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An internal Google database tracking thousands of privacy and security issues from 2013 to 2018 details a myriad of data management mistakes the company made — Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users …
More: Daily Mail, Android Authority, Android Police, Engadget, Nintendo Life, Dexerto, GamesRadar, GameSpot, Video Games Chronicle, My Nintendo News, GoNintendo, WinBuzzer, Kotaku, and Digital Trends
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Sony unveils a $60 PC adapter for the PlayStation VR2, adding PC support to the PS5-exclusive headset, launching on August 7 with support for all Steam VR games — The PlayStation VR2's PC adapter is now official. Just a few days after a certification revealed that Sony was working on the adapter …
More: PlayStation.Blog, How-To Geek, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, CNET, Game Developer, Engadget, Windows Central, Road to VR, PCMag, Thurrott, Pocket-lint, TechSpot, 9to5Toys, MobileSyrup, Redmond Pie, UploadVR, MIXED Reality News, Neowin, IGN, TechRadar, TheGamer, Notebookcheck, Wccftech, TechRaptor, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechPowerUp, Phandroid, PlayStation LifeStyle, Liliputing, OC3D, Video Games Chronicle, GamingBolt, Push Square, Gematsu, and Digital Trends
Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/pcmasterrace, r/oculus, r/PS5, r/PSVR, r/playstation, r/gaming, r/pcgaming, r/Games, and r/virtualreality
| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD unveils four new Zen 5 architecture-based Ryzen 9000-series desktop CPUs, set to launch in July 2024, claiming 16% more instructions per cycle over Zen 4 — During AMD's Computex 2024 kick-off keynote, AMD's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, officially unveiled and announced the company's next generation of Ryzen processors.
More: Ars Technica, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., VideoCardz.com, 9to5Google, The Verge, Phoronix, TechPowerUp, PCWorld, IGN, How-To Geek, OSnews, MSPoweruser, WePC, Android Headlines, WinBuzzer, Windows Central, SoyaCincau, PCMag, TechSpot, OC3D, Liliputing, TweakTown, Forbes, Club386, PCWorld, HotHardware, KitGuru, ServeTheHome, Wccftech, and Notebookcheck
X: @aschilling, @aschilling, @lyserberg, and @tomwarren
Forums: Hacker News, r/Amd, r/pcmasterrace, r/technology, r/hardware, and r/Amd
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More: AMD, SiliconANGLE, More Than Moore, Computing, ExtremeTech, WinBuzzer, Tom's Hardware, DatacenterDynamics, Reuters, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, AnandTech, HotHardware, The Register, and Phoronix. Forums: Hacker News
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More: CRN, PYMNTS.com, HotHardware, AnandTech, CNET, Android Headlines, PC Gamer, WinBuzzer, Windows Central, Hackster.io, Notebookcheck, MSPoweruser, Ars Technica, Guru3D, Business Standard, Financial Express, AIM, Neowin, PCMag, The Register, Engadget, Liliputing, Phoronix, TweakTown, The Verge, XDA Developers, Club386, Laptop Mag, Digital Trends, and VideoCardz.com
Forums: r/Amd, r/wallstreetbets, r/AMD_Stock, and r/hardware
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram confirms it is testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling — Instagram confirmed it's testing unskippable ads after screenshots of the feature began circulating across social media. These new ad breaks will display a countdown timer …
More: Android Authority, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Verge, Thurrott, Search Engine Land, Inc.com, Financial Express, Mashable, Neowin, BGR, English Jagran, Metro.co.uk, ReadWrite, MySmartPrice, Gadgets 360, The Indian Express, Dexerto, Meta for Developers, NewsBytes, Phandroid, Social Media Today, and PhoneArena
Threads: @nicsigni_writes, @guillecummings, @petershankman, @danseifert, @hi.im.vijay, @georgescriban, @actualscott, @katzish, and @crumbler. Mastodon: @JustChapman@mastodon.social
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X: @thedanlevy, @howfxr, @dexerto, and @robmoses
Forums: r/Instagram and r/technology
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X changes its adult content policies, formally letting users post consensual NSFW and AI content “provided it's properly labeled and not prominently displayed” — The internet has been home to all kinds of content for a long time, so it was no surprise to anyone when people started tweeting porn at each other.
More: X, The Verge, Ars Technica, The Information, The Hill, IGN, Tech Xplore, Mashable, Variety, AI News, and International Business Times
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Spotify plans to raise US prices: Premium from $10.99 to $11.99 per month, Duo from $14.99 to $16.99, and Family from $16.99 to $19.99, after a July 2023 hike — A year after Spotify first increased the price of Spotify Premium in the US, it's happening again.
More: Spotify, CNET, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Business Standard, The Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, How-To Geek, PYMNTS.com, Pocket-lint, CNBC, Fortune, Tom's Guide, GSMArena.com, Proactive, Quartz, NBC News, Droid Life, Lifewire, Music Ally, Cybernews.com, Neowin, Digital Music News, Bloomberg, PhoneArena, Android Authority, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, Mashable, Android Headlines, Reuters, Cult of Mac, WKBN-TV, USA Today, Engadget, Variety, KTVX-TV, and Android Police
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan on AI features, the AI pitch, video calls, layoffs, LLMs, solving hallucinations, Zoom 6.0, Microsoft Teams, digital twins, and more — Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you.
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Sources: LoanSnap, an AI mortgage startup that raised ~$100M, has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo, and state and federal agencies — The company's backers include Reid Hoffman, Richard Branson and the Chainsmokers — AI mortgage startup LoanSnap is facing … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and filings detail Sam Altman's investment portfolio; Altman and his venture funds have invested in 400+ companies, and his holdings are worth $2.8B+ — Many companies backed by CEO do business with the ChatGPT maker and benefit from the AI boom driven by the blockbuster startup, raising questions of conflicts
More: GeekWire, Quartz, WinBuzzer, and Business Insider
LinkedIn: Dr. Jeffrey Funk and Jennifer Pierce, PhD
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Microsoft plans to invest ~$3.2B to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in Sweden over two years and to train 250K Swedes with AI skills over three years — Microsoft (MSFT.O) will invest 33.7 billion Swedish crowns ($3.21 billion) to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure … | Emilia David / The Verge: |
Amazon details Project PI, which is active in several warehouses and uses computer vision to detect if products are damaged or don't meet buyers' criteria — Amazon's Project PI, or “Private Investigator,” setup combines generative AI and computer vision to “see” damage on products or determine … | Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it has donated another $25M to the pro-crypto Fairshake SuperPAC; Fairshake has raised ~$161M for 2024's US election from a16z, Ripple, and others — Coinbase followed Ripple and a16z in each giving a new $25 million to their political action committee, Fairshake … Sponsor Posts
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