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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says developers can offer NFC transactions using the iPhone's Secure Element, separate from Apple Pay, starting in iOS 18.1; there'll be “associated fees” — Apple has announced that it is opening up the iPhone's NFC chip using the Secure Element to allow …
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X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @psythor, and @psythor
Forums: r/HomeKit and r/AppleWallet
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
xAI launches Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta with improved reasoning and image generation, available now to X Premium and Premium+ users, and later via its API — Elon Musk-owned launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta today with improved reasoning. The new Grok AI model can now generate images … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Images generated by Grok, like Barack Obama doing cocaine and Donald Trump and Kamala Harris with guns, go viral on X, raising questions about Grok's guardrails — xAI's Grok chatbot now lets you create images from text prompts and publish them to X — and so far, the rollout seems as chaotic …
More: The Guardian, PCMag, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Quartz, and Android Headlines
Threads: @mattnavarra. X: @benjamindekr, @benjamindekr, @emollick, @ikrietzberg, @garymarcus, @garymarcus, @esqueer_, @karlmaxxer, @kyliebytes, @kyliebytes, @growing_daniel, @david_leavitt, @esqueer_, @iwillleavenow, @watn_tarnation, and @jarvis_best
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is prioritizing developing a tabletop home device with an iPad-like display and a robotic limb, aiming for a release in 2026 or 2027 for ~$1,000 — - Executive who oversaw car project is leading the effort — Device would offer twist on home products from Amazon and Meta
More: MacRumors, Macworld, Engadget, AppleInsider, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, BGR, Trusted Reviews, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, The Apple Post, and MacDailyNews
X: @markgurman and @gregorymcfadden
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Cisco reports Q4 revenue down 10% YoY to $13.64B, vs. $13.54B est., and says it's cutting 7% of its global workforce; CSCO jumps 5%+ after hours — Cisco shares popped in extended trading on Wednesday after the networking company said it's cutting 7% of its global workforce …
More: CRN, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, Benzinga, Bloomberg, Constellation Research, MarketWatch, Proactive, and Cisco
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Apple approves Spotify updating its app to show in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the EU starting today, after Spotify's yearslong legal battle — Spotify will begin showing in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the European Union starting today, following a yearslong legal battle against Apple.
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X: @carnage4life, @averywgardiner, @gateklons, and @mysk_co
| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X review: the Zen 5 flagship chips are fine for highly threaded productivity workloads, but the gaming issues need to be fixed — Earlier this month, AMD launched the first two desktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X.
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| Dara Kerr / NPR: |
Meta shuts down CrowdTangle, less than three months before the US election, in favor of the Meta Content Library; Mozilla says 50K+ petitioned against the move — Meta has been bombarded by academics, researchers, politicians and regulators about a tool called CrowdTangle, which most people probably haven't heard of.
More: Engadget, Bloomberg, RIP CrowdTangle, Social Media Today, ABC, TBIJ, Washington Post, Silicon Republic, and CrowdTangle Help Center
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| Danny Gallagher / Engadget: |
The US FTC announces a final rule banning the sale of fake reviews and testimonials, including AI-generated ones, with fines as high as $50K per violation — The new rules prohibit the selling of fake and AI-generated reviews and testimonials in several forms.| Orianna Rosa Royle / Fortune: |
During a talk, Eric Schmidt said Google is losing the AI race because it decided that work-life balance and working from home were “more important than winning” — Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt has a complaint about his old stomping ground—and it's one that workers have heard …
More: Stanford Online on YouTube, Wall Street Journal, Times of India, Business Insider, SFGATE, NDTV, Neowin, India Today, The Hans India, KEYE, Observer, New York Post, Business Today, TechSpot, Quartz, and ITPro
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LinkedIn: Matt Rappaport and Orianna Rosa Royle
Forums: Hacker News, r/digitalnomad, and Slashdot
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sources: Sonos is considering relaunching its previous mobile app as it works to improve the redesigned version, which launched in May to widespread criticism — Sonos has explored the possibility of rereleasing its previous mobile app for Android and iOS — a clear sign of what an ordeal the company's hurried redesign has become.
More: The Verge, Engadget, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, and Digital Trends
X: @stevebrazill, @oscargutiez, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
Forums: r/sonos and MacRumors Forums
| Troy Hunt: |
A look at the National Public Data breach, first noted in April 2024 and posted publicly last week, and why it's unlikely that “nearly 3B people” were exposed — I decided to write this post because there's no concise way to explain the nuances of what's being described as one of the largest data breaches ever.
More: Los Angeles Times, The Verge, and CNET
Mastodon: @shoq@mastodon.social, @paco@infosec.exchange, and @haveibeenpwned@infosec …
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/inthenews, and r/privacy
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Access Now and Citizen Lab: Russian spy agencies are using deep knowledge about opponents, reporters, and human rights groups to target them via phishing emails — Traditional phishing attacks aimed to break into organizations advocating for Russian dissidents, among others.
More: The Citizen Lab, Access Now, PCMag, The Record, The Register, The Guardian, Bloomberg, CyberScoop, and Forbes
X: @accessnow, @jsrailton, and @citizenlab
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent says it and Apple are exploring ways to offer in-app transactions via iOS' payment system, the first acknowledgment of talks with Apple to take a cut — The Chinese company is exploring ways to offer in-app transactions via Apple's iOS payment system, Chief Strategy Officer James Mitchell told analysts on an earnings call.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
More: The Information, Variety, Reuters, Tech Xplore, Tencent, Tencent, South China Morning Post, CNBC, and Nikkei Asia
| Bloomberg: |
Foxconn says it will only start shipping a small volume of servers with Nvidia's next-gen GB200 chips in Q4 2024, before ramping up significantly in Q1 2025 — - Hon Hai builds data center servers powered by Nvidia's chips — Nvidia has run into engineering snags with Blackwell family
More: The Register, Nikkei Asia, Cryptopolitan, Tom's Hardware, Focus Taiwan, and Benzinga
Forums: r/NVDA_Stock and r/NvidiaStock
| Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
More: Reuters, CNBC, Asia Financial, Reuters, KuwaitTimes, Barron's Online, Business Standard, and BNN Bloomberg. X: @adityakalra
| Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 48+ people detail Snowflake and Databricks' intense rivalry, jockeying to be the dominant platform for organizing AI data, and fear of Microsoft — Secret codenames, pugnacious billboards and deal drama mark the competition for data supremacy — Snowflake Inc. was looking for acquisitions.| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
A look at some of the victims of the now-ubiquitous deepfake video scams; an analysis of 2,000+ deepfakes found Elon Musk was featured in ~25% of such scams — “It's shifting now because organized crime has figured out, ‘we can make money at this,’” according to Lou Steinberg, the founder of CTM Insights, a cybersecurity research lab.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The main takeaway from the Google Pixel event is Android's primacy, and Google's integration with Android is worth preserving if the goal is spurring innovation — The original Pixel was released in 2016 at the end of interesting, at least when it came to smartphones.
More: SlashGear, CNET, and 9to5Google
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
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Threads: @technicallymims. X: @joannastern, @joannastern, @joannastern, @drjwrae, @googledeepmind, @google, @geminiapp, @google, @mishaalrahman, and @ssamat
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