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Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores — Apple's next line of smartwatches is expected to be a minor upgrade. Behind the scenes, though …
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| Iain Thomson / The Register: |
Inside the Black Hat network operations center; volunteers on secondment built the network from scratch on the week of the event using their own equipment — NOC, NOC ... Who's there? — BLACK HAT Every summer, pandemics permitting, a group of volunteers gather in a Las Vegas hotel to run … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple's macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” bypassed by “any malware that's somewhat sophisticated” — The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine.| Financial Times: |
Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month — Top studios turn screws on customers with price rises that rival expensive cable TV bundles — The era of cheap streaming is ending …
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| Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: |
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia — The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin.
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| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
How hackers at a novel DEF CON public contest are trying to expose flaws and biases in eight generative AI models produced by Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others — - At DEF CON conference, hacker gets model to say 9 + 10 = 21 — AI has chance to transform everything from finance to hiring| Reuters: |
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to acquire Vision Fund 1's 25% stake in Arm, ahead of the chip designer's Nasdaq IPO in September; SoftBank owns the remaining 75% — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in Arm Ltd it does not directly own from Vision Fund 1 (VF1) … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Some iPhone 14 Pro users complain that the “Maximum Capacity” rating of their phone's battery has already dropped to around 90% after less than a year — iPhone 14 Pro users are growing increasingly concerned about the state of their iPhone's battery health.
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
ShapesXR, which offers an XR app creation and collaboration platform to clients like Meta, Qualcomm, and ByteDance, raised an $8.6M seed led by Supernode Global — Spatial apps creation and collaboration platform startup ShapesXR today announced that it has raised $8.6 million in new funding … | Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying its Great 78 Project works as an “illegal record store” for songs — Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued …
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| Liz Lindqwister / The San Francisco Standard: |
Some Cruise riders say they've had sex in the driverless cars in San Francisco over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit users to eat, but not drink alcohol — An Illustration generated by the artificial intelligence program Midjourney depicts two people making out in an autonomous vehicle.
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| Iain Thomson / The Register: |
Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow details Veilid, an open-source, P2P application framework, and debuts VeilidChat, a proof-of-concept Signal-like messaging app — 'It's like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing' — DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid … Sponsor Posts
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