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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
YouTube says a “Vision Pro app is on our roadmap” but doesn't offer a timeframe; YouTube videos in 360 and VR playback modes are not viewable in visionOS Safari — Here's a little bit of an about-face: YouTube now says it has a Vision Pro app on its roadmap.
More: 404 Media, Engadget, PhoneArena, GSMArena.com, Gizmodo, Android Authority, iClarified, AppleInsider, New York Post, iPhone in Canada Blog, iThinkDifferent, BGR, Supercharged, MacRumors, 9to5Google, and Hypebeast
Threads: @reckless1280. Mastodon: @alexcox@mastodon.social. X: @recursivefunk, @maxwinebach, @christianselig, @parkerortolani, and @idevicehelpus
LinkedIn: Benedict Evans and Matthew Hawn
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
How researchers used AI to read the Herculaneum papyri, charred in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius' eruption, potentially rewriting key parts of ancient world history — A few years ago, during one of California's steadily worsening wildfire seasons, Nat Friedman's family home burned down.
More: Vesuvius Challenge, Nature, SiliconANGLE, The Guardian, New Scientist, Daily Mail, Telegraph, TIME, The Daily Caller, The Times, VICE, Sunshine Moon Vs Galaxy …, and Tanadrin
Mastodon: @avandeursen@mastodon.acm.org. X: @natfriedman, @lukefarritor, @ellenhuet, @danielgross, @dwaldenwrites, @ashleevance, @natfriedman, @tedchris, @elonmusk, @johncoogan, @cjhandmer, @micsolana, @balajis, @youssef_m_nader, @ellenhuet, @eldsjal, @dwarkesh_sp, @ashleevance, @bgrueskin, @nachristakis, @jasonnethercut, @theo_nash, @catimperator, @whitepill_pw, @ashleevance, @mualphaxi, @janpaul123, @mcgillmd921, @kilianfleische1, @lulumeservey, @janpaul123, @demishassabis, @julischillij, @douthatnyt, @franceshaugen, and @pdhsu
LinkedIn: Rita J. King and Ashlee Vance
Forums: Hacker News, r/MachineLearning, and Lobsters
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Snap plans to lay off 10% of its global workforce, or ~529 employees, in part to “promote in-person collaboration”; the company cut 20% of staff in August 2022 — Social media company Snap said on Monday that it would lay off 10% of its global workforce, or around 529 employees.
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Mastodon: @mookie@troublemaker.social and @AAKL@noc.social
X: @erinkwoo, @kelseysnaps, @rosaliechan17, @amir, @tacolamp, and @carnage4life
LinkedIn: George Grigorev, Dylan Jones, and Christian Bingham
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer announces an event next week to share “our vision for the future of Xbox”, amid rumors that Xbox exclusives are coming to PS5 — Details of Microsoft's multi-platform plans have been gradually leaking, with The Verge revealing over the weekend …
More: Thurrott, Neowin, MobileSyrup, Destructoid, TweakTown, TheGamer, Gameranx, Stevivor, Game Rant, TrueAchievements, Kotaku, Wccftech, Dexerto, BGR, Dot Esports, GameSpot, Pure Xbox, Push Square, and Phandroid
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Forums: r/gaming and r/playstation
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: Video Games Chronicle, Forbes, Bloomberg, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, Android Headlines, PC Gamer, XboxEra, IGN, Pocket-lint, Destructoid, Engadget, Laptop Mag, TrueAchievements, ComingSoon.net, Game Rant, Game File, Club386, GeekWire, ExtremeTech, GameSpot, Press Start, Mashable, Kotaku, Cryptopolitan, MobileSyrup, MSPoweruser, Variety, GamesIndustry.biz, Game World Observer, SamMobile, Game Developer, GamesIndustry.biz, T3, TechRadar, Gameranx, Windows Central, Pure Xbox, Wccftech, and TweakTown
Forums: r/PS5, r/gaming, r/gamingnews, r/Games, r/XboxSeriesX, r/NoSodiumStarfield, r/BethesdaSoftworks, and r/XboxSeriesS
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A look at OnlyFake, an underground website that claims to use “neural networks” to generate highly convincing fake IDs for $15; one ID passed OKX's verification — This piece was produced with support from The Capitol Forum. — An underground website called OnlyFake is claiming to use …
More: Cointelegraph, Dark Reading, Bitcoin Insider, Protos, PetaPixel, and The Verge
Mastodon: @jtlg@mastodon.lawprofs.org and @josephcox@infosec.exchange
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple is telling users who forget their Vision Pro passcode that they need to bring the device to a store or mail it to AppleCare customer support to reset it — Buyers of Apple Inc.'s new Vision Pro headset are finding it can be a major hassle if they lose their passcode.
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and iMore
X: @kantrowitz, @markgurman, and @newsynick
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide: |
Roblox rolls out real-time AI chat translations, with support for 16 languages, built on an LLM trained on open-source and internal Roblox data — Works in 16 languages — Metaverse platform Roblox is bringing a new AI translation tool online for its millions of users around the world …
More: Roblox Blog, Cointelegraph, The Verge, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and Skynet Today
X: @_aorda, @hthieblot, @nicktornow, @roblox, @davidbaszucki, and @scobleizer
| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Graphika: the viral pornographic Taylor Swift deepfakes originated from a 4chan challenge to bypass anti-porn filters in Microsoft Designer and OpenAI's DALL-E — - Users on 4chan forum competed to bypass anti-porn filters — Deepfakes also created of Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande
More: New York Times, Newser, The Register, Ars Technica, Rolling Stone, and The Verge
| Amy Or / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Reddit had over $800M in revenue in 2023, up 20%+ YoY, and was not profitable for the full year but, according to one source, was profitable in Q4 — - Social site posted over $800 million revenue last year — Reddit may reveal public IPO filing as soon as this month
More: The Information and PYMNTS.com
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Microsoft strikes an AI deal with Semafor for a breaking news feed called Signals; Ben Smith says it will be written by journalists, using AI as a research tool — Collaboration comes as tech giant faces multibillion-dollar lawsuit from the New York Times — Microsoft is working …
More: Semafor, Microsoft On the Issues, The Verge, Online News Association, MobileSyrup, Newmark J-School, Engadget, Observer, GeekWire, Aftermath, PCMag, Windows Central, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, PYMNTS.com, Windows Report, Neowin, and Nieman Lab
X: @vahn16, @justin_b_smith, @kylebrussell, and @semaforben
LinkedIn: Justin B. Smith, Jenni Katzman, Kevin Grant, Ginny Badanes, Noreen Gillespie, Teresa Hutson, and Kellen Henry. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: |
Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot startup Starship Technologies raised $90M co-led by Plural and Iconical, bringing its total raised to $230M — The delivery robots have travelled over 11 million miles and completed over six million autonomous deliveries worldwide.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Cloud native container management platform Weaveworks, which raised over $61M, shuts down after facing uneven sales and failing to get acquired — Weaveworks, a startup focusing on cloud native development tooling, announced today on LinkedIn that it would be shutting down, a sad day for any startup.
More: SiliconANGLE, The Information, and CRN
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
The US State Department announces a new policy allowing “the imposition of visa restrictions on individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware” — - The visa restrictions would prevent those who have profited from or facilitated the misuse of commercial spyware from traveling to the U.S., the official added.| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
A US federal judge sets the trial for the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business to begin on September 9, 2024 — A U.S. federal judge on Monday set a Sept. 9, 2024, date for the start of a jury trial in a lawsuit the U.S. Justice Department and a coalition …
More: CNN, Crypto Daily, Search Engine Land, and The Verge
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
The Oversight Board upholds Meta's decision to not remove a maliciously edited video of Biden but urges Meta to update its “incoherent” manipulated media policy — However, the board said Meta should update its “incoherent” manipulated media policy.| Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Oobit, which lets consumers pay using crypto while merchants receive fiat currency, raised a $25M Series A led by the investment arm of Tether and others — The round also included participation from Anatoly Yakovenko, the co-founder of Solana. — Register Now
More: Tether, SiliconANGLE, Cryptonews, Bitcoin News, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, The Block, NFTgators, CryptoSlate, Reuters, CoinStats, CoinJournal, and Forkast. LinkedIn: David Moylan
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