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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
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 …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says it will start rolling out Click to Do, akin to Google's Circle to Search, and AI-enhanced Windows search improvements for Copilot+ PCs next month
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
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Generative Search, its answer to Google's AI Overviews, to all US users, underpinned by a mix of AI models
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 …
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.
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
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 …
Geraldine Brooks / Washington Post:
A profile of Jarod Koopman, who leads IRS Criminal Investigation's cybercrime unit, which has returned $12B+ to victims and the US Treasury in the past 10 years  —  Geraldine Brooks is a novelist and former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.
Sebastiaan de With / Lux:
In-depth iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, but Camera Control and advanced Photographic Styles are standout features  —  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.
Krystal Hu / Reuters:
Resolve AI, which is building AI tools to help software engineers troubleshoot and fix production issues, raised a $35M seed led by Greylock  —  Resolve AI, a startup aiming to automate software operations, has raised $35 million in seed funding from investors led by Greylock …

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Nancy Scola / Washingtonian:
A deep look at FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's moves favoring the Trump administration; former chair Tom Wheeler warns against the agency becoming a political tool

Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
The Massachusetts Senate passes an amendment that would in many instances bar judges, grand juries, and others from forcing reporters to identify their sources

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Danial Azhar / Reuters:
Oracle plans to invest over $6.5B in Malaysia to set up a public cloud region, its first in the country and third in Southeast Asia, after two in Singapore

Earlier Picks

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts its Realtime API in public beta, for quickly making speech-to-speech features, a way to use images and text to fine-tune GPT-4o apps, and more
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Epic debuts a program to reduce the royalty rate for games built with Unreal Engine from 5% to 3.5% if they launch on the Epic Game Store, starting in 2025
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
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
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
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