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Developer logs: Apple tests an M3 with 12 CPU cores, 18 GPU cores, and 36GB of RAM; Meta pulls Messenger from Apple Watch and launches WhatsApp on WearOS — As Apple prepares to launch its next M2 Macs, the company is already ramping up testing of M3 chips.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Research finds that AI assistants may be able to influence users without them knowing, akin to humans swaying one another through collaboration and social norms — AI assistants may be able to change our views without our realizing it. Says one expert: 'What's interesting here is the subtlety.'| Malcolm Harris / Wired: |
A profile of Douglas Rushkoff, an internet theorist since the 1990s and a former techno-optimist who all but renounced being a digital revolution spokesperson — The former techno-optimist has taken a decisive political left turn. He says it's the only human option.
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Nearly half of online footwear, apparel, and accessories brands tracked by Coresight have expanded to physical stores due to rising digital advertising costs — Warby Parker planned to sell glasses online and shake up retailing. Now it's discovered the value of real stores—900 of them, in fact.
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How Sea, one of Southeast Asia's largest internet companies that burned billions of dollars for marketshare, made huge cuts to turn its first profit in 14 years — Just over a year ago, Forrest Li was laid up in bed with Covid, fretting about the future of his company … | Bloomberg: |
Swedish cybersecurity company Truesec and experts: Russia-linked “Anonymous Sudan” is one of the most prolific hacktivist groups targeting Swedish organizations — Since February, a mysterious hacker group calling itself Anonymous Sudan has targeted dozens of Swedish airports … | Nikkei Asia: |
Sensor Tower: 156 of the 475 top five apps in 95 countries and regions for Q1 2023 were Chinese, up 8% from 2020; the top three apps in the US were Chinese — Security concerns and lack of market access drives crackdowns around the world — Chinese apps such as TikTok and Shein are popular with the young.
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A look at TikTok's #medicalmoms, where mothers of disabled and chronically ill kids share parenthood journeys, raising privacy, consent, and autonomy concerns — When Bella was born in 2013, she didn't leave the hospital for the first two years of her life because of a combination of a rare form … | Riya Sharma / Reuters: |
Australia-based gambling machine maker Aristocrat Leisure agrees to acquire Israel-based NeoGames, which builds tech for online real-money gaming, for over $1B — Australia's Aristocrat Leisure (ALL.AX) on Monday said it has entered a deal to acquire Israel-based software firm NeoGames S.A. …
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Ahead of Turkey's May 14 presidential election, Twitter restricts access to some content “in response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available” — Twitter announced on Friday that it's blocking some content in Turkey ahead of Sunday's presidential election in the country.
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| Maysoon Khan / Associated Press: |
New York AG Letitia James says three companies accused of falsifying millions of public comments to back the FCC's 2017 net neutrality repeal will pay $615K — Three companies accused of falsifying millions of public comments to support the contentious 2017 federal repeal of net neutrality rules …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
US-based sports merchandise retailer Fanatics agrees to acquire the US assets of Australia-based online sports betting company PointsBet for $150M in cash — Fanatics, the sports merchandise giant valued at over $30 billion, has reached a deal to acquire the U.S. assets of PointsBet, an online sportsbook operator based in Australia.
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