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June 28, 2024, 11:35 AM
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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
TeamViewer warns that its corporate environment was breached on June 26, and attributes the cyberattack to the Russian hacking group APT29 aka Midnight Blizzard  —  The remote access software company TeamViewer is warning that its corporate environment was breached in a cyberattack yesterday …
Eliza Gkritsi / Euractiv:
Margrethe Vestager says Apple's decision not to launch its AI features in the EU is a “stunning, open declaration” of the company's anticompetitive behavior  —  Apple's decision not to launch its own artificial intelligence (AI) features in the EU is a “stunning declaration” …
Wired:
Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so  —  AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple launches the Vision Pro in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, the first time the device has been officially available outside of the US  —  Apple's Vision Pro spatial computing headset today arrived at Apple Store locations across China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore.
Yasemin Saplakoglu / Quanta Magazine:
An in-depth look at the development of Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, which had the biggest AI breakthrough in science by accurately predicting protein structures  —  When Google's public relations machine churned the news out to the world, the media went wild.  Headlines claimed that AlphaFold2 “will change everything.”
The Information:
Sources: Apple may use electrically induced adhesive debonding to make batteries easier to replace, starting with one iPhone 16 model, to comply with EU rules  —  Under pressure from regulators in Europe and elsewhere, Apple in recent years has taken small steps toward making the iPhone easier for consumers to repair.
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Q&A with the VP of Amazon Games on focusing on AAA games over mobile games, Amazon's transmedia IP strategy, AI's effect on the industry, monetization, and more  —  Amazon Games has been quiet for the past few years.  So quiet you might not have even known Amazon was working on video games …
Emilio Parodi / Reuters:
Sources: Italy opened a probe into Google in December 2022 over €1B in unpaid taxes and penalties from 2018 to 2022, after settling another tax dispute in 2017  —  Italy is asking Google to pay 1 billion euros ($1.07 billion) in unpaid taxes and penalties, three sources with direct knowledge …
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Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Meta releases LLM Compiler, a family of models built on Code Llama specifically designed for code optimization tasks, available in 7B- and 13B-parameter sizes  —  Meta has unveiled the Meta Large Language Model (LLM) Compiler, a suite of robust, open-source models designed to optimize code and revolutionize compiler design.

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From Mediagazer

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

More News

Bloomberg:
Nokia agrees to acquire Infinera, which provides networking hardware and software to mobile phone operators and others, for $2.3B in a cash-and-stock deal

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
Naver-owned Webtoon shares closed up 9.5% at $23 in the online comics company's Nasdaq debut, giving it a market value of ~$2.9B, after an IPO that raised $315M
Chris Lisinski / State House News Service:
Uber and Lyft agree to pay drivers in Massachusetts a minimum wage and give them some benefits, and pay a combined $175M to the state to settle a 2020 lawsuit
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says there will not be “just one AI”, disparages closed-source AI competitors as trying to “create God”, and more
Will Knight / Wired:
OpenAI details CriticGPT, a GPT-4 model fine-tuned to catch errors in ChatGPT's code output, assisting human trainers tasked with assessing and spotting errors
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Amazon folds its Amazon Clinic telehealth service into One Medical, with more affordable per-visit pricing: $49 for a video call or $29 to text a doctor
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Coinbase files two lawsuits against the US SEC and the FDIC for not complying with FOIA requests; one of the FOIA requests is about how the SEC views ether
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google adds 110 new languages to Translate, aided by the company's PaLM 2 AI language model, taking the total languages to 243, in its largest expansion ever
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