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Monica Chin / The Verge:
Hands-on with Windows-powered $699 Lenovo Legion Go, with an 8.8" QHD+ screen, AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, and detachable controllers, available in October  —  Every company and its mother seems to be putting out handheld gaming PCs these days, and Lenovo is next to the plate.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
As a child safety group plans a campaign asking Apple to scan iCloud for CSAM, Apple says such scans could lead to a “slippery slope of unintended consequences”  —  Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting.
Anton Shilov / AnandTech:
Samsung reveals the world's first 32 Gb DDR5 DRAM die, allowing the company to lower costs of high-capacity memory modules and build 1 TB RDIMMs for servers  —  Samsung early on Friday revealed the world's first 32 Gb DDR5 DRAM die.  The new memory die is made on the company's 12 nm-class …
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
The manager of .ai TLD for British territory Anguilla estimates the island will make $25M to $30M from domain registration fees in 2023, up from $7.4M in 2021  —  Anguilla is expected to make millions this year from a surge in demand for web addresses ending with .ai, thanks to the frenzy around artificial intelligence.
New York Times:
Sources: Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators  —  The subscription plan is a response to European Union policies and court rulings to restrict Meta's data-collection practices.
Monica Chin / The Verge:
Lenovo unveils Legion 9i, a $4,400 gaming laptop with liquid cooling, a 16" Mini LED screen, 13th Gen Intel Core i9, and a GeForce RTX 4090, shipping in October  —  Lenovo has announced a new Legion 9i, and it might just be the wildest thing I've ever seen from the Legion line.
Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide:
Lenovo unveils $329 Legion Glasses with 60Hz displays, equivalent to a 27" monitor, that work with Legion Go, Android phones, iPhones, Macs, and Windows PCs  —  Finally, a gaming face peripheral that doesn't give me a headache  —  Gaming on the go is easier than ever …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Robinhood says the company paid nearly $606M to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of Sam Bankman-Fried, set up via an agreement with the US Marshal Service  —  Stock-trading app Robinhood on Friday said it paid nearly $606 million to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of jailed crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried.
Reuters:
Canada tries to address C-18 bill concerns, saying Google would pay ~$126.6M and Meta would pay ~$44M a year to publishers; Meta says it will keep blocking news  —  Canada unveiled draft rules on Friday for a law to compel internet giants to pay news outlets, saying it was addressing …
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority:
Honor says its foldable phone Magic V2, launched in China in July 2023, is coming to Europe, the UK, Latin America, and other markets, except the US, in Q1 2024  —  The Magic V2 will come to global markets roughly six months after the Chinese launch.  Ouch.  —  •  —  TL;DR
Bloomberg:
Sources: cloud data management startup Rubrik, valued at ~$4B in 2021, is planning an IPO in 2023, raising $500M to $700M; PitchBook: Rubrik has raised $1B+  —  - Offering could raise between $500 million and $700 million  — The company held a meeting with research analysts this week

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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Filing: Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos received $53.9M in 2025 compensation, down from $62M in 2024; co-CEO Greg Peters received $53.2M, down from $60M in 2024

Bloomberg:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says regulators are scrutinizing media deals for sports leagues beyond the NFL; source: the DOJ plans to look at MLB rights and others

Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
The FTC ends a demand for info from NewsGuard after settling a case against Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP; NewsGuard has sued the FTC over restrictions on Omnicom

More News

Steve Dent / Engadget:
Sony unveils the Xperia 5 V, with a 120Hz, 6.1" display, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, a 52MP sensor, and a heat diffusion shield, shipping in “late September” for €999
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Magic Leap tells its customers that the Magic Leap 1, which launched in August 2018, and the AR headset's apps will “cease to function” on December 31, 2024

Earlier Picks

Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press:
A US judge temporarily blocks an Arkansas law requiring parental consent for minors to create social media accounts, which was set to take effect on September 1
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
A US judge grants a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that would have required age verification to access adult sites
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
University of Zürich and Intel researchers reveal Swift, an autonomous drone trained via deep reinforcement learning to beat human champions in FPV drone racing
New York Times:
A look at Starfield, a game by Microsoft's Bethesda with 1,000 explorable planets, set for September 6 after a 10-month delay, as Microsoft needs an Xbox hit
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta releases FACET, an AI benchmarking tool for evaluating the “fairness” of AI models that classify and detect things in photos and videos, including people
Walter Isaacson / Wall Street Journal:
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new Elon Musk biography details Musk's decision to buy Twitter and how his moods fluctuated wildly before the official closing
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Binance plans to “gradually” end support for its BUSD stablecoin by February 2024, as “Paxos halted minting of new BUSD” after an NYDFS order in February 2023
Charlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says X users will be able to make video and audio calls without sharing a phone number, as X “is the effective global address book”, but gives no date
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