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Alex Heath / The Verge:
After Elon Musk tweeted that he is “up for a cage fight” with Mark Zuckerberg, both parties agree to a fight; Musk suggests the Vegas Octagon as a location  —  Here we go.  —  After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases visionOS SDK and plans to 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.  That day has already arrived …
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.
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 …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft increases Xbox Series X prices in most markets and, for the first time, the 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.
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Ripple says the company received in-principle regulatory approval in Singapore to offer payment tokens 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.
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 …
Ina Fried / Axios:
Citing rising complaints, Australia's eSafety Commissioner gives Twitter 28 days to explain the company's plans to combat hate speech or face ~$475K in fines  —  Australia's online safety regulator sent a legal notice to Twitter demanding the social network explain the steps it is taking …
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.
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.
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Sequoia launches Atlas, an interactive tool that uses qualitative and quantitative data collection methods to map out the European technical talent landscape  —  There is an estimated 3 million software engineers in Europe, depending on what report you want to believe, but finding …
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.
David McCabe / New York Times:
Sources: the Biden administration is exploring mounting a campaign against Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, and other Chinese cloud companies over security concerns  —  The Biden administration is exploring whether it can mount a campaign against Chinese tech giants like Alibaba and Huawei, potentially fueling tensions with Beijing.
More: Metacurity
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Stability AI announces SDXL 0.9, a new model that produces more photorealistic images than SDXL due to a higher number of parameters, available via Clipdrop  —  Artificial intelligence startup Stability AI is releasing a new model for generating images that its says can produce pictures that look more photorealistic than past efforts.
More: Stability AI

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70

More News

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
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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