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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
The US Senate passes the TikTok divestment bill by a margin of 79-18; the legislation now heads to President Biden, who has committed to sign the bill into law — A bill that would force China-based company Bytedance to sell TikTok — or else face a US ban of the platform …
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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Biden signing the TikTok divestment bill starts a 270-day countdown for a sale or a US prohibition; sources say ByteDance sees divestiture as a last resort — - China's ByteDance faces deadline to sell app under US measure — Company braces for legal fight against divest-or-ban efforts| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Legal scholars discuss how the TikTok divestment bill could survive a First Amendment challenge and why the US will likely rely on a national security argument — The First Amendment is a major obstacle, scholars say — but it isn't insurmountable — On Tuesday, the Senate voted overwhelmingly …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economy-wide change — Move sets up high-stakes legal clash with business groups over the agency's power — WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft begins rolling out ads in the Windows 11 Start menu showing app “recommendations” from “a small set of curated developers”; users can disable the ads — Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users.
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| Seb Joseph / Digiday: |
For the third time, Google delays the deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome, pushing back its plans to early 2025, after the UK CMA expressed concerns — Google is delaying the end of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser — again. In other unsurprising developments, water remains wet.
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| Jacob Ridley / PC Gamer: |
The European Parliament adopts right-to-repair rules clarifying manufacturer obligations to provide repair services, consumer access to spare parts, and more — The new rules will give customers new ways to claim support for a product throughout its lifetime, and also aid independent repair shops.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The US OFAC sanctions four Iranian nationals over cyberattacks on the US government, defense contractors, and private companies, and the DOJ unseals indictments — The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their involvement … | Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Hands-on with the Meta AI chatbot: fails at basic search queries, stinks at counting, excels at editing existing paragraphs, quickly creates images, and more — Despite Mark Zuckerberg's hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
US prosecutors argue Binance founder Changpeng Zhao should spend three years in prison and pay $50M for helping violate sanctions and money laundering laws — The DOJ wants Zhao to serve 36 months after his guilty plea last year. — Binance's founder and former chief executive, Changpeng …
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| James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
An interview with Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors on criticism over mass layoffs and studio closures, splitting the company into three, rising debt, and more — Group owner defends teams and their leaders, says he still believes in the company's mission — News by James Batchelor Editor-in-chief| Edward Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At: |
Emails released as part of US vs. Google show how Google's finance and ad teams led by Prabhakar Raghavan made Search worse to make the company more money — This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. — The story begins on February 5th 2019 …
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| Joanna Nelius / The Verge: |
Qualcomm details its Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite chips; benchmarks suggest the chips match Apple's M3, Intel's Core Ultra 9, and AMD's Ryzen 9 — On Wednesday, Qualcomm announced the impending arrival of its Snapdragon X Plus laptop processor alongside more information …
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| Adam Iscoe / New Yorker: |
A look at the restaurant reservation ecosystem in New York City, where new apps have sprung up to help diners book a table at buzzy restaurants for a price — How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Block says it has finished developing its own 3nm bitcoin mining chip and is working through the design with a “leading global semiconductor foundry” — Jack Dorsey says that his payments company, Block (formerly Square), is expanding its bitcoin mining ambitions from designing chips …
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| The Pragmatic Engineer: |
A deep dive into how Bluesky is built, including its growth from three engineers to 12 in just over two years and its infrastructure move from AWS to on-prem — Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year.| Mary Jo Foley / Directions on Microsoft: |
Microsoft must take security seriously again by being transparent about breaches and no longer charging its subscribers extra for must-have security features — Microsoft charges extra for many core security and compliance features. What can customers do to try to minimize risk and save money?
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| Wall Street Journal: |
US companies racing to build data centers to serve AI demand is causing a shortage of parts, property, and power; cooling system lead times are now 5x longer — Supply bottlenecks slow the scramble to build bigger, more powerful facilities| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Tesla teases a ridehailing function in its app and says its robotaxi will be “purpose-built”, suggesting it will be built from the ground up to be self-driving — The company's CEO, Elon Musk, has said that Tesla will unveil a long-gestating robotaxi in August.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dublin-based Tines, which offers no-code automation tools for security teams, raised a $50M Series B extension, sources say at a near $600M post-money valuation — Automation continues to be a major theme in the enterprise — underscored not least by the rise of AI as a tool to help fix …
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OpenAI announces new enterprise-grade features for API customers, including enhanced security, administrative controls, and new Assistants API capabilities — Even as Meta's new Llama 3 has quickly rocketed up the charts of most-used and most customized large language models (LLMs) …
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| Keith Stuart / The Guardian: |
An interview with Apple Arcade's Senior Director Alex Rofman: the service hit record highs on all “critical metrics” in 2023, and will feature Vision Pro games — The head of the company's gaming subscription service explains its priorities as it anticipates the Vision Pro revolution … | Nami Matsuura / Nikkei Asia: |
Samsung starts mass production of its 9th-generation 286-layer 3D NAND memory chips, which increases data I/O speeds by 33% compared to 8th-gen 236-layer chips — 286-layer product boosts data storage capacity by 50%, aiding AI — SEOUL — Samsung Electronics said Tuesday …
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