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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Procreate CEO James Cuda says the iPad illustration startup is “not going to be introducing any generative AI into our products”, drawing praise from creatives — Many Procreate users can breathe a sigh of relief now that the popular iPad illustration app has taken a definitive stance against generative AI.
More: Procreate, TechCrunch, How-To Geek, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Dexerto, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Mashable, Neowin, Lifewire, iMore, and MacStories
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X: @procreate, @sdw, @rahll, @mkbhd, @ohheydj, @davidtoons_, and @jam_etc_art
Forums: r/technology, r/technews, r/artificial, and Slashdot
| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
AMD agrees to buy New Jersey-based ZT Systems, founded in 1994 to design and make servers, server racks, and other infrastructure, for $4.9B, closing in H1 2025 — ZT Systems produces servers, other equipment used in data centers for artificial intelligence
More: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Silicon Valley Business …, SiliconANGLE, Investor's Business Daily, Forbes, Stratechery, Reuters, Thurrott, Yahoo Finance, Observer, CRN, Tom's Guide, Fierce Network, HotHardware, The Information, eeNews Europe, Enterprise Times, Neowin, Channel Futures, Taipei Times, Proactive, Barron's Online, Benzinga, insideHPC, Associated Press, The Next Platform, Constellation Research, Invezz, Fierce Electronics, Maginative, Wccftech, Financial Times, AIM, Pulse 2.0, Tech Startups, Quartz, DatacenterDynamics, Silicon Republic, TweakTown, Business Times, The Mirror, TechCrunch, Phoronix, and The Verge
X: @patrickmoorhead, @patrickmoorhead, @lisasu, and @economyapp
Forums: r/AMD_Stock, r/NVDA_Stock, r/wallstreetbets, and r/Amd
| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Raspberry Pi launches a Raspberry Pi 5 with 2GB of RAM for $50, alongside the existing 4GB model for $60 and 8GB for $80, and may release a future 1GB model — Will a $50 Raspberry Pi 5 2GB be enough? — The Raspberry Pi 5 is still the single board computer against which all others are measured …
More: Raspberry Pi, XDA Developers, How-To Geek, Ars Technica, PCWorld, ZDNET, Thurrott, TechSpot, Neowin, SlashGear, The Verge, CNX Software, The Register, Hackster.io, Phoronix, Liliputing, and Notebookcheck
Mastodon: @biglesp@mastodon.social. X: @geerlingguy, @stephen_neal, @rpilocator, @pineboards, and @raspberry_pi
| CNBC: |
Waymo unveils its cheaper “generation 6” self-driving tech that's integrated with Geely Zeekr vehicles, with 13 cameras and 4 lidar sensors, down from 29 and 5 — Alphabet-owned Waymo revealed details about its newest “generation 6” self-driving technology on Monday.
More: Waymo, The Verge, Engadget, PCMag, CNET, and Tech Startups
Forums: r/waymo and r/SelfDrivingCars
| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
Source: GM is cutting over 1,000 software engineers, including 600+ in Michigan, as the automaker moves to lean up its software and services organization — - Job reductions follow company push to bolster digital prowess — Company has faced technology glitches in Blazer, Lyriq models
More: CNBC, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Quartz, IJR, autoevolution, Wall Street Journal, Proactive, Macomb Daily, and Reuters
Forums: r/Layoffs, r/technology, r/cars, r/economicCollapse, and r/Detroit
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts a web app for Podcasts, letting users log in to listen to podcasts, view the Up Next queue and library, and browse new shows, at podcasts.apple.com — Apple Podcasts is expanding to the web, starting today. You can access the new web app version at podcasts.apple.com …
More: TechCrunch, Times of India, MacRumors, Engadget, and BGR
X: @bzamayo, @dylanmcd8, and @brandonbutch
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Washington Post: |
Girls In Tech, Women Who Code, and other groups that aimed to diversify Silicon Valley are closing or rebranding to stay afloat, as critics attack DEI efforts — Groups like Girls In Tech and Women Who Code promised to attract women and people of color to the tech industry.| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google will end the Google Play Security Reward Program, introduced in 2017 to incentivize researchers to find bugs in popular Android apps, on August 31 — - Google has announced that they are winding down the Google Play Security Reward Program. — The program was introduced in late 2017 …
More: Neowin, Android Headlines, PhoneArena, Android Police, and NewsBytes
| Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.co: |
Since 2018, Roblox has grown rapidly and consistently and now has an estimated average of 80M+ daily and 380M+ monthly users, over 2x that of Steam or Minecraft — Everyone knows Roblox is huge. But as COVID receded into memory, Roblox shifted from “new” to “familiar,” …
X: @ballmatthew, @timsweeneyepic, and @ballmatthew. LinkedIn: Chris Heatherly
Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Carta says 254 of its VC-backed clients went bust in Q1 2024 and the startup bankruptcy rate is over 7x that of 2019, as funds from the 2021-2022 boom run out — Private company shutdowns jump compared with last year despite AI funding frenzy, threatening millions of jobs at VC-backed firms| Benedict Evans: |
What comes after Google's antitrust loss is not clear, besides the court ordering Google to stop or reduce its TAC payments; Apple could build a search engine — A search engine is a vast mechanical Turk - a reinforcement learning engine that uses human activity to understand the web.
More: Blind Workplace Insights, Marin Independent Journal, Android Headlines, and 9to5Mac. Threads: @benedictevans
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A week after data broker NPD confirmed a breach, which reportedly impacted 272M+ people, a review of NPD property Records Check shows exposed admin credentials — New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds …
More: Fortune, The Register, Dark Reading, New York Post, Panda Security Mediacenter, SecurityWeek, and Los Angeles Times. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
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