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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel cancels plans to use its Intel 20A process node for its consumer Arrow Lake processors and instead plans to use external nodes, likely from TSMC — Out with the Intel node, in with TSMC. — In a surprise move, Intel announced today that it no longer plans to use its own ‘Intel 20A’ process node …
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Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @aschilling, @pastynome, @przidnt1, @trendforce, @oxyg3n1us, @thetranscript_, @hpc_guru, @arkanslife, @aschilling, @dnystedt, @samoburja, @realmemes6, and @ryanshrout. LinkedIn: Ryan Shrout
Forums: Hacker News, r/stocks, r/hardware, r/intel, r/AMD_Stock, and r/wallstreetbets
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
The US and allies reveal that the hacker group known as Cadet Blizzard is part of the GRU's Unit 29155, which is responsible for assassinations in Europe — Unit 29155 of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency—a team responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings … | Maia Coleman / New York Times: |
US prosecutors charge a man for allegedly using AI to create hundreds of thousands of songs and using bots to play them and get $10M in streaming royalties — Federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with gaming the system to win royalties from streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music.
More: BleepingComputer, Pivot to AI, Engadget, Ars Technica, Reason, US Department of Justice, NME, Cybernews.com, Music Business Worldwide, CMU, Boing Boing, Music Ally, Billboard, and Digital Music News
X: @danackerman and @kylebrussell
LinkedIn: Hatim A. Rahman, Andrew Batey, Morgan Hayduk, and Lauri Rechardt
| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
A San Francisco federal judge rules that X must face a class action age bias lawsuit by ~150 older workers laid off when Elon Musk acquired the company in 2022 — A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that roughly 150 older workers who were laid off by social media platform X …
More: TechCrunch, Inc.com, and The Register
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out Ask Photos, the Gemini-powered search feature in Google Photos announced at I/O in May 2024, in “early access” to select customers in the US — First announced at Google's I/O developer conference this May, Google Photos' AI-powered search feature, “Ask Photos,” is rolling out to users starting Thursday.
More: The Keyword, Android Authority, The Verge, AppleInsider, Thurrott, Android Central, How-To Geek, Digital Trends, Engadget, ZDNET, Tom's Guide, Android Police, 9to5Google, Forbes, TechRadar, Wired, PetaPixel, BGR, Droid Life, and iPhone in Canada Blog. LinkedIn: Srinivasan Venkatachary
| Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg: |
Verizon agrees to acquire rival telecom operator Frontier Communications for an enterprise value of $20B including debt; Frontier reported $5.8B in 2023 revenue — - The deal has an enterprise value of $20 billion including debt — Verizon to buy fiber rival to expand high-speed internet
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X: @modestproposal1, @modestproposal1, and @verizonnews
Forums: r/Connecticut, r/verizon, and r/frontierfios
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube announces AI detection tools to protect against copying creators' likeness, including their faces and voices, and plans to offer AI scraping controls — YouTube on Thursday announced a new set of AI detection tools to protect creators, including artists, actors … | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it has 1M+ paid corporate ChatGPT users across ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu, up from 600K paid ChatGPT Team and Enterprise users in April 2024 — The startup introduced an enterprise product a year ago in a bid to boost revenue. … OpenAI now has more than 1 million paid users …
More: The Information, ZDNET, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, The Decoder, The Crypto Times, Quartz, Sherwood News, and The Verge
| CNN: |
The US DOJ seizes 32 domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian efforts to influence the 2024 US presidential election — The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
The US, the UK, the EU, and others sign a Council of Europe treaty to ensure that AI use is “fully consistent with human rights, democracy and the rule of law” — We're not very close to any specifics on how, exactly, AI regulations will be implemented and ensured …
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| Ezza Ijaz / Wccftech: |
Bluetooth SIG releases its Bluetooth 6.0 spec, which has a Channel Sounding feature that could help Find My apps locate items with “centimeter-level accuracy” — The Bluetooth community is dedicated to evolving its technology, introducing more features, and including more devices …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft plans to use StopNCII's hash database to block revenge porn in Bing, joining Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, Pornhub, and OnlyFans — The advancement of generative AI tools has created a new problem for the internet: the proliferation of synthetic nude images resembling real people.| Mark Savage / BBC: |
Spotify wins a long-running, complicated music rights case in US district court, where Eminem publisher Eight Mile Style claimed Spotify lacked proper licenses — Spotify has won a long-running court case, in which it was accused of streaming Eminem's music without permission.
More: Billboard, Rolling Stone, and Music Business Worldwide
| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
PayPal expands into US point-of-sale payments by integrating its debit card with Apple Wallet and offering 5% cash back on $1K/month for a chosen product group — PayPal (PYPL.O) is expanding into U.S. point-of-sale payments by integrating its debit card with Apple's mobile wallet … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Arkansas-based Laravel, known for its open-source PHP web framework released in June 2011 and which now has 35 employees, raised a $57M Series A from Accel — Taylor Otwell has done some risky demos in his life. — In a world where nearly every onstage demo is very controlled, Otwell …
More: FinSMEs and Laravel News
| Helen Bushby / BBC: |
The UK CMA launches an investigation into whether Ticketmaster breached consumer protection law with the sale of Oasis tickets, including via “dynamic pricing” — The UK competition regulator has launched an investigation into the sale of Oasis tickets, including the use of “dynamic pricing”.| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
As national legislation on deepfake porn crawls through Congress, 39 US states have introduced laws to deter the creation and sharing of nonconsensual deepfakes — Legislation addressing the crisis of deepfake porn is being proposed, passing, and failing at the state level all over the US.
Forums: r/politics
| Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg: |
FCC filing: Larry Ellison will own 77.5% of Paramount Global parent company National Amusements after his son David completes the purchase of Paramount — Paramount Global, the parent of CBS, will be controlled by software billionaire Larry Ellison after a group led by his son David completes … | Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
YouTube begins limiting repeated video recommendations about fitness levels, body weights, physical features, and more to teens globally, expanding from the US — Platform will ensure algorithms do not keep pushing similar content to young viewers, even though it does not breach guidelines
More: YouTube Official Blog, Livemint, News.ng, BBC, MediaPost, UPI, TechCrunch, PCMag, Cybernews.com, Mashable, The Verge, and Business Standard
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
DJI unveils Neo, a $200 drone aimed at content creators and casual users with features like palm takeoff, voice control, ActiveTrack, phone control, and more — It's simple to use but offers advanced features like smartphone and voice control. — DJI has just unveiled the Neo …
More: HotHardware, DroneXL, iClarified, The Verge, Neowin, PetaPixel, DroneDJ, CNET, Canon Rumors, ZDNET, TechCrunch, PCMag, T3, Tom's Guide, TechEBlog, TechRadar, and Android Authority
| New York Times: |
Inside Amazon Zoox's command center in Foster City, California, which holds about 36 human technicians who oversee and provide remote assistance to robot taxis — In places like San Francisco, Phoenix and Las Vegas, robot taxis are navigating city streets, each without a driver behind the steering wheel.
Mastodon: @gwynnion@mastodon.social. X: @antoniocasilli. LinkedIn: Greg C.. Forums: Hacker News and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Kantar: 26% of marketers plan to cut back X ad spending in 2025 and 14% plan to pull budgets in 2024, over concerns about content and trust in disseminated info — Annual survey highlights growing concern about platform content and trust in information disseminated
More: Engadget, CNN, Financial Times, Mashable, Business Insider, Proactive, Quartz, TNW, CBS News, Cryptopolitan, Tech.co, Benzinga, Bizcommunity, Kantar, BusinessLIVE, and Marketing Beat
X: @alfonslopeztena, @lolgop, @casfetera, @pkafka, and @pkafka
LinkedIn: Ian Whittaker and Sean Brierley
Forums: r/technology and r/technews
| Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked Disney files include personal data of some staff and customers and show that Disney+ had $2.4B+ revenue in Disney's March quarter, or ~43% of DTC revenue — Data trove sheds light on entertainment giant's operations, and exposes personal data of some staff and customers| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Heidelberg-based Aleph Alpha, which raised $500M+ in 2023, pivots to helping clients use AI tools, instead of trying to outperform models from OpenAI and others — - For years, Aleph Alpha was hailed as Europe's rival to OpenAI — Then it opted to stop relying on costly large-language models| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
The US imposes new export controls on critical tech, including quantum computing and semiconductor goods, aligning the US with Japan, Netherlands, other allies — - Rules align with those from Japan, Netherlands, other allies — Latest global controls exempt countries with similar measures
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