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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases a Game Porting Toolkit, based on the open-source platform Wine, to translate DirectX 12 into Metal 3, a potentially massive step for Mac gaming — One of the new features in macOS Sonoma is Game Mode, which Apple claims improves gaming performance on Apple Silicon Macs.
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Investigations: Instagram connects and promotes a vast network of accounts openly devoted to underage sex content; Meta plans to improve its internal controls — The Meta unit's systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content; company says it is improving internal controls| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon plans to launch an ad-supported Prime Video tier and is talking with WBD and Paramount about adding their ad-based tiers to Prime Video Channels — Discussions come as ad buyers have been pushing for more access to premium shows and movies — Amazon is planning to launch …
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple details features coming to its services this fall, like offline maps and real-time EV charging availability in Maps and Collaborative Playlists in Music — New features are coming to Apple Music, Apple Maps and more — Following the launch of Apple's next operating systems for its devices …
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Priceline partners with Google Cloud on a generative AI chatbot for planning trips, suggesting hotels like “a personal concierge” tailored to users, and more — Want a New York hotel near a Christmas market, a vegan restaurant, or another attraction?
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Google Cloud partners with Mayo Clinic to test a service for making AI chatbots and search apps; Mayo created a tool that helps staff find patient data and more — - Google Cloud on Wednesday said Mayo Clinic is using a new generative AI search tool that lets companies create customized chatbots.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Automattic launches Jetpack AI Assistant for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites, letting users generate content, translate text into 12 languages, and more — Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the main contributor to the open-source WordPress project …
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Sources: MLS and Apple discussed sharing new Season Pass subscriber revenue with Lionel Messi; on June 6, Apple unveiled a four-part Messi docuseries on TV+ — Major League Soccer and Inter Miami are solidifying details around the potential signing of Argentine superstar Lionel Messi.
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| Alyssa Mercante / Kotaku: |
A look at Twitch's new ad rules for branded content, a crucial source of income for creators; after an outcry, Twitch says the initial update was “overly broad” — 'The top 100 streamers on Twitch just got told they're not allowed to make 80 percent of their revenue the way they're used to making it.'
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
How Twitter, YouTube, and Meta gave up on removing lies about the 2020 US presidential elections, after having briefly banded together to do the right thing — For a time, they fought the good fight — but not any more — I. — On tech platforms these days you can get away with just about anything …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Mojang launches Minecraft: Bedrock Edition for ChromeOS, after early access in March 2023; the $20 game runs on Chromebooks from the past three years and more — It will run on any Chromebook from the last three years, as well as some other models. — Following an early access period … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The US DOJ says Onur Aksoy pleaded guilty to importing and selling counterfeit Cisco equipment to various organizations, making $100M+ between 2014 and 2022 — A Florida man has pleaded guilty to importing and selling counterfeit Cisco networking equipment to various organizations …
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Sequoia's plan for three VC firms represents a major shift due to rising US-China tensions and signals that China ties are a growing liability in Silicon Valley — Sequoia Capital's plan to split itself into three separate regional firms represents a major shift at one the world's foremost venture capital firms.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit says it is creating an exemption from its new API pricing terms for “select developers of non-commercial apps that address accessibility needs” — Reddit is creating an exemption to its unpopular new API pricing terms for makers of accessibility apps …
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft starts offering OpenAI's GPT-3 and GPT-4 to Azure Government clients, including various US agencies; the DOD's DTIC plans to experiment with the LLMs — Microsoft Corp. will make it possible for users of its Azure Government cloud computing service, which include a variety of US agencies …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Contextual AI, which is building the next generation of LLMs for enterprise use-cases, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures — Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-4 are powerful, paradigm-shifting tools that promise to upend industries.
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| Morgan Sung / TechCrunch: |
Luka, which develops Replika, launches Blush, an AI chatbot service to help users with “relationship and intimacy skills” via characters Klea, Aisha, and Theo — The team behind the AI friendship bot Replika is launching another AI companion — one that's made to flirt.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple makes iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS Sonoma developer betas free for anyone with an Apple ID, not just users with $99/year developer accounts — For years, access to the iOS developer beta and other developer builds has only been available through a $99/year developer account.
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| Robert Armstrong / Financial Times: |
Crypto is dangerous nonsense and should be regulated like smoking, gambling, or pyramid schemes, not granted the dignity of regulation under US securities law — But not for the reasons the exchanges think — This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU is considering a mandatory ban on member states using equipment from Huawei and other companies deemed a security risk in their 5G networks — Brussels concerned lack of action by member states to bar high-risk companies threatens security of entire bloc| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Court filing: the SEC asked a DC court to grant a temporary restraining order that would freeze assets tied to Binance.US' holding and operating companies — The filing comes a day after the SEC sued Binance. — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asked a court to grant …
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
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