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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple expands its diagnostics tool for self-service repairs from the US to 32 European countries, including the UK, and plans to launch in Canada in 2025 — Apple Diagnostics for Self Service Repair is now available in 32 European countries, the company announced today.
More: Apple, Apple Must, MacRumors, Canadian Press, AppleInsider, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Apple Post, BGR, iClarified, and Cult of Mac. X: @grantkmartin
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple touts its device longevity in a white paper and says True Tone and battery health data will be available for third-party replacement parts later in 2024 — Apple's putting renewed focus on its repairability efforts today. … But perhaps more interesting is the fact that Apple …
More: Apple, MacRumors, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, and GEARRICE
| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
SCOTUS declines to impose limits on the way the Biden administration may communicate with social media platforms, overturning a lower court's 2023 decision — The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to impose limits on the way President Joe Biden's administration may communicate …
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LinkedIn: Kat Duffy and James Smith
| Jessica Lyons / The Register: |
Researchers: polyfill.io, which offers JavaScript polyfills, is being used to infect 100K+ websites with malware, after a Chinese CDN bought the domain in 2024 — Scripts turn malicious, infect webpages after Chinese CDN swallows domain — The polyfill.io domain is being used to infect …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI makes ChatGPT for macOS available to all users after first rolling it out to Plus subscribers; the app can be launched from anywhere using Option + Space — Over the last month, OpenAI has gradually been rolling out its first-ever ChatGPT app for Mac with Plus subscribers.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: YouTube is in talks with Sony, Warner, and Universal to license their songs for AI music generation tools coming in 2024 that mimic artists' music — Licensing negotiations come as industry wrestles with legal and creative impact of artificial intelligence| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for July 10 at 9AM ET in Paris, where Galaxy AI updates, the Galaxy Z Fold 6, and Galaxy Z Flip 6 are expected — Samsung's next Unpacked summer launch event will take place on July 10th in Paris, France, the company announced on Tuesday.
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| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
Meta says “an error” is causing Instagram and Threads to turn on a setting that limits political content from people who users don't follow, upon every app open — After Democratic strategist Keith Edwards urged Threads users to check the Instagram setting limiting political content …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sensor Tower: Nexon's Dungeon & Fighter Mobile generated $270M on iOS in China in the 30 days after its May 21 launch, marking Tencent's biggest release in 2024 — - ‘Dungeon & Fighter Mobile’ is off to a hot start in China — The Nexon-produced game is Tencent's biggest release this year| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Sources: AU10TIX, an ID verification service that handles ID photos and is used by TikTok, Uber, X, and others, exposed admin credentials online for over a year — A company that verifies the identities of TikTok, Uber, and X users, sometimes by processing photographs of their faces …
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| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
How Google and others have carefully rewritten their terms and conditions to include words like AI, as tech companies look to train their AI models on user data — Last July, Google made an eight-word change to its privacy policy that represented a significant step in its race to build the next generation of artificial intelligence.
| Yueqi Yang / The Information: |
Animoca Brands, which was valued at $6B in 2022, is considering an IPO in Hong Kong or the Middle East in 2025, four years after it was delisted in Australia — Animoca Brands, a crypto gaming and metaverse conglomerate valued at $6 billion in 2022, is considering a public listing in Hong Kong …
More: CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and CoinGape
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based Creatio, which offers a no-code CRM and workflow automation platform, raised $200M led by Sapphire Ventures at a $1.2B valuation — Creatio, the no-code CRM and workflow automation platform, on Wednesday announced that it has raised a $200 million funding round led by Sapphire Ventures.
More: SiliconANGLE, Reuters, CIO Dive, AIN.Capital, Creatio, Tech Funding News, and Enterprise Times
LinkedIn: Bogdan Svyrydov and Derek R. Kelliher
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Formation Bio, which uses AI to co-develop drugs with biotech and pharma companies, raised a $372M Series D led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $600M+ — Formation Bio, a startup focused on applying AI to drug discovery with backing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has raised …
More: Formation Bio and FinSMEs
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google drops continuous scroll in Search, saying it didn't lead to significantly higher user satisfaction and that pagination enables serving results faster — Google Search will stop its continuous scroll user experience where Google loads more results as you scroll past the first page of the search results.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Seven content-licensing sellers of music, image, and other AI training datasets form the Dataset Providers Alliance to advocate for “ethical data sourcing” — OkSeven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart quietly rolls out a payments app, Super.money, after separating from PhonePe, India's largest payments app, in December 2022 — Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has quietly started rolling out its own payments app, dubbed Super.money, as it broadens …
More: PYMNTS.com, Inc42 Media, and The Economic Times
| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
BCG, McKinsey, KPMG, and other consultants see rising demand for AI advisory services; BCG earns 20% of its revenue from AI-related work, vs. 0% two years ago — Rattled by tech's latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on adopting generative artificial intelligence.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Atlanta-based Rainforest, which helps software companies “build and optimize” embedded financial services, raised a $20M Series A, taking its funding to $31.75M — Rainforest, a startup that embeds payment processing into other software platforms, has raised $20 million in Series A funding … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Reddit says it will update its robots.txt to make “as clear as possible” that companies “using an automated agent to access Reddit” need to abide by its terms — The warning comes after reports that AI companies regularly ignore instructions not to scrape.
More: Reddit Upvoted, PCMag, TechCrunch, Benzinga, MEDIANAMA, The Verge, and Reuters
| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
Atos says a consortium led by its largest shareholder, Onepoint, has withdrawn from bailout talks and that EPEI has expressed interest in restarting discussions — - Billionaire Kretinsky's EPEI is interested in restarting talks — Atos still aims for a refinancing deal with creditors in July| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Fetcherr, which wants to let airlines provide dynamic pricing by using AI to forecast demand, raised a $90M Series B, bringing its total funding to $114.5M — The airline industry is headed for record revenue this year — $996 billion — as the demand for travel soars. But the margins remain razor-thin.| Laura Dobberstein / The Register: |
In a rare admission of ad fraud, Yahoo Japan plans to waive $189M in charges, or ~1.6% of parent company LY's FY 2023 revenue, after detecting fraudulent clicks — Admits it's not sure some clicks from from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten
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| Bloomberg: |
India sold 141MHz of spectrum for ~$1.3B in an auction, down from ~$19B in 2022, as the country's three remaining private operators rein in capital spending — - Bharti Airtel bought 97 MHz of airwaves for $820 million — Analysts had forecast that demand for spectrum may be limited
More: DatacenterDynamics and RCR Wireless News
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