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MacBook Air M2 review: thinner with much-improved screen and webcam but gets warm and throttles aggressively under intense workloads, base model has slower SSD — New design, new display, new processor, new price — After 14 years, three revisions, and two different processor architectures …
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @danackerman, @gtinari, @mmackh, @tomshardware, @lanceulanoff, @davezatz, @pierce, and @parkerortolani
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Twitter went down for around 40 minutes on Thursday morning, the first major Twitter outage since a series of problems for the social network in February — Twitter went down for 40 minutes — Twitter went down for around 40 minutes this morning, in a major outage for the social network.
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| CNBC: |
Celsius files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, declaring assets and liabilities between $1B and $10B, plus $167M in cash on hand for operations — - Crypto company Celsius has started the process of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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| Financial Times: |
Former staff and internal documents detail Celsius' implosion; its own compliance unit warned of poor oversight and misrepresentation of financial information — When Daniel Leon, one of the founders of Celsius Network, posted a Twitter video addressed to Warren Buffett in January 2021, he was in high spirits.
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung says it has developed a new GDDR6 DRAM with a 24Gbps data transfer rate, 30% faster than its 18Gbps predecessor, built on its 10nm process using EUV — The new DRAM will allow premium graphics cards to support a data processing rate of up to 1.1TB, Samsung says.
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| Ed Shanahan / New York Times: |
A federal jury convicts Vault 7-leaker Joshua Schulte on nine counts, two years after a previous jury failed to agree on eight of the 10 charges he then faced — The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan said Joshua Schulte had engaged in “one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history.”| Annabelle Dickson / Politico: |
Source: UK's Online Safety Bill is expected to be dropped from parliamentary schedule next week, delaying it until the fall, after Boris Johnson's resignation — LONDON — Progress on Britain's proposed new content regulation law is expected to be delayed until the fall …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Tesla Senior Director of AI Andrej Karpathy says he is leaving the company after about five years; Karpathy led the computer vision team for Tesla Autopilot — - Tesla's AI leader Andrej Karpathy announced on Wednesday that he is leaving the company. — Karpathy worked … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud announces a preview of Tau T2A, its first ARM-based virtual machines powered by Ampere Altra, with up to 48 vCPUs, each with up to 4GB of memory — It's been a long time coming, but Google Cloud today announced its first Arm-based VMs, following AWS, with its Graviton instances …
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TSMC beats Q2 estimates with a net profit of $7.94B, up 76.4% YoY, and total revenue of $18.16B, up 36.6% YoY — Taiwan's TSMC (2330.TW) posted a 76.4% surge in second-quarter profit on Thursday, the biggest jump in earnings in eight quarters that handily beat market estimates …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Amazon gave police Ring camera footage 11 times in 2022 without a warrant or permission from Ring owners, saying it sometimes makes a “good-faith determination” — Ring, Amazon's perennially controversial and police-friendly surveillance subsidiary, has long defended …
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Tweets: @alfredwkng, @thomasfuchs, @dellcam, @zackwhittaker, @docdre, @senmarkey, @marshallproj, @samfbiddle, and @edmarkey
| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
UnCaged Studios, a web3-focused gaming studio, has raised a $24M Series A, following a $4M token presale for its Solana-focused game MonkeyLeague — UnCaged Studios, a web3-focused gaming studio, has raised $24 million in a Series A equity funding round to continue growing the crypto gaming industry.
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CoinDesk, The Block, VentureBeat, and Insider
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
The inaugural report by the DHS Cyber Safety Review Board finds that Log4j has become an “endemic vulnerability” that will persist at least for the next decade — The flaw uncovered late last year in the widely-used Log4j Java library will remain a danger for many years to come …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Instagram adds more features to its creator subscription test, including the ability to publish feed posts that are only visible to subscribers — Pay up — or you won't see these exclusive photos or Reels — After getting off to a small start with paid subscriptions for creators earlier this year …
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| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Meta releases its first human rights report, including due diligence in 2020 and 2021 and a summary of a controversial human rights impact assessment of India — Facebook-owner Meta (META.O) released its first annual human rights report on Thursday, following years of accusations that it turned …
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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan: bitcoin's production cost dropped from ~$24K at the start of June to ~$13K now, as miners seek profitability by deploying more efficient mining rigs — Bitcoin's cost of production has dropped from about $24,000 at the start of June to around $13,000 now, which may be seen … | Bloomberg: |
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| Prarthana Prakash / Bloomberg: |
Over 500 women across the US sue Uber for sexual assault by some drivers, alleging the company knew about sexual misconduct on rides, including rape, since 2014 — Uber Technologies Inc. is being sued by more than 500 women across the US who claim to have been assaulted by drivers on the platform.
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PR Newswire, TechCrunch, CNBC, Protocol, The Hill, Gizchina, Fox Business, Engadget, PCMag, Insider, Forbes, The Daily Beast, and CNET
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| The Verge: |
Netflix names Microsoft as its “global advertising technology and sales partner” for its upcoming ad-supported streaming tier, rumored to arrive later in 2022 — Microsoft will become Netflix's ‘global advertising technology and sales partner’ — Netflix is partnering …
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Tweets: @satyanadella, @sherman4949, @aagave, @carnage4life, @modestproposal1, @jamesclayton5, @xandr, @jfruh, @kelseymsutton, @daveleeft, @tsuvik, @aripap, @azalben, @fxshaw, and @xpangler
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google releases Chrome OS Flex, a Chrome OS version for businesses and schools to run on more than 400 old models of PCs and Macs — Businesses and schools can now install Chrome OS on existing hardware — Google is releasing Chrome OS Flex today, a new version of Chrome OS that's designed …
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