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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Meta details its text-to-video AI generator, Make-A-Video, which can produce up to five-second videos without audio; Meta is not giving access to the AI model — AI text-to-image generators have been making headlines in recent months, but researchers are already moving on to the next frontier: AI text-to-video generators.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta confirms taking “enforcement actions” against The OG App, which offers ad-free Instagram feeds, as developer UN1feed says Apple removed the App Store app — A third-party Instagram app, called “The OG App,” which promised an ad-free feed more like the original Instagram experience …
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The OG App, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Neowin, XDA Developers, PetaPixel, TechRadar, TechSpot, The Mac Observer, PetaPixel, and Gizmodo
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new Maps features, including the ability to visually soar over some areas, 250 more landmark views, enriched neighborhood info, and AR search — Google is gearing up to launch several new updates for Maps in the coming months, the company announced today at its Search On event.
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Tweets: @alphabetworkers, @kashthefuturist, and @mikehofman
| Reuters: |
An investigation shows the CIA failed to secure its messaging system used by Iranian spies, often hidden within websites, leading to capture, torture, and death — The spy was minutes from leaving Iran when he was nabbed. — Gholamreza Hosseini was at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran in late 2010, preparing for a flight to Bangkok.
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
An Apple support document and a compliance page reference an “iPhone 14 Max”, suggesting Apple changed the name to iPhone 14 Plus at the last moment — Newly discovered references to the iPhone 14 Plus as “iPhone 14 Max” on Apple's website suggest this was the name originally intended …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft plans to end support for SwiftKey on iOS and delist the app from the App Store on October 5; Microsoft will continue to support SwiftKey for Android — Questions about what's going on with Microsoft's support of the predictive SwifKey keyboard app for iOS have been bubbling up over the past few weeks.
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| Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press: |
Amnesty International: Meta's algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook that incited violent hatred against the Rohingya in Myanmar — With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that's been his home since 2017 …
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| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
Doreen Bogdan-Martin, the US candidate for secretary general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union, beats Russia's candidate by 139 to 25 votes — BUCHAREST — A top U.S. official won a massive majority to lead the United Nations agency that sets global standards for telecoms and tech infrastructure.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail Chaos, a new cross-platform malware that infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including routers, FreeBSD boxes, and servers — Small office routers? FreeBSD machines? Enterprise servers? Chaos infects them all. — Researchers have revealed a never …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank begins laying off Vision Fund employees, with cuts expected to impact over 150 people, or 30%+ of its staff, following a record $23B loss — SoftBank Group Corp. has started laying off employees at its loss-making Vision Fund and is expected to cut at least 30% of its staff …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Report: corporate expense management service TripActions, which was last valued at $7.25B, filed confidentially for a US IPO seeking a $12B valuation — TripActions is said to have filed confidentially to go public in the third quarter of next year at a $12 billion valuation.| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
A look at Botometer, which claims to identify the likelihood that a Twitter account is a bot and has been cited by Elon Musk's lawyers in the Twitter lawsuit — In the battle over Twitter's future, the number of bots on the platform is a key issue. Problem is, nobody knows how to count them.
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Wired UK and Ars Technica
Tweets: @tashabernal, @floriangallwitz, @osome_iu, @pt, and @floriangallwitz
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Ox Security, which improves software supply chain security, raised a $34M seed from Microsoft's M12 and others, and says it has 30+ customers — The rise in software supply chain attacks, like the SolarWinds hack, prompted last year's executive order from the Biden Administration …
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The New Stack, VentureBeat, and SiliconANGLE
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon encourages some customer service staff to work from home, sources say to cut real estate costs; source: Amazon plans to close multiple US call centers — Amazon.com Inc. is encouraging customer service employees at some US call centers to work from home, signaling the company's preference … | Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Meta permanently bans Pornhub's Instagram account for “repeatedly violating” its policies, after a three-week suspension and ToS breaches accruing over 10 years — Pornhub claims its account was “fully PG,” and cites the uneven treatment of mainstream celebrities like Kim Kardashian …
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Tweets: @pornhub, @evelyndouek, @evelyndouek, @motherboard, @kane_wolfe92, @drnicka, @willoneill, @lailamickelwait, and @decentfilms
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Block's bitcoin-focused TBD subsidiary and Circle partner on open standards for cross-border remittances and self-custody wallets that hold USD stablecoins — The partnership aims to improve people's access to dollar-linked stablecoins in countries with rapidly devaluing currencies.
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Axios, Circle Blog, CoinGape, TBD, and Watcher Guru
Tweets: @tbd54566975, @chrisblec, @start9labs, and @jonsyu
| Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: |
Experts: the Optus hack could cost parent Singtel $420M-$560M for the 2.8M worst-affected customers; Singtel's profit for the year ending March 2022 was $1.44B — The cost for Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. to make good customers exposed to one of Australia's worst data breaches risks wiping … | Bloomberg: |
Jakarta-based Traveloka, Southeast Asia's largest online travel startup, raised $300M from BlackRock, Allianz, and others; Traveloka was valued at $3B in 2020 — Traveloka has secured $300 million in new financing from investors including BlackRock Inc., as Southeast Asia's biggest online …
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Nikkei Asia and Tech in Asia
| Financial Times: |
An investigation details China's crackdown on executives at its $47B Big Fund for semiconductor self-sufficiency, including 12+ disappearances and detentions — The sudden disappearance in July last year of Gao Songtao, the bespectacled former vice-president of government fund manager Sino IC Capital, was a warning of a coming storm.
Tweets: @simonbchen, @michaelxpettis, and @edwardwhitenz
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new US shopping features, including a “Shop the Look” display of complementary products, 3D images, trending items, and more personalization — At its Search On event this afternoon, Google announced a number of shopping-related changes and new features across areas …
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