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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Unity announces fees based on a game's installations and the developer's plan tier, starting on January 1, 2024, joining Unreal Engine, which has similar fees — By Jez Corden Contributions from Zachary Boddy last updated — Unity joins Unreal Engine with a per-install fee. — What you need to know
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| Reuters: |
After France ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12 over its high radiation levels, Apple says multiple bodies certified the device as radiation compliant — Apple said on Wednesday its iPhone 12 model was certified by multiple international bodies as compliant with global radiation standards …
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Apple's environmental announcements, including its first carbon-neutral products, show progress but may be a red herring that distracts from its overall impact — Apple announced its first-ever carbon-neutral products today, but don't get too excited about what that means for the planet.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Mozilla releases emergency security updates to fix a critical zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild, impacting Firefox and its Thunderbird email client — Mozilla released emergency security updates today to fix a critical zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild …
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| Tim Starks / Washington Post: |
Researchers: the iPhone of Meduza owner Galina Timchenko was infected with Pegasus in Germany, the first known case of the tool being used against a Russian — Unclear is who planted the spyware while the founder of the Meduza news outlet was in Germany — The iPhone of a prominent Russian …
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| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stability AI announces its text-to-audio tool Stable Audio, which can generate 20, 45-second tracks per month for free or 500, 90-second tracks for $12/month — What comes after building generative AI technology for image and code generation? For Stability AI, it's text-to-audio generation.
More: Stability AI, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Billboard, The Verge, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, and Music Ally. Mastodon: @TechJournalist@mastodon …
| Reuters: |
The US SEC says the creator of Stoner Cats NFTs, which raised $8.2M, agreed to pay a $1M fine for an unregistered offering and plans to return investors' money — The creator of the popular Stoner Cats animated web series will pay a $1 million civil fine to settle U.S. Securities … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple does not plan to sell its new AirPods Pro USB-C charging case as a standalone product; users instead need to buy a new $249 pair that come with the case — Apple on Tuesday made second-generation AirPods Pro with a USB-C charging case available to order, but unlike its move to wireless charging cases …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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| Tom Ivan / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony releases a PS5 software update that adds support for Dolby Atmos HDMI devices, assigning a second controller as an “assist controller”, and up to 8TB SSDs — Sony has rolled out a major PlayStation 5 system software update globally. — It introduces a number of new features … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Xcode 15 RC files show that the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus have 6GB of RAM and the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max have 8GB of RAM, a 2GB increase for the Pro models — Apple never publicly advertises the amount of RAM included in iPhones, but MacRumors has confirmed that the iPhone 15 Pro …
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| Peter Cohen / AppleInsider: |
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Apple hikes the prices of the iPhone 15 lineup in China, Japan, India, and other markets, keeps prices flat in the US, and cuts prices in the UK by £50 to £100 — - Apple hiked the prices of its latest iPhones in some of its key markets including China, Japan and India, even as it kept them the same in the U.S.
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| Philip Glamann / Bloomberg: |
China cites “many media reports about some security incidents concerning Apple phones”, after the government reportedly told its agencies to ban iPhones at work — - Beijing makes its first comments since reports of iPhone ban — The government attaches ‘great importance’ to security
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| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
The US Army says Microsoft's improved HoloLens-based goggles passed their first round of intensive testing by soldiers, ahead of a make-or-break 2025 evaluation — - Army places a new order for goggles based on HoloLens device — The new contract paves the way for rigorous testing in 2025| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
T-Mobile plans to acquire more 5G airwaves from Comcast, which is selling 600MHz spectrum licenses that the conglomerate is “unlikely” to need, for up to $3.3B — T-Mobile is buying airwaves from Comcast in a deal valued at up to $3.3 billion.| Wall Street Journal: |
Docs: Starlink reported $1.4B in 2022 revenue, up from $222M in 2021, falling short of projections in 2015, as some question satellite internet's growth options — Revenue at satellite-internet business has jumped but fallen short of Elon Musk's financial projections
More: CNBC, The Information, and PCMag
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
News sharing app Artifact adds Links, a section where users can post any type of link and discover links through a Following page or an algorithmic For You page — Artifact, the algorithmic news-reading app started by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, was never really meant to just be a news-reading app.| Bloomberg: |
Since releasing Final Fantasy XVI in June 2023 to mixed reviews, Tokyo-based Square Enix shed ~$2B in market value and its new CEO faces skepticism about growth — - Square Enix is heavily reliant on hit series to drive sales — New CEO faces skepticism about company's growth prospects
More: Video Games Chronicle, GameSpot, IGN, Metro, Wccftech, GamesIndustry.biz, Eurogamer.net, and Gameranx
Forums: r/pcgaming and r/PS5
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Telegram adds the crypto wallet TON Space to its Wallet bot and plans to give the tool to all Telegram users, minus some countries like the US, in November 2023 — - Telegram has integrated The Open Network-based crypto wallet “TON Space.” — The wallet will be rolled out globally beginning in November.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Former FaZe Clan staff describe a mismanaged creator organization, as its market cap falls from $725M at its 2022 SPAC merger to below $15M; FaZe fired its CEO — The board fired CEO Lee Trink following a steep decline in the shares — Three months after its July 2022 debut on the Nasdaq … | New York Times: |
A recap of the first day of US et al v. Google, as the DOJ argues that the company illegally protected its internet search monopoly via smartphone maker deals — In opening statements for the government's first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, Google defended itself and said people had many choices for online search.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Symantec: Chinese cyberespionage group Redfly used the ShadowPad trojan to hack a national electricity grid company in Asia from February 28 to August 3, 2023 — An espionage threat group tracked as ‘Redfly’ hacked a national electricity grid organization in Asia and quietly maintained access to the breached network for six months.| Financial Times: |
The ideas and approaches on how to regulate AI models across the world, which widely diverge by region, risk tying the AI industry up in red tape — The industry and policymakers agree that the emerging technology needs regulating. But no one is quite sure how| Isaac Schorr / Mediaite: |
Bio: Elon Musk told Bari Weiss that Twitter needs to be careful when discussing China due to Tesla's business, and that China's Uyghur repression has two sides — A passage in Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk sheds new light on the billionaire's willingness to placate the genocidal Chinese regime.
More: CNBC and The Daily Beast
| Chainalysis: |
Global Crypto Adoption Index: India, Nigeria, Vietnam, the US, and Ukraine rank as the top five for grassroots adoption, as Central and Southern Asia dominates — This post is an excerpt from our 2023 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report, coming in October. Reserve your copy now!
More: CryptoGlobe, Crypto Cat AI, and Cryptonews
| Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: |
Save the Children confirms “an IT incident” after cybercrime group BianLian bragged about hitting “the world's leading nonprofit” and stealing 6.8TB of data — A new low, even for these lowlifes — UPDATED Cybercrime crew BianLian says it has broken into the IT systems …
More: Security Affairs, Security Boulevard, ComputerWeekly.com, SC Media, and DataBreaches.net
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| Reuters: |
Huawei and Xiaomi sign a global patent cross-licensing deal covering communication tech such as 5G; Chinese media reported in March 2023 that Huawei sued Xiaomi — China's Huawei Technologies inked on Wednesday a global patent cross-licensing deal with Xiaomi Inc (1810.HK), according to a statement from Huawei.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
WhatsApp rolls out Channels to users in 150+ countries, after introducing the broadcasting feature in June 2023 in Colombia and Singapore, and adds improvements — WhatsApp is rolling out its new Channels feature to more users. The messaging app announced on Wednesday that it's expanding …
More: Livemint, Thurrott, 9to5Google, Reuters, Meta, PhoneArena, Hindustan Times, Engadget, TechCrunch, Inc42 Media, Android Central, Neowin, Memeburn, MSPoweruser, and Business Today
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Adobe makes Firefly generally and commercially available in Creative Cloud and other services, and announces “generative credits” to charge for Firefly access — 176 days after launching its Firefly generative AI models into beta, Adobe today announced that Firefly is now generally …
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