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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Hands-on with the Google Pixel 9's AI camera features: Add Me, Reimagine, Autoframe, Zoom Enhance, plus improvements to Video Boost and panoramas — Add Me, Reimagine, Autoframe, and Zoom Enhance—these camera features allow you to alter your photos with zero technical know-how.
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| Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
AT&T says it won't carry Google's new Pixel 9 Pro Fold, after selling the original Pixel Fold; the network will carry the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL — The second-generation Google foldable isn't heading to AT&T. The carrier told CNET that it will not be offering Google's newest Pixel Fold to its customers.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
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| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Apple approves Spotify updating its app to show in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the EU starting today, after Spotify's yearslong legal battle — Spotify will begin showing in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the European Union starting today, following a yearslong legal battle against Apple.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: after Google's monopoly ruling, the DOJ considers options, including forcing a breakup of the company or requiring it to share more data with rivals — - Antitrust enforcers soliciting input from outside companies — Judge ruled Alphabet unit monopolized online search, ads
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LinkedIn: Caroline Hyde and Anna Edgerton
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
xAI launches Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta with improved reasoning capabilities, available to X Premium and Premium+ users; the API will debut later in August — Elon Musk-owned launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta today with improved reasoning. The new Grok AI model can now generate images …
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Access Now and Citizen Lab: Russian spy agencies are using deep knowledge about opponents, reporters, and human rights groups to target them via phishing emails — Traditional phishing attacks aimed to break into organizations advocating for Russian dissidents, among others.
More: The Citizen Lab, The Record, Access Now, CyberScoop, Bloomberg, and The Guardian
X: @citizenlab, @accessnow, and @jsrailton
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
The US NIST publishes its first three post-quantum cryptography standards; IBM's director of research thinks quantum will hit an inflection point around 2030 — It'll still be a while before quantum computers become powerful enough to do anything useful, but it's increasingly likely …
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X: @nist, @googlecloudsec, @nistdirector, @lukolejnik, and @quantum_jake
LinkedIn: Marc Ph. Stoecklin and Christian Paquin
| Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to ~$48B and net profit up 6% YoY to ~$1.08B, above ~$1.04B est., on strong AI server demand; its stock is up ~80% in 2024 — Quarterly revenue rose 19% from a year earlier — Foxconn Technology Group reported a 6% increase in quarterly net profit …
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| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X review: the Zen 5 flagship chips are fine for highly threaded productivity workloads, but gaming issues need to be fixed — Earlier this month, AMD launched the first two desktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Intel sold its 1.18M shares in Arm during Q2, which would have raised ~$147M for the company, based on the stock's average price in the quarter — Intel Corp., which is slashing jobs and expenses in a bid to turn around the business, sold its holdings in chip technology creator Arm Holdings Plc during the second quarter.
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| Ben Dowsett / Wired: |
How the English Premier League plans to use 28+ iPhone 14 or newer cameras at stadiums to call offsides later in the 2024/25 season, ditching its VAR system — Later this season, the UK's top soccer division will replace its controversial VAR offside-detection system in favor of a whole bunch of Apple's smartphones.
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TNW, Gizchina.com, Sportico, and iMore
| Nathan Eddy / Dark Reading: |
Researchers describe now-fixed vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Azure Health Bot Service that would let a user access and manage other customers' resources — Multiple privilege escalation issues in Microsoft Azure's cloud-based Health Bot service opened the platform to server-side request forgery …
More: Tenable Blog, WinBuzzer, Security Boulevard, TechRadar, Neowin, The Cyber Express, SC Media, and techtarget.com
| Financial Times: |
How Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are using accounting techniques to disguise growing emissions, while working to influence pollution disclosure rules — Critics say a proposed rule change backed by Amazon and Meta could allow large energy users to hide their true emissions
More: Action Speaks Louder. X: @beyond_fossils, @starcourse, and @beyond_fossils
LinkedIn: Nick Stansbury and Chris Hilson
| Dara Kerr / NPR: |
Meta shuts down CrowdTangle, less than three months before the US election, in favor of the Meta Content Library; Mozilla says 50K+ petitioned against the move — Meta has been bombarded by academics, researchers, politicians and regulators about a tool called CrowdTangle, which most people probably haven't heard of.
More: Engadget, Social Media Today, ABC, The Verge, CrowdTangle Help Center, RIP CrowdTangle, and TBIJ
X: @matthewgmull, @leelum, @tbij, @louisstaples, @niamh_mcintyre, @whotargetsme, and @djandjava
| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
US District Judge Reed O'Connor recuses himself from X's advertiser lawsuit over an alleged ad boycott; O'Connor held stock in Tesla and Unilever — A U.S. District Judge in Texas has recused himself from a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X days after NPR drew scrutiny to the judge's investment …
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X: @chrisgeidner, @thainamo, @pdmcleod, @bobbyallyn, and @johnathanperk
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/law, and Ars OpenForum
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US judge rules that a group of artists can pursue some copyright infringement claims in their lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, and other companies — A group of visual artists can continue to pursue some claims that Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt and Runway AI's artificial … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
EliseAI, which offers AI property management tools for landlords, raised a $75M Series D led by Sapphire at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $140M — EliseAI, a company developing a suite of AI-powered property management tools for landlords, has raised $75 million in a Series D round that values the startup at $1 billion.
More: FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, PitchBook, and VentureBeat
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils the Pixel Watch 3 in 41mm and 45mm sizes, with a 2,000-nit display and around 16% smaller bezels compared to the Watch 2, starting at $349 — Besides being offered in a bigger size, the Google Pixel Watch 3 looks exactly like last year's wearable, with software and under …
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