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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
After Elon Musk tweeted he is “up for a cage fight” with Mark Zuckerberg, both parties agree to a fight in principle without agreeing to specifics — Here we go. — After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO shot …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases visionOS SDK, and says the company will open developer labs and applications for Apple Vision Pro developer kits next month — When Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC, the company promised to make a robust set of tools available for developers.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
The US FTC files a lawsuit alleging Amazon used “dark patterns” to steer customers to enroll in Prime without consent and “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel — - The FTC on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging it tricked customers into signing up for its Prime subscription program …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft increases the prices in most markets for its Xbox Series X and, for the first time, Xbox Game Pass; Xbox Series X pricing remains the same in the US — Microsoft is increasing its Xbox Series X prices in most countries in August apart from the US, Japan, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Apple patches three zero-days in its operating systems, including Operation Triangulation iMessage exploit described by Kaspersky earlier in June — Apple addressed three new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks installing Triangulation spyware on iPhones via iMessage zero-click exploits.
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Forums: r/InfoSecNews and MacRumors Forums
| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter resumed paying Google Cloud for its services; the companies are negotiating a partnership that could include ads and Google using Twitter's API — Twitter has resumed paying Google Cloud for its services, patching up a relationship that became strained after Elon Musk acquired …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft aims to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years, after Microsoft researchers claim to create Majorana particles for scalable and stable qubits — Microsoft today announced its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer, using the topological qubits the company's researchers …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Ripple says it got in-principle regulatory approval from Singapore to offer digital payment token products 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.
More: CoinDesk, The Block, Cointelegraph, Watcher Guru, and Tech in Asia
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Citing rising complaints, Australia's eSafety Commissioner gives Twitter 28 days to explain the steps it is taking to combat hate speech or face fines of ~$475K — Australia's online safety regulator sent a legal notice to Twitter demanding the social network explain the steps it is taking …
More: ABC, BBC, Livemint, The Register, Reuters, and Reclaim The Net
| Scott Wong / NBC News: |
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer unveils an AI regulatory framework and says that “Congress must join the AI revolution” before it's too late to regulate — The Senate majority leader released his long-awaited framework for regulating artificial intelligence …
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| Jeremy Diamond / CNN: |
| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta rolls out the Quest v55 update, boosting the Quest 2 and Pro maximum clock speeds by up to 19% for the GPU and 26% for the CPU, as Quest 3 preps for launch — The Quest v55 update brings the promised CPU & GPU clock speed increases for Quest 2 and Quest Pro.
More: Meta, Game Rant, XR Daily News, The Verge, and UploadVR
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Forums: r/OculusQuest and r/OculusQuest
| Zosha Millman / Polygon: |
Ali Selim, the director and executive producer of Marvel's Secret Invasion, says Method Studios used AI to design the opening credits scene — ‘It just came right out of the shape-shifting, Skrull world identity’ — The world of Secret Invasion is decidedly sketchy.
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Forums: r/aiwars, r/MarvelStudios_Rumours, r/blankies, r/DefendingAIArt, r/television, and Slashdot
| 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 — In Borneo, Indigenous communities are using mapping tech to claim their land rights and fight the expansion of oil palm plantations.
Mastodon: @TechDesk@flipboard.social. Twitter: @liani_mk, @russellbrandom, @restofworld, @siddiquizuha, and @dmkmtoday
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based newsletter platform beehiiv raised a $12.5M Series A led by Lightspeed and says it has 7,500 active newsletters with 350M monthly impressions — The world took a double take at the potential of newsletters after Substack started to blow up a few years ago.
More: beehiiv Blog, Howie Town, and Lightspeed Venture Partners
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
NYC-based Warp, a Rust-based terminal app for macOS with features like AI-powered auto-complete suggestions of commands, raised a $50M Series B led by Sequoia — Command-line interfaces have barely changed in decades, but remain beloved by techies. Warp aims to modernize the whole experience—and add a dash of AI.
More: Warp.dev. LinkedIn: Zach Lloyd. Twitter: @mikeyk, @harrymccracken, @technologizer, @zachlloydtweets, and @warpdotdev. Thanks:@technologizer
| Sawdah Bhaimiya / Insider: |
In a tweet reply, Elon Musk says Twitter considers “cis” and “cisgender” slurs and “the contemptible creep” who “manufactured” the term “has serious problems” — - Elon Musk said terms like “cisgender” and “cis” are now considered “slurs” on Twitter.
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Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/LGBTnews, r/FreeSpeech, and r/daverubin
| Edward Felsenthal / TIME: |
Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on why UX matters for AI, AGI going “wrong” vs. “AGI is going to go fantastically well”, capping profit, regulation, and more — For this week's TIME100 Most Influential Companies cover story about OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Dropbox debuts two AI tools: one for summarizing documents, and Dash, an ambitious universal search engine that aims to be the “Google for your personal stuff” — Dropbox is launching two different but related AI-powered services into its platform.| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Big firms want to trade crypto with the structure of traditional finance, including orders intermediated by brokers and asset custody separate from the exchange — Institutional crypto — I think even a year ago it was possible to imagine the traditional financial system learning something from crypto.| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Ted Sarandos outlines Netflix's plans to spend some of the $2.5B earmarked for K-drama, including working with South Korean organizations to identify talent — Netflix Inc. promised to back and cultivate the Korean showrunners and studios behind viral shows like Squid Game … | 9to5Google: |
Code repository suggests Google is working on a separate “Chromebook X” brand for premium devices, a source says with first models expected by the end of 2023 — When does a Chromebook become more than “just a Chromebook?” That's the question that Google has set out to answer with its upcoming …
More: Chrome Unboxed, Laptop Mag, XDA Developers, BGR, TechRadar, ZDNet, and The Verge
| Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: |
Intel plans to sell a ~20% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to Bain in a deal valuing IMS at $4.3B; Intel invested in IMS in 2009 and acquired the company in 2015 — Intel Corp. agreed to sell a roughly 20% stake in IMS Nanofabrication GmbH to Bain Capital in a deal that values the company at $4.3 billion.
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