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June 19, 2024, 12:40 AM
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Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on the next Apple Vision Pro; sources: it's still aiming to debut a cheaper model by end of 2025  —  Apple Suspends Work on Next High-End Headset, Focused on Releasing Cheaper Model in Late 2025 Apple has told at least one supplier …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
ASUS VivoBook S 15 Copilot+ PC review: Snapdragon X Elite is incredible, all-day battery, a gorgeous 15.6" OLED screen, and $1,299 for 1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM  —  Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite elevates this Windows laptop from a good all-rounder to a great one.
Reuters:
The US FTC says it has referred a complaint to the DOJ against TikTok and ByteDance over potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday it had referred a complaint to the Justice Department against the social media platform TikTok …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia surpasses Microsoft to become the world's most valuable public company, with a $3.34T market cap; NVDA is up over 9x since January 2023  —  Nvidia, long known in the niche gaming community for its graphics chips, is now the most valuable public company in the world.
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
A look at Mozilla's acquisition of Anonym, which offers “privacy-preserving” ad tools, and how Anonym might interact with a user base that tends to block ads  —  Is such a thing possible for an industry that never respected people's wishes?  —  ANALYSIS Mozilla this week …
Ina Fried / Axios:
A study of 10 chatbots, including Perplexity and ChatGPT, shows they often repeat Russian disinformation and cite fugitive John Dougan's fake local news sites  —  - Entering 57 prompts into 10 leading chatbots, NewsGuard found they spread Russian disinformation narratives 32% of the time …
Ryan Ozawa / Decrypt:
Consensys says the US SEC is “closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0” and “will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions”  —  Leading Ethereum developer Consensys announced late Tuesday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is …
Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post:
The California Labor Commissioner's Office fines Amazon $5.9M for violating a 2022 state law by failing to properly inform workers of quotas at two warehouses  —  The company is among the first to run afoul of a union-backed law aimed at protecting warehouse workers from aggressive productivity quotas.
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
Qilin, a cohort of Russian-speaking hackers, claims responsibility for the ransomware attack impacting London hospitals for weeks and demands $50M to end it  —  - Russian-speaking Qilin gang claims responsibility for breach  — Pathology services company Synnovis targeted in extortion
More: SiliconANGLE
Matt Burgess / Wired:
FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions  —  CCTV cameras and AI are being combined to monitor crowds, detect bike thefts, and spot trespassers.
Bloomberg:
Filings: X is still working on a Venmo-like payments feature, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY  —  State license applications give new insight into the company's plans, as well as its financial woes during the Elon era.
Financial Times:
Sources: Google and OpenAI have stepped up staff vetting over Chinese espionage threat; Sequoia has encouraged some portfolio companies to tighten staff vetting  —  Google, OpenAI and Sequoia Capital push to improve security practices following high-profile spying cases
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Margrethe Vestager says Apple has a number of “very serious” issues under the EU's DMA, and the EU will reveal conclusions of its investigation “hopefully soon”  —  Apple has numerous “very serious” issues under the European Union's sweeping rules aimed at reining in Big Tech …
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Sources: Apple is set to settle a long-running EU antitrust investigation over payments, after the EU accepted measures that Apple committed to in January 2024
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Internal memo: Meta merges its Reality Labs teams into the “Metaverse” product group that now includes Quest, and the AR product group, now called “Wearables”  —  This morning, Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth announced the biggest restructuring of the company's hardware division since …

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CNBC:
Newsmax shares jumped 179% on Tuesday and have risen 1,500%+ since their Monday debut, bringing the company's market cap to ~$20.8B, above WBD's and Fox Corp's

Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Steve Kornacki signs a deal with NBC News and NBC Sports and departs from MSNBC, which Comcast is spinning off into a new corporate entity

American Journalism Project:
John Thornton, founder of The Texas Tribune, co-founder of the American Journalism Project, and venture capitalist, has died at age 59

More News

Jason Snell / Six Colors:
Developers say Apple is denying or delaying notarization of iOS apps, including emulators, for alternative app stores in EU, possibly in violation of DMA rules
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud offerings for generative AI workloads, coming this fall, including HPE Private Cloud AI, a co-developed “turnkey” option
David Pierce / The Verge:
Xreal unveils the $199+ Beam Pro, a 6.5-inch device that powers Xreal's glasses, runs Android 14-based NebulaOS, uses a Snapdragon chip, and has two USB-C ports

Earlier Picks

Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Amazon Labor Union members vote to join forces with the 1.3M-member Teamsters union; ALU President Christian Smalls says Teamsters allocated $8M for organizing
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
A look at Apple's upcoming CarPlay updates, aiming to be “a design toolkit for automakers” comprising UI layers: local, overlay, remote, and punch-through
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developers publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024
Wall Street Journal:
Social media creators say earning a decent, reliable income is getting harder, as platforms pay less for popular posts and brands get pickier about partnerships
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