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June 28, 2024, 4:30 PM
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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
TeamViewer warns that its corporate environment was breached on June 26, and attributes the cyberattack to the Russian hacking group APT29 aka Midnight Blizzard  —  The remote access software company TeamViewer is warning that its corporate environment was breached in a cyberattack yesterday …
Sean Endicott / Windows Central:
Microsoft's AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says content on the open web is “freeware” that anyone can copy or use to reproduce, due to the fair use “social contract”  —  Microsoft's CEO of AI said that content on the open web can be copied and used to create new content.
Eliza Gkritsi / Euractiv:
Margrethe Vestager says Apple's decision not to launch its AI features in the EU is a “stunning, open declaration” of the company's anticompetitive behavior  —  Apple's decision not to launch its own artificial intelligence (AI) features in the EU is a “stunning declaration” …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple launches the Vision Pro in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, the first time the device has been officially available outside of the US  —  Apple's Vision Pro spatial computing headset today arrived at Apple Store locations across China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore.
The Information:
Sources: Apple may use electrically induced adhesive debonding to make batteries easier to replace, starting with one iPhone 16 model, to comply with EU rules  —  Under pressure from regulators in Europe and elsewhere, Apple in recent years has taken small steps toward making the iPhone easier for consumers to repair.
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
The US SEC sues Consensys over its MetaMask service, alleging the wallet tool was an unregistered broker that “engaged in the offer and sale of securities”  —  The SEC alleged that MetaMask acted as an unregistered securities broker and that its staking service violated securities laws.
Yasemin Saplakoglu / Quanta Magazine:
An in-depth look at the development of Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, which had the biggest AI breakthrough in science by accurately predicting protein structures  —  When Google's public relations machine churned the news out to the world, the media went wild.  Headlines claimed that AlphaFold2 “will change everything.”
Dan Primack / Axios:
ZeroEyes, a gun detection video analytics and alert service, raised a $53M Series B led by Sorenson Capital, and says it has ~400 clients in 42 US states  —  - Its purpose is to identify guns and then share those images with trained professionals who can alert first responders and local staff if appropriate.
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Q&A with the VP of Amazon Games on focusing on AAA games over mobile games, Amazon's transmedia IP strategy, AI's effect on the industry, monetization, and more  —  Amazon Games has been quiet for the past few years.  So quiet you might not have even known Amazon was working on video games …

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Variety:
The WGA, which routinely opposes media mergers, says the Netflix-WBD deal must be blocked, and the Producers and Directors guilds express concern over the deal

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agree to part ways and let her contract expire at the end of the year, following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr.

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: David Ellison's interference in WBD's failed summer talks to extend HBO Max's South Park licensing deal left David Zaslav distrustful of Ellison

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Wired:
Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Meta releases LLM Compiler, a family of models built on Code Llama specifically designed for code optimization tasks, available in 7B- and 13B-parameter sizes
Will Knight / Wired:
OpenAI details CriticGPT, a GPT-4 model fine-tuned to catch errors in ChatGPT's code output, assisting human trainers tasked with assessing and spotting errors
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Coinbase files two lawsuits against the US SEC and the FDIC for not complying with FOIA requests; one of the FOIA requests is about how the SEC views ether
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google adds 110 new languages to Translate, aided by the company's PaLM 2 AI language model, taking the total languages to 243, in its largest expansion ever
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