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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple and Luxshare cut Vision Pro production plans from 1M to fewer than 400K units in 2024 due to many manufacturing problems for the $3,500 headset — Initial hopes of 1mn shipments in 2024 launch year dashed by manufacturing problems — Apple has been forced to make drastic cuts …
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Forums: Hacker News, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| New York Times: |
A look at the cottage industry of tech contractors in Russia, many employed by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for the FSB — Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read limits; home timelines still load — Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping.
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Associated Press, Engadget, Thurrott, Gizmodo, Forbes, Insider, The i Paper, WinBuzzer, and Gizchina
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| Bloomberg: |
China imposes export restrictions on gallium and germanium, used to make chips and other electronics, starting on August 1, likely raising manufacturers' costs — China imposed restrictions on exporting two metals that are crucial to parts of the semiconductor, telecommunications …
More: Wall Street Journal, Tom's Hardware, Financial Times, PCMag, Agence France-Presse, and CHINAdaily
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Forums: r/LessCredibleDefence and r/worldnews
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Sweden's privacy watchdog says “Companies must stop using Google Analytics” and issues $1M+ in fines to businesses, including telco Tele2, that used the service — Sweden's data protection watchdog has issued a couple of fines in relation to exports of European users' data via Google Analytics …
More: Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, Tech Xplore, and noyb.eu
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta held talks with Tencent and other Chinese tech companies about selling Quests in China, but Mark Zuckerberg's past China comments may cause issues — Meta is in talks with Tencent to bring Meta's Quest VR headset to a huge new market, but potential partners worry about Zuckerberg's past criticisms of China
More: Insider, PYMNTS.com, and New York Post
| New York Times: |
Sources detail ByteDance's book publishing push and uneven playing field concerns; BookScan: 100+ authors with large #BookTok followings had $760M in 2022 sales — As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.
More: The Verge and Tubefilter
Twitter: @runwithskizzers, @amandasbrews, @aidenschmaiden, @washburnealex, @nytimesbooks, @ratlpolicy, and @magnifymedia
| Wall Street Journal: |
How some crypto miners want to repurpose their idle rigs to train AI models, which isn't easy or cheap but can be more affordable than Big Tech's cloud services — Demand for high-end chips allows cryptocurrency companies to repurpose idle equipment — The boom in demand for high-end chips powering …
More: Tom's Hardware, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Crypto Daily, Cryptonews, The Overspill, Cryptopolitan, and Blockworks
Twitter: @vipulved and @kylebrussell
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Jio Platforms unveils a ~$12 4G phone in India with mobile payment tech and access to Jio's video and music streaming services, and a $1.5/month 14GB data plan — Reliance's digital arm, Jio Platforms, has unveiled a new mobile handset and associated tariff plans, the latest in a series … | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Sources: Netflix plans to develop targeted and tailor-made ad formats, like “episodic” campaigns, and discussed the strategy with ad executives at Cannes Lions — US streaming service introduced ad-supported subscriptions last year — Netflix will develop increasingly targeted …
More: Gizmodo, The Streamable, Search Engine Journal, ChannelX, and MakeUseOf
| Benedict Evans: |
An analysis of whether generative AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs over years like other automation waves, or if this time is different — Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change …
More: Forbes. LinkedIn: Allan Thygesen. Bluesky: @fudge.org. Twitter: @benedictevans, @stevesi, @newley, @benedictevans, @dok2001, @aridavidpaul, @willcritchlow, @eswarpr, and @_jeremyflores. Forums: Hacker News
| Financial Times: |
A look at Reliance's JioCinema, which had 400M+ IPL cricket stream viewers, acquired content rights from NBC, HBO, and WBD, and is challenging Disney in India — Asia's richest man is on a mission to transform Reliance Industries into a digital group — India's richest man Mukesh Ambani … Sponsor Posts
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