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Microsoft is discontinuing HoloLens 2, with no replacement, and will only push “updates to address critical security issues and software regressions” until 2028 — HoloLens 2 production has ended, Microsoft confirmed to UploadVR. — Now is the last time to buy the device …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, and GamesIndustry.biz
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more — A week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching …
More: Microsoft, Moneycontrol, PCMag, Search Engine Land, XDA Developers, XDA Developers, Windows Central, PCWorld, Engadget, Bloomberg, The Verge, Neowin, MediaPost, Tom's Guide, Maginative, Hindustan Times, Wired, Microsoft Copilot Blog, Mashable, Digital Trends, The Official Microsoft Blog, and SecurityWeek
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will start rolling out Click to Do, similar to Google's Circle to Search, and AI-enhanced search features for Windows on Copilot+ PCs next month — Microsoft is using AI models to greatly improve Windows search on its new Copilot Plus PCs, including the addition of a new Click … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft to pay pubs for content used by Copilot Daily, a new assistant providing a spoken summary of current events, signs up Reuters, FT, Axel Springer, more — Microsoft is going to pay publishers for content that will appear in Copilot Daily, a new feature of its Copilot AI-powered, cross-platform assistant.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Generative Search, its answer to Google's AI Overviews, to users in the US — Microsoft has launched its answer to Google's AI-powered search experiences: Bing Generative Search. — On the heels of a pilot in July, Bing Generative Search … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand Sonos' software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle — The Sonos app debacle will go down as an all-time tech industry blunder, but now the company is taking steps to turn the page.
More: Engadget, Forbes, Reuters, TechCrunch, TechRadar, Sonos, MakeUseOf, BetaNews, and Digital Trends
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges from stealth with a Sequoia-led $20M seed, a $30M Series A, a $77M Series B, and a $750M valuation — A team of founders who sold their last company to Amazon to build a new unit within AWS is setting out to reinvent the tricky business … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
MIT spinoff Liquid AI debuts its non-transformer AI models LFM-1B, LFM-3B, and LFM-40B MoE, claiming they achieve “state-of-the-art performance at every scale” — Liquid AI, a startup co-founded by former researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Over the past year, one researcher has reported dozens of flaws in 19 commercial services used by hundreds of US courts, state agencies, and police departments — With hundreds of courts and agencies affected, chances are one near you is, too. — Public records systems that courts … | CNBC: |
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems files for a US IPO, with plans to trade on the Nasdaq as CBRS, and reports a $66.6M net loss on $136.4M in sales in H1 2024 — Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems on Monday filed its prospectus for an initial public offering …
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Some criticize YC-backed PearAI for forking AI code editor Continue, which has the Apache open-source license, and slapping on a ChatGPT-written closed license — A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with an X post thread and YouTube video on Saturday and created immediate controversy.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new Chromebook models from Samsung and Lenovo, and adds AI features to ChromeOS; Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus gets a new Quick Insert key — Google is announcing new Chromebook models today with Samsung and Lenovo. With Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus model in particular …
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
As the US and allies try to sanction Evil Corp., the UK NCA says the ransomware gang conducted cyberattacks and espionage ops on NATO allies on Kremlin orders — - Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
The US NLRB issues a complaint accusing Apple of violating staff's rights to organize and advocate for working conditions via allegedly unlawful workplace rules — A U.S. labor board issued a complaint accusing Apple (AAPL.O) of violating employees' rights to organize and advocate … | Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
An interview with WhatsApp Product Director Alice Newton-Rex on end-to-end encryption, spotting misinformation, the UK's Online Safety Act, Telegram, and more — The messaging platform's director of product discusses privacy issues, AI and new features for the app's 2bn users
X: @cristinacriddle, @gateklons, @aservais1, and @1br0wn
| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
FCC connectivity data in counties affected by Hurricane Helene: as of September 30, 370 of North Carolina's 1,452 cell sites are out because of a lack of power — In some counties, fewer than 10% of all cellphone service sites are fully functioning. — Some of the victims of Hurricane Helene are cut off from the outside world.| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Sony fixes a massive outage of its online gaming network PSN, affecting the PS3, PS4, PS5, PS Vita, web, and more, lasting for eight hours; some issues persist — PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 console users are now able to play online games again following a massive outage on Sony's gaming network that started on Monday night.
More: PlayStation, Android Authority, Video Games Chronicle, Eurogamer.net, BleepingComputer, The Shortcut, Push Square, Tom's Guide, The Mirror, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, Destructoid, Mashable, Engadget, KRON4, The Independent, Livemint, Stevivor, IGN, and Hindustan Times
Forums: r/Piracy, r/technology, r/gaming, and r/gamingnews
| Andrew Solomon / New Yorker: |
Parents and US lawmakers are debating whether social media has fueled a teen suicide crisis, as mental health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans — Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers.
Bluesky: @madelinevo.bsky.social and @caseyjohnston.bsky.social
X: @cherthedev, @zamaan_qureshi, @zdendas1, and @blakersdozen
Forums: Hacker News and r/Longreads
| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
An unredacted New Mexico lawsuit shows Snap grappled internally with how to warn Snapchat users of sextortion risks without striking fear in users and parents — New Mexico claims the social-media company's product features and enforcement gaps make its platform a haven for child predation and blackmail
More: Engadget
| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Apple asks a US judge to throw out or narrow an App Store anti-steering injunction, saying rulings in two unrelated cases undermine an order that Epic had won — Apple (AAPL.O) has asked a U.S. judge to throw out or narrow a decision governing its lucrative App Store, saying …
More: 9to5Mac, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, and AppleInsider
Mastodon: @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …. X: @vidushi_law, @florian4gamers, @reuterslegal, @megangra, @balancecrafting, and @jason_kint. Forums: r/technology
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft's new Windows 11 update adds generative AI-based fill and erase options to Paint and up to 8x picture resolution upscaling to Photos, for Copilot+ PCs — It starts rolling out today, and Copilot+ PC owners can test new features soon. — Now that we're a few years …
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