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| BBC: |
After Meta criticizes potential UK encryption rules, the UK says Meta “failed to provide assurances” over keeping its platforms “safe from sickening abusers” — Facebook's owner Meta has hit back at a new government campaign strongly critical of its plans to encrypt messages.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK's parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, in the works since 2019, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days — Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services …
More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, GOV.UK, BBC, New York Times, The Verge, The Register, Silicon Republic, CSO, Tech Times, Sky News, The Record, Pixel Envy, Forbes, Cybernews.com, Molly Rose Foundation, TechSpot, Reuters, CircleID, SiliconANGLE, Dailymirror, The Independent, The Times, NewsWire, NationalWorld, Silicon UK, Samaritans, ISPreview UK, Ofcom, and UKTN
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Forums: r/technology, r/technology, and Slashdot
| CNBC: |
Sources: as equities soared in 2020, Apple and Goldman were working on a stock trading feature for iPhones, shelving the project in 2022 as markets turned — - Apple was exploring the launch of an iPhone feature that would let users buy and sell stocks, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta expands its Meta Verified program to businesses on Facebook and Instagram in select markets, for $21.99/month/page for each or $34.99/month/page for both — Meta announced today that it is expanding Meta Verified to businesses after first launching it for creators in March.| Financial Times: |
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| The Verge: |
Memo: Phil Spencer tells staff the FTC v. Microsoft documents leak is “disappointing” and that the company failed to live up to its confidentiality expectations — / ‘We all put incredible amounts of passion and energy into our work, and this is never how we want that hard work to be shared with the community.’
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Forums: r/Games, r/pcgaming, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Mariam Sunny / Reuters: |
Neuralink opens enrollment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients, expected to take about six years, likely to include <10 people — Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval …
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| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp releases a beta via Apple's TestFlight that works natively with the iPad, built using Mac Catalyst, after years of requests for the app from users — WhatsApp has just submitted a new update through the TestFlight beta Program, bringing the version up to 23.19.1.71.
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| Qianer Liu / Financial Times: |
Sources and analysis: four of the eight CPUs in the Kirin 9000S SoC use Arm designs and four use Huawei-modified Arm designs, HiSilicon made the GPU, and more — Facing US sanctions, Chinese company emulates Apple by using its own designs in chips for Mate 60 Pro
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
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| Nikkei Asia: |
In a WeChat post, China's Ministry of State Security accuses the US of hacking Huawei's servers, stealing critical data, and installing backdoors since 2009 — Beijing says Washington forces tech companies to install backdoors for spying — China has accused the U.S. of hacking Huawei's servers continuously since 2009.
More: 9to5Mac, TIME, and South China Morning Post
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 review: Precision Finding, Double Tap is great, and some Siri and brightness improvements, but many of the tweaks feel minor — Iterative updates aren't flashy, but these smartwatches are mainly for folks who don't have Apple Watches yet.
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X: @nicnguyen, @nicnguyen, and @adrianweckler
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Bard's “Google it” feature adds the ability to “double check” answers by highlighting phrases with supporting or contradicting information found by Search — Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search? — Today let's talk about an advance in Bard …
More: The Keyword, CRN, Decrypt, Ars Technica, BetaNews, MediaNama, The Register, Search Engine Roundtable, New York Times, Search Engine Journal, XDA Developers, Android Headlines, OnMSFT.com, Gizmodo, and Search Engine Land
Threads: @crumbler. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @aurman21, @kelvin_guu, @ilyaabyzov, and @mcwm
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
The Linux Foundation launches the Unified Acceleration Foundation to create an open standard for accelerator programming, an evolution of the oneAPI initiative — At the Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao, Spain, the Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation.
More: The Linux Foundation, Forbes, The Next Platform, oneAPI.io, Runtime, The New Stack, insideHPC, and Phoronix
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
An Uber executive says the EU's Platform Work Directive designating gig workers as employees may result in Uber closing in hundreds of cities and price hikes — Brussels starts negotiations on final text of legislation to improve conditions for workers — A top Uber executive has warned …
More: PYMNTS.com, City A.M., Fortune, Rest of World, Techpoint Africa, and The Rideshare Guy. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
DeepMind researchers detail Optimization by PROmpting to improve LLM performance by using “meta-prompts” like “take a deep breath”, which helped Google's PaLM 2 — DeepMind used AI models to optimize their own prompts, with surprising results.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces the $150 Echo Show 8 with a new design, a centered camera, a smart home hub, Spatial Audio, and a changing home screen based on proximity — Amazon kicked off today's Fall Devices Event with an update to its Echo Show 8. The small smart screen features smart home hub functionality and improved audio quality.
More: Engadget, The Verge, and Digital Trends
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LimeWire, the infamous piracy site that pivoted to content creation, acquires AI image tool BlueWillow, which has a 2.5M-strong Discord and created 500M+ images — In the Wild West of generative AI, a new, unlikely cowboy is riding into town. LimeWire — once infamous for music piracy …
More: Axios, CCN.com, Metaverse Post, and Decrypt
| Madeleine Ngo / New York Times: |
The US spending $64.5B+ to improve rural broadband and close the “digital divide” may not be enough due to the cost of laying fiber, labor shortages, and more — President Biden has promised to provide every American access to reliable high-speed internet.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches the Red Teaming Network, a contracted group of experts to help inform the company's AI model risk assessment and mitigation strategies — In its ongoing effort to make its AI systems more robust, OpenAI today launched the OpenAI Red Teaming Network, a contracted group …
More: OpenAI, WinBuzzer, Digit, SiliconANGLE, Decrypt, and The Decoder
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