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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils an updated iPad mini with A17 Pro, Apple Intelligence, and the same 8.3" display, starting at $499 with 128GB of storage, available to pre-order — Apple today announced a significant update to the iPad mini, featuring the powerful A17 Pro chip and support for the company's new Apple Intelligence system.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out a personalized Shopping feed based on recent searches and YouTube history, coming to mobile first, and adds AI-generated shopping tips — Google Shopping is rolling out a personalized feed that shows you a stream of products you might like.| Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal: |
Google signs an deal to buy nuclear energy generated from multiple small modular reactors developed by US-based Kairos Power, targeting 500 MW by 2035 — Startup Kairos Power plans to build small reactors to help supply electricity to the tech company's data centers, in a first-of-its-kind deal in the U.S.
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LinkedIn: Jennifer Hiller and Michael Terrell
Forums: Hacker News and r/technews
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
The FIDO Alliance debuts Credential Exchange Protocol, a specification to make passkeys portable across systems, and Passkey Central, a developer resource site — “Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube rolls out new features: granular playback speed controls, an improved miniplayer on iOS and Android, updated playlists, a sleep timer, and more — YouTube is making official a number of updates that it's been testing in recent months, like the new miniplayer and several design updates.| Chris Kornelis / New York Times: |
Lillian Schwartz, one of the first artists to use a computer to make films and who brought together art, science, and tech communities in the 1970s, died at 97 — Early in the digital era, she worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point arriving at a novel theory about the “Mona Lisa.”
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
WordPress plugin Jetpack releases a critical security update to fix a bug letting logged-in users access forms from website visitors, in all versions since 2016 — WordPress plugin Jetpack released a critical security update earlier today, addressing a vulnerability that allowed a logged … | Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US mulls capping AI chip sales from Nvidia and others on a country-specific basis, with a focus on the Middle East, for national security reasons — From AGI to GPT, an AI Glossary You Can Actually Understand … Hello World … Quicktake| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
UK podcaster Harry Stebbings' 20VC raised a $400M fund for early stage startups, one of Europe's biggest venture funds; the podcast recently hosted Sam Altman — British firm 20VC pulls in $400mn to invest in early stage tech start-ups — A venture firm founded by 28-year-old British …
More: TechCrunch, Forbes, Tech.eu, Sifted, and EU-Startups
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @matt_muir, @christianhern, @dinbisevac, @librariancap, @eladgil, and @jean_deblock
LinkedIn: Dmitry Gurski, Ed Cooke, and Alexandre Dewez
| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
The NYT sends a cease-and-desist letter to AI startup Perplexity to stop using its content; Perplexity says it is “interested in working with every” publisher — Publisher demands that Perplexity stop accessing its content. Startup isn't interested “in being anyone's antagonist,” CEO says.
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| Janie Har / Associated Press: |
Tech consultant Nima Momeni, charged in Cash App founder Bob Lee's stabbing death in April 2023, goes on trial; the judge says it is set to last two months — The tech consultant charged in Cash App founder Bob Lee's stabbing death had no motive to kill him and in fact was forced to defend himself … | Matt Mullenweg: |
Matt Mullenweg responds to DHH's claim that “Automattic is doing open source dirty”, pointing out Rails' own trademark policy and taking some jabs at 37signals — I'll just remind everyone at the start that this is a respectful debate, and DHH and I tried to get on a call but couldn't because we were both traveling.
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Mastodon: @photomatt@mastodon.social, @mathewi@journa.host, @adders@masto …, @Aaron@social.aaroncrocco.com, @ricmac@mastodon.social, @jbz@indieweb.social, @ernie@writing.exchange, and @Scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz. Bluesky: @sjvn.bsky.social
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Wordpress, r/theprimeagen, r/Wordpress, and Beehaw
| Jeremy Gray / PetaPixel: |
Adobe says its Firefly Video Model is the first “commercially safe” text-to-video generative AI model that was trained on licensed and public domain content — Adobe unveiled its Firefly Video Model last month, previewing a variety of new generative AI video features.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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Threads: @youhavebeenwatchingfilms. X: @venturetwins, @adobevideo, @andrewcurran_, @bobbymiller, @maxeinhorn, @adobevideo, @nvidiastudio, @bilawalsidhu, @petepachal, @edludlow, @bilawalsidhu, @bilawalsidhu, @acostin, @bilawalsidhu, @andrewcurran_, @zuryart, @justin_salamon, @adoberesearch, @joematoske, @urinieto, and @williamlamkin. LinkedIn: Adolfo Hernandez S.
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