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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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
More: Reuters, The Shortcut, BGR, Livemint, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Apple Post, MacRumors, iClarified, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, and CNET
X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @newsynick, and @samsheffer
Forums: r/apple, r/iphone, and MacRumors Forums
| 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: The Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft, The Verge, Microsoft Copilot Blog, Android Police, Laptop Mag, ZDNET, Android Headlines, Signal65, iPhone in Canada Blog, MobileSyrup, BetaNews, How-To Geek, TechRadar, Petri IT Knowledgebase, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Moneycontrol, Maginative, PCMag, Neowin, MediaPost, Tom's Guide, Mashable, XDA Developers, XDA Developers, Windows Central, Digital Trends, SecurityWeek, PCWorld, Engadget, Bloomberg, Wired, and Hindustan Times
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Forums: r/technology and r/singularity
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: Windows Experience Blog, Windows Experience Blog, Fortune, Wccftech, Moneycontrol, Maginative, PCMag, Windows Central, Petri IT Knowledgebase, and Yahoo Finance
X: @tomwarren, @pavandavuluri, @zacbowden, @yusuf_i_mehdi, and @saschasegan. LinkedIn: Patrick Moorhead. Forums: Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK says the ransomware gang Evil Corp. conducted cyberattacks and espionage on NATO allies on Kremlin orders; the UK, US, and Australia sanction the group — - Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers| 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: Maginative. Threads: @chris, @paul_rietschka, and @moskov
X: @dpkingma, @morqon, @kennethcassel, @shakeelhashim, @luke_metro, and @modestproposal1. Forums: Hacker News
| 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: Engadget, The Verge, Thurrott, and Scripting News
Threads: @mosseri, @mosseri, @0xjessel, @quillmatiq, @technicallymims, @crumbler, and @timothyjchambers
| 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: GamingOnLinux, TechPowerUp, The Verge, USA Today, Neowin, Aftermath, PC Gamer, GameRevolution, Polygon, Wololo.net, Kotaku, IGN, Android Authority, Eurogamer.net, Digital Trends, Engadget, GoNintendo, and DSOGaming
X: @butidigress79 and @mrsujano
Forums: r/technology and Ars OpenForum
| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
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, Windows Central, Engadget, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Eurogamer.net, ZDNET, Neowin, iDownloadBlog.com, Liliputing, MIXED Reality News, XDA Developers, PCWorld, TechSpot, ExtremeTech, Spyglass, Road to VR, TechCrunch, Game Developer, Thurrott, GamesIndustry.biz, and Video Games Chronicle
X: @dilmerv, @kifleswing, @carnage4life, @scobleizer, @chrisfralic, @raywongy, @daniel_rubino, and @tomwarren
Forums: r/gadgets, r/technews, r/MVIS, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.| Fortune: |
Sources: many OpenAI staff thought o1 wasn't ready to be unveiled and then-CTO Mira Murati was often stuck in arguments between research and technical teams — When OpenAI debuted its latest AI model, GPT4-o, in a slick live webcast this past May, it was Mira Murati, the company's chief technology officer …
Forums: r/artificial, r/singularity, and r/OpenAI
| 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: Sonos, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, The Ambient, Fast Company, Pocket-lint, Thurrott, MakeUseOf, TechRadar, Engadget, BetaNews, Forbes, Digital Trends, Reuters, and TechCrunch
Threads: @alexoid, @chris, @ethank, @philnickinson, and @chriswelch. X: @lanceulanoff. Forums: r/sonos
| 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: arXiv.org
| 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 …
More: The Keyword, SiliconANGLE, Wired, 9to5Google, BetaNews, Android Headlines, MakeUseOf, iPhone in Canada Blog, Chrome Unboxed, Neowin, Chrome Unboxed, Laptop Mag, Android Authority, SamMobile, Android Central, Mashable, Liliputing, PCWorld, Trusted Reviews, The Shortcut, CNET, How-To Geek, T3, ZDNET, Tom's Guide, Android Police, Digital Trends, PCMag, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, Techaeris, Engadget, The Verge, Android Faithful, Thurrott, Notebookcheck, and Google Cloud Blog
X: @thegalox_, @cnet, @google, @thegalox_, @googleforedu, and @newsfromgoogle. LinkedIn: Stella Shannon
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealerships and has 600 customers in the US and Canada, raised a $32M Series B led by Touring Capital and Mitsui — Sometimes, a pivot ends up being the smartest decision company leaders can make. See Netflix's pivot from DVDs to streaming …
More: PYMNTS.com, Numa, SiliconANGLE, and FinSMEs
| The Economic Times: |
Sources: Peak XV cut its $2.85B fund by $465M, or ~16%, over a year after its Sequoia split, with most of the reduction coming in its growth-stage allocation — Venture capital firm Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital India, has pared the size of its $2.85 billion fund by 16% … Sponsor Posts
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Zoho:
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