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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 …
More: MacRumors, TechCrunch, Road to VR, New York Post, The Economic Times, Bloomberg, UploadVR, Silicon Valley Business …, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, Reuters, KNSD-TV, The Apple Post, Coinspeaker, Supercharged, iMore, Tom's Guide, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, Neowin, Dexerto, BigTechWire, MacDailyNews, Wccftech, Mashable, PCMag, Cult of Mac, Appuals.com, T3, AppleInsider, Insider, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Mac, Business Post, and WRAL TechWire
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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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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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
Twitter: @damienics, @mohamedmansour, @byron_wan, @dylanljmartin, @lingling_wei, @agathedemarais, and @markdampier
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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