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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
A look at the Apple Vision Pro's features in the visionOS SDK, including a “Moving at Unsafe Speed” alert, a “Travel Mode” for airplanes, and a “Guest Mode” — Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC 2023. But even so, there are still a lot of details …
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| Bloomberg: |
A mistakenly released FDIC doc lists SVB customers before its collapse: Sequoia with $1B, Beijing-based Kanzhun with $902.9M, Altos Labs with $680.3M, and more — When federal regulators stepped in to backstop all of Silicon Valley Bank's deposits, they saved thousands of small tech startups …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Thierry Breton says he sees a “strong willingness” from Twitter to comply with the EU's DSA and that the company was the first to undergo the law's stress test — Social-media platform did voluntary stress test as a dry run before law takes effect late August
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| Anand J / Moneycontrol: |
Sources: Apple is in talks to launch Apple Card in India, and has met with HDFC and the RBI; a source says Apple is holding Apple Pay discussions with the NPCI — This comes in the wake of Apple's decision to stop card payments in India on its App Store and for its iCloud services.
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Andreessen Horowitz created a16z Perennial Venture Capital Fund and a16z Perennial Management investment advisor, presumably expanding into wealth management — Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture firm known for being an early investor in some of the biggest tech companies including Airbnb … | Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan expands its JPM Coin, launched in 2019 for USD transactions, to euro payments; the bank has used the token to process ~$300B in transactions to date — JPMorgan Chase & Co. expanded one of the most high-profile projects to bring blockchain technology to traditional banking … | New York Times: |
A profile of Michael Kives, a Hollywood agent turned investor, as FTX's bankruptcy lawyers sue his VC firm K5 Global to recover ~$700M that SBF had invested — Michael Kives, a former Hollywood agent, connected FTX's founder to Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Bill Clinton and others.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Internal records undercut claims that Twitter censored pro-Trump views before the Capitol riot and show a reluctance to suspend Trump's account until January 8 — In the internal video call from Jan. 5, 2021, workers were told not to take tougher action against a growing wave of tweets they feared were veiled incitements to violence.| Financial Times: |
A profile of Alibaba co-founder Eddie Wu, set to become CEO in the fall, who has a close relationship with mentor Jack Ma and will manage the company's breakup — Tech group co-founder to take reins and preside over its break-up — When Alibaba co-founder Eddie Yongming Wu struck …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
At the FTC v. Microsoft hearing, Phil Spencer says Microsoft bought ZeniMax for $7.5B to stop Starfield and other Bethesda games becoming PlayStation exclusives — Microsoft's Xbox chief has revealed one of the key reasons behind the acquisition of Bethesda parent company ZeniMax: potential Starfield PlayStation exclusivity.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A US federal court sentences UK citizen Joseph James O'Connor to five years in prison for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts — Prosecutors called for the British hacker to serve at least seven years — Three years after one of the most visible hacks … | Jon Victor / The Information: |
Source: Jacob Devlin, who quit Google to join OpenAI in January 2023 after complaining Bard was being trained on ChatGPT data, has returned to Google — Jacob Devlin, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher who left Google for rival OpenAI in January after complaining internally …
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| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Google plans to update Android's Emergency SOS after UK police blame the feature, activated by repeatedly pressing a side button, for a surge in false 999 calls — Police forces across the UK have warned that a new feature on some Android phones is plaguing switchboards with inadvertent “silent” 999 calls.
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Midjourney adds a “zoom out” feature that builds out a larger scene around images generated within Midjourney, simulating zooming out with a camera lens — Midjourney v5.2 features camera-like zoom control over framing, more realism. — On Thursday, Midjourney unveiled version 5.2 …
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