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Sources: Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and have bigger screens; main Siri upgrade will be part of iOS 18.4, with a beta in January and a spring release — As the Apple Watch approaches its 10th birthday, the company is preparing a big update. Also: AirPods with cameras …
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Internal memo: Microsoft tells staff in China that from September 2024 they can only use iPhones for work, including to verify identities, affecting hundreds — - Windows software maker is standardizing employee cybersecurity — Company will block corporate access from Android in China
More: PCMag, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, WinBuzzer, Investing.com, Neowin, Wccftech, Benzinga, and The Mac Observer
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| Ben Church / CNN: |
A look at concerns about Saudi Arabia “sportswashing”, as the country hosts the Esports World Cup; Saudi Arabia's PIF owns some of the biggest gaming companies — In the heart of Saudi Arabia's capital, a seismic moment for esports is underway; one which has triggered both excitement and concern across the industry.
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple says it asked Epic to fix the buttons in a future version of the Epic Games Store submitted for review; Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Epic will “fight this” — Mere hours after reports circulated that Apple had declined to approve the Epic Games Store for iOS in the EU …
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Forums: r/sideloaded and r/apple
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Mt. Gox starts repaying its customers, who will receive only ~15% of their lost bitcoin, which are now worth many times more than their total 2014 holdings — Former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange Mt. Gox are preparing to be reunited with their lost bitcoin—and it's a $9 billion windfall.
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Nothing unveils the $199 CMF Phone 1, with swappable parts, a 6.67" display, MediaTek SoC, and Nothing OS, alongside the $69 CMF Watch Pro 2 and $59 Buds Pro 2 — Nothing's sub-brand is bringing its first phone to the US—the $199 CMF Phone 1—along with the Watch Pro 2 and Buds Pro 2.
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| Michelle Hampson / IEEE Spectrum: |
A study of GPT-3.5-based ChatGPT's ability to solve 728 coding problems: fairly good at solving problems that existed before 2021, but struggles with newer ones — This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.
More: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, InfoWorld, Memeburn, and Boing Boing
Mastodon: @HPC_Guru@mastodon.social. X: @grady_booch, @malwarejake, @mjasay, @ivanilves, @simonkp, @brainify78, and @joel_linux. LinkedIn: Bas Hamer
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad, 41 years after launching the app, following testing the features in March 2024 — Feature rolled out to insiders back in March, now available to the masses. — Microsoft tested an updated Notepad app with integrated spellchecking back in March.| Heekyong Yang / Reuters: |
The National Samsung Electronics Union goes on a three-day strike for better pay; analysts say the strike is unlikely to have an impact due to low participation — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) workers in South Korea began a three-day strike for better pay on Monday … | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
A Sequoia Capital analyst estimated companies developing AI models need to collectively generate ~$600B per year to pay for their AI infrastructure — The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point? — Despite massive investments in AI infrastructure by high-tech giants …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ValueInvesting, r/hardware, and r/technews
| Tory Shepherd / The Guardian: |
A look at Apate, a conversational bot developed by Macquarie University's Cyber Security Hub in Australia to keep scam callers on the line while collecting data — New scambaiting AI technology Apate aims to keep scammers on the line while collecting data that could help disrupt their business model| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
ElevenLabs launches Voice Isolator, a freemium AI tool for removing background noise from audio files for film, podcast, and interview post production — ElevenLabs, the AI voice startup known for its voice cloning, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech models, has just added another tool to its product portfolio: an AI Voice Isolator.
More: KnowTechie, ElevenLabs, WinBuzzer, Maginative, and Cryptopolitan
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