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Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
Interviews with Disney executives about Apple Vision Pro, how the device is changing the studio's production pipelines, future plans for the device, and more  —  Years in the works, the new Disney+ app has an immersive new twist.  But the company sees it as one small step into a new entertainment medium with rich possibilities.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple starts selling the Vision Pro in the US; Tim Cook compares Vision Pro debut to the birth of Mac, iPod, and iPhone in a memo to employees
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LinkedIn: Paul Melvin, Hyunjae Kim, Callum Spencer, Tara Sigaroudi, and Mauricio Santamaria
Forums: r/VisionPro, r/PSVR, r/apolloapp, r/youtube, Slashdot, MacRumors Forums, and MacRumors Forums
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
More than 100 human rights and LGBTQ groups and many kids condemn the Kids Online Safety Act after the January 31 hearing, saying it is “to control information”  —  Gen Z TikTokers, LGBTQ organizations and free speech advocates react angrily to Wednesday's hearing
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
A look at Reddit's third-party app ecosystem seven months after API changes: most current apps now charge users a monthly fee, some are profitable, and more  —  Apollo dev: “I don't believe Reddit's leadership... cares about developers anymore.”  —  Last year, Reddit sparked massive controversy …
More: Neowin.  Forums: r/narwhalapp
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Sources: Apple plans to acquire Brighter AI, a German startup specializing in anonymizing face and license plate data, to enhance privacy features on Vision Pro  —  Sources indicate Apple plans to acquire Brighter AI, a German AI startup specializing in anonymizing face and license plate data.
More: NewsBytes
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop:
The US Treasury sanctions six Iranian government officials for their role in targeting devices at a Pennsylvania water utility in November 2023  —  The Iranian attack targeted a device manufactured by an Israeli company.  —  The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday announced sanctions …
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, which is responsible for Llama, is made up largely of women; sources say ~60% of FAIR's leadership team are women  —  In the high stakes, brutally competitive AI race, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has been an outlier.  While most of the big foundation …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The US Treasury has denied credentials to specific reporters from The New York Times, WSJ, and Bloomberg for the G20 finance meeting in Asheville

Sam Levine / The Guardian:
DHS is using customs summonses, which need no judge's approval, to get journalists' records, even in cases where there is no connection to customs issues

F. Brinley Bruton / NBC News:
Masked Israeli settlers injured three NBC News staffers and a Palestinian woman they were interviewing in the West Bank; Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack

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James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: in January, the US DOJ charged three people over a phone-hacking scheme that included the FTX hack to steal $400M+ during the exchange's 2022 collapse
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google dropped the cache link from Search results snippets last week and plans to remove the cache functionality entirely “in the near future”
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