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Sources: Apple is planning a new iPad mini, possibly for 2024, and nearing production of an iPhone SE without a home button and iPad Air models for early 2025 — - New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025
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Forums: r/apple, r/iphone, and MacRumors Forums
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Developer Christian Selig says third-party YouTube app Juno for the Vision Pro was “removed from the App Store”, after YouTube said it violated its ToS in April — Juno, the third-party YouTube app created for the Apple Vision Pro, has been removed from the App Store.
More: Christian Selig, Neowin, NewsBytes, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, and Benzinga
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been removed from GitHub, and its team has reportedly ceased development after Nintendo contacted its creator — GitHub removal comes months after a Nintendo lawsuit took down the Yuzu emulator. — Popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx …
More: GamesIndustry.biz, GamingOnLinux, Dexerto, Cryptopolitan, Video Games Chronicle, Wccftech, TechPowerUp, Wololo.net, Aftermath, The Verge, Neowin, GameRevolution, Polygon, PC Gamer, Eurogamer.net, Android Authority, Digital Trends, USA Today, Engadget, IGN, Kotaku, GoNintendo, and DSOGaming
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Forums: r/technology and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in recent months, Google teams have made progress on AI reasoning, similar to OpenAI's o1; source: some in DeepMind are worried over falling behind — The push deepens the search giant's rivalry with OpenAI — Google is working on artificial intelligence software that resembles …
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| Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: |
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says his previous post on ToS updates “may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works” but “little has changed” — The World's Call Center Capital Is Gripped by AI Fever — and Fear … Hello World| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases a $150 standalone version of Office 2024 for consumers and SMBs, with core app updates and UI changes; the last standalone was Office 2021 — Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don't want to subscribe to Microsoft 365.
More: Microsoft 365 Blog, MacRumors, XDA Developers, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, NewsBytes, Neowin, Thurrott, How-To Geek, and Tom's Hardware
| 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 …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
Meta rolls out its Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange to let UK banks share transaction intelligence to help catch scammers, after a pilot with two banks — Tech group to roll out channel for sharing of transaction intelligence — Facebook owner Meta is launching a data-sharing partnership …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia details LLM family NVLM 1.0, which can handle vision and language tasks while enhancing text-only capabilities and is led by the 72B-parameter NVLM-D-72B — Nvidia has released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that competes with proprietary systems from industry leaders like OpenAI and Google.
More: Constellation Research, arXiv.org, and Benzinga
Forums: Hacker News, r/NVDA_Stock, r/ChatGPT, and r/artificial
| Wired: |
Pig butchering operations that are offshoots of the Southeast Asian activity have emerged in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and West Africa — Scamming operations that once originated in Southeast Asia are now proliferating around the world, likely raking in billions of dollars in the process.| Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind is developing an AI research assistant for scientists; BioNTech's InstaDeep unveils a Llama 3.1-based AI assistant for experimental biology — Artificial intelligence used to help researchers plan experiments and better predict outcomes — Google DeepMind and BioNTech … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist — Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he'll be joining Anthropic.
More: Silicon Republic, Maginative, and NewsBytes
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the startup has largely abandoned building AI models after Google poached its founders, instead focusing on its chatbots — AI start-up's new chief says race to build large language models against Big Tech got ‘insanely expensive’| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
The UK FCA fines Starling Bank £29M over its “shockingly lax” controls against financial crime like potential money laundering and sanctions breaches — FCA said lender's efforts to identify potential money laundering ‘did not keep pace’ with its growth
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| Sebastiaan de With / Lux: |
An in-depth iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, but Camera Control and advanced Photographic Styles are the standouts — For the first “Desert Titanium” iPhone, we took over 1000 photos and videos in the desert. Take a deep dive into what's new — and why it's close to the last of its kind.
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Threads: @sandofsky. X: @sdw, @sdw, @halidecamera, @jimmyjamesuk123, @sandofsky, @bawan__abdul, @robswish, @sdw, @durreadan01, @app_settings, and @sdw. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts — Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse …
More: The Verge, Engadget, Thurrott, and Scripting News
Threads: @mosseri, @mosseri, @quillmatiq, @0xjessel, @timothyjchambers, @crumbler, and @technicallymims
| Matt Reynolds / Wired: |
A profile of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency, set up in February 2022 with an £800M budget for high-risk, high-reward science and tech projects — The Advanced Research and Invention Agency—ARIA—is the UK's answer to Darpa. But can it put the country back on the scientific map?| Rob Davies / The Guardian: |
A profile of Denise Coates, the UK's richest woman, who founded online gambling company Bet365, which had £3B+ in 2023 revenue, as she focuses on a US expansion — She is the mastermind behind Bet365, the company that made it possible to gamble online any hour of the day or night.
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| Pui Gwen Yeung / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Hong Kong stock exchange executive Yang Qiumei received a 20% stake in SenseTime, worth $1.5B, from her late husband, making her its largest shareholder — - Yang inherited the shares from her late husband Tang — Tang was one of the co-founders of the Chinese AI giant| Tom Faber / Financial Times: |
2024 has been a barren year for big video games compared to 2023, helping indie games take center stage; the games industry has laid off 10,000+ people in 2024 — As gamers turn their backs on gargantuan adventures, we could be entering a golden age of modest titles| Andreo Calonzo / Bloomberg: |
Philippine President Marcos Jr. signs a law imposing a 12% value-added tax on non-resident digital service providers, including Netflix, HBO, and Disney — The World's Call Center Capital Is Gripped by AI Fever — and Fear … Hello World
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