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Patrick Holland / CNET:

Apple confirms issues causing “iPhone to run warmer than expected” like bugs in iOS 17 and apps like Uber and Instagram, amid complaints about the 15 Pro models — Widespread complaints about overheating of the new iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max can be traced to several factors …

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Associated Press:

NSA's outgoing director, Paul Nakasone, announces an AI security center, after an NSA study identified protecting US AI models as a national security challenge — The National Security Agency is starting an artificial intelligence security center — a crucial mission as AI capabilities …

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Casey Newton / Platformer:

Between ChatGPT's surprisingly human voice and Meta's AI characters, we may be witnessing the rise of a new consumer internet era featuring synthetic companions — Between ChatGPT's surprisingly human voice and Meta's AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever

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Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading:

Filing: LG suspends including IP-based broadcast signaling standard ATSC 3.0 in its 2024 lineup of US TVs due to a “challenging and uncertain patent landscape” — Citing a ‘challenging and uncertain patent landscape,’ LG has suspended the inclusion of ATSC 3.0 tech in its 2024 TV lineup.

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: John Giannandrea's team built a next-gen search engine, “Pegasus”, for Apple's own apps, used in Spotlight and Siri, and coming soon to the App Store — Apple has the wherewithal to launch its own search engine, a replacement for Google. And Microsoft even approached the company about helping make that happen.

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New York Times:

The number of fact-checking sites has declined worldwide, as social media platforms reduce disinformation efforts and false AI content keeps fact-checkers busy — The momentum behind organizations that aim to combat online falsehoods has started to taper off.

X: @brookingsfp, @nytimesbusiness, @stuartathompson, @mausellmoli, @nytimesbusiness, @corrie_pikul, and @caulfieldtim

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Katie Paul / Reuters:

Nick Clegg says Meta used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its new AI assistant and took steps to filter out private details from training datasets — Meta Platforms (META.O) used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train parts of its new Meta AI virtual assistant …

More: PetaPixel, PCMag, Mashable, and PYMNTS.com

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X: @jason_kint and @reuters

Forums: r/privacy and r/technews

Zoë Corbyn / The Guardian:

Q&A with researcher Tamara Kneese on her book Death Glitch and why tech companies need to improve how they handle posthumous digital remains on their platforms — Our digital profiles and possessions are ever-expanding, but what happens to them after our deaths?

Mastodon: @metagrrrl@mastodon.social. X: @tamigraph

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on competing with Nvidia's H100, PyTorch, AI regulation, the US CHIPS Act, diversifying from TSMC, the global supply chain, and more — At this year's Code Conference, the CEO of one of the world's largest computer chip companies discusses competing with Nvidia's leading GPU …

Mastodon: @Shahin@mast.hpc.social

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Q&A with Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa on licensing the autonomous electric tractor startup's tech to other companies, the future of farming, and more — Monarch Tractor's Praveen Penmetsa has a grand vision for agriculture, and it includes autonomous electric smart tractors powered by AI.

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Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch:

Liquidators say Singapore arrested 3AC co-founder Su Zhu when he tried to leave the country and sentenced him to four months for not complying with court orders — The hedge fund's other co-founder Kyle Davies is also being called for arrest and imprisonment

New York Times:

Ukrainians fear Chinese rules restricting exporting cheap consumer drone components from September 1 could worsen supply chain woes in Ukraine's “war of drones” — As the war with Russia stretches on, so too does a contest to make more and deadlier flying machines.

More: SlashGear. X: @_karengilchrist and @kimzetter. Forums: r/UkraineWarVideoReport

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More: United States Securities and Exchange Commission. X: @leekstr

Sean Fine / Globe and Mail:

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More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Forbes, and Federal Court of Appeal

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Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:

US DoD Chief Digital and AI Officer Craig Martell says the agency wants to use AI safely and urges companies to share insights into how their AI tools are built

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Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:

Research: ahead of Slovakia's parliamentary elections, videos with deepfake voices of politicians are spreading on apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram

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