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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter changes its handle from @twitter to @X, Twitter Blue to @XBlue, @TwitterSupport to @Support, and more; the previous @X owner now uses @x12345678998765 — Twitter has changed its official handle to @X as part of the ongoing rebranding. As a result, the original @Twitter handle is now inactive …
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LinkedIn: Natalie Christman and Jack S. Song
Mastodon: @lilithsaintcrow …, @hitext@typo.social, and @drahardja@sfba.social
Twitter: @x12345678998765, @adamamcbride, @0xgaut, @jweimermedia, @princessmissdee, @xnewsdaily, @pt, @tictoctick, @zackstanton, @crimefish, @mattbinder, @jamestitcomb, @xnewsdaily, @islandthembo, @everythingooc, @imprisonedemily, and @halomancer1. Threads: @mgsiegler
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/elonmusk, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/offbeat
| Esther Crawford / @esthercrawford: |
Former Director of Product Management Esther Crawford on Twitter's culture of fear, Elon Musk's strengths and weaknesses, the sleeping bag incident, and more — Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in... [video]
More: The Information, Insider, and The Verge
Mastodon: @ben@werd.social. Twitter: @karaswisher, @benthompson, @tomhowardau, @arodericks, @rakeshlobster, @agoldmund, @lilly_smith48, @blader, @malaparte, @pitdesi, @eghosao, @joshconstine, @littlemissjacob, @edzitron, @stse, @julesterpak, @maileprmedia, @stevesi, @kidehen, @mikegehrke, @faizsays, and @sspencer_smb
Threads: @jordanroher and @hunterwalk
| Meta Investor Relations: |
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $32B, net income up 16% YoY to $7.79B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.07B for June 2023; META up 7%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023. — “We had a good quarter.
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Mastodon: @dme@mastodon.online. Twitter: @divestech, @munster_gene, @jason_kint, @stockmktnewz, @munster_gene, @divestech, @ericjhonsa, @eric_seufert, @supbagholder, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @mikeisaac, @swiftstories, @jason_kint, @munster_gene, @mikeisaac, @conorsen, @jason_kint, @3peakstrading, @richlightshed, @thetranscript_, @zerohedge, @kobeissiletter, @munster_gene, @ophirgottlieb, @ghadjia, @ramahluwalia, @rihardjarc, @jason_kint, @macton93, @munster_gene, and @supbagholder
Threads: @carnage4life and @carnage4life
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta's Reality Labs reports Q2 $3.7B operating loss, vs. $3.5B est., and expects losses to “increase meaningfully” due to investments in VR/AR and its ecosystem — - Meta's Reality Labs unit, which develops virtual reality and augmented reality technologies …
More: The Information, NBC 7 San Diego, Cointelegraph, TechCrunch, Fortune, Tech Startups, and Blockworks
Bluesky: @mranthropology.bsky.social. Twitter: @wholemarsblog, @jimcramer, @ibogost, @mdbaccardax, @ibogost, @mikeisaac, @ldrogen, @metacriticcap, @thekantoarbot, @kingfazir, @scobleizer, and @crusoniac
| Scott Nover / Quartz: |
More: TechCrunch, Search Engine Journal, Telegraph, and Social Media Today
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| Bloomberg: |
New rules approved by the SEC require publicly traded companies to file details of a cyberattack within four days of identifying that it has a material impact — - Delay possible if public safety or national security at risk — Some business groups argued that deadline was too short
More: U.S. Securities …, Reuters, The Register, CTV News, The Verge, Dark Reading, CNBC, Neowin, CSO, Reuters, The Record, Engadget, Nextgov/FCW, and ZyCrypto. Forums: r/technews
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch the Frontier Model Forum, aiming to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models” — Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI team up to establish best practices but critics argue they want to avoid regulation
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
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| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
Waymo says it will slow the development of autonomous trucking as it moves its focus and investment to ride-hailing — Waymo, the self-driving unit owned by Alphabet Inc., is slowing the development of autonomous trucking that's being done by its Via subsidiary.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft starts rolling out a new Xbox Home UI, offering more space for backgrounds and quick access to store, search, and settings, after 10 months of testing — Microsoft first started testing a new Xbox Home UI nearly a year ago, and the company is now ready to deliver it to all Xbox owners.
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Forums: r/xbox, r/Games, r/xboxone, r/XboxSeriesX, and r/XboxSeriesX
| CNN: |
US prosecutors ask a judge to detain Sam Bankman-Fried over witness tampering allegations, saying he leaked Caroline Ellison's personal writings to the NYT — New York CNN — — US prosecutors asked a federal judge to detain former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried over allegations of witness-tampering.| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
T-Mobile rolls out ultrafast 5G capable of 3.3Gbps, first in a few US markets for Samsung Galaxy S23 users only, then nationwide in “the coming weeks” — / T-Mobile's new wireless tech is live in a few markets and will be available nationally in ‘weeks.’
More: T-Mobile, Android Authority, Fierce Wireless, Droid Life, and RCR Wireless News
LinkedIn: Henry Chalian and Ulf Ewaldsson
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Sources: the California AG is investigating Tesla, seeking information from customers and ex-employees about Autopilot safety issues and advertising complaints — - The California attorney general is investigating Tesla, CNBC has learned, seeking information from customers …
More: The Hill, The Verge, SlashGear, Los Angeles Times, MarketWatch, and Wccftech
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The CISA warns US federal agencies to secure their systems against an Ivanti flaw that's been exploited as a zero-day to hack Norway's government systems — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned U.S. federal agencies today to secure their systems …
More: Cybersecurity …, TechCrunch, Security Affairs, and SC Media
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 hands-on: essentially the same displays and some nice upgrades, but Samsung seems to be wasting its advantage and $1,800 is ludicrous — Even with a new hinge, a brighter display and improved multitasking, the Z Fold's rivals are catching up.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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Twitter: @groundedtech and @pramitbasnyat
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Flip5, offering a larger 3.4" cover screen, up from 1.9" on the Z Flip 4, a new hinge, 256GB storage, and more for the same $999 — The Motorola Razr Plus' reign as the best flip phone might be short-lived. — The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 is officially here …
More: Samsung Newsroom, XDA Developers, USA Today, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, TechSpot, SamInsider, SamMobile, Techlusive, PCMag, Digital Trends, Associated Press, The Verge on YouTube, 9to5Google, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, and Engadget
Mastodon: @dcseifert@mastodon.social and @rbrome@mastodon.online
Twitter: @neilcybart, @neilcybart, @spercharged, @samifathi_, @techkingmike, @richontech, @therealspiky, @raywongy, and @ishanagarwal24. Forums: r/gadgets
| Medha Singh / Reuters: |
Dish partners with Amazon to sell a Boost Infinite postpaid wireless plan with unlimited talk, text, and data services at $25/month for Amazon Prime subscribers — Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) is partnering with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) to sell wireless postpaid service plans through its platform …
More: Android Authority, The Information, Boost Infinite, PCMag, Fierce Wireless, BGR, and The Verge
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
AWS debuts HealthScribe, an AI-powered tool to summarize patient visits, and is working with partners rather than selling it directly to hospitals and doctors — Amazon Web Services is unveiling AI services for doctors, business analysis and chatbots as it aims for Microsoft and Google
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| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q2 revenue of ~$47.21B, a 22% YoY drop and below analyst expectations of ~$47.7B, and operating profit of ~$525M, a 95% YoY drop — - Samsung is the world's largest maker of dynamic random-access memory chips, which are found in consumer devices such as smartphones and computers.
More: AppleInsider, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, Reuters, Bloomberg, Samsung Newsroom, and NBC 7 San Diego
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
The Overture Maps Foundation, formed by Meta, Microsoft, AWS, and TomTom, releases its first dataset with 59M “points of interest” donated by Meta and Microsoft — - A group formed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and TomTom is releasing data that could enable companies …
More: Overture Maps Foundation, The Verge, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, Engadget, TechCrunch, OnMSFT.com, Dexerto, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, Android Authority, 9to5Mac, and Neowin
| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The FBI's seizure of Mastodon server Kolektiva.social in May should serve as a wake-up call to fediverse users and hosts to protect their privacy — We're in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
More: PCMag and TechCrunch
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, an open-source text-to-image model that can yield 1MP resolution images “in seconds” in multiple aspect ratios — AI startup Stability AI continues to refine its generative AI models in the face of increasing competition — and ethical challenges.
More: Stability AI, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, The Decoder, and Unite.AI
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Collaborative Robotics, founded by former Amazon Robotics VP Brad Porter to build a new type of collaborative robot, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia — A year after unveiling Collaborative Robotics, Brad Porter is still playing it close to the vest. He's not ready show off … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Linda Yaccarino pitched her vision for Twitter/X to talent agencies in LA and met with Disney, in a bid to bring stars and influencers to the platform — Social media app's new chief meets with agents at leading talent agencies amid controversy over rebranding to ‘X’| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: CrowdStrike is in advanced negotiations to acquire Bionic, a security posture management platform for cloud services, for between $200M and $300M — It sounds like another M&A deal is about to go down in the world of cybersecurity. Sources tell TechCrunch that CrowdStrike … Sponsor Posts
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