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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils iOS 16 with customizable lock screens, including a Wallpaper Gallery, suggested background photos, and the ability to change the font and color — Apple has officially unveiled iOS 16 with new features focused on customization, communication, and more.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
An in-depth look at Apple's M2 chip: 20B transistors, up from 16B in M1 and 15B in A15, alongside a 10-core GPU, up from an 8-core in M1, and 8K video decoding — Though primarily a software-focused event, Apple's WWDC keynotes are often stage for an interesting hardware announcement or two as well …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple debuts the M2 chip, a CPU 18% faster than the M1, with 20B transistors, 100Gbps of memory bandwidth, 50% more than the M1, and 24GB of unified memory — Apple is ready to move beyond the M1 — Apple is introducing its new M2 chip today at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
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| Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: |
macOS Ventura will include Continuity Camera, which lets an iPhone act as a webcam, using the Wide Angle lens for Center Stage and the Ultra Wide for Desk View — Announced at the 2022 WWDC, Apple is adding a feature for the iPhone to natively act as a webcam in macOS Ventura for users of iOS 16.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
EU lawmakers reach an agreement on legislation that will mandate USB-C on smartphones and other electronic devices, starting in fall 2024, to reduce e-waste — A major blow to Apple's Lightning port — European Union lawmakers have reached an agreement on legislation that will force …
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| Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg: |
Texas AG Ken Paxton announces an investigation into Twitter for potentially misreporting its bot accounts, after Elon Musk's complaints about the alleged issue — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he opened an investigation of Twitter saying the social media platform may be misleading people …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the SEC is probing Binance and its 2017 ICO of BNB, now the world's fifth biggest token, on whether BNB is a security that should have been registered — US regulators are investigating whether Binance Holdings Ltd. broke securities rules by selling digital tokens just as the crypto exchange …
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| Tory Newmyer / Washington Post: |
Sens. Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand release their draft crypto regulation bill, seeking to empower the CFTC over the SEC, a win for the industry — The proposal would hand crypto oversight to the CFTC, which the sector views as friendlier than the SEC
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple refreshes the MacBook Air with a thinner, non-wedge design, M2, 13.6" display with a notch, MagSafe, fast charging, and a 1080p camera, starting at $1,199 — Apple today announced its next-generation MacBook Air, starting at $1199, featuring the just-announced M2 chip inside.
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| Patrick Radden Keefe / New Yorker: |
An in-depth look at attempts by the US to prosecute hot-headed coder Joshua Schulte, who allegedly leaked the CIA's hacking arsenal, ahead of his June 13 trial — A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency's hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues?| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple unveils watchOS 9 with more watch faces, pinned active apps, new fitness features, expanded running metrics, medication reminders, a new Siri UI, and more — Apple also announced new fitness features and watch faces — Apple announced today the latest version of its smartwatch platform, watchOS 9.| Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: |
Study: Bitcoin transactions show 64 key players mined most of the cryptocurrency in its first two years, contrary to the ethos of decentralized crypto — In myth, the cryptocurrency is egalitarian, decentralized and all but anonymous. The reality is very different, scientists have found.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says iOS 16 will support “select” iPhone models using Face ID in landscape orientation; iOS 16 beta 1 limits landscape Face ID to iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 — iOS 16 will finally allow you to unlock your iPhone in landscape. On the iOS 16 features page … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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MacRumors, Fossbytes, Cult of Mac, iMore, BGR India, and The Apple Post
Tweets: @dangeredwolf, @sondesix, and @shadowbiood
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
CybSafe, which uses behavioral science and data analytics to help businesses improve security, raises a $28M Series B, bringing its total funding to $40M — Behavioral security and data analytics startup CybSafe Ltd. has raised $28 million in new funding to accelerate its product development …
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Business Wire and The Register
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Dark web marketplace AlphaBay, which relaunched in August 2021 after law enforcement took it down in 2017, now has 30K+ unique product listings, largely drugs — Five years after it was torn offline, the resurrected dark web marketplace is clawing its way back to the top of the online underworld.
Tweets: @wired
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