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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta unveils a prototype of Orion, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors — Orion is an impressive demo of AR glasses, but can Mark Zuckerberg beat everyone else to the next big platform?
More: T3, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Engadget, Tom's Guide, Android Central, BNN Bloomberg, Business Insider, Mashable, The Indian Express, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Threads: @robsherman and @parkerortolani
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Hands-on with Meta's Orion: need a wireless processor puck, weigh only 100g, are packed with sensors, and have good eye tracking and a wide FoV for AR glasses — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls them “The most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.” — I wore Mark Zuckerberg's contact lenses.
More: Meta, Meta, ZDNET, Road to VR, UploadVR, CNET, The Sun, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, PC Gamer, Associated Press, TechRadar, PhoneArena, and The Verge
Threads: @jonlax, @justinryan.io, and @pkafka
X: @sundeep, @tomwarren, @packym, @nikitabier, @benbajarin, @munster_gene, @netcapgirl, @stockmktnewz, @alexeheath, @benbajarin, @rihardjarc, @ballmatthew, @cosmoscharf, @munster_gene, and @munster_gene
LinkedIn: Naamah Argaman and Mudit Goel
Forums: Hacker News and r/gadgets
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
More: Meta, CNBC-TV18, Gizmodo, CNET, T3, UploadVR, The Verge, Engadget, The Sun, Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, TechRadar, Wired, Android Central, The Indian Express, and The Business of Fashion
Threads: @boztank, @ambich0o, and @vishwanathsarang
X: @dtrinh, @alexeheath, @ericpresidentvr, @munster_gene, @kentbye, and @kentbye
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the company announced its first AR glasses, a cheaper Quest 3S headset, Llama 3.2, and more — Over the past year, Meta has made a big push to integrate AI features into the platforms it owns: whether it be through its ChatGPT rival, Meta AI …
More: TechCrunch, The Information, Engadget, TechCrunch, Benzinga, RTÉ, Android Central, Mashable, Digital Trends, and Tom's Guide
| The Verge: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more — Meta's CEO on his first pair of AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, why he's done with politics, and more.
More: The Verge. Threads: @reckless1280, @nick_statt, @reckless1280, and @alexheath. Mastodon: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
| David Lumb / CNET: |
Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones — The new models are small enough to assist in tasks on people's phones... and potentially smaller accessories, too.
More: TechCrunch, Meta, VentureBeat, The Verge, About Amazon, Wired, Amazon Web Services, Inc., Databricks, and NewsBytes
X: @ajassy, @drjimfan, @saboo_shubham_, @benbajarin, and @aravsrinivas
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta AI's Imagine features are now being expanded across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram, letting users generate AI photos, image captions, and more — Meta AI's Imagine features, which use generative AI to turn text prompts into images, are now being expanded across Facebook and Instagram …
More: Meta, Gizmodo, Business Today, CNET, The Verge, Android Central, TechRadar, SlashGear, and The Independent
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: Business Today, The Verge, Engadget, The Sun, Tom's Guide, Business Insider, TechRadar, The Hollywood Reporter, Mashable, and Reuters
X: @munster_gene and @jiteshubrani
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+ — Meta finally announced the very heavily leaked Quest 3S VR headset, and the leaks were right: it's a $299.99 headset that looks like a mix of the Quest 2 and Quest 3.
More: Meta, UploadVR, Wired, Business Today, CNET, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Sun, Road to VR, UploadVR, UploadVR, Engadget, Engadget, Gizmodo, UploadVR, Polyarc Games on YouTube, PCMag, IGN, PC Gamer, New York Times, The Independent, The Mirror, Android Central, Yahoo Lifestyle, TechRadar, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, PhoneArena, CNBC, Eurogamer.net, Digital Trends, NewsBytes, Connect The Watts, The Indian Express, BroBible, Tyriel Wood - VR Tech on YouTube, OtterWorldly on YouTube, Cas and Chary XR on YouTube, Erik Hartley on YouTube, David Duggan on YouTube, Gamertag VR on YouTube, Adam Savage’s Tested on YouTube, Laptop Mag, Video Games Chronicle, Neowin, Android Central, and MIXED Reality News
Threads: @mgsiegler, @laurengoode, and @boztank
X: @baekdal, @tomwarren, @munster_gene, @dilmerv, @hmltn, @anshelsag, @kentbye, @benbajarin, @benbajarin, and @kifleswing
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
More: UploadVR, Meta, Engadget, Road to VR, UploadVR, TechRadar, 9to5Toys, Mashable, and Gematsu. X: @wraeththix
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Google files an EU antitrust complaint alleging Microsoft engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers' reliance on products like Windows — Search giant seeks antitrust probe of Big Tech rival over dominance of Azure platform
More: Google Cloud Blog, Engadget, CNBC, Benzinga, WebProNews, Silicon Republic, Investor's Business Daily, Android Headlines, TechCrunch, The Verge, Constellation Research, MediaPost, Barron's Online, Associated Press, Neowin, Euractiv, Wall Street Journal, BusinessLIVE, Invezz, Beyond Search, The Register, Thurrott, and The Michigan Daily
X: @florian4gamers, @florian4gamers, and @lewis_crofts
| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing it of tracking Firefox users on websites without consent — Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority …
More: noyb, Engadget, The Record, The Hacker News, RestorePrivacy, MakeUseOf, The Register, Neowin, HotHardware, Nairametrics, TechCrunch, Cybernews.com, and Silicon Republic
Forums: r/privacy, r/browsers, r/technews, r/linux, and r/technology
| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
X releases its first transparency report since Elon Musk took over; X took action on 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021 — In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.
More: Engadget, The Hill, PCMag, Mashable, Quartz, Associated Press, Newser, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Digiday, Android Headlines, and CampaignUK
Threads: @vishwanathsarang, @renee.diresta, @crumbler, and @drewpusateri
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Sony announces seven more games that the $700 PS5 Pro, arriving November 7, will enhance via AI-powered “PSSR” upscaling, taking the total to 20 Enhanced games — Sony has just revealed seven additional games that'll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed.| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme, active since 2018, operated by group UNC5267 — It's difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder. — Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently … | Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
A look at Caroline Ellison's motivations in the FTX fraud, including her relationship with SBF; the judge said he had “never seen” a cooperator like Ellison — The story of Sam Bankman-Fried was obvious enough: a Shakespearean level of arrogance that led to tragedy.
More: New York Times, Tech Startups, Finextra, BBC, Protos, Cybernews.com, Silicon Republic, Coinpedia Fintech News, Inc.com, Financial Times, The Daily Beast, and Axios. Forums: r/CryptoMarkets
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps — Anyone who works at a computer for eight-plus hours a day will likely know that the amount of tools and “context switching” required to stay productive can be overwhelming.
More: The Verge, Raycast, XDA Developers, Tech.eu, 9to5Mac, Neowin, EU-Startups, and Silicon Canals. LinkedIn: Thomas Paul Mann
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google's $2.7B Character.AI deal was primarily to rehire founder Noam Shazeer, who quit Google in 2021 and made hundreds of millions from the deal — Amid debate on whether tech companies are overspending on AI, Google's pricey reunion with Noam Shazeer draws attention
More: PYMNTS.com, New York Post, The Daily Beast, and Benzinga
X: @rolfewinkler and @grady_booch
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How a security researcher used a now-fixed flaw to store false memories in ChatGPT via indirect prompt injection to exfiltrate all user input in perpetuity — Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories. — When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported …
More: Inc.com, Embrace The Red, Embrace The Red, WinBuzzer, BGR, The Hacker News, Embrace The Red, and Embrace The Red on YouTube
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/technews, and Ars OpenForum
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent a C&D letter on September 23 — The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks.
More: One Man & His Blog and The Register
Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io. X: @automattic, @photomatt, @carnage4life, and @carnage4life. Forums: Hacker News
| Peter Saalfield / Decrypt: |
Researchers detail an AI model that they claim can solve Google's reCAPTCHAv2 challenges with 100% accuracy using a similar number of attempts as human users — Researchers from ETH Zurich used advanced machine learning to solve 100% of Google's reCAPTCHAv2, designed to distinguish humans from bots.
More: arXiv, The Decoder, Forbes, WinBuzzer, New Scientist, Coinotag News, TechRadar, Tech Xplore, and ZDNET. X: @quinnypig
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Book excerpt: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the video game industry's unstoppable pair, had a falling out from 2013 — Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime were the video game industry's unstoppable pair, until they fought each other. An excerpt from the new book Play Nice.
More: Thurrott. Mastodon: @RYStorm@mastodon …. X: @jasonschreier, @jasonschreier, @jasonschreier, @ben_heathstone, and @skoll_shorties
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Disney officially launches its password-sharing crackdown, letting users add an “Extra Member” for $6.99/month for Disney+ Basic, or $9.99 for Disney+ Premium — The company rolled out what it is calling its paid sharing policy this week, letting users add a member outside their household … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China-linked hackers have broken into a handful of US ISPs in recent months in pursuit of sensitive info, in a campaign investigators call Salt Typhoon — It is latest intrusion into core U.S. infrastructure by entities linked to China — Hackers linked to the Chinese government … | Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
US federal court records: the DOJ has been investigating SAP, Carahsoft, and others for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies over a decade — - DOJ investigating billions in purchases from SAP over a decade — Other companies under scrutiny in civil False Claims Act probe
More: Investor's Business Daily, Proactive, TechRadar, Fortune, CIO.com, CNBC, The Gateway Pundit, and Reuters
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