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The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming “consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing” plan terms — The US government is suing Adobe for allegedly hiding expensive fees and making it difficult to cancel a subscription.
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Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @joelhousman@mastodon.social. X: @linakhanftc. Forums: Hacker News, r/graphic_design, r/LinusTechTips, r/technology, r/Piracy, r/photoshop, r/Affinity, r/UXDesign, and Beehaw
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it will no longer offer Apple Pay Later, the BNPL service launched in the US in 2023, and will focus on installment loan features coming this year — Apple has announced that it is no longer offering Apple Pay Later, the “buy now, pay later” service that launched in the United States last year.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, r/AppleWallet, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Vivek H. Murthy / New York Times: |
The US surgeon general says platforms should add a warning label saying that “social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents” — One of the most important lessons I learned in medical school was that in an emergency, you don't have the luxury to wait for perfect information.
More: New York Times, The Verge, Politico, NPR, Forbes, The Register, CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Ars Technica, USA Today, Inc.com, Digital Trends, Mashable, Silicon Valley Business …, NBC News, ExtremeTech, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Investor's Business Daily, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, Popular Science, Dexerto, Sherwood News, The Information, The Hill, Benzinga, TechSpot, PCMag, San Francisco Business Times, Lifewire, Tubefilter, Axios, Reason, Quartz, Business Insider, NJTODAY.NET, New York Daily News, New York Post, IGN, PetaPixel, Engadget, and Rolling Stone
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LinkedIn: Anne Bahr Thompson, Todd Kelsey PhD🌻, Zach Rausch, and Greg Bradbard
Forums: r/politics, r/marketing, and Slashdot
| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
Uber says “tens of thousands of riders” in Phoenix have matched with a “Waymo (AI) driver” and have given “a nearly 4.9 average star rating” since the launch — The Alphabet Inc. unit, which operates its commercial ride service in three major cities …
More: The Last Driver License Holder. X: @pkafka, @johnpaczkowski, @waymo, and @waymo. LinkedIn: Suzanne Philion
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| María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg: |
Tether, the top stablecoin provider, says it made a new synthetic dollar that is backed by gold and will trade as aUSDT via smart contracts on Ethereum Mainnet — - Alloy by Tether designed to track dollar with gold collateral — Tether Gold has a $573 million market capitalization| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and have a bigger screen, from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components — This year's Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and come in larger screen sizes than previous models, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
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| Bloomberg: |
Mandiant: up to 10 companies breached in a campaign targeting Snowflake customers have been extorted with stolen data and face ransom demands from $300K to $5M — - As many as 10 companies are being extorted with stolen data — Scammers previously made death threats against researchers| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a $130 stylus coming in September for the Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and “future headsets”, the Quest's first third-party input device — The stylus works in 2D or 3D art in VR and AR, arriving this fall. Your move, Apple.| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Microsoft says the latest version of Windows 11, version 24H2 now in the Release Preview Channel, is “only available for Copilot+ PCs devices” — It's amazing what a mess the Copilot+ launch is turning out to be. — Microsoft has split the future of Windows between two user groups …
More: How-To Geek, TweakTown, Windows Latest, Windows Central, TechRadar, Pureinfotech, Gizchina, The Register, MSPoweruser, Thurrott, and Neowin
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, highly realistic 10-second-long video clips; it's unclear if it will come to a free or paid tier — New York City-based Runway ML, also known as Runway, was among the earliest startups to focus on realistic high-quality generative AI video creation models.
More: Runway, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, WinBuzzer, The Decoder, PetaPixel, and Tom's Guide
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube is testing Notes, an experimental crowdsourced tool to let users add context to videos, similar to X's Community Notes, on mobile in the US in English — YouTube is introducing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add “Notes” to provide more context and information under videos …
More: YouTube Official Blog, Engadget, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Android Police, ZDNet, Social Media Today, BGR, Trusted Reviews, 9to5Google, Dexerto, Neowin, Android Headlines, WinBuzzer, PhoneArena, PCMag, IGN, The Verge, Search Engine Journal, Reuters, Quartz, The Hollywood Reporter, Thurrott, and NewsBytes
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Real-time data analytics startup Tinybird raised a $30M Series B, at a “significantly higher” valuation than its $37M Series A; source: it's now valued at $240M — Tinybird is not so tiny anymore. The enterprise data startup TechCrunch first covered three years ago has been growing …
More: SiliconANGLE, Tinybird, FinSMEs, and EU-Startups
| Bloomberg: |
Around two dozen sources detail Google's decision to form the Google DeepMind “super-unit” in April 2023, shifting from AI research lab to AI product factory — The company combined its two AI labs to develop commercial services, a move that could undermine its long-running strength in foundational research.| Thomas Germain / BBC: |
Copywriters detail how AI is affecting their jobs, with some noticing a new line of work to make AI-generated text sound more human, a job that pays a lot less — If you're worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future.
X: @carnage4life, @gloria_sin, @michaelmiraflor, @kristadiamond, @xn_angeles, @kcsixtyseven, @hkesvani, @felicitycarter, @drantoniowrites, @karishmajourno, @thomasgermain, @thomasgermain, @thomasgermain, and @thomasgermain. LinkedIn: Shailey Dash, Phd
Forums: r/ArtistHate, r/ChatGPT, and r/technology
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Swiss privacy-focused app developer Proton establishes the Proton Foundation to transition to a nonprofit foundation model, similar to Signal and Mozilla — Newly formed Proton Foundation counts Sir Tim Berners-Lee as board member — Proton, the Swiss company behind a suite of privacy-focused apps … Sponsor Posts
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