
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches GenStudio to let brands create content and measure its performance using generative AI, underpinned by promises of brand safety — Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts — but they are also deathly afraid of AI going off message and ruining their brand.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
More: Adobe Press Releases, The Adobe Blog, Maginative, Adobe Press Releases, and Constellation Research
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| CoinDesk: |
The US DOJ charges crypto exchange KuCoin and two co-founders with violating anti-money laundering laws, failing to register with the US government, and more — The exchange was charged under the Bank Secrecy Act. — U.S. federal prosecutors charged crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders …
More: US Department of Justice, CFTC, CoinGape, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, Watcher Guru, Cryptopolitan, Blockworks, Bitcoin Insider, Cryptonews, The Block, and Reuters
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Forums: r/ethtrader, r/kucoin, r/CryptoCurrency, and r/ethtrader
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
A timeline of EU's DMA investigations into Apple, Google, and Meta: each have 12 months to fix the issues, before risking fines of up to 10% of global revenue — - Firms must solve EU concerns during course of 12-month probe — But companies can ultimately fight decisions at the EU courts
More: Daring Fireball, European Commission, TechRepublic, The Global Legal Post, and Engadget. X: @caffar3cristina
| Chris Plante / Polygon: |
An interview with Phil Spencer on bringing Xbox to handhelds via hardware or software, how Valve, Lenovo, and Asus “innovated in a new form factor”, and more — A handheld Xbox could be hardware, an app, or both — Phil Spencer has tried all of the new PC gaming handhelds …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google plans to release a Chrome version optimized for Windows on Arm this week, two months after Canary testing; Arm PCs previously ran an emulated x64 version — Google is releasing an optimized version of its Chrome browser for Windows on Arm this week, the search giant has announced alongside chipmaker Qualcomm.
More: The Keyword, The Register, Qualcomm, PCWorld, BetaNews, ZDNet, Windows Central, Android Central, Ars Technica, Neowin, PCMag, Android Authority, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Times, Tom's Guide, Liliputing, How-To Geek, Engadget, Android Police, 9to5Google, MSPoweruser, Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, and TechPowerUp
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Kevin Systrom says AI news app Artifact will stay online for now due to taking “a lot less to run it than we had imagined”, reversing a February shutdown date — Artifact, the well-received AI-powered news app from Instagram's co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, may not be shutting down as planned.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds mouse and keyboard support to select Xbox Cloud Gaming titles for Xbox Insiders, nearly two years after it announced plans to add the feature — Microsoft is starting to preview mouse and keyboard support for Xbox Cloud Gaming today. Xbox Insiders will be able to start playing …
More: Xbox Wire, 9to5Google, Engadget, IGN, Stevivor, Thurrott, Video Games Chronicle, and Neowin
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Some Apple users report being targeted in an “MFA bombing” attack in which their devices are inundated with alerts to approve a password change or login — Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple's password reset feature.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI releases seven Sora videos from select filmmakers, artists, ad agencies, and musicians; Fairly Trained CEO Ed Newton-Rex calls the move “artistwashing” — OpenAI has been releasing a steady drip of videos generated by its new highly realistic AI model, Sora, but the text-to-video …
More: OpenAI, TweakTown, Tom's Guide, Silicon Republic, and PetaPixel
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Filings detail Meta's Project Ghostbusters to get data analytics about Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon, using Onavo VPN on iOS and Android between 2016 and 2019 — Unsealed court filings reveal Meta's secret plan, “Project Ghostbusters,” to acquire valuable intel about Snapchat through its users' devices.
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Insider, and Northern District of California
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Forums: r/technology and Beehaw
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
AI search engines review: they are worse than Google at navigational queries, mixed on information queries, and offer helpful citations in exploration queries — The AI search tools are getting better — but they don't yet understand what a search engine really is and how we really use them.| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
Sources: the US FTC is investigating TikTok over allegedly faulty privacy and data security practices, and could bring a lawsuit or settlement within weeks — A privacy case against TikTok would add fuel to the bipartisan chorus of criticism directed at the company over its ties to China.
More: Engadget, The Information, Channel NewsAsia, and Techdirt
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony plans to add a new opt-in Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later in 2024 that can automatically create clips for helping other players complete games — Sony is introducing a new Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later this year that is designed to automatically create clips that can help other players.| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
The US OFAC sanctions 13 entities, including Netex24, and two individuals for helping Russian nationals potentially evade sanctions by building crypto services — - The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 13 entities and two individuals for helping sanctioned entities to evade sanctions in Russia.| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Internal Tesla memo: Elon Musk tells staff to give buyers a “short test ride” to demonstrate Full Self-Driving, now a “hard requirement” in North America — - New requirement will slow delivery process, Musk says in memo — Full Self-Driving, other features have generated controversy
More: PCMag, Business Insider, ExtremeTech, New York Post, Notebookcheck, BGR, TechCrunch, TechSpot, TweakTown, Fossbytes, and Mashable
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
A look at MatX, which was founded by ex-Google engineers, has raised $25M, and hopes to design chips that are 10x faster than Nvidia's GPUs at training LLMs — A new startup called MatX from former Google engineers reflects a renewed enthusiasm for chipmakers.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU publishes draft election security guidelines aimed at platforms with 45M+ regional MAUs that are regulated under the DSA, ahead of elections in June — The European Union published draft election security guidelines Tuesday aimed at the around two dozen (larger) … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft's Bing and ads chief, is looking for a new position at the company, after Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman to run Microsoft AI — Parakhin, who had been chief executive officer for advertising and web services, will report to Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Stability AI was in a “death spiral” prior to Mostaque's resignation, due to talent departures, mismanagement, legal troubles, and dwindling resources — Stability AI Chief Executive Officer Emad Mostaque announced his resignation to staff late Friday night with a strikingly optimistic note.| Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: |
US investors, like General Atlantic and Sequoia, are facing increased pressure from state and federal lawmakers about their investments in Chinese companies — Major U.S. investment firms such as General Atlantic, Susquehanna and Sequoia Capital own stakes in ByteDance, the parent of TikTok.Sponsor Posts
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