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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

How Apple is readying the Vision Pro to ship in 2024 and a look at its Mac plans, including upgrading its lineup to M3 and early work on a 30"-or-larger iMac — After debuting the Vision Pro, Apple is working on finishing up the device's software, expanding testing and finalizing the rollout strategy.

More: 9to5Mac, Livemint, 9to5Mac, TNW, T3, Wccftech, Digital Trends, gHacks Technology News, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, XDA Developers, BigTechWire, Forbes, iThinkDifferent, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, PhoneArena, Supercharged, Engadget, The Apple Post, Neowin, AppleInsider, and Notebookcheck.net

Twitter: @markgurman, @gartenberg, and @aapltree

Forums: r/hardware and r/apple

New York Times:

As the use of AI-generated ads in political campaigns increases, political consultants, election researchers, and lawmakers push for setting up new guardrails — Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology.

More: Insider. Bluesky: @toddgregory.bsky.social. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @erikbryn and @nytimes

Yuval Mann / Ynetnews:

An interview with early Waze investors Yahal Zilka and Ehud Levy on why they invested, the impact of Google's acquisition on Israel's tech industry, and more — The disregard for map companies, the dilemma between BlackBerry and iPhone, the indifference on the part of Tim Cook …

More: Post News. Twitter: @noam, @sarthakgh, @andrewchen, @thomasbcn, @mike_arias, and @yewiedewie

Nina Jankowicz / The Atlantic:

While there are effective laws outlawing the sharing of nonconsensual deepfake porn in some states, such as Virginia and California, the US needs a federal law — Because I was in the public eye, somebody synthesized explicit videos of me. — Recently, a Google Alert informed me that I am the subject of deepfake pornography.

LinkedIn: Nina Jankowicz. Bluesky: @amandamarcotte.bsky.social. Twitter: @kattenbarge

Bloonface / Café Lob-On:

Twitter-to-Mastodon migration that started in November 2022 failed because of Mastodon's exclusionary culture, decentralization making the UX worse, and more — I've been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey - I'm just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here …

Reed Albergotti / Semafor:

Q&A with AWS Product VP Matt Wood on the generative AI boom, the escalating AI battle between the tech giants, curating the best AI models for AWS, and more — Matt Wood, vice president of product for Amazon Web Services, is at the tip of the spear of Amazon's response in the escalating AI battle between the tech giants.

More: Moneycontrol. Bluesky: @fudge.org. Twitter: @semaforben and @reedalbergotti

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

An interview with Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz, who became Asana's majority owner after a post-listing share buying spree, on AI's risks as a philanthropy focus — - Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz, who made billions from co-founding Facebook, has long been concerned about the risks of runaway artificial intelligence.

Twitter: @mukund

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:

Many LastPass users say they've been locked out of their accounts and can't access their vaults after being asked to reset their authenticator apps in May 2023 — LastPass password manager users have been experiencing significant login issues starting early May after being prompted to reset their authenticator apps.

More: BetaNews, TechRadar, gHacks Technology News, and GoTo Community

LinkedIn: Matthew Rosenquist. Bluesky: @rklau.bsky.social. Mastodon: @speedtrial@mstdn.social, @Odiseo79@mas.to, @lauren@mastodon …, @orci@mastodon.social, and @gtbarry@mastodon.social

Twitter: @edgardonazario, @vslick1, and @cybernewslive

Forums: Hacker News and r/InfoSecNews

Mercedes Ruehl / Financial Times:

As TikTok CEO Shou Chew announces a five-year $10B investment in Indonesia, experts say competition and regulation have made TikTok vulnerable in Southeast Asia — Viral app's parent ByteDance targets large Indonesian market but faces growing regulatory scrutiny around the world

More: Telegraph. Mastodon: @javahippie@freiburg.social. Forums: r/NoShitSherlock

Phoebe Liu / Forbes:

A profile of Christina Cacioppo, the co-founder and CEO of data security compliance startup Vanta, which has an ~$80M ARR, a $1.6B valuation, and raised $203M — The Stanford graduate built a fast-growing software company to automate what had previously been a manual process.

Twitter: @andrew__reed, @dadiomov, and @paulg

Kevin J. Delaney / Charter:

Q&A with Microsoft's Jared Spataro on AI tools advancing knowledge work, increasing worker creativity, being “usefully wrong”, automating work away, and more — Microsoft over the past few years has released some of the most interesting research about how people work …

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:

US law enforcement seized BreachForums' domain on June 22, after arresting the data leak site's alleged admin, Conor Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, on March 15 — U.S. law enforcement today seized the clear web domain of the notorious BreachForums (aka Breached) hacking forum three months …

More: TechCrunch, The Record, HackRead, and DataBreaches.net

Twitter: @haveibeenpwned, @lorenzofb, @lorenzofb, and @troyhunt. Forums: r/technews

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Jake Kanter / Deadline:

Internal email: BBC News will cut 100+ roles, saving £5.5M, taking its total savings to £30.5M; it must contribute £51M toward the BBC's £500M savings target

Alan Livsey / Financial Times:

Specialist lenders are using AdSense data to assess YouTubers and fund them in exchange for a share of future earnings, as mainstream banks shy away

Matt Schudel / Washington Post:

Ann Hornaday, the former Washington Post chief film critic who was a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist, died on Sunday at 66; the cause was glioblastoma

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Grace Kay / Insider:

Blind: ~56% of US tech workers would accept equal or less pay in a new role, and ~45% of those say the uncertain job market is the main reason they would do so

More: Business Today and Blind Blog. Forums: r/technology. Thanks:@seriouslyrick

Jessica Gould / Gothamist:

NYC says the MOVEit flaw exposed ~45K students' data, following March 2022's breach of ~820K students' data via the Illuminate Education grading software hack

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Maria Heeter / The Information:

Source: a group of investors led by Apollo Global Management plans to make a $1B+ debt investment in US-based chipmaker Wolfspeed, which has a $6B market cap

More: Bloomberg, Reuters, and MarketWatch

Twitter: @heetermaria and @heetermaria

Julie Kim / MIT Technology Review:

A look at the underwhelming state of augmentative and alternative communication tech, including a handful of iPad apps, for speech and language impaired users

LinkedIn: Christopher Patnoe. Twitter: @onejuliekim, @counternotions, @vauhinivara, and @sesmith. Forums: Hacker News

Will Knight / Wired:

A study of EU countries: the 2010s deep learning boom increased employment in jobs exposed to AI but “these results may not be extrapolated into the future”

More: NBER. Twitter: @pessimistsarc, @wiredscience, and @wired

Tom Warren / The Verge:

FTC v. Microsoft: Phil Spencer says Xbox is not a “robust business” and fails to meet internal targets, and the Activision deal is a way to expand into mobile

More: Forbes, TweakTown, Gamereactor UK, FOSS Patents, TechSpot, TheGamer, Bloomberg, GeekWire, IGN, and CNBC

Twitter: @kakurady and @tomwarren. Forums: Hacker News

Bluesky:

Bluesky publishes proposals for new moderation and safety tooling, focusing on user lists and reply controls for community-driven moderation, hashtags, and more

More: AppleInsider and The Verge

Bluesky: @carnage4life.bsky.social, @bossett.bsky.social, @davidgerard.co.uk, @pfrazee.com, @tananarivedue.bsky.social, and @bsky.app

Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @shoq@mastodon.social, and @lrhodes@merveilles.town

Twitter: @catalinagoanta and @keithdsouza. Forums: Hacker News

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Pew Research Center:

A survey of ~305 experts on their expectations for digital advances by 2035, like AI systems and smart eyewear and earbuds, and concerns over the darker sides

LinkedIn: Lee Rainie. Twitter: @ejhudson

Lisa O'Carroll / The Guardian:

The EFJ and media experts condemn the latest European Media Freedom Act draft that would let national security agencies place spyware on journalists' phones

More: The Overspill. Mastodon: @helma@mastodon.social. Twitter: @annanemtsova, @rektor_linnea, @lindseysnell, and @timand2037. Forums: r/europrivacy