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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple and Sony could add PlayStation VR2 controller support to visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K Vision Pro units since its February 2024 debut — Apple and Sony have discussed forging a partnership that could change gaming on the Vision Pro.
More: Engadget, Android Authority, The Verge, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, UploadVR, MacRumors, PhoneArena, Notebookcheck, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Patently Apple, The Mac Observer, The Economic Times, and SiliconANGLE
X: @stevemoser, @_chuckyc, @tomwarren, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @sigjudge, and @markgurman
Forums: r/PS5, r/PSVR, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Apple faces a lawsuit accusing it of failing to implement a system that detects and removes CSAM from iCloud, despite initially developing such a tool in 2021 — A 27-year old former child sexual abuse victim photographed anonymously with her mother. Her lawsuit against Apple claims …
More: TechCrunch and The Verge
| Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
The rise of generative AI will force the web browser to evolve again, just as the web browser evolved for a mobile-first world by contorting itself into apps — I'm addicted to Apple's Vision Pro. It's a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be lighter.
More: On my Om and Roland Tanglao
Bluesky: @lerhaupt and @gigastacey
Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange and @j12t@j12t.social
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images, to Grok; Aurora disappeared for some users after going live for a few hours — X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant.
More: Engadget, Mashable, Neowin, PCMag, Business Insider, Notebookcheck, UPI, Cryptopolitan, The Verge, and The Decoder
X: @testingcatalog, @chrisparkx, @apples_jimmy, @emollick, @emollick, @mark_k, @jasondigital, @kristennetten, @aaiden35928, @darthjml, @skrrrt5115, @jglypt, @danielgatzonx, @dejavucoder, @benjamindekr, @rowancheung, @mitch0z, @alxfazio, @dejavucoder, @fearlessorator, @umeshonai, @electrik_dreams, @multimodalart, @umesh_ai, @prthgo, and @ivanfioravanti
Forums: r/artificial and r/StableDiffusion
| Andrew Williams / Wired: |
A look at the opportunities India provides for smartphone companies, including its growing market for premium phones and as a manufacturing hub outside of China — A quarter of all iPhones could be made outside China by 2025, most likely in India—a rapidly growing market with hundreds of millions of potential customers.
More: The Diplomat
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
ElevenLabs, which is reportedly raising $200M at a $3B valuation, launched a tool to let users create and edit AI-hosted podcasts from various source materials — The new product competes with Google's viral NotebookLM — ElevenLabs Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence software …
More: ElevenLabs, ElevenLabs on YouTube, and ElevenLabs on YouTube
Bluesky: @captain2phones, @mick, @kramit, and @nfh
| Bloomberg: |
How the US-China fallout is fueling boomtowns in Vietnam and Malaysia, as startups and governments rush to build out AI, chipmaking hubs, and access to compute — An accelerating influx of tech investment is transforming local economies in Malaysia and Vietnam.| Ryotaro Yamada / Nikkei Asia: |
Dell'Oro Group expects global investment in data centers to rise ~30% YoY to $463.7B in 2025, with about half coming from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta — LAS VEGAS — Global investment in data centers is expected to outpace the cost of sending humans to the moon by about 50% next year … | Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a planned project aiming to make Chicago a quantum computing hub with PsiQuantum as the anchor tenant — An industrial park taking shape on an old steel mill site provides a glimpse into the quantum future
Bluesky: @dannygroner. X: @psiquantum, @wsj, and @alexmmmack
LinkedIn: Steve Rosenbush, Alex Mack, Brad Henderson, and Jorge Santiago Ortiz
| The Guardian: |
An analysis of US FEC data: Trump received $273.2M in donations from tech executives and VCs, including $242.6M from Elon Musk, while Harris received $120.9M — FEC filings offer only a glimpse of the money tech is pouring into Washington as it seeks to influence government
More: Balloon Juice. Bluesky: @hunterwalk.com and @m-jones. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org. Threads: @carnage4life
X: @hernandesraph, @porcelinad, @sf_mills, @porcelinad, @rudysdowens, @porcelinad, and @berniesanders. LinkedIn: Raphael Hernandes
Forums: Hacker News, r/somethingiswrong2024, and r/politics
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Broadcom shelves plans to work directly with the top 2,000 VMware customers, focusing on just 500 and giving 1,500 back to partners as a way to stem migrations — Now wants to work with 500 and lean more on partners to defend against migrations - which Dell says are on the cards
More: Ars Technica, TechRadar, Constellation Research, and TechSpot
LinkedIn: Alastair Edwards and Paul Echelmeyer
| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Brian Krebs, who over the past 20 years has investigated and outed some of the worst cybercriminals, including the alleged Snowflake client hackers — In the increasingly dangerous world of cybercrime, Brian Krebs faces threats, manipulation and the odd chess challenge
Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @nixonnixoff@infosec.exchange
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