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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple and Luxshare cut Vision Pro production plans from 1M to less than 400K units in 2024 due to 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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| New York Times: |
A look at the cottage industry of Russian tech contractors, many owned by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for use by 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.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
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| Bloomberg: |
China imposes restrictions on exporting two metals used to make chips and other electronics, starting August 1, which will likely raise costs for manufacturers — China imposed restrictions on exporting two metals that are crucial to parts of the semiconductor, telecommunications …
More: Tom's Hardware, Financial Times, PCMag, Agence France-Presse, and CHINAdaily
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How some crypto miners want to repurpose their rigs to train AI models, which isn't easy or cheap but may be more affordable than AWS and cloud alternatives — Demand for high-end chips allows cryptocurrency companies to repurpose idle equipment — The boom in demand for high-end chips powering …
More: Crypto Daily, Cryptonews, The Overspill, PYMNTS.com, Cryptopolitan, and Blockworks
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Sources: Netflix plans to develop targeted and tailor-made ad formats, including “episodic” campaigns, and discussed the plans with ad executives at Cannes — US streaming service introduced ad-supported subscriptions last year — Netflix will develop increasingly targeted … | Benedict Evans: |
An analysis of whether AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs in the coming years like other waves of automation, or if this time is different — Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta held talks with Tencent and other Chinese tech companies on selling the Quest in China, but Mark Zuckerberg's 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
Twitter: @jchengwsj and @newley
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's Jio Platforms unveils a $12 4G phone with mobile payment tech and access to Jio's video and music streaming, alongside a new $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 …
More: The Economic Times, Livemint, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Techlusive, MySmartPrice, and International Business Times. Forums: Slashdot
| McKenna Oxenden / New York Times: |
A profile of Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel on social media, whose YouTube channel for educational children's videos has over 4.8M subscribers — The YouTube star of “Songs for Littles,” an online video series that pulls millions of views, says she's found her calling in encouraging children to speak.| New York Times: |
Sources detail ByteDance's book publishing expansion and concerns over an uneven playing field; BookScan says 100+ large BookTok authors 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.| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
At a Shanghai event, Chinese chipmakers and suppliers were grim but defiant about US plans to widen export controls; YMTC urged suppliers to show “integrity” — Chairman of memory-chip maker YMTC calls on tool makers to ship parts the company ordered before it was blacklistedSponsor Posts
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