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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max review: a very incremental upgrade, with nice new tone control in camera and a useful but little fiddly Camera Control button — I'm not saying you should buy a new phone for a single camera setting... but I'm not not saying that, either.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Apple iPhone 16 and 16 Plus review: reliable camera, handy Action Button, and more RAM, but standard refresh rate screen, and Camera Control is a mixed bag — It's a good year for Apple's basic iPhone, even if its AI is MIA. … Over the past few years, Apple's standard iPhone looked a little neglected.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple says Apple Intelligence will support German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and other languages in 2025, and is in talks with the EU and China — Apple Wednesday announced that its generative AI offering will be available in even more languages in 2025.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
YouTube launches Communities, a mix of old-school forums, subreddit, and Facebook group, and a new Community Hub to help creators use Communities — Many creators post videos on YouTube but take to other platforms to actually interact with their fans and viewers.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
YouTube unveils Hype, a new promotional system inside of YouTube to help boost smaller creators; the most-hyped videos appear on a platform-wide leaderboard — It's a new way for viewers to share the stuff they really like — and for creators to grow on an increasingly busy platform.| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
YouTube integrates Google DeepMind's AI video generation model Veo into Shorts, letting creators generate high-quality backgrounds and six-second clips — The main attraction of YouTube's Made On event on Wednesday morning was, you guessed it, artificial intelligence.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple pulls the iPadOS 18 update for M4 iPad Pro models after bricking complaints as the company works “to resolve an issue impacting a small number of devices” — Apple stopped signing the iPadOS 18 update for the M4 iPad Pro models, which means the new software is no longer available …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU's General Court backs Google's challenge against the EU's €1.49B antitrust fine, imposed in 2019 for hindering rivals in online search ads — Europe's second-top court on Wednesday backed Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google's challenge against a 1.49 billion euros ($1.66 billion) …
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
LinkedIn confirms training its AI on user data by default, and says it is “making sure that those who have specific privacy preferences” can opt out — LinkedIn is using its users' data for improving the social network's generative AI products, but has not yet updated its terms …
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| Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
Intel's decision to delay new Germany and Poland plants by two years is a blow to the EU's goal of making 20% of the world's chips by 2030, up from ~9% in 2022 — BRUSSELS — The European Commission's landmark 2022 chips strategy has collapsed just as it laid out a new team to fix the bloc's competitiveness.| Rod McGuirk / Associated Press: |
Australia, Europol, and more say they infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted communications app developed for criminals, arresting dozens, including its alleged admin — Australian police said Wednesday they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app developed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The GSM Association plans to enable E2EE on messages between Android and iOS; Google is working to bring cross-platform E2EE to RCS chats “as soon as possible” — E2EE prevents third parties, like your messaging service or cell carrier, from viewing your texts.| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Twilight, signs a deal with Runway to use generative AI in its movies and TV shows — Hollywood studio will give the tech company access to its library of movies and shows in exchange for a custom-built AI model| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
The FBI says it disrupted a botnet of “hundreds of thousands” of IoT devices worldwide last week, run by the China-linked hacking group Flax Typhoon — The FBI led an operation last week to disrupt a global botnet with connections to the Chinese government …
More: TechCrunch, CyberScoop, Reuters, Voice of America, Associated Press, Fox News, and Cybernews.com
| Washington Post: |
Researchers: GPT-4 generating a 100-word email uses 1,468ml of water at its Washington data center, 925ml in Arizona, 464ml in Illinois, and 235ml in Texas — AI bots generate a lot of heat, and keeping their computer servers running exacts a toll. — Roughly a quarter of Americans …
Forums: Hacker News
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Prager Metis, a former auditor for FTX, pays a $1.95M fine to settle two US SEC cases, including for alleged negligence in auditing the cryptocurrency exchange — A former auditor for FTX will pay $1.95 million to settle two U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cases … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
T-Mobile announces a multi-year partnership with OpenAI that includes building IntentCX, a customer service system powered by AI agents — - The companies say that the model is already showing promise in analyzing customer care call transcripts and identifying pain points that could be addressed better.| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta faces a hefty EU fine as the decision to charge Meta with antitrust violations for linking Marketplace and Facebook may come as early as October — Brussels claims Facebook is breaking the law and undermining rivals with its free Marketplace services| Juliet Chung / Wall Street Journal: |
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100M to boost US cybersecurity: $50M to protect infrastructure and $50M to educate people about safeguards — Donation brings Craig Newmark's charitable commitments to around $400 million — Craigslist founder Craig Newmark believes hacking …
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| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
California Gov. Newsom signs three laws regulating election AI deepfakes, including holding large platforms liable for not removing content after a user report — The state joins dozens of others in regulating the A.I. fakery in ways that could impact this year's presidential race.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
How a trademark fight led to a new version of Flappy Bird by a crypto-adjacent game developer, ten years after the original was pulled from app stores — Decadelong trademark fight culminates in new game hinting at “Web3 innovation.” — Fans of ultra-viral mobile gaming hit Flappy Bird …
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Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The US plans to host the first meeting of the International Network of AI Safety Institutes in San Francisco on November 20 and 21 — The Biden administration plans to convene a global safety summit on artificial intelligence, it said on Wednesday, as Congress continues to struggle with regulating the technology.
More: The Hill and Tech Xplore
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