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Google details the commercial spyware Hermit, used in Kazakhstan and Italy, targeting Android and iOS; the iOS version has six exploits, including two zero-days — The spyware has targeted victims in Kazakhstan and Italy — Security researchers at Lookout recently tied …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Intel delays its scheduled July 22 groundbreaking of a $20B Ohio chip plant due to uncertainty around the Bipartisan Innovation Act, but still plans to build it — Company still plans to build the Ohio chips facility, but frustrated about status of proposed law supporting U.S. semiconductor industry
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| Phillip Tracy / Gizmodo: |
Microsoft announces gaming features for Edge, including a new homepage, exclusive free-to-play games, Clarity Boost for streamed games, and a performance option — This latest browser update adds a new gaming interface, graphics enhancements to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and easy access to free casual games.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool, in preview within the AWS IDE Toolkit, supporting Java, JavaScript, and Python — At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub's Copilot …
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| Maddie Ellis / Wall Street Journal: |
Instagram begins testing tools to verify ages, starting with 17 and under, using either Yoti's facial video analysis, photo IDs, or adults vouching for users — Meta's new policy will make it tougher for teens to update to adult accounts. But they can still lie about their age in the first place| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
OSOM, founded by ex-Essential employees, scraps its OV1 phone and partners with Solana to produce Saga, a $1,000 Web3-focused Android phone launching in Q1 2023 — The OSOM OV1 was a new Android smartphone built from the bones of Essential, but it's now being rebranded as a crypto/web3 device, the “Solana Saga.”
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| Evan Conrad: |
Crypto may be “more bad than good” but it has use cases like cutting out middlemen via decentralization, so the claim that it has “no use cases” is not rational — I've heard many smart people who I trust complain that “after 13 years, there are still no use cases for crypto.”
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| Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
Vibrant Planet, a public-benefit startup that is developing software for forest management, has raised a $17M seed — For Allison Wolff, the 2018 wildfire season in California marked a turning point. During that record-breaking year, she started asking a lot of questions.| New York Times: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg's top priority is now the metaverse, not securing elections; Meta has ~60 people focused primarily on elections, down from 300+ in 2020 — Mark Zuckerberg, who once said securing elections was “the most important thing,” has shifted Meta's focus to the metaverse.
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| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
Yelp closes its NY, Chicago, and Washington DC offices as CEO Jeremy Stoppelman doubles down on remote work and calls hybrid offices “the worst of both worlds” — CEO Jeremy Stoppelman calls hybrid offices “the worst of both worlds” as he doubles down on remote work
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Italy's data watchdog finds a local web publisher's use of Google Analytics violated EU data protection rules due to privacy risks over data transfers to the US — Another strike against use of Google Analytics in Europe: The Italian data protection authority has found a local web publisher's use …
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| Reuters: |
Yandex opens YaLM 100B to the public, claiming the AI research language model contains 100B parameters, “more than any GPT-like model available in open-source” — Russian technology company Yandex (YNDX.O) said on Thursday it had made a large language model for artificial … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google plans to bring Chrome's Enhanced Safe Browsing, which helps track URLs to monitor dangerous websites, to Chrome for iOS, expanding on Android and desktop — Updates to its user interface and translation features are also on the way — Enhanced Safe Browsing, the Chrome feature …
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, XDA Developers, iMore, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, MacRumors, iClarified, and TechCrunch
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the LUNA and UST crash, as Do Kwon says he's “been devastated by recent events” but has “great confidence in our ability to build back even stronger” — Luna's relaunch might be the ultimate act of chutzpah by the South Korean entrepreneur
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Ethereum World News, ZyCrypto, Decrypt, CryptoPotato, networked, Coinspeaker, Fortune, Bloomberg, Cryptonews, and CoinGeek
Tweets: @matigreenspan, @aosipovich, @aosipovich, @aosipovich, @fatmanterra, @mbrookerhk, and @wublockchain
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Spotify replaces Concert Hub with a Live Events Feed, populated by Ticketmaster, AXS, DICE, Eventbrite, See Tickets, and other partners, for finding tour dates — Spotify has expanded its old Concert Hub and added more features to make it easier to find information and tickets for live events in your location.| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
China issues new rules for live streamers, including requiring influencers to have relevant qualifications to discuss topics such as law, finance, and medicine — The severe acute respiratory syndrome gave the city its first major health scare since the handover, while in the years that followed … | Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: |
Report: video game revenue in China fell for a third consecutive month in May 2022, down 6.7% YoY to $3.4B, amid a slowing economy and regulatory uncertainties — China's video gaming revenue fell 6.7 per cent to US$3.4 billion in May, driven mostly by a decline in mobile game spending … | Jessica Lucas / Input: |
A look at r/LossPrevention, a subreddit for busting shoplifters; members monitor Reddit's pro-shoplifting community and share videos of people being apprehended — Alex McLeod is an adrenaline junkie. The 24-year-old, who lives in Ontario, Canada, is an avid martial artist with plans to sign up for a professional fighting league.| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Changpeng Zhao, who built Binance into the largest crypto exchange, as he navigates China's regulatory crackdown in a brutal crypto winter — During the first few months of this year—back when buying digital tokens named after dog memes was still seen, at least …
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New York Times and Insider
| Reuters: |
Cisco plans to wind down its business in Russia and Belarus, after suspending its Russian operations in March, and offered to relocate its few hundred employees — U.S. companies Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) and Nike (NKE.N) plan to fully exit Russia, the two firms told Reuters on Thursday …
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Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, The Moscow Times, WRAL TechWire, CRN, Finbold, and The Hill
| Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at efforts to reduce online advertising's carbon footprint, which, according to a 2018 study, accounts for roughly 10% of the internet's energy usage — Digital ads require a lot of computing power, but the exact amount of electricity they consume is hard to pin downSponsor Posts
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