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Sources: Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and have bigger screens; the main Siri upgrade will be part of iOS 18.4, with a January beta 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
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Forums: r/apple, r/microsoft, and r/technology
| Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Notepad in Windows 11, after testing the features in March 2024; Windows Notepad first launched in 1983 — 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.
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Nothing unveils the $199 CMF Phone 1, with swappable parts, a 6.67" AMOLED, a MediaTek SoC, and Nothing OS, plus the $69 CMF Watch Pro 2 and $59 CMF 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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| Craig Silverman / ProPublica: |
Investigation: the US Cyber Safety Review Board didn't investigate, for unclear reasons, the weaknesses in Microsoft tools that the SolarWinds hack exploited — Zero Trust: Inside Microsoft's Cybersecurity Failures — Investigating how the world's largest software provider handles the security of its own ubiquitous products.
More: Schneier on Security. Mastodon: @hrbrmstr@mastodon.social, @carnage4life@mas.to, and @PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social. X: @propublica. Forums: r/technology
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
New York-based Hebbia, which uses AI to help companies sift through documents, raised $130M led by a16z, a source says at a ~$700M post-money valuation — Company's technology helps businesses sift through regulatory filings, PDFs and other documents. — Hebbia, a startup using artificial …
More: Crunchbase News, PYMNTS.com, Maginative, Andreessen Horowitz, and Artificial Lawyer
| Rachyl Jones / Fortune: |
Self-driving cars owned by a handful of Chinese companies have quietly traveled 1.8M miles on CA roads, collecting detailed data while facing little scrutiny — ON FEB. 1 LAST YEAR, Montana residents gawked upwards at a large white object hovering in the sky that looked to be another moon.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the startup's history, its 4,500 headcount, going global, trust and safety, Adobe, attracting enterprise clients, and more — To her, AI is just an extension of what Canva has always done: make accessible design tools that cost less than Adobe's.| 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| 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 … | Financial Times: |
How Saudi media group MBC's Shahid has become the biggest streaming service in MENA with a 22% market share, ahead of Starz Play Arabia's 18% and Netflix's 17% — Wide range of Arabic-language shows and films helps media group compete with Netflix — Media group MBC is competing hard …
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| Ben Church / CNN: |
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
A Sequoia Capital analyst estimated on June 20 that companies developing AI models must 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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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
What to expect from Samsung Galaxy Unpacked on July 10: Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6, Galaxy AI updates, Galaxy Buds 3, Galaxy Watch 7 and Watch 7 Ultra, and more — Samsung's next Galaxy Unpacked event is coming up fast at 9AM ET on July 10th in Paris, France.
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