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Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas steps down after five years at the company to refocus on “entrepreneurial passions”  —  TikTok's Chief Operating Officer V. Pappas has quit, Pappas told staff on Thursday, according to an email viewed by The Information.
Anja Karadeglija / National Post:
Meta will remove news content from Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada after the country's Senate passed the Online News Act, which goes for Royal Assent  —  With Bill C-18 on the verge of becoming law, Canadians could soon see news removed from their Facebook pages and Google searches
Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica:
DuckDuckGo releases its browser in public beta on Windows, over a year after its private beta on macOS, offering Duck Player for YouTube without ads and more  —  No extensions yet, but it can fight spam, tracking, and YouTube's algorithm.  —  Privacy-focused firm DuckDuckGo has released …
Rebekah Valentine / IGN:
Filing: Microsoft says Xbox “lost the console wars”, with a 16% share of console sales in 2021, behind Nintendo and PlayStation, and a 21% installed base share  —  Xbox “in third place” behind PlayStation and Nintendo, with a sales market share of 16%.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Elon Musk tweets that he is “up for a cage fight” with Mark Zuckerberg, who replies “send me location” in an Instagram story; Musk suggests the Vegas Octagon  —  Here we go.  —  After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg …
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Anton Shilov / AnandTech:
Argonne and Intel say they installed the Aurora supercomputer, announced in 2015, which will come online later in 2023 with 2 ExaFLOPS of processing power  —  Argonne National Laboratory and Intel said on Thursday that they had installed all 10,624 blades for the Aurora supercomputer …
Amrita Khalid / The Verge:
As Spotify's podcast strategy of focusing on exclusives and celebrity hosts continues to falter, the company seems to be shifting its attention to selling ads  —  The company is entering the ‘next phase’ of its podcast strategy — but will it learn from its mistakes?
CoinDesk:
BitGo ends its bid to acquire rival Prime Trust, which in turn halts all deposits and withdrawals; a judge dismissed BitGo's lawsuit over the failed Galaxy deal  —  Prime Trust has been losing clients and deposits to competitors for weeks amid mounting concerns over its business, a source at one former client told CoinDesk.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Microsoft aims to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years, after claiming to have created scalable and stable qubits using Majorana particles in 2022  —  Microsoft today announced its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer, using the topological qubits the company's researchers …
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
New York-based Captions, an AI-powered video editing app, raised a $25M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $250M valuation, bringing its total funding to $40M  —  The video editing software, designed for “talking videos,” has been used by 3 million creators to date and stands at a $250 million valuation.
Bloomberg:
a16z, Accel, Bain, Bessemer, Kleiner, and, sources say, Coatue and Tiger are increasingly buying startup shares on the secondary market, often at cheap prices  —  It's a bargain-hunter's dream, and for sellers it's sometimes the only good option left.  —  Secondary markets …
Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters:
Micron plans to invest up to $825M in its first DRAM and NAND assembly and test facility in India, with construction in Gujarat expected to begin in 2023  —  U.S. memory chip firm Micron Technology, Inc (MU.O) said on Thursday it would invest up to $825 million in a new chip assembly …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Figma expands its Google for Education partnership to Japan and now lets all US K-12 students access its design tools for free on education Chromebooks  —  Figma is expanding its partnership with Google for Education in a bid to introduce more school-age students to its product design and collaboration platforms.
Bob Mehr / New York Times:
A look at Dolby Atmos, supported by 15 music streaming services including Apple Music, which has heavily invested in Atmos, and the future of immersive audio  —  True believers in the immersive audio format say it could restore a musical appreciation lost to a generation that has come up during the streaming era.
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Ripple says Singapore gave the company in-principle regulatory approval to offer payment tokens, services, and expand XRP cross-border transfers in the country  —  - Ripple said it received in-principle approval of a Major Payment Institution Licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the country's central bank.
Glenn Gamboa / Associated Press:
Google pledges $20M in grants to support and expand the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, aiming to introduce US students to potential cybersecurity careers  —  Free medical clinics and legal aid clinics, where college students and their instructors help their communities while also learning …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases visionOS SDK for creating Vision Pro apps and plans to open applications for Apple Vision Pro developer kits and developer labs in July 2023  —  When Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC, the company promised to make a robust set of tools available for developers.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The US Treasury has denied credentials to specific reporters from The New York Times, WSJ, and Bloomberg for the G20 finance meeting in Asheville

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The firings of three Stars and Stripes journalists are on hold until September 4, when a judge set an injunction hearing to pause the firings during litigation

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of lawyer Beth Wilkinson, who is representing Paramount and Nexstar in lawsuits brought by state AGs, and Disney in its case against the FCC

More News

Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Motorola Razr Plus review: a useful large cover screen, all-day battery, and a fun form factor, but only splash-resistant and the cover screen setup is fiddly
SemiAnalysis:
A look at Intel's history as the chip industry's only major Integrated Design Manufacturer and why the position is both a structural advantage and disadvantage
More: ExtremeTech, Livemint, TechPowerUp, and PC Gamer
Bluesky: @stshank.bsky.social.  Twitter: @hpc_guru and @dylan522p.  Forums: r/hardware
Shen Lu / Wall Street Journal:
Shein tries to shed its Chinese image, including by denying claims of sourcing its cotton from Xinjiang and staying silent on details of its suppliers in China

Earlier Picks

Liani MK / Rest of World:
Indigenous communities in Borneo are using mapping tech like GPS and GIS to claim their rights to ancestral land and stop the expansion of oil palm plantations
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
NYC-based Warp, a Rust-based macOS terminal app with features like permalinks and AI auto-complete command suggestions, raised a $50M Series B led by Sequoia
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Meta rolls out its Quest v55 update, boosting the Quest 2's maximum GPU clock speed up to 19% and the Quest Pro's up to 11%, and the CPUs for both up to 26%
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Apple patches three zero-days in macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS, exploited by the Triangulation iMessage spyware reported by Kaspersky earlier in June 2023
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