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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at the iPhone's upcoming Lightning to USB-C transition; sources say the revamped iPad Pro's Magic Keyboard coming in 2024 will have an aluminum top case — Also: The company confirms the date of its Sept. 12 iPhone 15 event and aims to overhaul device production with 3D printers.
More: iMore, Daring Fireball, Livemint, MacRumors, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, T3, The Apple Post, Laptop Mag, AppleInsider, Six Colors, GSMArena.com, Wccftech, Supercharged, Forbes, Ghacks, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac, Business Today, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Benzinga, iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada Blog, mjtsai.com, Patently Apple, PCMag, The Verge, 9to5Mac, and Fast Company
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X: @theapplehub, @markgurman, @markgurman, @stevesi, and @smashdawg
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
A look at the endless battle being waged by a group of internet sleuths, trans engineers, and activists to banish stalking forum Kiwi Farms from the internet — The anonymous forum, known as Kiwi Farms, keeps popping back online despite a relentless campaign by transgender activists and a former insider
More: Electronic Frontier Foundation and MIT Technology Review
Mastodon: @[email protected]. X: @esqueer_, @hackingbutlegal, @jessesingal, @dropkiwifarms, and @stealthygeek
Forums: r/technology and Beehaw
| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
After the ADL's CEO talked to X CEO Linda Yaccarino last week, anti-Semitic posts surged, #BanTheADL trended, and Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts — Anti-Semitic rhetoric has been especially rampant on the platform over the past 24 hours. — Over the past 24 hours …
More: Media Matters for America and The Daily Beast
Threads: @eladnehorai and @eladnehorai
Mastodon: @coreyrayburnyung …, @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], and @[email protected]
X: @daithaigilbert, @trhlofficial, @ronfilipkowski, @elonmusk, @wajahatali, @elonmusk, @schwarz, @eladnehorai, @jakeshieldsajj, @jaredlholt, @adammaanit, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @keithwoodsyt, @jgreenblattadl, @elonmusk, @lindayax, @elonmusk, @marietjeschaake, @mattbinder, @elonmusk, @evavlaar, @krassenstein, and @esqueer_
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam and r/Liberal
| Yiwen Lu / New York Times: |
The San Francisco Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise denies any fault — Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.
More: SFGATE, The San Francisco Standard, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, and Forbes
X: @micsolana, @sfgate, @alexlmiller, @rodneyabrooks, @raemondbw, @joshuaphilll, @garymarcus, and @moonalice. LinkedIn: Philip Koopman
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| James Clayton / BBC: |
EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation since 2022 and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew in 2023 — Social media companies have failed to stop “large-scale” Russian disinformation campaigns since the invasion of Ukraine, the EU has said.
More: Washington Post, Silicon Republic, Cybernews.com, Publications Office of the European Union, and Insider
Mastodon: @[email protected]. X: @daphnehk, @euromaidanpress, @daphnehk, @daphnehk, @akinunver, @zerohedge, @washingtonpost, @washingtonpost, @washingtonpost, @tech_oversight, and @erikdelareguera. LinkedIn: Felix Kartte
Forums: r/FoxFiction and r/worldnews
| Financial Times: |
The London Stock Exchange plans to add a blockchain-based digital assets business after a year of testing, but is “not building anything around cryptoassets” — Exchange operator in talks with UK government and regulators over new trading venue
More: Decrypt, Blockworks, CoinDesk, Metaverse Post, crypto.news, Finextra, Cryptonews, CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, Reuters, UKTN, Cointelegraph, and The Block
X: @_rebeccahealey and @lauranoonanft
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X updated its privacy policy to let the company use collected data to train AI models; Elon Musk says X may use “just public data, not DMs or anything private” — X's recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users' job …
More: The Register, Stack Diary, TechRadar, MediaNama, Howie Town, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Decoder, X, Times of India, English Jagran, The Messenger, Bloomberg Law, The Hindu, ABP Live, Pixel Envy, Engadget, ZDNet, Mashable, Insider, Cryptopolitan, and BBC
Mastodon: @[email protected]. Bluesky: @niedermeyer.io. X: @elonmusk, @xdaily, @wolven, @itzmoepi, @wbm312, @tiagopeixoto, and @ramdroidrigs
| Bloomberg: |
TechInsights teardown: Huawei's Mate 60 Pro uses a new Kirin 9000s chip that was fabricated in China by SMIC using a 7nm process, a blow to US sanctions — The company's Mate 60 Pro is powered by SMIC's 7nm chips, according to analysis that TechInsights conducted for Bloomberg News
More: TechInsights Inc.. X: @hsu_steve, @pelstrom, @jeremywarneruk, @sroach_econ, @rodolfor, @pelstrom, @martijnrasser, and @pelstrom
Forums: Hacker News and r/hardware
| Insider: |
As Instagram and other social media feeds get swamped with influencers' professionally created content, average users move to private posting and closed groups — Group chats and messaging apps killed it … Tati Bruening, a 22-year-old content creator and photographer, just wants to share memes and post about cooking green beans.
More: Analytics India Magazine. Mastodon: @[email protected]. X: @pkedrosky, @arperelli, @arperelli, @howie0417, and @mattnavarra
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Senior YouTube staff express concerns that Shorts is drawing audiences away from longer-form videos, which produce more revenue but are “dying out” as a format — Concerns raised that TikTok rival is drawing audiences away from the platform's longer-form videos
More: 9to5Google, Ghacks, The Verge, Wccftech, Music Ally, The Economic Times, and Sammy Fans
Threads: @noise.in.vacuum and @dhowell. Mastodon: @[email protected]. X: @neilcybart. Forums: Hacker News
| Alex Blake / Digital Trends: |
An interview with Apple executives Susan Prescott and Steve Sinclair on building apps for the Vision Pro and how Apple is trying to lure developers to make apps — Apple's Vision Pro headset hasn't launched yet, but already it's become one of the most hotly debated devices on the planet.
More: 9to5Mac, Pocket Gamer.biz, Phandroid, iThinkDifferent, and AppleInsider
| Mark Townsend / The Guardian: |
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