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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple schedules WWDC 2024 for June 10 to June 14 as a virtual event with a June 10 keynote, where Apple is expected to unveil its AI strategy, iOS 18, and more — Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 10 to Friday, June 14.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Canva acquires Affinity, popular with Mac users for its photo editing and other tools, to take on Adobe, Canva's COO says for “several hundred million pounds” — - Australian unicorn buys British team behind Affinity art suite — Affinity offers alternative tools to Adobe's flagship products
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches GenStudio to let brands create content and measure its performance using generative AI, underpinned by promises of brand safety — Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts — but they are also deathly afraid of AI going off message and ruining their brand.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
More: Adobe Press Releases, Maginative, The Adobe Blog, Adobe Press Releases, and Constellation Research
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| CoinDesk: |
The US DOJ charges crypto exchange KuCoin and two co-founders with violating anti-money laundering laws, failing to register with the US government, and more — The exchange was charged under the Bank Secrecy Act. — U.S. federal prosecutors charged crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders …
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| Chris Plante / Polygon: |
An interview with Phil Spencer on bringing Xbox to handhelds via hardware or software, how Valve, Lenovo, and Asus “innovated in a new form factor”, and more — A handheld Xbox could be hardware, an app, or both — Phil Spencer has tried all of the new PC gaming handhelds …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
A timeline of EU's DMA investigations into Apple, Google, and Meta: each have 12 months to fix the issues, before risking fines of up to 10% of global revenue — - Firms must solve EU concerns during course of 12-month probe — But companies can ultimately fight decisions at the EU courts
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Kevin Systrom says AI news app Artifact will stay online for now due to taking “a lot less to run it than we had imagined”, reversing a February shutdown date — Artifact, the well-received AI-powered news app from Instagram's co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, may not be shutting down as planned.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI releases seven Sora videos from select filmmakers, artists, ad agencies, and musicians; Fairly Trained CEO Ed Newton-Rex calls the move “artistwashing” — OpenAI has been releasing a steady drip of videos generated by its new highly realistic AI model, Sora, but the text-to-video …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google plans to release a Chrome version optimized for Windows on Arm this week, two months after Canary testing; Arm PCs previously ran an emulated x64 version — Google is releasing an optimized version of its Chrome browser for Windows on Arm this week, the search giant has announced alongside chipmaker Qualcomm.
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| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
Sources: the US FTC is investigating TikTok over allegedly faulty privacy and data security practices, and could bring a lawsuit or settlement within weeks — A privacy case against TikTok would add fuel to the bipartisan chorus of criticism directed at the company over its ties to China.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
AI search engines review: they are worse than Google at navigational queries, mixed on information queries, and offer helpful citations in exploration queries — The AI search tools are getting better — but they don't yet understand what a search engine really is and how we really use them.| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
The US OFAC sanctions 13 entities, including Netex24, and two individuals for helping Russian nationals potentially evade sanctions by building crypto services — - The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 13 entities and two individuals for helping sanctioned entities to evade sanctions in Russia.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony plans to add a new opt-in Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later in 2024 that can automatically create clips for helping other players complete games — Sony is introducing a new Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later this year that is designed to automatically create clips that can help other players.| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Internal Tesla memo: Elon Musk tells staff to give buyers a “short test ride” to demonstrate Full Self-Driving, now a “hard requirement” in North America — - New requirement will slow delivery process, Musk says in memo — Full Self-Driving, other features have generated controversy
More: PCMag, ExtremeTech, Business Insider, New York Post, Notebookcheck, BGR, TechCrunch, TechSpot, Fossbytes, and TweakTown
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Some Apple users report being targeted in an “MFA bombing” attack in which their devices are inundated with alerts to approve a password change or login — Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple's password reset feature.
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
A look at MatX, which was founded by ex-Google engineers, has raised $25M, and hopes to design chips that are 10x faster than Nvidia's GPUs at training LLMs — A new startup called MatX from former Google engineers reflects a renewed enthusiasm for chipmakers.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft's Bing and ads chief, is looking for a new position at the company, after Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman to run Microsoft AI — Parakhin, who had been chief executive officer for advertising and web services, will report to Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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X: @tomwarren and @bdsams
Forums: r/Surface, r/Windows11, and Slashdot
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon launches same-day prescription medication deliveries in New York City and the greater Los Angeles area, and plans to expand to 12+ cities by 2024's end — The Amazon Pharmacy home screen is displayed on a laptop in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 17, 2020.
More: About Amazon, The Information, PCMag, MobiHealthNews, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, Forbes, Chain Store Age, TechSpot, Mashable, and Neowin
LinkedIn: Jamil Ghani and John Love
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU publishes draft election security guidelines aimed at platforms with 45M+ regional MAUs that are regulated under the DSA, ahead of elections in June — The European Union published draft election security guidelines Tuesday aimed at the around two dozen (larger) … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Stability AI was in a “death spiral” prior to Mostaque's resignation, due to talent departures, mismanagement, legal troubles, and dwindling resources — Stability AI Chief Executive Officer Emad Mostaque announced his resignation to staff late Friday night with a strikingly optimistic note.| Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: |
US investors, like General Atlantic and Sequoia, are facing increased pressure from state and federal lawmakers about their investments in Chinese companies — Major U.S. investment firms such as General Atlantic, Susquehanna and Sequoia Capital own stakes in ByteDance, the parent of TikTok.
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