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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 dev beta in Jan. and a spring release — As the Apple Watch approaches its 10th birthday, the company is preparing a big update. Also: AirPods with cameras …
More: AppleInsider, Benzinga, iThinkDifferent, Neowin, Appleosophy, The Verge, MacRumors, MacRumors, 9to5Google, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, Supercharged, PCMag, Engadget, Gizchina, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Android Authority, iClarified, iMore, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, and AppleInsider on YouTube
X: @zollotech, @betaprofiles, @markgurman, @tgod34748, @leakerapple, @dimillian, @parkerortolani, @davezatz, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Mt. Gox starts repaying customers, who will receive only ~15% of their lost bitcoins, but 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.
More: Mt. Gox, The Register, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, PCMag, CoinDesk, Forbes, The Block, CNBC, Tom's Hardware, Decrypt, Coinbay, Quartz, NBC News, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, NBC News, and CryptoGlobe
Threads: @lovingnotworking. X: @intangiblecoins, @krugermacro, @dotkrueger, @cnbc, @lastcallcnbc, and @ashcryptoreal. LinkedIn: Coinbay
Forums: r/Buttcoin, r/Bitcoin, and Slashdot
| 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 …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, iLounge, Pixel Envy, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Register, DualShockers, Hypebeast, Mashable, Spyglass, KitGuru, Neowin, Stevivor, TechSpot, Thurrott, PhoneArena, MacRumors, NewsBytes, Gizchina, NBC News, Wired, Engadget, iThinkDifferent, IGN, The Hill, mjtsai.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Yahoo Finance, Eurogamer.net, and Notebookcheck
Mastodon: @khaost@mastodon.tz.is and @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …
X: @epicnewsroom, @epicnewsroom, @epicnewsroom, @timsweeneyepic, @epicnewsroom, @firt, @coded3v, @tique70, @mysk_co, @dankaplan, @eric_seufert, @florian4gamers, @alzxk11, and @timsweeneyepic. Forums: r/apple
| Ben Church / CNN: |
A look at concerns about Saudi Arabia “sportswashing” as it hosts the Esports World Cup; Saudi Arabia's PIF has bought 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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| 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 and Boing Boing
Mastodon: @HPC_Guru@mastodon.social. X: @mjasay, @grady_booch, @brainify78, @joel_linux, @malwarejake, @ivanilves, and @simonkp
LinkedIn: Bas Hamer and Michelle Hampson
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| 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: ElevenLabs, WinBuzzer, Maginative, and Cryptopolitan
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi talks about reuniting with Square Enix to bring his company Mistwalker's Apple Arcade RPG Fantasian to PC and consoles — More than two decades ago, video-game designer Hironobu Sakaguchi parted ways with the company now called Square Enix Holding Co. At the time, it was an unexpected move.
More: PC Gamer, Gameranx, Wccftech, TheGamer, TweakTown, Gameranx, GoNintendo, IGN, Game Rant, Video Games Chronicle, Push Square, The Verge, and Digital Trends
X: @wario64, @ethangach, @jasonschreier, and @jasonschreier
LinkedIn: Rafael Brown and Jason Schreier
Forums: r/TerraBattle, r/FinalFantasy, r/PS5, and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| 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
Forums: r/technology
| Financial Times: |
How Saudi media group MBC's Shahid has become the biggest streaming service in MENA with a 22% share, ahead of Starz Play Arabia at 18% and Netflix at 17% — Wide range of Arabic-language shows and films helps media group compete with Netflix — Media group MBC is competing hard with Netflix … | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
An analyst at Sequoia Capital estimated companies developing top AI models need to collectively generate ~$600B/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 …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, PC Gamer, TechSpot, and Cointelegraph
Mastodon: @Mer__edith@mastodon.world and @mhoye@mastodon.social
X: @templesmith and @carnage4life
Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, and r/technews
| Reuters: |
Interfax: Apple removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from its App Store in Russia, following a request by state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor — U.S. tech giant Apple (AAPL.O) removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from its App Store, following a request …
More: AppleInsider, PCMag, iLounge, The Register, OSnews, mjtsai.com, The Moscow Times, Cult of Mac, Supercharged, The Mac Observer, and MacDailyNews
Threads: @mrkevinrothrock. Mastodon: @tolmasky@mastodon.social, @arroz@mastodon.social, and @tolmasky@mastodon.social
X: @nexta_tv, @appcensorship, @appcensorship, @timsweeneyepic, @mediazona_en, @appcensorship, @appcensorship, and @mediazona_en. LinkedIn: Patrick Wardle. Forums: r/worldnews
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
DefiLlama: the value of assets locked on the TON blockchain, which is used by Telegram, surged 1,400% this year to briefly top $1B — - TON Blockchain's assets topped $1 billion after a resurgence — Telegram's previous crypto efforts drew the wrath of the SEC
More: PYMNTS.com and Decrypt
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