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Meta unveils the $500 Quest 3, “the first mainstream headset with high-res color MR”, slimmer and over 2x the GPU performance vs. the Quest 2, coming this fall — Meta Quest 3 Launches Later This Year + Lower Prices & Improvements for Quest 2 The countdown is on for …
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@kyleorl.bsky.social
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Survey: Android owners mostly switched to iPhone because of prior phone problems and new iPhone features; only 6% moved because of iMessage and FaceTime — Following its report that showed Android users pivoting to iPhone at a 5-year high, CIRP is out today with a study that reveals why people are making the switch.| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
FSB claims Apple helped NSA hack Russian diplomats' iPhones; Kaspersky: unknown malware successfully targeted iPhones up to iOS 15.7 with zero-click exploits — Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is accusing U.S. intelligence of hacking “thousands of Apple phones” to spy on Russian diplomats.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
After Microsoft paid $7.5B for ZeniMax in 2020, sources detail development issues for Redfall, one of the worst-reviewed games in 2023 and Xbox's latest misfire — Over the years, Microsoft Corp.-owned video-game developer Arkane Studios has cultivated a reputation for releasing games …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing two new high-end Macs, one with M2 Max and the other with an unannounced M2 Ultra, offering 60 graphics cores and up to 192GB of RAM — Apple Inc. is testing a pair of new high-end Macs and their accompanying processors ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference next week …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram details ranking content in Feed, Stories, Reels, and more, and is testing more user controls, including an “Interested” button for recommended posts — Instagram announced today that it's testing a new feature that gives users more control over what they see on the social network …
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| EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone: |
A look at the grotesque world of AI true-crime-victim TikTok, where AI deepfakes, based on images of children who were abused, describe their own ghastly demise — TikTok accounts are posting horrifying artificial intelligence-generated clips of murder victims — mostly children — describing their own ghastly demise| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI researchers say training AI with process supervision, which rewards the thought process rather than the outcome, could help prevent hallucinations — - AI hallucinations occur when models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Bard fabricate information entirely.
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| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Apple Savings Account users have had trouble transferring money out of their accounts; Goldman representatives have given differing responses on what to do — Some customers said it has taken weeks to withdraw their money, and that the bank's instructions have differed
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
BeReal plans to launch a chat feature, initially testing in Ireland; users will be able to message one-on-one, send a private BeReal, and react with RealMoji — BeReal is working on a chat feature, which will begin with a test among users in Ireland. — At launch, users will be able …
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| Bloomberg: |
Tether's USDT circulation surpasses its $83.2B all-time-high, recovering the ~$20B lost after TerraUSD imploded in 2022, even as crypto trading volumes drop — Tether Holdings Ltd.'s stablecoin has recovered all of the roughly $20 billion in market value it lost following the collapse …
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| Isaac Schorr / Mediaite: |
The Daily Wire claims that Twitter canceled a deal to premiere What Is a Woman and threatened to “throttle” the documentary over two instances of “misgendering” — Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing tore into Elon Musk and Twitter for allegedly threatening …
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Variety and Reclaim The Net
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@martinsfp.bsky.social. Tweets:
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| Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: |
Hundreds of white-collar Amazon workers in Seattle walked off the job, frustrated by job losses, a return-to-office mandate, carbon emissions, and leadership — Frustrated by job losses, office policies and rising carbon emissions, white-collar Amazon workers are demanding more from leadership
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Amazon agrees to pay $25M to settle FTC and DOJ charges over the company keeping Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data collected from children for years — Regulators said the tech giant kept children's Alexa voice recordings “forever,” violating a children's privacy law.
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@ftc, @bedoyaftc, @frankpallone, @senmarkey, @linakhanftc, @linakhanftc, @leah_nylen, @swiftstories, @linakhanftc, @rachelmetz, and @digiphile
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LinkedIn:
Danielle Duclos. Tweets:
@ftc, @ftc, @tonyajoriley, @amlwhere, @ericgarland, and @ashleygjovik
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
DeFi lending protocol MakerDAO's community votes to ditch $500M of the Paxos Dollar stablecoin from its reserves, impacting roughly half of the token's supply — The result is a significant blow for Paxos as MakerDAO currently holds roughly half of USDP's total supply.| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Crypto bridging protocol Multichain suspended service for multiple chains after being unable to contact its CEO to get server access, during ongoing tech issues — - Multichain, the cross-chain protocol, confirmed Wednesday that the team is unable to contact its chief executive amid ongoing technology problems.
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Decrypt, Cryptonews, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Protos, Micky, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, and CoinGape
| Financial Times: |
As ASML reaches a ~€275B market cap, roughly twice Intel's, a look at the fundamental limits of making ever-smaller chips, which could put an end to Moore's Law — For decades, ever-tinier semiconductors have allowed huge leaps in computing progress. Not for much longer, warn experts
Bluesky:
@revan.bsky.social. Tweets:
@jasoncosta, @adam_tooze, @graphcoreai, @alexcampolo, @1br0wn, @newlefteviews, @pstasiatech, and @martijnrasser
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Some IT executives say generative AI lowers the barrier for code creation, which could result in growing levels of complexity, technical debt, and confusion — Chief information officers could see their job getting more complex even as generative AI makes software development easier
Tweets:
@chrismattmann, @nyike, and @wavesblog
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Motorola launches two Razr phones, including the $999 Razr Plus with a 3.6" outer display, an inner 6.9" 165Hz 1080p panel, and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset — Moto is adding two new foldables, led by the Razr Plus. Its 3.6-inch cover screen makes it more than just a nostalgic tribute to your favorite 2000s flip phone.
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XDA Developers, Android Police, HotHardware, Android Authority, ZDNet, Tom's Guide, PhoneArena, Android Central, MobileSyrup, Pocket-lint, and Digital Trends. Tweets:
@basil_knows
| Reuters: |
Sources: a planned $3B semiconductor facility in India by ISMC, a consortium that includes chipmaker Tower, has stalled due to Intel's ongoing Tower acquisition — A planned $3 billion semiconductor facility in India by chip consortium ISMC that counted Israeli chipmaker Tower as a tech partner …
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@dnystedt, @adityakalra, @reuters, and @adityakalra
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